Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1882-10-06
HcW We Treat u Friend.

VIII we ever nave VenIlittlOH ou-
perficially the question seems a trifle alb
surd, but is it so in reality ? What pro-
portion of our dwellings, Offices. work
shops, churches, halls, reading rooms
and public conveyances are properly and
safely ventilated ? Certainly the mum
Der is comparatively very few. Six
months in the year we think we have
little need to consider this matter, and
this is possibly tho reason we suffer the
other six. Between April and October,
if we feel uncomfortable in a room or
car, we throw open the window or door
if we fee! the need Of fresh air we treat
ourselves to an abundance Of it. But
from October until April we suffer I'M
mistaka5le misery and undergo many
perils, and, it seems, Elust continue to
do so.
And do we run no risk to health and
suffer no injury during the first half of
the year as we have divided it Thous-
anis of unsuspscting persons, not all OF
them weak and frail either, open the
window to dread destroyer. The good
housewife goes bustling about her ILL
ventilated dwelling and becomes over
heated, not from exertion, but in conse
quence of the close and oppressive at
mosphere she throws up the window
and drinks in the cooling draught, only
a few minutes, but long enough to inn
plant the seeds OF q fatal illness. The
happy children, chasing each other home
from school, rush into the house in a
dripping perspiration, fling aside their
outer garments and throw themselves on
the floor to cool Off" A door
is open on either side Of the
room. Next thing an ominous
cough is heard, then comes a raging
fever, followed soon by a silent and sOr-
rowing procession. The brawny work
men swelters at his bench with a gale
striking him in the middle of the back.
The hard-pushed clerk wrestles with his
correspondence and accounts the objec-
tive point of a breeze so strong as to
render necessary an extra number of
paper-weights. You 60 to church. You
catch the gospel from the pulpit, a stiff
neck and sore throat from the gallery.
and the pneumonia or rheumatism from
the aisle doors.
You decide 10 take Il summer jaunt.
Your constant experience is an encOun-
ter with whirlwind of violent and dan
gerous draughts. The rheumatic old
party in front of you keeps his window
down tightly the blooming lass dag
nally opposite keeps hers open, likewise
the omnipresent small boy behind you,
and there you are. 1t is Of no use to
move, except to move ont at the first
station, for you will onlygo from bad to
worse. At the hotel the gentle zephyrs
cool your soup and chill you at the same
time. Your room is ventilated only by
window facing north or east and so
it is all the way. You come home
sore, sour, stiff and hoarsc. feel
ing as if you had been let out as
snort stop to a baseball club. If the
evil effects of your pleasure trip
are only temporary you are fortunate.
And now comes the fall and winter
ordeal, the time that, in this connection
severely tries not only mans souls, but
their bodies also. Upon visiting friend
how often you find his house either too
hot or too cold for you. And the same
evil is found in nine-senths OF our
dwellings, offices, churches, workshops,
places of amusement and public convey
ances it permeates every field of labor
mental or manual, every sphere of life.
We suffer either from asphyxia or pneu.
monia, fever or rheumatism. We
scarcely know what it is 10 enjoy an