The Osceola times., 1882-02-18
FOR TIE HOUSEHOLD.
Cold Sleeping Rooms-How 60 do up Shirt
Bosoms-A Home Household Hints.
COLD SLEEPING ROOMS

sun tAn silue uuIlDE several nOufS Oh
the day, aud from which vitiated airs can
fully pass and pure air come in. We
contend that cold sleeping rooms are
more healthy than warm ones for all
persons who possess the normal amount
Of health and power of resistance;
warmth always increases the amount OF
exha atoms from the lungs and emana-
tions from the body. These two sources
of vitiated air are always generating
carbon gases at once unpleasant to the
men and delete rous to the heaty, if ITS
per cent is much larger than that which
pure and normal air contain. And then
hot air, and even warm. renders the
mucous membrne of the respiratory
organs tender and susceptible to the
influences Of "all the winds that blow"
During the hours of the day We need
only certain amount Of heat we gener-
ate by consuming nutritious and easily
digested food, and by inhaling a proper
supply Of pure air. To all intents and
purposes air is food. The very act of
mastication mingles air with all we eat.
1t aids the process Of digestion and all
other processes in the animal economy.
The colder air may be the more oxygen
it contains and the more vitality il
imparts. A multitude of persons awake
in morning hours without having had
refreshing sleep, simply because they
are compelled to breathe warm and viii
ated air. Opening the windows and
freely admitting the morning air, how
ever cold it may he removes the weari-
ness and weakness induced by inhaing
warm and vitiated air.
Either extremes heat or cold. when
we are asleep, may be harmful, b't cold
is much less apt 10 harm our health than
warmth. Cold air is usually more pure
and invigorating than warm. in warm
seasons We feel weak and weary, and are
right glad to feel waves OF cold air
coming. We, ourselves, always sleep
with the fresh outer air Fastening into
our domitory all night long Cold air or
night air, when we are awake or fast
asleep, invigorates our frame and
imparts strength of mind and activity
of body. II increases cur appetite and
strengthens our digestive forces. Every
one who wishes to improve in health
should secure a large supply Of cold air
during his hours Of sleep.
/ We do not take cold from exposure to
freezing air, if that air be DRY, but we
do cotract cold 10y exposure to damp
and chilly air. Our experience is, that
sleeping in warm and invent lated
rooms is uncomfou iblc and unhealthy.
Any one may know that the exhala.ions
| from the lungs and eminations from the
body are never so copious as when We
are in warm ryoms. The cry Jgainst
cold sleeping ROOMS shold be expanded
/ upon damp and chilly ones Dry and
cold air is always healthy. We send
/ persons far gone in consumption tD Min
nesoia, because the air is cold and dry.
Those who chatter as they undress in
cold room in preparing for coming rest,
and then shiver for an hour or more, are
feeble and not able b induce Il reaction
They should, before entering cold
room for sleep, use enoggh exercise to
increase the circulation of the blood and
secure a normal amount of body heat,
and then get under a moderate amount
of clothing, and so reap all the benefits
a cold water bath can confer One cause
of the toughness and yigor OF our an
cestors WIS that they took a cold air
bath every night. The sheets were. no
doubt, cold at first, but reaction soon
occurred and brought on that delightful
glow that confers SO much health and
strength. Many pero who complain
of the coldness of their sleeping rooms
need more exercise and nutritious food
than they Usually receivs. Coldnesi
rarely induces illness. But when com
bined with dampness, we know no limits
to the harm the two may do, If bed
rooms and sheets are damp, even sn
warm seasons, by all means have them
dried. Use that kind of bedding t.at is
light and spongy, and SO able to retain
large amount of air, Damp rooms in
cold seasons undoubtedly produce much
discomfort and disease. Best chambers
are usually well furnished and rarely
occupied, and so are apt to produce much
harm.-Cticaqo Express.
now TO DO Up SHIRT BosoMs
Take two tablespoons best starch, add
very little wator to 1t, rub and stir with
spoon into thick taste, carefully
breaking all the Jumps AMI particles
Add a pint Of boiling water, 81 rring at
the same time; boil half an hour, stirring
occasionally TO keen it from burning.
Add a piece of ebamel the size Of a pea;
ifthis is not at hand, use a tablespoonful
of gum arabic solution made by pouring
boiling water upon gum arabic and
standing until clear and Transparent or
a piece of clean mutton tallow half the
size of nutmeg and teaspoon OF sat
will do, but is not az good. Strain the
starch through strainer or Il piece Of
thin muslin. Have the shirt turned
wrong side out; dip the bosoms carefully
in the starch and squeeze it out, repeat
ing the operation until the hos slms are
thoroughly and evenly saturated with
starch; proceed TO dry. Three hours
before ironing dip the bosoms in clean
water; wiring ont and roll up tightly.
First iron the back by folding it length
wise through the center next iron the
wristbands, and both sides Of the sleeves;
then the collar band; now place the
bosom board under the bosom. and with
dampeneG napkin rub the bosom from
the top toward the bottom, smoothing
and arranging each plat neatly. With
smooth, moderately hot fat iron, begin
as the top and iron downward, and con-
tnue the operation until the bosom is
perfectly dry and shining. Remove the
| bosom board ard iron the front of the
| shirt. The bosom and cuils of shirts,
| indeed Of all nice, fine work, will look
/ clearer and better If they are first ironed
under piece Of thin old muslin. II
takes off the first heat of the iron. and
removes any Jumps Of STANDARDIZATION
Itellgncer.
HohK.
/ DIR. Holmes says; never saw a gar.
ment too fine for man or maid there
never was q chair too fine for a cobbler
or a cooper or king to sit in; never a
house too fine TO shelter the human head.
/ These clements about us, the glorious
sun, imperial sun. are not too good for
| the human race. Elegance ft man. But
| do we not vai1e these tools little more
than they are worth, and sometimes