West Virginia freeman. (Parkersburg, W. Va.) 1881-1886, 1882-03-01
The House Must Breathe and be
Cleansed by Air Passing
Through it's Walls.
Eight Cubic Feet of Air Passes
Through Every Square
Yard Of Proper Wall
Each Hour.
Arsenical Wall Paper.
A Letter from Prof. r. G. Kedzie
to the Alabastine Company
after Analysing and
Testing Alabastine.

Testing Alabastine.
In a lecture delivered by R. G. Kedzie,
M. D.. President Of the Michigan State
Board Of Health, reprinted by the State
Board OF Health from the annual report Of
the Michigan State Board Of Agricultural
for the year 1877, the Professor says
vENTILATE YOUR HOMES.
Ventilate every room IN your house.
ask you to do this, first, because there Is
plenty Of raw material for this purpose ;
and, second, because it is necessary for
health. Think what an abundant circulat-
ing naedium-curremt-c GIVE have for this
very purpose in atmospheric air. ,Fortu-
nately, Congress cannot expand or con-
tract the circulating currency Of life!
This ocean Of air-an ocean without island
or shore, with its restless tides and cur
rents, its waves Of continental size-is too
vast and pure for us to contaminate it in
mass. We may pollute here and there
puddle Of it, but it's massive purity is, like
the love Of God, too great for human de-
Element This purifying element pene-
trates directly or indirectly, every fibre
of our being it washes, purifies, and saves
us every moment of our lives, from birth
to burial. Yet how we fight against this
agent of purity . In the arrangements of
our dress, in parlor and ed-chamber, in
school-room, church, and hall, we seek to
exclude it, and to stife it as If it were our
deadly foe. We breathe it only because
we must, and most Of us breathe 1t as lit
tie as possible. Thousands of consump-
tives every day 60 weeping to their graves
only because they would not breathe
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healthy. Yet this purifying and saving
element is ever seeking to enter our dwell
lings. rafting at our windows, searching
every crack and opening by which to enter
to give US life and health but If by chance
it enters, we only complain of the drauSht
if any friend opens a door or window to
let in this cheerful guest, we sarcastically
ask him if &c he was brought up in a barn !"
Air, once breathed is unfit to breathe
again; turn it out to grass, like Nebuchad-
nezzar, that it may recover it's SoundnesS,
for vegetable life repairs the deflement
and destruction caused by animal life, and
restores sweetness and health to polluted
air. But this contamination OF air by res
piration is invisible neither sight nor
touch will reveal it's presence. The black
and sooty carbon, when it has seized it's
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visible, and floats unseen like a spirit. If
this carbon, thrown off from our lungs in
the form of carhonic acid, remained visible
like lampblack, there is hardly house.
wife in the land who would not awake with
a gasping shudder to see her bedroom
filed with this black smoke sent off from
the lungs of the sleepers. Cup with the
windows, and clear out this horrible black
dust !" But because this dirt is invisible,
she regards the air of her room as clean.
But though it Turk unseen its power for
mischief is not destroyed !; it is the accom-
paniment and evidence of contamination
which proves the unftness of such air for
respiration. The carbonic acid itself "is
slow poison, and kills with indefinite
acdrning" If the house wife wash her
hands in water, she does not say, "the
water does not look very dirty, and l can
use it again" No! the water was used to
remove dirt, and has thereby become dirty,
and she throws it away. Shall she wash
her hands five or six times day with
clean water, and wash her lungs %,
times day with dirty air % BE ne clean"
is the voice from heaven, sounding forever
through the ages. Your bodies are the
temples of God : if any man defile the
temple of God, him shall God Destroy" is
a physical as well as a spiritual truth, and
mlluOuS upon mlluOnS OF premature graves
bear witness to judgment-day already
come, and to doom from which not even
the Infinite Fathers love could deliver
them. 1.-The soul that sinneth shall die, :"
unless saved by Christ's love. No less
true is it that the body that sinneth shall
die; and to justify this broken law and
make it honorable, no Savior has been
crucified. If, while locked in the arms of
sleep-the twin brother of death-you
constantly breathe deadly gases, instead
of the breath of life, then shall sleep hand
you over to the embrace of his twin
brother.
But you will say "How can we tell
whether the air of cur bedrooms is pure
or not? We are not chemists to analyze
the air." Why, man woman You have
the best apparatus in the world, and one
given you for that very purpose. Nature
has given everyone of you nose, and
purposely placed it in advance of all the
rest of the body to give warning of danger:
it is the advance guard of safety If YOU
will use this one talent which nature
has given you, and not "keep it wrapped
In napkin" you may go safely. Use
your blessed nose for this purpose to-
morrow morning to test the air of your
bedroom. When you get up, leave your