Semi-weekly interior journal. [volume] (Stanford, Ky.) 1881-1905, 1883-12-18

this condition il the one most frequent
" and most fatally violated by al classes
OF society. Food, drink aud exercise
are required only at intervals, and may.
in case Of need, be dispensed with for
days together; but breathing must be
constant. through every minute o. life,
by night and day. Loaded though II
be with dust and dirt, with foul and
deadly gases, with miasma and germs Of
disease, the air must be received into
the lungs Volumes have been written
to prove and enforce the truth that pure
air is life and health, and that foul air is
disease and death but still we sin, and
suffer for our sin, against this truth.
Let il be known that no school-room
occupied, as is now the custom, by the
whole school, during all the school
hours. can be sufficiently ventilated h.
make il entirely heslthful. Let any
Psychologist be asked TO make the COM
putation Of the air needed, and he must
confirm this statement From the mo-
ment the children are assembled the air
Of the school-room begins to deterio-
rate and, since no system of ventila-
ton sweeps the whole body Of impure
air out at once, the best il can do is to
keep the mixture from becoming as bad
as possible.
The first rule should be 10 use the
minimum of confinement for each pupil.
The second should be to keep the fewest
possible seated at their studies in the
same room. Every pupil that can be
trusted 10 study his lesson elsewhere
should be advised 10 visit the school
room at lesson times only; and, instead
Of the foolish ambition TO keep every
seat filed, let it be sought TO have as
many vacant seats as may be possible
without remitting any Of the teaching.
It is not, however, in crowded parlors,
club-rooms, lecture halls and schools
alone that impure air is 10 be feared.
In all houses bad air can be found.
Dust and moldy damp haunt the rooms
reserved for special occasions, while
those in daily use are saturated with
the breath, smoke, steam and gases
from all the household life and work.
And frequently the source Of corruption
is found in the very soil which the house
covers. This is especially the case with
those houses built in our prairie towns,
where, without removing q foot Of the
soil, or opening foot of drainage, the
house is set upon few low posts, and
then boarded around to prevent the cold
winds getting under the floor. In the
winter il is not uncommon 10 bank II
with straw or even with barn-yard litter.
The half-decayed mass beneath, in the
dark and damp, unvisited by sun or
wind, generates poisonous gases, which
are sucked mp through every crevice in
the floor, and all the house with their
beautiful influence. Such houses are
ieath-traps. 1 have known more than
one family 10 pine, and even perish, In
such dwelling.
Half Of the ill-health Of women over
that of men must be charged to the in
door life which forbids them the life
giving influence Of heavens free, pure
air and sunshi,.a
Our houses want more windows,
larger chimneys. more transoms, more
crate fires In winter, and less poisonous
furnaces. It Is 10 the stoves within our
own bodies. fed by abundance of fresh
air, that we must look for healthfuless
heat, and not so much 10 the stoves
whose porous iron plates offer so little
resistance TO the deadly carbonic-acid
gas. We make our houses comfortable
At the expense Of their healthfulness
when We shut out Gods sunshine and
pure air. Better, in this respect, the
hovel Of the poor man
Than the padded homes Of luxury and
wealth.
Especially should our sleeping-rooms
be made larger, and be better ventilated.
Better the open window and the night
air, often 80 foolishly dreaded thai sL-
now poisoning which the bad air gives,
and which leaves the sleeper 10 awake
weak and unrefreshed by his slumbers.
No more serious mistake is made in our
house building than that OF the small
bed-chambers. Sanitary science says
that these apartments should be the
largest, sunniest and ARREST Of all in the
house. Let them never be ON the ground
floor, and lot the bed he rolled at night
into the middle Of the room, 80 that the
air may move freely around the sleepers.
A COMPANY with capital Of II. 000. 0N
nozins is to put line Of steamships OF
the route from Trieste TO New York. Tbs
Austrian Government will be asked fol