Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1888-12-06
SOME HEAhrH aINIs


Ny 1Hs NNttftatu
the "tinericesn Angnxtme.n
With NoYembes's chill days, furnace
fires gre aglow, aud the great stove in the
cellar has begun ils seasons work. After
Watching sick beds ia rooms heated by
staafsi, by open @ es by stoves aud by fur
mace heat, am decidedly in favor Of the
last, provided sufficient moisture be addsd
to the heated air before it comes into liv-
ingrooms. Steam heat istoo dry, open free
cannot keep up On even temperature nor
warm room in northern mid-winter and
stoves burn oxygen from ar too RAPIDLY
without providing fresh supply. In o
certain houss where professional duty led
me every day of last December there was
not daily variation Of temperature of
two degrees from 10 degrees, Fahrenheit,
the whole month. Plants grew luxuri intly
aud lowered in wide halls end climbing
vines converted more than one room into
an amateur conservatory. The master, o
man OF leisure aud scientific mind, told
me that bis de igbtful winter home was
heated by two furnaces that be had dis
catded steam after years trial aud was
satisfied Ventilation was fully provided
for, and the sick chamber, whence nay
patient soon emerged, was attractive
enough, even to one who was leaving for
6ummer Islands OF the Caribbean.
WHAT 10 essential from sanitary point
in heating houses is to have the tempeEa-
ture even throughout. Thers is probably
no better way Of catching cold, Of laying
foundation for pneumone or bronchitis
than stepping cut OF warm bed into o
cold or coal hall. Every skin pore is open
or relaxed, every nerve OF resistance IL
hale aslsep, and the insidious chill that
has proved foreSunner TO so many dan.
5gerops DISEASES Of chest and threat, sends
oua shivesing back to blankets that are
some tine il getting warmed up Rgain
While sleeping, room temperature should
b lower thEn the rest OF the horse. kept
SO by open wiadoRs, and II this Augpss-
tiSn is followed there can bs no harm
done by pGelful nightly wenderings. 4
proper range at night Ia 60 TO 6b degrees,
Fahrenheit. Beside the he'd OF thoss who
are given 10 these nocturnal excursions
should always stand pair Of bedroom
slipperB, ready TO bo slipped on az short
notiaa for cool currents Of air Rrs nj.
ways playing about 4 ,ois, and bare ankles
are exceeding tereitiYs TO small tsmpsia
SahS fHAlhtAOAss
There Is change of late years in the
winter heat of American homes. WITH al.
most universal substitution OF better
forms of heaters fer old time stoves and
better understanding OF ordinary healta
law by the people has come q cooling
down of the suGocating temperature that
made or hSaes dry forcing hoas4s ana
sept, ,o9rb people ont into wintry cold
about ~ Reu fiued 30 face II as If they
we're naked, Except in rooms whore sick
gre, OF, ssal parsons, mercury sh3ula
DsFas rise above 10 degrees nor fall below
JS5, dsgsesa, 81 a marrow range, truly; brit
wiFnin such STRICT iimita Hiss the zsns OF
health.
Foreigners coming hezs In cold weather
used TO lnd cur houses insrpporiabiy
hot, md more than one yislti3x nleaica
man has said 60 me, Now SEQ ons OF
tbs causes ct work to produce American
nervousness -