The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1889-03-15
SANITARY FURNITURE.

his theory Of all-wool clothing, has
been turning his attention to hygienic
furniture. Carrying ont the principles
already adopted he concludes that dead
wood, as we'll as cotton, linen, and 9TH
er vegetable matter, retains its powers
of absorbing noxious animal exhala-
tions. These the living plant digests,
but the dead fibre or wood only harbors
such poisonous gases for a time, and
then throws them off again when there
is change Of temperature. For in
stance, if room is closed for some days,
an unpleasant odor will be noticed on
re-entering. This especially apparent
IN german government Offices, where
ths lnnumerable shelves and pigeon
holes are made Of plain unvarnished
wood. Sanitary furniture must there
fore be rendered non-absorbent BY care
fully polishing or painting all the
woodwork, both inside; and the same
rule applies to the flooring, wainscot-
ing, ETC., of al habitations. A room
may be cleaned and purified after in
fectious diseases; but very powerful
fumes are required to reach the interior
of u closed. drawer. From sanitary
point of view, the inside, the unseen,
the black parts Of furniture equally re-
quire to be treated with varnish, paint,
or other substance, to render the wood
non-porous. In practical Germany
sanitary furniture has become an arti-
Gle Of commerce, and in England also
examples of some such furniture have
been exhibited. To carry out the
above principles the wood employed
was prepared before hand and rendered
non-porous. This process, when ap-
piled to furniture made exclusively of
wood, such as wardrobes, chests of
drawers, sideboards, etc, involves an
extra cost of not more than five per
cent Old furniture may be rendered
sanitary for small outlay, by covering
the interior and unseen parts with a
substance that will close the pores
The unpleasant feeling sometimes
noticed by those who use upholstered
furniture is due to the odorous exhala-
tions stored in the vegetable fibre, and
which vitiates the atmosphere of ILL
ventilated rooms. The polished wooden
seats of our ancestors are preferable,
unless the chairs and couches are stuff
ed and covered with materials of pure
animal fibre, dyed with fast wholesome
dyes; and this, it is calculated, would
necessitate an extra cost of about ten
per cent. All textile material not of
animal fibre, such as the stout webbing
required underneath upholstered seats,
is soaked in solution which forms an.
imperyious coating and prevents alb
sorption. Carpets and curtains made
of adulterated with vegetable fibre are
obviously incompatible with this def
milton Of sanitary furniture. White
window curtains, We are assured, will,
if examined closely, emit sour odor
when they have been in use little
time. A woollen curtain would give
rise to no such unpleasantness, even
when exposed in an inhabited room
for much longer period. Thus, to
sum up, DR.. Jaeger maintains that all
woodwork should be rendered non-
porous, the walls should be painted or
the paper vanished, and the uphol-
stery, bedding, carpets, rugs, and cur
tuians should consist of animal fibre
sanitarily dyed.
Glove is Blind which may account
COR the fact that so many lovers forget
to light the gas
\ man is disposed to regard marriage
as failure when his wife goes on
a visit to her mother and leaves him to
take care of a six months old baby.
Employer-You say that your hab-
its are all correct: Applicant-Yes,
sir. Employer (after moment pause)
DO you drink? Applicant (absent
mindedlyl-Thanks. Don't care if l
10
Ibid you see that Tennyson CON-
parcs men to trees, Miss Clara" said
Mr.. Staylaight as the clock struck
twelve. "Yes. It's absurd, too. Trees
leave, do they not, Mr.. Stay.
laight:"
They say the average politician is getting
hoarse talking about tariff and no tariff. but
be cures his cold every night with DIR. Bulls
Cough Syrup, and begins afresh nev. morning