Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-11-02

steady lowering of already lessened vitality
with accumulating force. The ventilation
of cars should not be left to the feelings of
brakeman, whose only idea is to keep them
warm enough. Neither are the ideas of a
colored porter, who can sleep in a bunk
with the soiled clothes next the heater in
complete comfort, fit to regulate things for
the comfort Of sensitive men and women.
TAKING COLD EASILY.
The opposition party, who growl at pure
air because they take cold easily, have only
to be reminded that it is always possible for
the few who are sensitive to fresh air to
make themselves perfectly comfortable by
extra wraps and not force whole company
to breathe the excrement Of each others
lungs, germs of diphtheria and consumption
among them, to suit their own feelings.
A chilly, coughing person should always
carry travelling plaid to wrap round head
and shoulders when a gasping company
need change OF air. 1t might improve his
own health to take safe Whit of il, but he
has no right 10 poison others wholesale to
suit his infrmities. The prospect of trav-
cling next winter has an added horror in the
proposed adoption of double car windows,
which will make ventilation impossible.
The little traps at the top of the door do
when the autocratic brakeman or porter
allows them open at all. If the brains of
men were not added by foul air and impure
food from infancy they would have long
since solved the question of safe, efficient
car heating and ventilation combined.
ILL-vENTILATED CHURCHES.
Next to public conveyances the churches
and theaters are the worst ventilated. 1
have IND Ri, u,
year, when 1 went to q church whose invi-
tation to "Turn aside and rest awhile" had
attracted me, on week day. The air of
the congregation, devout and orderly, was
congenial, the service every way attractive;
but the air of the building, drawn from the
sub-cellar mostly, was too much for a we'll
worked brain to endure, and a splitting
headache sent me out at close of lessons. A
walk in the fresh air relieved it. and 1
turned into Fifth avenue church, hoping
to get the benefit OF the last malt of SER
mon.
1t is church of great respe:tability and
wealth, which prints its musical programme
weekly, as for Chickering Hall concert.
But whether the aroma which filled its
aisles this Sunday was dead rat or dead
Christian in its vaults, it was anything but
the odor of sanctity. did want to hear the
closing numbers of its music, but 1 went
out in a state of ocean passenger three hours
out. The obtuseness of the senses in excel
lent, stalled, broadclothed pew owners with
genuine old family catarrhal tendencies Is
something to marvel at. Churches ought to
be open daily, if only to get the musty
smell out-the odor little boy described as
"a prayer meeting SMELL" considering it
peculiar to the place.
opprNsps on rup.rpps
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q IL ha..as IT, ou.I- L,e;ies VIZ
ing fans. but use them intermitteutly. and
unless one does not mind breathing sewer
air through the acts they are good places to
stay ayay from. I can read Shakespeare at
home and wriA lectures not much duller
than the average and had rather live like
Thoreau by Walden Pond with pure Iitera-
ture on the shelves and pure air bv the fire.
place than sit. as did at the best theater in
New YORK the last time wandering whether
could last ont the act without falling off
the seat in the mephitic yapor which
dimme1 the sight. The fresh air draupht
was set going between the acts. but why
couIdn't Il he kent in moderate n1av mt IN
allow had air tn accumulate enouoh to make
the GAS dim9
This will serve for a speeimen of what we
suffer for want of good air When if comes
to the question of what we take into our
months and, dioastions the risks are mora
annarent Onr erandmotbers gave unusinp
britannia teapots and German silver spoons
as antimoniai colies were too FREQUENT from
their use. More than one case of suspected
poisoning which came to trial and conVic-
Ilon was que 70 Ine use oi prisannia teaPo'
mnaen nau .; s;oou uIueu 1 ,Gs agS ~ ~ IL
L.o,t; ,ao. oG ;ts Ii, VI -
ne1en' AL Tvs "1A0J''
DEATH IN CAN AND POT.
But we are running twice the risk in the
tin cans which furnish half the family Hy-
ing. The trouble is not more from acid
fruit and tomatoes than from the lead coat
ing OF inferior tin, such as furnishes the
eheap kitchenyare not sold by the iye-cent
sbops entirely. Housekeepers NAV know it
| by its dullness after short use, which no
| polishing will banish for more than a few
days. The old-fashioned brightness of tin,
which was the pride of the Kitchen, was a
safe thing for health. All darken1ng of
metal is oxidation. which leaves no traces in
food plainly to be tasted.
1t is no mere oblation to pride which or
dains the perpetnaI poIish1np of silver. cut
lery and cooking utensils, 1t is a precau-
tion for health. Bright spoons, shining
steel knives and saueepans are essential to
saiety Oh 1000. II Is no ImaglnaLon I tnaI
reJeets the las!e Vi HSI ea'en win s.ee,
knile, Ine acton Oh nsn Juices on sIeei
Delng instant ana Gn9uailned. nor ISL Is II
lmaglnatlon tnat nnds the taste OF iresn
wafer from Gu Oh Impure Iin unpieaSan''
POISON IN THE BEER MUG.
A German savant lately discussed at
1,natt, n so;ani;fo ;orrnoIs The Question of
AZ hos, a dr;nt;nn - for hoer ord r,s.sr
sne ;ut;n;,as,m.is UfSs tha frocton Of ieaJ Dis