The Windham County reformer. (Battleboro, Vt.) 1876-1897, 1891-05-22
NEWS MISCELLANY.
Pure Air without Draughts.

| do not want to eHcoul age pure.air cranks
Pure air has killed more people IN our
churches than impure, beyond comparison
The crank wants windows open just where
the wind Will blow upon some delicate
woman, or will place person of tender lungs
In strong current. He thinks that cold air
and pure air are synonymous. Impure air,
meaning air weakened by breathing, is inno-
cent compared with with the dealings of this
crank. l dread giving him any encourage
ment.
For instance. put him on tine school com.
mIttee.or make him superintendent Of schools
"We must have pure air!" speak from OBJ
servation when recall orders to open every
window and door at recess and flush the
room with air little above zero. Then the
windows are closed, and the school Is re.
placed, when Omnipotence has provided no
way of carrying the temperature up again
twenty five degrees 10 sixty seconds. Or the
pure.air teacher is so saturated with this doc
tline that she opens the windows directly
back of the children, usually down from the
top, so that cold air will strike their heads
L
mind many parent of tine diseases and death
which have resalted from this system.
once informed teacher crazy on this
methed. that, If she persisted, would secure
an order removing her desk from the blank
wall and placing 1t in front of one OF the WIN
dows where the draught would strike the
back Of her head first. She reformed. No win.
should ever be opened In a schoolroom in cool
weather, unless board is fitted to the open
place and the air forced to come In between
the two sashes. But any school.hOuse that
requires this method Is unfit for use. But
this one thing Is certaln,-the window bar.
barism of pure air Is deadly.
The worst pureair crank Is woman In
railway car who persists In opening the win
dow at her side. The air, whether pure,
smoky, or cindery, of course does not strike
her, but the people on the seat next behind
her. To your discomfort she knowingly re
pc fectly well that she Is nuisance, but she
wants pure air! Even If the air lie indeed
pure, this process has carried many a victim
Int eternity. | have seen an excellent rem
sdy tried. Hold up before you thick and
arge newspaper close to the back of her seat,
md with the edge against the wall of the car !
This Is, of course, on your own premises, and, |
he divine benevolence embodied In the law |
If incidence and reflection, the air, with its
old or smoke, Is thrown back upon the face
md neck of Its rightful proprietor. I advise
very young man, before he Is committed to
he young woman who attracts him, to see
What she will do in a railway car. II she
pens the window to the discomfort of others
# If she ro5s other people Of needed seats for
he sake of her packages, she is selfish and
and Is not fit to be good mau's
wife.
l remember a student, of rather delicate
ealth, who used 10 throw his windows wide
pen every morning, walk three or four miles,
ONE back, and build his fire and sit down
lie did 1t for pure air. l used to warn him
the result, but without effect. He died
arly of pure air.-lBy A. III. Quint, d. d.,
'oston. In the Congregatlonaist.