Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1893-04-22
would be q boon If the last Indian robbel
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THE BODY AND IT'S HEALTH.

ABOUT MICROBES. Charles f.
Chandler of Columbia College addressed
a large audience recently in the lecture
hall of the American Museum OF Natural
History on "The Atmosphere and Its
CONCENTRATIONS. Beginning with the
properties of gases and their relations to
plants and animals, he passed to the con-
sideration of those invisible foes of all
forms of animal and vegetable life re-
vealed by the microscope, and known as
germs, microbes, and bacilli. Prof.
Chandler described microbe as being
so small that it would require $4,000 of
them to form procession one inch In
length, and "a, 900 of them to make an
inch in breadth. A drop of water
ne-eighth Of an inch in diameter
was as large for the evolutions of ba-
cillus as the harbor of New York would
be for a whale. He stated that they
multiplied by dividing themselves once
every twenty minutes, so that seventy
two generations of them were produced
inside of single day. From a single
bacillus 16, 900, 900 might be generated
inside of twenty-four hours. Nearly all
the diseases that afflict mankind, Prof.
Chandler said, were produced by specific
forms of microbes. Scarlet fever, typhus,
typhoid, and even Asiatic cholera had
each its peculiar germ. 1t was found
that these microbes could not exist un-
der certain degrees of heat or cold, and
scientific investigators were every day
adding to our stock of knowledge as to
how we can best protect ourselves from
these invisible foes of the human race.
HEATING AND VENTILATION. The
question of warming house in winter,
provided it is properly built, is mainly
question of ventilation, and ventilation is
greatly concerned about the quality of
air in the cellar, especially if the heating
apparatus is contained in that often ne
elected portion of the house. | suppose
the relation between the size of the coal
bill and the quality of the air we
breathe indoors is more or less familiar,
but it is a fundamental point in this dis
cussion and like everything else that
ati1icts our pocketbooks, is worth look
ing into. But let me begin little far
ther back. | can't imagine what you
builders were thinking of when you in
vented the ordinary balloon framed
houses. If they had been intended pri-
maily for the accommodation and secur
ity of rats and mice, and for pur-
poses of swift and uncomfortable cont1a-
grafton, you could not have improved
upon their construction Not only do
you provide innumerable wooden flues,
half-filled with shavings as dry as finder
and lined with dry splinters of inham
mable wood, but you cross and interlace
them so that it is impossible to prevent
free draught through every one of them
at all times They are, moreover, so
we'll protected on the visible side by fire
proof plastering that the merest spark of
fire once started within them has ample
time to extend indefinitely before it is
discovered, and to get into full blast be-
fore its exact location can be ascertained
Now, the same provisions for making
our houses warm in cold weather
and keeping them cool in warm, are also
securities against sudden conflagration,
the thought of which hangs in terror
over us at all times, especially on those
tempestuous winter nights when the
stoves, CRATES and furnaces are crowded
to their utmost, when a fire would be
most destructive and its immediate con-
sequences the most to be dreaded. - E.
c. Gardner, in Good Housekeeping.
How TO KEEP THE EYES WELL.-It
has been very truly said that it is not so
much what is done to the eyes as what is
not done that produces the greatest
effect. In other words, given a pair of
eyes that are all right at the start, and it
is "a great deal easier, barring accidents,
to preserve them, TO proIong their period
of greatest use and beauty, than it is to
remedy defect, ailment or the result of
misuse after it has been incurred. To
this end medical authority specifies as
follows SOME of the things not to do. In
the first place, the eyes should never be
severely taxed when that can be avoided.
This does not mean nonuse, for these
very delicate servants are so marvelously
and powerfully constructed that they
will stand great amount of hard
work, if the conditions are ia
vorable, without injury. Some
of the most injurious practices are
those connected with reading, especially
the modern fine type and poorly printed
newspapers. Reading upon railroad
trains or street cars is to be avoided if
possible, since the vibration of the book
or paper constantly breaks the focus and
imposes severe strain upon the optics.
Reading by a low light, as at twilight,
or with too strong glare upon the
paper, especially if reflected directly
toward tho eyes, arc equally as bad. So
is reading in bed or in any reclining
position where the matter must be held
in a constrained manner and the eyes be
twisted into unnatural positions to see
the page The effect may not be i'm
mediate, aud when it is noticed will
generally be ascribed to anything else
rather than the right cause, but in fact
1t is the continued and excessive strain
which induces that feeling of WEAKNESS
about the eyes, that dull headache just
in the rear OF the pupils, that heated
feeling. which very readily becomes "A
! chronic Inflammation Of low degree, most
disagrceable 10 bear and ruinous 10 the
fine charm and uuspeakable glory OF the
perfect eve. Tho Same result Is also