The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1893-01-24
MISS HYCE|A's SUBJECTS
An Interesting Talk on An lmpor-
tant Topic That Concerns
Everyone
The Law OF Pure Air and Ventila-
tion a. Expounded by DR..
j. j. Lesser.


Pure Air for the Sleeping Room-AdvAn-
sagss a Disadvantages Of tho DIFF
fsssnt Methods Of Hsatias.
DR.. ]. j.. Leissr 10 delivering . course OF
lectures before the students of tho Method
ist university. Last Saturday evening hs
tool for his subject Hygiene" The lee
turs contained so nan good suggestions
On = little understood topic that the fol-
lowing extracts will be road with Interest.
IL 10 interesting 10 know theS imporssns
the great world Of gods; that the great
Jupiter and Hercules, though they might
WELD a. puppets Mistress Jovs ana MI
license TO rove. and to ss In Judgment. and
to dirt; and II 10 significant that they, 'nva.
ravished friends. enemies, associates alike,
ais witness: The goddess who. ~disgustsd at
not receiving IN Invitation to . Wedding
feast on high Olympus. secretly threw
among the marriage guests an apple with
the inscription. For the fairsst;" and how
Juno, Minerva and Venus scoldsd and
raved for its possession, how they agreed to
submit their rival charms TO the Judgment
Of Paris Of Troy, how Venus won him 10
her side, and the fatal results for the wide
cherished CITY Of the T%rojans-all this you
know. One Of these. the goddess Hygeia,
was made ruler on our world over the de-
partment OF health. Nf
Miss Hypeia must be subject TO a great
council that needs ever scan the horizon for
Il cloud of microbes. which will keep
trimmed the lamps to scorch the wings of
these enchanted depredators; who will Inn.
pint upon their shields Eternal vigilance
is the price of our goddess reign"
The chief constituent of air IL oxygen.
This We must have in Roodly quantity or
our blood will die, and neoessartly our
bodies. We are fed oxygen through our
lungs, BY the process which 10 more or less
familiar TO you all. The air 10 partly de-
voured; however, there 10 no board bill TO
pay; it ID a sort of swapping contract. TIL
mir gives up oxygen and little else; 1t takes
chiefly in exchange carbonio acid. In oon-
sequence the returned air is a sad mixture.
gay instead Of oxygen 20 pats, nitrogen 20
parts. 1t 10 4 per cent. less cxyRen. with 4
per cent. carbonic acid added. This same
bulk Of air can bs again fed to the blood,
but there will be carried off and consumed
the same amount of oxygen. not the same
proportion to bulk, ana the debris as re-
turned will be proportionately sterile. DO
not lose sight of this. because when you sit
or sleep in a room a long time, or in one Of
6AAoAAO n WAuAOuU VAAo -
expiration, the horrors of the worst forms
of poisoning will overtake you.
The steamship Londonderry left Sligo for
Liverpool Dec. 2, 1S48. and the captain
Matched 200 steeraRe passengers in their
cabin during a storm. When liberated 1t
and a lot were In the pangs of death. only
to a degree of headache and sick stomach,
and bad digestion, and congestion of the
liver. and eruptive skin, and depressed Vi
tality. and stunted intellect. When q brat
at school my copybook frequently thrust
~sluggard, and learn the ways of industry;
and another: Behold the little busy bee
improve each shining hour" But do you
know, the matter of fact, industrious, fru-
gal old souls of that lamentable homo of
money hoarders. never told rs OF this habit
of the little busy bee, which in their minds
would have suggested useless fancy and
created demands for engagements Of the
family heerth-this law and government:
A troop OF from ten to twenty bees are on
duty about the entrance to their hives,
keeping up a continual motion of the air
ton. by the vibration of their wings. This
band is relieved every half hour, and in
case Of emergency and wherein specially
bad mir enters. the number is increased in
accordance. And If such vigilance is re-
quired to gather honey for us, what effort
must We not spare to keep the bitter ont OF
our lives-ths bitter of raokinR disease and
helpless decay.
An estimate in q work on hygiene made
thirty years ago says: A room fifteen feet
quare, with nine foot ceiling, must not be
allowed to moro than fvs people. Oh, hor-
FOR! We say to that to-day. But thirty
years ago people lived simpler than they do
to-day, and i've people could sleep in one
room, and with their habits of early rising,
get up alive. To-day We consider it scarcely
safe for two people to occupy . sleeping
room of fifteen by fifteen feet. but by pom
dering over our bone plate w find the re-
turns from our lungs consists chiefly of
is heavy and settles to the floor. Now ven
tilate by q draft down low. OF through =
window open from the bottom, and behold.
the noxious gas escapes. In addition. with
or without an ambition for your Rrandfath.
er's hat. do grow a fancy for his old-fash-
only by a tramp up the incline Of his men,
strous bootjaok; and there sleeping 40 much
AZ possible out of reach OF the poisons set-
tied low. you may lie two in . bed, or even
three.
While suggesting this point in ventils-
ton, let me suggest your looking about
you. some smart jack on a warm night, or
the top down. Hot air, which rises to the
top of a chamber. escapes most readily
from the top opening. This inventive
genius gave escape to the hot air; he was
relieved from it's oppression and slept like
a good Christian. Ever after he preached:
Let your window down. Do you know. hot
a,r is not bad air. In ordi-
nary temperature, should you open
YOU window from the top. the
warm air will escape. tho cold rush in.
The cold 10 heaviest and Immediately de-
soends. 1t is somewhat wild IN soon is
racing over you regardless of the corner in
which you are draped; md with the in
fiuenee of . fully certified draft. IL puts at
least tho footprints of a oatarrh In your
head or down your throat. There IL an old
adaQe which says one fool makes q dozen:''
but wherever l 20 ! find the custom 40 COM
mon to ventilate from the top window, that
! am made to say. the above spoken fool
has made a million. II 10 very EASY for you
all to learn TO give good air a chance. to
manage pure air and gain all liz favor: but
it requires a master hand, q scientist. to
manipulate il mixed with { he common i'm.
puritities. that ii may cause no ills.
The great cities have by actual research
formulated special laws for drainage. as
thus: House pipes need be Ave in ches in
diameter, one to fifty inch grade. A sewer
should flow two. to three feet per second.
Sewage generates one and o~ns-fourth 10 enc
and one-half inches gas per gallon, etc.
One can live almost hsrmlessly on a sewage
bed 10 the open air, while the gas generated
within the pipes 10 80 deadly that q very few
cubic inches diffused in ones room will
gas may DO almost or quito devoid of smell,
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