The daily morning journal and courier., 1898-02-19

nltufei Detter SaCflHce those than the health and the strength of the family Sunshine is the best disinfectant known. It purifies all sources of dis ease; it gives both physical and mental health.
 If you are selecting a house or an apartment in town be sure that you get one filled with sunshine. It means everything. Another thing, the situa- tion which brings you the sun in win ter brings you the cooling breezes in summer, so you are more comfortable and physically safer all the year round If possible, have kitchens and bath rooms sunny. They need the puri- fication of sunlight as well as of air You may have to look a little longer, you may have to pay little more rent, but what you spend in this direction you will more than save in doctors bills and medicines.
 If there is any reason why you must economize in window space, see that It is done on the north side of the house. You keep out much cold, and you don't lose sun. But have plenty of windows on the south, east and west. Make as much exposure toward the south as you possibly can. Those big souther- ly windows have been your salvation" said physician to the mother of young family, every member of which had been down with the scarlet fever, and had had struggle to pull through. It was so much easier to fight disease with the aid of the sun and the free ventilation. It is no more difficult to begin right with your building than it is to begin wrong, and it costs no more to set your house where it will com mand the south than to put it upon the corner of your lot. Your neighbours houses needn't make any difference with your house. You've got to live in it, and you have it's possibilities for comfort to consider.
 The floors of your house should be of wood, some of the pretty hard woods that you may cover with rugs that may be frequently taken up. Many houses in the country are not warm enough in winter when the floors are not entirely covered so one may have | Noolen carpet to use in the winter, which shall not be nailed down, but held in place by a system of hooks and rings, such as are used to keep the car pets on stage firmly in place. These may be taken up and beaten as often | during the winter as is found necessa- l ry, and almost as easily managed as a 1 large rug. In this way one may have | at once the warmth of the entire floor | covering and the cleanliness and free l dom from dust of the polished floor and rugs. In the spring the carpet may be well beaten, rolled up in news | papers, and then in heavy cotton cloth, and put away until it is time to bring l it out again for warmth and comfort, while you, during the hot months, have | the luxury of wood floors and the sense of coolness which accompanies | them.
 The walls of the house should be | substantial, and so built as to protect 1 from cold winds and also from damp ness. 'The rain on the roof" that | lulls to dreaminess with it's soft batter, | should be collected in troughs or 1 spouts and conveyed to the drain, where it serves the double purpose Of flushing and ventilating, by conducting | the sewer gas away from the house. | Sleeping rooms should be as large as | you can manage to have them, and | they should, every one, have the sun | during some portion of the day. If l you can possibly arrange to have a 1 fireplace in one, at least, of the sleep l ing rooms, you will find your problem I of ventilation, in that room at least, l simpli1ed. This room would be an | ideal nursery, with it's big sunny win ] T y,6 {tc H,o fender, and it would make the best possible hospital room. There is su ,h
 conpanionship in an open fire One doesn't mind the silences when there is something so pleasant and restful to look at. If you are building the house yourself insist upon two fireplacas -- one down stairs and one up stairs.
 Economize somewhere else, if you
 must, but have these adjuncts to
 health and happiness. Somebody has
 said that furnaces are immensely use
 full to warm the bones of the house
 and as sort of reserve force; but tLe
 heat they give is somewhat like a sue
 cesSion of January thaws. What VOL | want to give the real heat, in addition
 to your furnace, which is the basis, is
 a good open fire, more than one if you
 can afford it." But whether you can have the upstairs fireplace or not. the
 sleeping rooms should be arranged
 with an especial view to good ventila-
 tion. And this requires not merely the
 admission of the fresh, pure air but all
 outlet for the vitiated and exhausted
 air.
 It is bad plan to sleep on the
 ground floor, especially in any sectior
 of the country which is at all malatial
 It is said to be fact that malaria sel.
 dom, if ever, rises so high as the sec
 ond story in the night time, and win.
 dows may be left open with perfect
 safety. Of course one cannot voucl for the truth of this statement, but il
 has been so often confidently asserted
 that one feels little hesitancy in re
 beating it. At any event there is nt
 reason to fear the night air; 1t is better
 to have 1t pure than to breathe it poi
 soned as it is in a room shut up. Al
 soiled linen, whether bed or body
 should be removed at once from {
 sleeping room. It helps vitiate the ail
 and thus produces an atmosphere O
 unwholesomeness, if not of disease.
 The extreme care of ventilation
 should be observed in the arrangemen
 of the kitchen. This room should
 shine with perfect cleanliness, and b,