The St. Louis Republic., 1904-10-02

make few changes. she win find thing!
! quite different.
Il went Into a house" said trained
nurse. speaking Of the home of a wealthy
| family, and found everybody sick will
| malaria and all sorts Of strange things
known and unknown. catalogued and moi
] catalogued.
"I opened all the windows" said she
END then. with the assistance of the
| servants. took down portieres and lace
curtains ripped theb ric-a-brac and dra-
peries from the wall and transformed the
house. In few days I had a handsome.
even elegant. apartment without any of
the flippery and trumpery which was there
before. I did It as a necessary precaution
for my patients. and | found II an I'M
prOvcment.
And what was the result? Why. there
,, was little dust in the house and fresh air
blew through it from morning to night.
Everybody had an appetite. Everybody
felt fresh and longed to get out
And as for the rooms, they looked bet
ter. 4 handsome piece OF bric-a -brac here
and there is better than n thousand .ri-
fcz. Ny patients? Oh. they got well right
away. and | was out OF a Job shortly
1t was Rose Hawthorne Latfrop who
invented a room that Is hygienically cor
rect. She found IL necessary In her can
Ger hospital to provide the patients-who
are there for life-with clean. bright
cheerful sitting-rooms. She applied to an
artist and to an architect. and she took
several physicians into her confidence.
And with this result. as told by Mrs
Lathrop in an Interview:
I'VE painted the floors a ripe, cheerful
yellow. And we papered the walls in
yellow and white. All the furniture Is
painted either a pretty yellow or spot
less white. and the hangings are in thin
yellow silk that can be shaken out as
one would shake dustcloth
THE result Is handsome room, though
everything in It is perfectly piain And
the room catches tine eye, even though its
only bric-a-brac is the bright covers of
books and the few belongings of the in
mates"
AIR MAKES YOU FEEL HEAVY
So II can be seen that the prettiest rooms
are not always the cluttered-up ones. And
a handsome home can be a plain one. The
late Mrs. william c. Whitney would have
no pictures In her drawing-room save
elegant tapestries that were framed as
pictures. Nor would she have heavy hang
ings. All the draperies were of the sort
that could be taken down and shaken out.
Thus the room was always sweet and
clean, even though It did contain thou
sands of dollars worth OF tapestry. 1t
In the close air that makes one feel heavy.
But to leturn to the subject of indoor
life. The student who has been away for
her vacation and who now enters the
schoolroom and who feels the reaction of
indoor life must begin her treatment by
taking care of her lungs. It is the
crampedup things that make all the mis-
chief.
And the housewife who lives indoors and
who feels tired, and who Is growing
wrinkled and old and fat. can restore her
youth and her health by changing the air
of the house.
Remember that the trouble Is caused by |
several things.
First, the sudden change from being out |
Of doors to being indoors. The muscles |
have been given plenty OF work to do and |
now they are idle. They do not work cas- |
lily. 1t Is Just like letting O machine get |
rusty and out OF sorts.
Secondly, there is trouble with the IN
door air. There IL not one room In a hum
drcd that is ventilated properly. To ven
tilate a room as 1t should be ventilated |
there must be a transom over the door |
and the window must be left open. II there
Is no transom there should be two win
dows in the room, and both should be ]
open.
II possible keep windows open on oppo-
.its sidae e .hs room. Open them wide,