The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1904-09-25

Out-Of-dOOrS. as nearly every girl
has, comes back TO school feel
ing tired
The confinement Of the school room
brings about a muscular reaction that
Is very depressing after a summer Of
sports. Her spirits. too, feel the strain
and the difference between outdoor life
and the life Of the books and aliases
Is very pronounced. She gets up in
the morning feeling listless and goes
to bed in the same manner. 1t is a
severe test upon vitality this sudden
change from outdoor life to indoor life.
And II is not only the girl student
who feels this change 1t is felt by
school children Of all ages and BY every
child who las spent the summer in
the country. The child who has lived
in the open Will have a tired. stuffy
feeling indoors.
Women the Sufferers.
Grown-up persons are special sufferers
in this matter. 1t is not so much the
man of the house. the family man, or
the clerk, who feels the change, be-
cause a man is out in the air more or
less all the time.
The family man gets I'D in the morn
ing and goes to business He goes out
10 his MONDAY meal He Is IN and out
all day and he comes home at night
weary, but with his lungs filled with
good air.
But with the woman Of the household
it is different. She is IN the house all
day. She sews and. perhaps cooks and
does the usual housewifely duties She
does not get out more than once a day.
Indeed, a certain housewife admitted
recently that there were days and days
when she did not stir a foot on the front
| doorstep.
Life Indoors.
Now. staying IN the house would not
be so bad were it not for the things
which go with a life indoors. The mere
fact of remaining in ones home is not
injurious. But the trouble Is that the
home Is not always in a fit condition
for its inmates. 1t is not hygienic. 1t
! is not sanitary. 1t is not always any
too cleanly. And this statement applies
more particularly TO handsome homes
than to poor ones
The writer recently paid a visit to the
living room and the play rooms Of
/ family Of children ranking among the
children Of the 400 The suite Of rooms
! occupied the third floor of the house;
and all the rooms from the school ROOM
which was located in sunny L, or ex-
tension, to the sleeping rooms were de-
! lhcously fresh and light.
/ There were no carpets on the floor and
the rugs were the thin, light. small
/ Turkish rugs that can be tossed out of
the window every day 10 be shaken.
/ The walls were papered with pretty
/ scenes, but they could be swept down,
for no pictures hung urOn them-not one
/ single picture. The brlc-a-brac consist
ed of handsome statuary, too large 20 be
knocked over; and the chairs. while eie-
CANT. were devoid Of Intricate carvings.
The whole suite impressed one as being
thoroughly healthy.
A Healthy Room.
1t is the woman Of moderate means
I who can have a plain room as well as
the rich woman, for a plain room Is
within easy reach of the woman of no
means at all If the woman who finds
the house eternally dusty. who discovers
that the rugs are always dingy. who no.
tices that the air is close and the room
sti1ed, will make a few changes. she
will find things quite different.
I went into a house." said a trained
nurse. speaking of the home OF a
wealthy family. and found everybody
sick with malaria and all sorts Of
strange things, known and unknown,
catalogUed and not catalogued.
Il opened all the windows" said She
"and then. with the assistance Of the
servants, I took down pOrtieres and lace
curtains. I ripped the bric-a-brac and
! draperics from the wall and transformed
i the house. In Q few days / had a hand
some, even elegant, apartment without
any Of the frippery and trumpery which
was there before. did It as a necessary
precaution for my patients. and found
It an Improvement.
Hygienic Conditions.
And what was the resuIt2 Why,
there was little dust IN the house and
! fresh air blew through 1t from morning
, TO night. Everybody had an appetite.
Everybody felt fresh and longed to get
out. And as for the rooms. they looked
better. A handsome piece Of brlc-a-
, brac here and there IS better than a
thousand trifles My patients7 Oh
they got well right away. and I was
out Of a Job shortly"
It was Rose Hawthorne T.athrop who
invented a room that is hygienically
correct. She found II necessary in her
cancer hospital to provide the patients
, who are there for life-with clean
? bright. cheerful sitting rooms She ap-
piled TO an artist and to an architect
3 and she took several physicians into
her confidence. And with this result
as told by Mrs Lathrop In an inter
, | view.
! 1--WE painted the floors a ripe. cheer.
/ full yellow. And we papered the wall.
/ in yellow and white. All the furnitur,
is painted either a pretty yellow or q
spotless white and the hangings are fl
thin yellow silk that can be shaken on
result is a handsome room, though
n everything in It is perfectly plain. AnC
< the room catches the eye even though
\ It's only bric-a-brac is the bright COW
4 ers OF books and the few belongings o.
e the inmates"
d So it can he seen that the pretties
n rooms are not always the cluttered NJ
- ones. And a handsome home can be ;
plain one. The late Mrs William {