Kingsbury County independent. (DeSmet, Kingsbury County, S.D.) 1894-1929, 1905-06-23
FRESH AIR AND VENTILATION.
Some Directions Relating to Bed Room.
and Clothing.

Living Church,: First, and very inn
portant: Keep your bed and bedroom
warm n dry during the day. IN open
window n a cold room will make the
bed damp and cold, and will give its UNI
fortunate occupant a severe old at least
If not worse. A damp bed is a veritable
brooding place of bacteria. Many house
Keepers having heard of the necessity
of fresh air, leave the bedroom window
open during the day, filing it with cold
air when none is needed, and then
close the window for the night, when
the room is occupied and fresh air is
needed in abundance. Any one car see
I how contrary to common sense such
J procedure is.
The custom of some housekeepers to
keep the spare room" closed at ali
times and then opening it only or
warming it just before putting a grest
into, is, to put il mildly, very thought
less. Cold objects, bedding included,
when exposed to a sudden heat, con-
dense the moisture in the air, and con
se~quently such beds are always damp
and cold, and are the most unhealthy
and should be avoided even by guests.
Better 90 to an up TO date hotel or walk
home any number OF miles, man TO
sleep in such a bed.
Second: All your clothing worn in
the daytime, ootw5aT open
and hang over chairs, or on hooks
hear the stove or register TO dry and
air during the night. If you neglect
this simple sanitary measure, your
clothing will feel damp and cold in the
aaA..n ~ eth contains thu
eyaporations from your body during
the previous day, and after a While
your clothing will have an unpleasant
odor for these corporations. Drying and
airing your footwear during the night
will keep your feet from sweating, cold
ness and bad odors.
Third: Your bed and room warm and
dry, have plenty of light weight bed
ding. Then Just before retiring, close
ehe door and open a window from the
xpttom. When more han n person
sleeps in a room, the window mus be
raised higher. This will give an abund-
ance of fresh air while you sleep. Place
the bed SO that the fresh air current
will not strike you directly. Protected
in your dry, warm bed-ds Gozy asa
hing in a rug-the air, cold, pure ana
fresh, ~freighted with oxygen, a very
elixtr of life, will quiet your nerves,
win rest YOU. will soothe you, and give
,rou healing and strength. When arts
I'D in the morning, close the window
ickly and let heat come into the room
SSsen dressed in your aired and dry day
yclotfing. you win feel clean, fresh aIc
Z vigorous. -.
Fourth: Keep your living rooms wei
.antiIated In daytime. II no other pro-
,ssion Is made for ventilation, get one
80 those attachments to a stove pipe
Or aue which take cold air from the
ioor. Foul air being heayier than
warm naturally sinks to or near the
49, and by III above mentioned ap-
noratns escapes to the fiue. How many
sitting rooms Of even well to do people
shai,a q very offensive odor from lack of
Khtilation! ,,,o,,. oort.,r
ave most excellent mineral waters.
Morning . ans sns ssrgl cleanse shs th soas
Lha.S fresh cold water. This will cure
Nrrh without the aid of medicine,
A ,yilI relieve most colds.
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