The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1905-06-22
FRESH AIR AND VENTILATION.
Some Directions Relating to Bed Rooms
and Clothing,

and Clothing.
Living Church.: First, and very i'm
portant: Keep you bed and bedroom
warm and dry during the day. An open
window II a cold room will make the
bed damp and cold, and will give it's UNI
fortunate occupant a severe cold 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 nom is needed, and then
close the window for the night, when
the room is %occnnied and fresh air is
needed in abundance. Any one can see
how contrary to common sense such
procedure is.
The custom of some housekeepers to
keep the spare room closed at all
times and then opening it only or
warming it just before putting a guest
into, is, to put it mildly, very thought
less. Cold objects, bedding included,
when exposed to a sudden heat, con
dense the moisture in the air, and con-
sequently such beds are always damp
and cold, and are the most unhealthy
and should be avoided even by guests.
Better go to an up to date hotel or walk
home any number of miles, tina TO
sleep in sue a bed.
Second: All your clothing worn in
the daytime, footwear included, open
out and hang, over chairs, or on hooks
near 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 III the
morning, because it still contains the
corporations from your body during
the previous day, n after a While
your clothing will have an unpleasant
odor for these corporations. Drying ana
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
the door and open a window from 1Ae
bottom. When more than n person
sleeps in a room, the window must be
raised higher. This will give an abund-
ance of fresh air while you sleep. Place
the bed SO hat the fresh air current
Will not strike you directly. protected
IN you dry, warm bed-as coy as a
bug in a rug-the air. cold. pure and
fresh, freighted with oxygen, a very
elixir of life, will quiet your nerves,
will rest you, will soothe you, and glV
YOU healing ard strength. When arls-
Ing in the morning, close he lndc"
quickly M let heat come into the room.
Then dressed in your aired and dry DAY
clothing, you will feel clean, fresh ana
vigorous.
Fourth: Keep your living rooms wen
ventilated in daytime. If no other pro-
vision is made for ventilation, get one
OF those attachments to a stove pipe
Or f1ue which take cold air from the
SHfoor. Foul air being heavier ina
warm. naturally sinks to or near the
Hoor, and by the above mentioned APP
paratus escapes to the flue. HOW many
sitting rooms Of ever we'll to 40 peop!e
nave a very offensive odor from lach OF
ventilation!
Fifth: Our northern wells contain
Lne most excellent mineral waters
Morning and evening cleanse your
nasal passages and gargle the throa'
with fresh cold water. This VIII cure
catarrh without the aid of medicine
And will relieve most old