The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1905-05-27
PROPER VENTILATION.
Bedrooms Should BE Kept Dry and
Warm by Day and Windows
Opened at Night.

First and very important: Keep you:
bed and room warm and dry during
the day. An open window and a cold
room will make the bed damp and cold,
and will give the unfortunate occupant
a severe cold at least, IL not worse. A
damp bed is veritable breeding place
of bacteria. Many housekeepers, having
heard of the necessity of fresh air, leave
the bedroom window open during the
day, filling 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 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 1t
just before putting guest into it, is, to
put 1t mildly, very thoughtless. Cold OBJ
jects, bedding included, when exposed to
sudden heat, condense the moisture In
the air, and consequently 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
than TO sleep In such bed.
Second: All your clothing worn in the
day time. 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 in the morning, because
1t still contains the corporations from
your body during the previous day, and
after awhile your clothing will have an
unpleasant odor from these evapora.
tions. Drying and airing your footwear
during the night will keep yo1f feet
from sweating. GOODNESS and bad odors
Third: Your bed and room, warm and
dry, have plenty of lightweight bedding.
Then just before retiring, close the door
and open window from the bottom
Where more than one person sleeps in
q room, the window must be raised high
er. This will give an abundance 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. as cozy as q bug in 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 give you healing and strength.
When arising in the morning. close the
window. and let heat come into the room.
Then, dressed in your aired and dry day
clothing, you will feel clean, fresh and
vigorous.
Four: Keep your living rooms well
ventilated in daytime. II no other pro.
vision is made for ventilation, get one
of those attachments to stove pipe OF
flue which takes the cold air from the
floor. Foul air being heavier than warm
air, naturally sinks to or near the floor,
and by the above mentioned apparatus
escapes to the fiue. How many sitting
rooms Of even well-to-do people have q
very offensive odor from lack of ventila-
ton?
Fifth, Our northern wells contain
the most excellent mineral waters
Morning and evening, cleanse your nasal
passages and gargle the throat with
fresh, cold water. This will cure a ca.
tarrh without the aid of medicine, and
will relieve most colds.-The Living
| Church.