Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-03-09
FRESH AIR AND VENTILATION.
Some Directions Relating to Bed
Rooms and Clothing.

From the Living Church.
First, and very important: Keep your
bed and bed room warm and dry during
the day. An open window and a cold
room will make the bed damp and cold,
and will give it's unfortunate occupant a
severe cold at least, If not worse. A damp
bed is veritable brooding place of bac-
terra. Many housekeepers, having heard
of the necessity of fresh air, leave the
bed room window open during the day,
filling it with cold air when none is need
ed, 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 warming it just be-
fore putting guest into, is, to put 1t mildly,
very thoughtless. Cold objects, bedding
included, when iexposed to sudden heat,
condense 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, than to sleep in such
a bed.
Second. All your clothing worn in the
daytime, footwear included, open out and
hang over chairs, or on hooks near the
the night. If you neglect this simple, SAM
tary measure, your clothing will feel damp
and cold in the morning, because it still
contains the corporations from your body
during the previous day, and after a while
your clothing will have an unpleasant odor
from these corporations. Drying and air
ing your footwear during the night will
keep your 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 a
room, the window must be raised higher.
This will give an abundance of fresh air
while you sleep Place the bed SO that the
fresh air current will not strike you d.
rectly. Protected in your dry, warm bed
as cozy as a bug in a rug-the air, cold,
pure and fresh, freghted 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 quickly
and let heat come into the room. Then,
dressed in your aired and dry day-cloth-
ing you will feel clean, fresh and vigorous.
Fourth. Keep your living rooms well
ventilated in daytime If no other provision
is made for ventilation, get one of those
attachments to a stove pipe or fue which
take 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
fue How many sitting rooms of even
welI-to-do people have a very offensive
odor from lack of ventilation!
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 catarrh without
the aid of medicine, and will relieve most
colds