Los Angeles herald., 1908-04-26

I$sSS $S to the haphazard man.
"A agement of an igno-
rant maid or janitor
If the windows and
| ~ -, = a doors are opened In
"a"a"' " "' advance Of a meeting
! Severance the air is soon made
| unwholesome by the
crowd, and if either are then opened,
those who have not accustomed them
selves to pure air by day and night,
shuddering from fear of draught, at
cnce demand that these be closed, and
| thus compel all others to suffer. This
may be avoided if the windows and
transoms above the level of the audi
ence are left open before the people
gather, and do not see it done. 1t is
! important to have openings on oppo-
site sides of the halls, else there will
be little or no change of air. Why
there if not to be opened?
The present situation in the home,
church, school and all our public
buildings is lamentable, a rebuke to our
intelligence and our ability and duty
to remedy it, and we'll may be classed
as another factor in the causes of
race suicide" 1t makes it's imperative
demand upon all humane and patriotic
citizens for immediate and thorough
correction.
Scientific Facts
There are scientific facts about air
and our need of 1t, which probably are
not known by our home-makers, teach
ers and janitors; and therefore are not
Tut into use. DR.. Alfred Schofeld, in
the May number of the Eclectic for
1896, sums them up quite thoroughly. j..
1--WE live" he says, "at the bottom of
cur forty miles sea of air, where 1t Is
densest and most impure. Air in Lon
| = t. ofv hut a ed
dust, etc. Ozone is vital ele-
ment of the air, but never found in
towns, seldom in their outskirts, never
where the wind blows from the towns,
end only trace of it where wind blows
| from the country. 1t is found mainly
on the seacoast, where the sea kelp is
exposed at low water" 1.-The electric
spark, passed through air long occu-
pied, changes it into ozone" Is that a
hint toward easy publication of our
buildings or rooms, where, or when,
fresh air is not available?
To Furnish Strength
Again he says, although our life de-
pends on at least 800 grams of nitrogen
per day we cannot use 1t in the raw
state, but must get it in the form of al
bumen, in meat, many grain foods,
etc. Thus many die of starvation who
have no money to buy food in the right
shape"
An argument this for the use of
grains, since they contain the needed
elements, without involving the slaugh-
ter house and packing house horrors.
Since the animals, whose lives are
taken and flesh eaten, under the plea
of giving US strength, derive their
strength from grains why not get ours
at first hand, as they do? Is it not
within the province and even the duty
of a physician to regulate the food OF
the patient according to the amount OF
any needed food element lacking oil
too abundant?
Dr. Schofeld gives hint to those
who dread moist air, what we call
damp air." that 1.-The most pleasant
air to breathe is that which has three
quarters of all the moisture 1t can
hold" Eastern doctors also have found
patients with certain throat and bron-
Chal troubles benefited by a moist cli-
mate.
According to DR.. Schofleld, "coal dust
! has no sharp corners and so does not
cut nor tear tisues." He accounts thus
for the freedom of miners from respi-
ratory disease, and asserts that "coal
dust may fill the lungs until they are
black and not harm them" But it
must be true that where sunlight and
fresh air do not reach the miners in
jury follows to the general health and
yigor.
1.-THE dust of metals is. harmful" he
says: Iron, steel and tin worst of all.
We thus see the unreported cost al
which the workers in these metals
labor who supply the worlds need; and
that we should not only pity, but insist
upon all possible methods of prevention
by the capitalists who reap immense
dividends from their labor,
DR.. Schofield classifieS the agencies
which create impure air as, first, re
hreathed air, covering condition.
created by the sick in home or hospital
second, stagnation, trades ETC., ant
adds that carbonic acid gas from com
bustion by lamps and other like source
is not nearly so injurious as rebreatheC
air. He claims, as do other hygieni
authorities, that the space needed in
doors by each person is a room 10 fee
by 10 feet and 10 feet high, window
opened an inch for each person anC
for each lamp or burner added; tina
two gas burners in an ordinary room
produce as much carbonic acid gas il
an hour as do ten men; that it is more
healthful by, far to drink foul rive
water than to breathe the foul air o
our crowded and unventilated rooms,
and that 1--WE are content to eat ou
peck of dirt in these ways, but never Il
eat from a dirty plate" or he nigh
have added to drink from a glass whicl
has been used.
DR.. Schofleld gives reports Of careful
tests Of the absolute need of fresh al
made by enclosing animals and evel
men in cases from which air is abso
lutely excluded to the time, in whicl
life fingers, and gives the following
formula for testing the air in close
) rooms: Emptying a half pint bottle o
water, let 1t fill with air. then add on
: tablespoon of pure limewater, then t
cork and shake; If not milky white Il
few minutes the ventilation is good
If 1t turns white, bad ventilation is as
sured. His conclusions are, at Is foil
to rail at night air; there is no othe
then; and fresh air at night is far pure
than the day air of towns and surel
! than rebreathed indoor air"
= DR.. Schofeld finishes with this para
L graph: although the system accommo
oates itself to poisons, taken gradually
:. room, a person coming into it from tn
y open air is ofen seized with violen
: headaches or with a sense of suffoca
tion. Impure air is a sure poison, If
= slow one. 1t lowers the whole tone o
- the system and lays the foundation 70
e serious and often fatal diseases"
n The question remains, what are W
e going to do about it, dear mothers an
r our intelligent club members? Even tn
G most thoroughly orientaliZed Of thes
:. may we'll consider Browning's lines:
=, For body helps soul,
No less than soul helps body.
And enter into the spirit of wise oil
Il SODhOcleS. in that long gone time