Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1909-05-25
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SLEEP WITH WINDOWS OPEN.
A Wholesome Habit and Preventive
of Consumption.

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pure air Of the country, and II. Is oitei
wondered why colds and lung troubles
sbou,d he almost as prevalent, In some
cases even more so, in the country dis
tricts than in the crowded towns where
the air is necessarily less pure. one
reason for this may be found In the
clever saying that "the reason the coun'
trv air Is pure is because the farmers
or rather the farmers wives, keep al
the had air shut up in the houses ano
only the good is left to play about over
the fields and through the woods"
This statement is not very comph-
mentary to the women on the 1arms
but it has in it an element OF truth.
Bad Air, Not Exposure, Chief Cause Of
Consumption.
Most colds and most cases OF tuper-
culosis in the country are due to the
breathing of impure air around the
Areside and in the sleeping room and
mot TO exposure out of doors. There are
only too many folks in the country
who have no idea what good Ventiia-
t,on really means, and who keep the all
IN their living rooms over-heated dur
ing the winter and the parlors and bed
rooms stuffy and unwholesome the year
round. 1.-The best room" that Is kept
shut I'D and darkened from one sun
day to another and then opened up only
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fear the sunshine will fade the carpet
could not be a wholesome place In
which to sit, even for few hours
Much less is the bedroom with all the
windows shut down as tightly as possl-
BILE a healthy place for any one TO sleep
IN. OF course, it is not advisable TO
have the windows open so that draI'
blows directly over ones face; yet the
writer has more than once been waked
I'm by the rain blowing in his face and
has felt no Ill effects from 1t. To sleep
in a room with all the windows down
would, however, insure him good
headache next morning. The people
who wake in the mornings tried out
from their nights rest" are usually the
folks who are afraid Of the night air.
Il Is Only Necessary to Keep Out Mos
quitoes.
The old notion that the night air Is
unwholesome evidently came from the
malarial districts where mosquitoes
were prevalent and came in through the
open windows to visit the sleeper NOW
the mosquitoes do spread malaria, but
fresh air does not. If you have drained
off the pools of stagnant water where
the mosquitoes breed, the night air is
not going to hurt you. II you have
not done this, 1t might be well to have
a mosquito netting over the windows OF
your sleeping room; but nothing thick
er than this should be tolerated.
Air Once Breathed Is Dirty and Pois-
onous.
The healthful sleeping room is one
into which fresh air Is continually COM
ing all night long and which Is treated
each day to a cleaning Of out door air
clean just the same as your clothes or
your hands, and it Is as injurious to
health and as incompatible with per-
sonal cleanliness to breathe air that has
been shut up in a bed room all night as
1t is to go with unwashed face or to
wear soiled garments. In the same way
q bed which has not an occasional bath
of sunshine becomes just as unwhole-
some as clothes which have not an oc-
casional bath Of water.
The Fresh Air Habit-Now Is the Time
to Begin.
All these things are recognized by
health authorities everywhere and are
pretty generally known by the farmers
who read. Many people in the country,
however, have from long custom be-
come used to sleeping in closed rooms
and have acquired a rather unreasona-
BILE fear Of too much air getting to them
at night 1t is safe to say that not
even in the coolest weather should out
side air be prevented from coming in
to the room in which one sleeps; but
it would do no good to tell people who
are used to sleeping In closed rooms
such a thing in winter time. Now,
however, when the warm weather is
coming on and even the most devoted
lovers Of stuffy sleeping rooms are glad
to open their windows, we wish to i'm
press upon you the benefit to your
health and the increased satisfaction
you will get from your slumbers by
opening the windows widely.
Open tho Windows Little Wider Each
Night.
AS the weather grows warmer-for
that matter whether it gets warmer or
not-open your windows a little wider
each night until you are getting all the
fresh air that is possible, then when a
stormy night comes, do not shut them
up more than is necessary to keep out
the rain. If you try this few months,
we are sure you will not be willing to
go back to closed windows, not even
when the cold weather comes next win
ter Ordinarily, it is not thought prac-
ticable to keep the windows open as
widely in the winter as in the summer
Experiments, however, at the SANTA
RUINS for the treatment of tuberculosis
indicate that most Of us would be bet
ter off if we slept under a roof with
walls on only two sides of us. We are
not hoping that you will do this, how
ever,-we don't claim to practice 1t our
selves-but We can assure you upon
the statements of unquestionable au-
thorities that it is Injurious to sleep in
a room that is not we'll ventilated; and
We know from personal experience that
II one has cover enough to keep from
getting chilled the more air he gets
into the sleeping room at night, the
better he is likely to feel next morning
Bad Air In the Same Class With Stale
Food and Dirty Clothes.
Open up your windows and let the
bad air out and let in the pure, fresf
country air, of which so many nice
things are said. There isn't enough