The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1909-06-18
FRESH AIR AND VENTILATION

rooms and Clothing.
First. and very important: Keep
your bed and bedroom warm and dry
during the day. An open window and
a cold room will make the bed damp
and cold, says the Living Church, and
will give it's unfortunate occupant
severe cold at least, If not worse. A
damn bed is veritable brOod1ng
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 need
ed 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 for
warming it just before putting a guest
into it, is, to put it mildly, very
thoughtless Cold objects, bedding in
Guided, when exposed to sudden heat,
condense the moisture in the air and
consequently such beds are always
damp and cold, and are the most I'M
healthful 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 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 in
the morning, because it still contains
the corporations from your body dur
ing the previous day, and after a
while your clothing will have an un-
pleasant odor from these corporations.
Drying and airing your footwear dur
ing the night will keep your feet from
sweating, GOODNESS and bad odors.
Third-Your bed and room, warm
and dry, should have plenty of light
weight bedding Then just before re-
firing close the door and open a win
dow from the bottom. Where more
than one person sleeps in 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 directly. Protected in your dry,
h1rc in, To-
the air, cold, pure and fresh,
freighted with oxygen a very elixir of
life, will quiet your nerves, will rest
you, will sooth you and give you heal
ing and strength. When arising in
the morning close the window quick
ly and let the heat come into the
room. Then, dressed in your aired
and dry day-clothing, you will feel
clean, fresh and vigorous.
Fourth-Keep your living rooms
we'll ventilated in day time. If no
other provision is made for ventila-
ton, get one Of those attachments to
stovepipe or flue which take the cold
air from the floor. Foul air being heav-
Ter than warm air, naturally sinks
near or to the floor and by the above
mentioned apparatus escapes to the
flue. How many sitting rooms of even
well-to-do people have very often
sive odor from lack of ventilation!
F1fth-Our northern wells contain
the most excellent mineral waters.
Morning and evening, cleanse your ma
sal passages and gargle the throat
with fresh, cold water. This will cure
catarrh without the aid Of medicine,
and will cure the most colds.