The Brandon news. (Brandon, Miss.) 1892-1961, 1909-05-27

Air.
We hear a great deal said about
the pure air of the country, and 1t 1si
often wondered why colds and lung
troubles should be almost prevalent,
in some cases even more SO, in the
country districts than In the crowded.
towns where the air is necessarily
less pure. One reason for this may
be found in the clever saying that
1.-The reason the country air is pure
is because the farmers,O or rather the
farmers wives, keep all the bad air
shut up in the houses and 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 Of the farms,
but it has in it an element OF truth
ead Air, Not Exposure, Chief Cause
OF Consumption.
Most colds and most cases OF tu-
berculosis in the country are due to
the breatA ing OF impure air around
the fireside and in the sleeping
doors. There are only too many
folks in the country who have no
idea what good ventilation really
means, and who keep the air in their
living rooms over-heated during the
winters and the parlors and bed
rooms stuffy and unwholesome the
year round. 1.-The best room" that
is kept shut up and darkened from
1aU
opened up only a little, with the
shades unraised for fear the sum
shine will fade the carpet,could not
be a wholesome place in which to
sit, even for a few hours. Much less
lis the bed room with all the win
dows shut down as tightly as possible
a healthy place for any one to
sleep in. Of course, it is not advis-
able to have the windows open so
that a draft blows directly over ones
face; yet the writer has more than
once been walked up by the rain
blowing in his face and has felt NO
I'LL effects from it. To sleep in a
room with all the windows down
would, however, insure him good
headache next morning. The people
who wake of mornings tired out
from their nights rest are usually
the folks who are afraid OF the night
air.
1t is only Necessary to Keep out
Mosquitoes.
The old notion that the night air
is wholesome evidently came from
the malarial districts where mos
Quitoes 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 might air is
not going to hurt you. If you have
not done this, it might be well to
have a mosquito netting over the
windows of your sleeping room; but
nothing thicker than this should be
tolerated.
Air Once 5reathed 10 Dirty and
Poisonous.
The healthful sleeping room is one
into which fresh air is continually
coming all night long and which is
treated each day to a cleaning of out
door air and sunshine The air will
become unclean just the same as
your clothes and your hands, and it
MS as injurious to health and as in
compatible with personal cleanliness
to breathe air that has been shut up
in a bed room all night as it is to go
with unwashed face or to wear solid
garments. In the same way bed
which has not an occasional bath of
sunshine becomes just as unwhole-
some as clothes which have not an
occasional 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 i'm
the country, however, have from long
custom become used to sleeping
i'm closed rooms and have acquired
"a rather unreasonable fear of too
much air getting to them of nights
1t is safe to say that not even in the
coolest weather should outside air
be prevented from coming into the
room in which one sleeps; but it
would do no good to tell people who
are used to sleeping inn 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 impress upon you the benefit to
your health and the increased salts
faction you will get from your slum-
bers by opening the windows widely.
Open thee Windows a Little Wider