The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1909-05-20
give THIS A TRIAL
ALWAYS SLEEP WITH YOUR
ROOM WINDOWS OPEN.
Begin This Wholesome, Health-Giv-
ing Habit Now and Then Keep
it up, and Forever After.

ing HABIT NOW anu 1ucA hSSp
it up, and Forever After.
Most colds and most cases of tu-
berculosis in the country are due to
the breathing of impure air around
the freside and in the sleeping
rooms and not to exposure out OF
doors, says the Progressive Farmer.
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 winter
and the parlors and bed rooms stuffy
and unwholesome the year round.
The Farmer goes on to Say:
The old notion that the night air
is unwholesome evidently came from
the malarial districts where mos
uuitoes 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 of the
pools of stagnant water where the
MOSQUITOES breed, the night 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.
Thefhealthful 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 or your hands,
and it is as injurious to healtf>and
as incompatible with personal clean
liness 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 soiled garments. In the same
way a bed which has not an occa-
sional bath of sunshine becomes just
as unwholesome as clothes which
have not an occasional bath Of wa.
ter.
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 become used to sleeping
in closed rooms and have acquired
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 1t
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 deVot-
ed 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 sat
Esfaction you WILL get from your
slumbers by opening the windows
widely.
AS the weather grows warm-for
that matter whether it gets warme:
or not-open your windows a little
wider each night until you are get
ting all the fresh air that is possible,
then when stormy night comes do
not shut them up more than is neces-
sary to keep out the rain. If you
try this a few months, we are sure
you will not be willing to go back
to closed windows, not even when the
cold weather comes next year. Or
dinarily, it is not thought practicable
to keep the windows open as widely
in the winter as in the summer.
Experiments, however, at the san
itariums for the treatment of tuber-
culosis indicate that !most OF us
would be better off if we slept under
a roof with walls on only two sides
of us. We are not hoping that you
will do this, however-we don't
claim to practice it ourselves-but
we can assure you upon the state
ments of unQuestionable authori-
ties that it is injurious to sleep in
a room that is not well ventilated;
and we know from personal expert
ence that if one has cover enough
to keep from getting chilled the more
air he gets into the sleeping room
cf night, the better he is likely TO
feel next morning.
Open up your windows and let the
bad air out and let in the pure, fresh
country air, Of which 50 many nice
things are said. There isn't enough
Of the bad al, inside to have much
effect on the great outdoors, but
there is enough pur. air outside to
H.; ke your bed room more whole
sDrra AMI your s.eep more salts
fy.n; we believe t.at when you
have once given it fair trial you
will be no more willing to breathe
air contaminated by repeated breath
ing and the eXhalations of the body
than you would be to eat stale food
or wear unclean clothes.
Broad Gua%cd Christian.
Mr.. John T. Jordan, Il member Of
the Timmonsvillc Baptist church,
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