Arizona republican., 1910-01-05

determination of the amount of car
 bonic acid present An easily applied
 method of ascertaining whether a giv-
 en air contains a poisonous amount of
 carbonic acid is based upon the tur-
 gidity caused in lime water by the pre-
 cipitated carbonate. There are many
 scientific methods used but a method
 which will do when others are not available is your nose. I must say that
 the air might be badly vitiated but still
 many wait, before opening their doors l in certain rooms, until musty odor is perceptible. Many people clean house
 twice year, some only once, but a | saner, safer method is to sweep down
 your walls, clean out your closets, re-
 move all your clothing that has been
 hanging there for weeks. ever since we
 had our rainy season, and brush and | air before putting them back.
 ] "Transoms are all right in their way i and serve a purpose, but usually you | find them closed. Usually they swing from the top. They should always
 swing from the bottom. To have ! really first class circulation a system
 of openings should be made from every room on the radiator plan, extending 1 to the attic, and an opening in roof, ! properly protected. to allow the escape of vitiated air.
 "A hundred other things could be mentioned in this connection, for in stance. large airy sleeping rooms; plenty of windows and always open. Don't be afraid of air. Have it fresh all the time. Insist upon it. Talk it.
 Be a crank on the subject. It will pa.5. The house is your castle. If your halls and rooms are clean and cheery Ono
 dark corners. remember) your bric-a-
 brac and furniture clean, your sons and daughters will be clean. and vice
 versa. Cleanliness is next to godli- ness.
 ''I am not trying to tell you how to keep house but if I have succeeded in reminding you of very few of the salient points in home sanitation this short paper will have been of some ac- couI {.
 one other thing before I close, for it brings us to a condition bearing upon the welfare of the lives in our homes far more than anything l have mentioned. I mean the streets of our city. Can you ladies expect to have sanitary homes with the streets of your city quagmire-the crossings so bad that the dirt has to be shOveled off before you can safely get across? Do you expect to have sanitary homes with germ laden filth at your very door? You cannot walk our streets and go to your homes without a pos sible chance of conveying some dread ed disease to some member of your household. Do you expect to have san itary homes with a sewer system more adopted to a country village than a town of twenty thousand or more? It is all right as far as it goes. this sewer. but it don't go one quarter of the way round.
 You have diphtheria, scarlet fever and other allied diseases with you al ways and always will and more of it. as long as present conditions exist. Your family physician will tell you it is crime to have such conditions. You may have escaped SO far the rav- ages of those diseases, but you don't know how soon it may come to your home. Therefore, I say is it not your duty. as representative ladies of this | city. to bring to bear all the influence | you have at your united command to i remedy this evil? Not one in this city | would discourage you, but every one ! would lend a helping hand. All it | needs is some one to lead the way 1 and you ladies should do it, l say l should do it because you can do 1t l quicker than any one else.
 Here we are at the commencement | of new year with everything looking | for our valley: would it not l be a grand triumph for the Woman's ! club if before the year was ended they l could be sure of a Cleaner Phoenix? You know that in every city in these | United States that has any preteXt | towards being beautiful and healthy. the women of the city have been the l means of its accomplishment Are | you any less patriotic? No, l don't | think so. and right now let me suggest ! to you. before closing. that you organ iZe. before you leave this building. into | a committee or committees 1nd go at | this work hammer and tong fashion. | Don't let up. Overcome every obsta- ! cle Enthuse over it. Work for it. | Fight for it. Let your slogan be. l Paved Streets and Sewer System | first. last and every minute, Then we | can have a Cleaner Phoenix and | homes.
 The greatest asset that a nation | has is it's sturdy manhood and woman- 1, hood. Tine greatest asset that a fam i fly has is it's good health. Every time | the husband or father is ill the family | revenue or income is cut down par | tially or completely. Is it not then ! the unqualified duty of you mothers | and wives to see to it that the health | of the house is maintained? How do | you expect to do it with unsanitary | -Are you going to wait | until you are stricken before you act?"
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