The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1912-01-12
PEOPLE SLEEP WITH THEIR WINDOWS CLOSED
III Ventilated Bedrooms Breeding Centers for Tubercu
losis.-Why Not Eat Out Of Doors in Sum-
mer and Shun Pcnics

that will take the place Of direct appli-
cations of fresh air.
Neither should there be a lot of as
SHINE rules governing the regulation
Of school-rooms. Let the individual
teacher use her own discretion.
The truth is there are entirely too
many rules and regulations and laws
and DEGREES and statutes and excep-
tons to the latter and rulings by the
circuit courts and heaven knows what
else
The world is tied up hand and foot
with lot of foolish red tape of its
own manufacture that binders it from
expanding in any OF the famed direc-
tions.
You should have system everywhere
but not czarism.
And there's q lot of the latter in
our celebrated free Institutions.
And none more so than in the pub
lie schools.
No sovereign sitting in an inner
chamber and issuing edicts to his min
ions is more despotic than the aver
age American school superintendent.
Principals sidestep and truckle.
If he finds window open he can
shut it up, nail it down and drag the
ashen-faced culprit before one OF
those star-chamber sessions from
! which none return save with a crippled
temper and nerve prostration.
These observations are general in
! character and apply to Indianapolis,
Dayton, New Orleans and Boston as
well as to Oshkosh and Richmond, In
diana.
II women who want to retain their
compilations only knew it one of the
best ways is to sleep with all the win
dows open. No amount of steam-fit-
ting and massaging will take the
place of gentle Zephers playing over
your pillow the while you sleep un-
consciously on.
People don't half enjoy themselves
with the means at hand" How
many people, in instance, ever eat out
of doors in the summer. Aside from
picnicking uncomfortably and buggily
in remote spots only reached by the
automobile, the street car or other
artificial locomotion?
It's a continental habit, this of serv-
ing out of doors, and charming one.
1t might just as we'll be an Ameri-
can one.
Take your own garden. in instance
Or back yard" as it Is unaesthetical-
ly called.
Supper served on a small table out
there with your flowers and grass and
trees is as charming as anything you
could imagine-if the day is warm and
the sunset glorious.
The discomforts of picnicking are
done away with.
And you have all the delight of the
out-of doors.
A picnic is ordinarily an abomina-
ton.
A lot of people who don't care any
thing about each other seat them
selves on the ground and proceed to
spear for food.
Positions become cramped, your
foot goes to sleep, you shift your sup
port from the right arm to the left,
the chicken wing falls down your XII
into the gelatine and in trying to in
tercept it before it reaches the latter,
you upset the milk which per.
colates round and about Myrtle's new
blue dress and finally pools in Edna's
slippers.
In the meantime it has grown so
dark no one can see-the moon rising
an hour later than scheduled-and you
crawl round harpooning chicken sand
wiches and pickles to the light of
scratching matches.
In the interim you get your foot in
the lemon butter and retire to handy
stump in disgust.
Then there is the picnic where ev-
eryone takes just what they please,
and when you meet down by the first
spring you find eight of you have