The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1912-01-12
sv ESTHER GRIFFIN WHITE.

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I'm a perfect fresh air fiend," she
says.
At one o'clock next morning, under
the valorous escort of a messenger
boy. YEARLY vending your way home
after strenuous session with the ma
tutional journal of your town. you
walk past her house.
You glance up.
Everything tight as a drum.
Walk round town at night and take
high window observations and you will
not find window in three blocks pull
ed down or pushed up an inch.
You'll catch an awful cold" says
someone. Il passed your house and
saw your windows pulled clear down
at the top-I should think you'd
freeze"
And she sniffled away with her own
cold caught. probably. by breathing
vit:ated air in cold storage bedroom.
or all the villainous habits. customs,
or whatever you may term it or them
that of sleeping in ill-ventilated
rooms is the worst.
Many people think if they sleep in
cold room that is all that's neces-
sary.
There is no virtue in' cold air.
Impure cold air is just as bad as i'm
pure warm air.
What people need is to accustom
themselves to sleeping in a room with
windows pulled half way down at the
top in all sorts of weather.
These awful headaches women wake
quent all day sessions in bed-still in
the same old air-would occur then at
gradually lengthening intervals.
Pile on the covers but pull the win
dows down.
Let the snow sift in on the cover
what of that, if you're warm?
There is more nonsense current
about ventilation than any other of
the thousand and one things about
which people delude themselves.
Take the schoolhouses in instance.
They have a system of ventilation
perfect in theory-faulty in practice.
You don't dare say a word about it
or you have your head cut off just
above the ears.
But it's the truth that air perco-
lating through two or three cylin-
ders, or whatever they are, from the
cellar, has not that degree of vivacity
which attends it's progress through the
windows.
A school teacher told the writer that
the air was villainous in her room but
she didn't dare open a window.
Why?
Against the rules.
The writer once heard a weird tale
to the effect that a school teacher in
this town was locked forty-nine cents
for attending her grandmother fu-
neral. Whether or not this was apo
chryphal-who can say in this day of
the press agent and the lecturer on
art? 1t is the truth, however, that
school rooms need more fresh air
than they get.
They nail the windows down and
then hand you out something through
hole in the wall
What an absurdity to bring a teach
er before the bar and arraign her for
characterization because nature tells
her that the air in the room is bad and
she puts up the windows and let's the
fresh air in.
Why don't people use common
sense?
If airs bad it's bad whether it is
forced from the cellar through a pipe
or famed in through the roof.
Every recess-if they have recesses
any more-all the windows in a
school-room should be raised and left
until the air was completely freshen-
ed.
Any ordinary idiot knows that thir
ty or forty people shut up in a room
are bound to exhaust the valuable pro-
perties of the atmosphere.
No system of ventilation, however
workable on paper, can be invented