The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-12-11
DO HAVE SOME MORE HUMIDITY

DO HAVE SOME MORE HUMILITY
 whether there is any shortage of fuel or not one important practical point too often ignored or over- looked in the heating of homes is humidity. The amount of water vapor in the air has great deal to do with the comfort and the health of occupants, particularly the elderly members of the family and infants or young children.
 Every one knows that dry cold air does not feel so cold as moist cold air. And a dry warm climate or place or season is less trying, less oppressive than moist warm clim- ate, place or season.
 On an ideal or ordinary autumn or winter day when the outdoor temperature is perhaps near freez- ing the humidity is perhaps 559o to 70b-which means the air contains from one-half to two-thirds of the amount of water vapor it is capable of holding. When the air is heated up to the usual household tempera- ture most of the water vapor is dried out or absorbed by walls and other surfaces in the heated rooms (altho these surfaces seem perfect ly dry they may sold more water vapor or moisture than there is in the air itself) and at 68F, the air will have a relative humidity of perhaps 20% or less:
 This low humidity is extremely dry.
 It is injudious to comfort and to health. It explains the common complaints of dryness, irritation and roughness of the skin in the season of artificial heating. It accounts for great deal of the catarrhal" trouble dwellers in the Sahara like indoor climate have through the winter and spring.
 Especially this abnormal dryness of the artif1cally heated air makes the elderly members of the family abnormally sensitive to imaginary or actual drafts, changes of temper ature or "dampness." Unfortunate ly they ascribe their discomforts to taking cold" and generally the other members of the family have to defer to the wishes and feelings of the older folk in regulating the household temperature, ventilation, amount of clothing to be worn, and the like. Thus goes the vicious cir cle, and, darn it all, your just of your nut if you try to reason with the old bodies or teach them the error of their way.
 A household temperature of, say, 68 degrees F. with a fair degree of humidity always feels more com- fortable or pleasant, to young and old alike, than does a temperature of 72 degrees F or higher with the very low humidity that goes with it when the air has been artificially heated.
 By hook or crook every house. holder should endeavor to humidi- fy the air as well as heat it, by evaporating in the heated air every twenty -four hours as many gallons of water as may be possible or nec- essary to present this extreme dry ness. Try it and you'll find how true it is
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