The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — 1847-04-20 (Liverpool, Merseyside, England)

CURIOUS RESULTS OF VENTILATION.-1R a weaving mill near Manchester, where the ventilation was bad, the proprietor caused a fan to be mounted. The consequences soon became apparent in a curious manner. The operatives, little remarkable for olfactory refinement, instead of thanking their employer for his attention to their comfort and health, made a formal complaint to him that the ventilator had increased their appetites, and therefore entitled them to a corresponding increase of wages ! By stopping the fan a part of the day, the ventilation and voracity of the establishment were brought to a medium standard, and complaints ceased. The operatives' wages would but just support them ; any additional demands by their stomachs could only be answered by draughts upon their backs, which were by no means in a condition to answer them. In Edinburgh a club was provided with a dinner in a well-ventilated apartment, the air being perfumed as it entered, imitating in succession the fragrance of lavender and the orange flower. During dinner the members enjoyed themselves as usual, but were not a little surprised at the announcement of the provider, that they had drunk three times as much wine as he had usually provided. Gentlemen of sober, quiet habits, who usually confined themselves to a couple of glasses, were not satisfied with less than half a bottle ; others, who took half a bottle, now extended their potations to a bottle and a half. In fact, the hotel keeper was drunk dry. That gentlemen who had indulged so freely were not aware of it at the time is not wonderful ; but that they felt no unpleasant sensations the following morning, which they did not, is certainly quite so.—Wyman's Practical Treatise on Ventilation. AMERICAN WOMEN school to the forum Young gi  .—There is scarcely a step from the -from the nursery to the world.  bread- and butter, boldly precede. their mammas into the ball-room; and the code of a mistaken gallantry supplies no corrective to their caprice, for youth and beauty are here invested with regal prerogatives, and can do no wrong. In short, the Americans carry their complaisance to the sex beyond due bounds—at least in little things— for we by no means think that the real influence of their women is great, notwithstanding the tame and submissive gallantry with which the latter are treated in public. We doubt whether the most limited gynocrasy would tolerate the use of tobacco as an article of daily diet, or permit ferocious murders to go unwhipped of justice under the name of duels.—But the absorbing character of the pursuits of the men forbids any strong sympathy betwixt the sexes; and pehaps the despotism which the women exercise in the drawing room arises from the fact that all that relates to the graces and embellishments of life is left entirely to them. We do not know that this can be avoided under the circumstances of the country, but it has a most injurious effect on social intercourse. The Americans of both sexes want tact and graciousness of manner, and that prompt and spontaneous courtesy which is the child of discipline and self-restraint. They are seldom absolutely awkward, because they are never bashful. They have no mauvaise honte because they are all on an equality ; hence they never fail to display a certain dry composure of bearing which, though not agreeable, is less ludicrous than the gaucherie so commonly observed in all classes of English society, except the very highest.—Blackwood's Magazine.