Show 1 ventilation of dwellings most persons apparently do riot not understand i the vital nat nature re of the relationship they sustain to the atmosphere U I 1 We bedwell dwell at the bottom of a an immense ocean of I 1 air says which presses upon all alf sides ot of us with the weight eight of tons it accompanies us 29 into all places unless by specia ne econ contrive to tiar liar it out JUs the first and highest of earthly necessities A human being will only survive from three to five minutes deprived of it the birds ads 0 th ealr the beasts tha th savage in in his bopf open a wiggam ajoy the blessing in all its bounty and fullness fallass civil civilized iced man alone euta himself the I 1 all invigorating atmosphere in its purity by rk retiring tiring into airtight air tight chambers and usim using the 9 tine air over slid and ove over rAgain agam as if it was a taxed commodo commodity ty and IV bf a misery it isbeck is because us e theair 6 ain an invisible ethereal mewl urn um ad therefore n not 0 t fitted t to 0 strike the senses I 1 like other forms of in matter atter that Us its relations to animal i life have been so recently determined and chalso litile attention atten lion lias has been paid to viding for a copious and healthful supply cf chit in all our dwellings r i having thus glanced at the subject in bulk let us ua examine it in parts let us see bee what the effects are of inhaling impure air into thesia tern tein A healthy man dradi in at each ins P i tion lion a pint of air and as an zhe he breathes ab about 0 u t 1080 i times an hour houche he inhales in 24 hours 5 57 7 hogs heads of air the air cells of the lungs axer are I 1 IOU of an inch in diameter and in ita an average i saied man the number of these cells ao according cordini to weber is 1 fresh eresh air pure before it elstak bakert en into the lungs consists nearly of 23 per cent of ih 0 oxygen eygen 5 of nitrogen and I 1 X of carbonic kith with I 1 a variable quantity if vapor after this air has hall I 1 been breathed it contains more the same aBio urit or of nitro nitrogen geu about 7 times duies less oxygen and from 7 to 9 per cent more of carbonic abt acids so that about one hall half of the oxygen or vital been changed into carbonic acid a gas highly dangerous iange rous to life so much so that if the cheair fair pont contains ains three and I 1 a half per per cent only it is unfit for re spiral i n but the air we have breathed contains 2 X tunes bilies this quantity A I 1 I 1 p person e therefore who inhales cubic in inches i J of air a 9 minute readers 1440 cubic inches unfit to be br breathed agan again whig what then must be the llie effect in our close I 1 apartments heated by air tight stoves t of breath I 1 ina ing the sanae same air repealed repeated ij P who wonders at the fearful ul increase of diseases of the respiratory organs liver complaints fiet female riale weaknesses ac thie the unwelcome gueits of every household arid and that a harvest ot at ailments and complaint is reaped by bir the vict victims fins of modern and refine refinement ineat everywhere alias for poor human nature ignorance arid and not intel is the lever which moves the world let we ine cholera chi ilera break out in it afew cities and I 1 cut down dawn some hundreds 3 in a week and the whole cut c suntry itry is is in an uproar but nobody sees anything frightful in the lite agency which is sweet sweep ingoff goff ing iii off its thousands a year and a nd the physical of the llie nation nn liin lit in the early settlement of this country when our fathers dwelt divell in vely op ri houses with large fire places diat asplof the lungs and similar hii nilar ailments were rare A family lived hear new yoa in an early day in tile the uld fashioned log house in nce tit af some business arrange belil ft a part of the family including simie odthe of the children eh ildren removed to own and tok ek a houe with alt all the llie fixtures for fici nci r admitting or air The children taken takegi to the city suon soon became pa leand sickly and aind died at un ati immature age of con consumption those left to rough brough it in the old log house i here there wits was free corn awa 1 for fl heavens eavens elixir of life li e though by nature no more robust lived to a ripe age e iu th full enjoyment of health and the volume of the atmosphere is so vast that ihal it is i not mil rendered deleterious let erious without by the brei lilting f I 1 halil also take up a large qu entity cf f the carbonic acid tairo thrown n aff ff by bv it lie e lungs lunga but k heo heit you enter a house hous eor of an apartment surrounded on all side aide by solid walls tile the cae is entirely reversed here arre aie only a fw hundreds of cubic feet of air the hole mass is changed rapid lythe alie oxygen tile the life s sustaining u element dement is is turned into carbo nic nic ac d a life destroying ele trient and th the e whole wass mass of air in the room soon be becomes coines really rally poi poisonous simous we are nut not conscious of this fact b cause it is dinv inv invisible isible though the oppressed state slate of the hie lungs warn us I 1 that we are transgressing a law ot ol health the blood becomes black and venous and asit as it is sent through the brain pr produces duces a dek depressing ard and stupefy ilig eff ct it lias has been well remarked ked that if the air as it comes from the lungs impure and robbed of its vital pr principle were thrown off colored so that it would not the common air of a room but remain visible to the oye ye the impressing which would be mae niale upon the mind igind by the pre presence s ence of the large source of disease would be a so 0 strong that the fist iest of all acknowledged ed duties for the lite preservation of health riot ext ept ing cleanliness w ventilation 1 down dow n ing g I 1 I 1 the common iron of chiun our stoves are made I 1 alien lien heated gives off sulphur and ar enic and when heated healed to redness destroys the vitality of the air rapidly in view then of the deleterious idus effi eff acts of breathing impure air air the necessity of properly ventilating our gur beninga de ninga is undeniable arid and plain by ventilation is meant not 1 only the riddance oi 61 impure air but the admission n fresh from without the siry simplest mode of doing dini this is by means of lite coin common nion open fire place penina opening the windows to admit fresh air with our present rese ni styles of fight stoves having the p pipe alper filling snugly y into the lite chi chimney niney ahert is nu no v ventilation i atlon nt at all often in rooms thus treated trea leil I 1 I 1 persons wi will 11 complain of cold feet while the lite body is warm A large body of carbonic acid is la formed as before shown and being much much hea vier vierl than han common air air loaded with vapor it ilama elms to the bottom 0 ot the room arid and I 1 produces produce uce a clain I 1 iny my cold coldness ness of 1 the lie feet I 1 B but ut the open open fireplace fi is ig imper imperfect feet the draft is a so low that the headon pit sons are constantly in a curre current iii of bad air the b bt st mode and one ne which is is within the means of ever every y pan man is t tn int rodur n a volve valve in in the ifie ch chimney tinney column near the ceiling the 7 lie tendency of heated impure air beins being to rise it will readily find itar a YA into the flue through the opening in the or rr register egister rattier rather arid and escape these thee the e registers I 1 are re simply it a square it t x of iron with wilb a valve which ahu h plays like a slat in a co common venetian window blind and nd is is wi ai made that not iia a particle panicle of 4 smoke tram from the lite chimney can enter euter the room B but I 1 some ie provision isalio needed for sup supply supplying tresh freh qi barid aland ao arranged that it will riot not flow in retas into the room this can he be very perfectly v done amie whery there is oceh fire fireplace I 1 but will require more trouble and bic e where stoves ar lire used for warin warming ilig the house the plan is is to effin make ke a bultow pac in ih ahe back part of the chimney with the open air air by an aperture juat jua above the he foundation of f th building tins air chilin chamber blo i extend allover oer the back part chimney as aa I 1 high rt a llie lite tf throat rat and open open into them the room at one ide luta this a simpli simple e slide is to b be fitted by which the supply of ar air I 1 may be regul regulated aled arranged in this way I 1 he I 1 air t antera it at the th outside becomes lightly in ali luiei llie jair i ah abbt 4 a nd a wi avit diio 1 tle llie arrix un unobserved aind and artlie snoie ti tir ir e i the h e i impure air air is is rusling out oui at the chi miley valve near the filing j I 1 I 1 where stoves slaves are used these air cham chambers liers may be constructed in thie the walls of the house between the studding adding gi on an the ae sarte principle I 1 all though the air will not become so go thoroughly wa warmed med before it enters entera the room the flues in I 1 such auch cases pir for carr carrying ving aff them the loul abir ohi bh uhl old he be carri carried carrid d out under thea ahr eaves ves or dt daere anter ere th stove I 1 whiitney chi itney iri m goyo ittu e I 1 phae it pr patard tard thit that air coniing in from out ut should enter the room four feet feel above abbe th J 1 floor rf ff admitted admi ted lower ow er it remains cold and uncomfortable for a long long time and d children wha aj ate are on oa the floor figor most moist of athe the time ill suffer verl cri 1 0 asly there ar are e other modes of ventilating dyel lings hut but they are too loo expensive for geif general iral use u se we shall however give descriptions i of them in future numbers and keep our readers informed of which may be made for this important purpose looking calmly at the facts wre here given it I 1 would I 1 seem that he mastbe must be lamentably per ve derae re w alo J 0 would long neglect to thoroughly ventilate jis his dwelling A thousand i reasons are given for the te delicate an and pale faces of our countrymen and countrywoman n it s rema remarkable reable indeed inde ed that a perfectly hed healthy thy robust woman fi seldom to be e met with it in this country why is this our ancestors possessed constitution of iron the english and french wor women aien are remarkably heal healthy y and I 1 I 1 I 1 i I 1 robust I 1 I 1 our solemn belief is F A trottie trot ache the c chief causa is I 1 the breathing poisoned heated iron iron in disc apartments four fifths of their atiat ti women spendin spend in the house men spend the same out of doors hence they are freer irom from the diseases which carry off so many of our country women v there are more stove in the united states futej thin than in the whole w world orta besides more consumption i tf 10 n more heart diseases dise dis ea asea seq more indigestion I 1 ilso also then jef jet us aa awake to the importance of this his subject and change our dwellings arom p 1 ge I 1 itilene eilent chambers into airy and health healthful firk ap apartments art I ft t lle member that it isby is by breath breathing brea lhing ing pure it air ar alone thai the blood can be kept owe ure and tha system in healie health i farmers companion I 1 |