Show tito the rear fear of at drafts draft foul dust in rooms cannot be got rid of by any amount of sweeping and carpet beating the only thing that will remove ind and replace it is a current ot of comparatively pure air from the outside E except in very cold weather there should always be two open windows in each room on opposite sides it if we should follow that advice the horrified reader will exclaim es ex claim clail we should all catch a fatal cold dont I 1 remember a dozen colds I 1 got by being exposed to a sudden draft only a few nights ago when I 1 occupied a seat near the door of a theatre the door was left open during the intermission and the draft though pleasant enough gave me IL a bad cold no thank you no drafts for tile me I 1 this logic seems good yet it Is attar sophistry As a metaphysician would say the draft was only the occasion not the real cause of the cold tho the real cause was nas n as abs tbs foul hot bot nir air in ia the theatre which demoralized your skin and relaxed its blood vessels so that they were un unable able to react suddenly and endure the healthful ool air from the street in ili other words tt it was not the draft that gave you the ole sold old but the sudden transition from hot bot to cold air such stich a transition Is always injurious to the skin whether it in both to cold or from cold to hot air but it if you are not overheated a current ot of old air is never injurious tho the epoch |