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Show OZONE IN CLEAN CLOTHES. Simple Method of Freshening the Air of a Sickroom. Almost everyone has noticed the peculiarly pe-culiarly refreshing smell of clean linen, lin-en, especially when just taken from the lines and brought Indoors. It is not so generally known how valuable Is the connection between this cool and grateful odor and the ozone which is so necessary in a sickroom. The London Lon-don Lancet, a standard medical authority, author-ity, contains an article on this subject, sub-ject, in which it is stated that the atmosphere at-mosphere of an apartment may be charged with ozone by bringing into it damp linen sheets that have just been exposed to a dry sharp wind. Bringing them into the house and shaking them or waving them about in the air of the room will, according to the statements made, change the character char-acter of the air. This is a matter of importance to invalids, who often become be-come exhausted from lack of ozone in the air they breathe. A means so simple sim-ple and effective and one that is within the reach of every person should be generally understood. It, seems that all that is necessary is to bring the linen lin-en to the room immediately after it is taken from the lines out of doors and shake and whirl it about, when the character of the air will be alteroil at once. Hospital attendants oftentimes remark how readily a patient will drop into a quiet sleep after bed linen has been renewed. The cause is doubtless to be found in the ozone released from .he sheets newly washed and aired. |