Show something about fresh tresh air whal what we wa breathe tuf tur we have all heard of the black hole at calcutta it was a room 18 fedt feet square in this room persona persons were confined it 11 bad but one lindow vin doW ant and that a small email one dr dold Doln glison in his bla elementary hygiene says in th less than an hour many of the prisoners were attacked with extreme difficulty of breathing several were delirious and the place was filled with incoherent ravings in which the cry for cor water was predominant this was handed to them by sentinels but without the effect of allay ing lug their thirst in less than four hours many were aur out joca foca located ted or died in violent delirium dellrue del dell irum rum in five minutes the survivors except those thosa at th the eg grate rate were frantic and outrage ua ous at length most of them became insensible eleven hours after they their were imprisoned twenty three only of the one hundred and forty six came out dut alive and they were in a highly butr putrid 14 1 fever 11 there are many black holes like ilke this used for sleeping rooms bays thie thle th e london cooperator co operator the difference between them and the one at calcutta is that they are not crammed quite BO full of human bellI beings gS in a word then we 10 may say eay a sleeping apartment should be e large lofty and airy it la 13 poor economy for health to have large largo and spacious spa opa cious clous parlors and small ill ed bedrooms bed rooms fashion however la is a reigning delty deity in this respect and willo will no doubt continue to bear sway notwithstanding WIt bstanding our protest against her dominion you will scarcely drink after another person from the same bame glass yet you add will breathe over and over the name oame air nir charged with all the filth anapol and aud poi pol so hon eon n of a hundred human bodies arounds around you you cannot bear to touch a deada dead body jody because it is so poisonous and polluting butyok but brt you can take right night into your lungs and consequently into youri body your system those poisonous particles and exhalations exha lations which the tho bodies around you have refused and which have been cast into tho the at mo sphere by the lungs because tho health of their bodies requires them to be thrown off if the timorously nide nice creatures who can scarcely set a foot upon the ground who are so delicati delicate that they run distracted at the crawling of a worm flying of a bat or squeak ing of a mouse could see what the they themi jj breathe at the midnight carousal tha the very polite ball and the bright theat theatre fi they would never be caught in bua BUZ buch such company again nay if they could see what they breathe in their own owr dwelling after the doors and windows had been closed a little while tha they would ld soon keep open houses more moz sickness bickness is caused by vitiated air tha n ai can be named it is one of the most prominent causes of scrofula which is but another name for one half the tho dib dit eases that attack the human body I 1 it vitiates and destroys the whole fountain of life the blood I 1 T in the sick room it often augments the disease or renders it incurable if the physician comes in and opens the tho window or a door stands jar ajar for aa a i doment the good nurse or the tender mother or the kind wife or the loving bister aister will ny fly up and close it aa as though the life of the sick eick were at stake all this his is well meant kindness but really cl cruel cluel uel ir isyou if you would have health breit breathe id fresh resh rash air throw open your windows every Y morning and often during the day leave off your muff nera iera from the c chin bin for twenty years I 1 was accustomed to never going out without a handkerchief hander chief tied closely around tha tho mouth and for nearly that period have hale left eft it off I 1 have had fewer colds and buffered suffered far less from changes of climate than previously let air into your bedrooms you cannot have too much of it provided it does not blow directly upon you yon many students are injured by vitiated air in their studies these are small I 1 and when the doors and windows are closed the atmosphere soon becomes loaded with noxious vapors the man is intent upon his subject he scarcely knows whether he breathes or not much less does be he think of what he be breathes many also are aro seriously injured by the manner of heating their studies all closed stoves should be avoided the good old fashioned open large chimney with a fireplace fire place sufficiently capacious to receive the wood with but little chopping is much preferable to fife flie stove and grates and the whole para phernella pher nalla nalia of modern fuel saving inventions which have racked the brains and tortured the intellect of many laymen and some clergymen er ind |