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Show AIR IN THE BEDROOM, Sleeping Chamber Should Always Be Well Ventilated. It goes without saying that tho bedroom, bed-room, according to Dr. Woods Hutchinson Hutch-inson in tho Atnericnn Magazine, should bo well ventilated, especially In view of the heavy storing up of oxygen In the tissues which goes on during sleep. All windows should be open from the top, nt least one, and better two to three feet, so that n gentle current of air can be felt blowing blow-ing ncross the face. It Is Just as pure and as wholesome as day nlr. Night fogs anil rain are only Injurious In so far as they frighten you Into shutting your windows. No air that over blew out doors Is so dangerous or poisonous poison-ous us that Inside n bedroom .with closed windows. The clothing should be us light ns Is consistent with warmth, the mattress elastic but firm, the pillow as high as the breadth of the shoulder, so ns to keep the neck and head horizontal or slightly above when lying on the side. The good, hard, common-sense of humanity has solved all theso problems, and the modern halr-mattrcss, or its equivalent, equiva-lent, single pillow, and blankets, or "cheese cloth - covered "comfort," which can bo cleaned and uerated by turning the hose on it, can hnrdly bo much Improved on. Beyond theso there Is no virtue whatever In hard beds, flat or no pillows, and cold bedrooms. bed-rooms. The boggy feather bed, collector col-lector of the perspiration nnd diseases of successive generations, the bolster, the elder-down quilt, the hard sailcloth-like counterpane, both airtight, and the latter heavy as a board, have gone to the attic or tho ash-heap, whore they belong, along with the four-poster and Its curtains, the night cap and the warming pan. |