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Show Wind's, Great Effect on Personal Comfort I'ersonul comfort at any time of the year depends to an astonishing degree on wind ; that Is on the motion of the air. An interesting experiment, described de-scribed by a writer In the American ' Magazine, Illustrates the point. ; To find out the different effects of still air and of air In motion, a man was shut up in a telephone booth. The booth contained an electric fan and It also had tubes through which fresh air could be supplied. The man had a lighted cigarette. With the electric fan going, and with no fresh air coming in through the tubes, the man was comfortable, even after his cigarette had gone out because of lack of oxygen to burn. But when he was sliut up in the booth without the fan being turned on. he was soon In great discomfort, even though lie was being supplied with fresh nlr through the tubes. |