Show let 0 our r motto be GOOD HEAL HEALTH TH BY DR LLOYD ARNOLD professor isor of bacteriology and nd preventive medicine medici n university of illinois CO i ge of medicine LET THE AIR BE MOIST IN YOUR HOMES I 1 remember as a boy going with my father past a very pretentious house it was below zero that morning and recalling our own frozen windows at home I 1 exclaimed gee they must keep it awfully warm in that house see there any frost on oa the windows and my father answered T those h 0 s e people should be ashamed that there frost on their windows on a cold morning like this those clear windows mean that the air in their house Is too dry you may be sure they have a good deal of sickness I 1 knew that was true for the girl was in my room in school and she always had a cold then we went into a house on whose W hose windows the frost was so thick that there were only spots of blank glass but I 1 can always see in my mind that bi big cheerful kitchen with the teakettle singing on the wood burning stove the children not allowed to go 0 out yet were rosy cheeley cheeked and noisy in an active way rind and there was a big bowl of apples on the table and a pitcher of milk a healthy family said my father when we were outside again did you notice that there was steam going into the air all tile time you could breathe with comfort there 90 one of tile the first things thiap I 1 learned in medicine was that my ay fathers observation was true people who live in houses in which the air air is is too dry are almost always ailing it if you will notice the next nest time you go 10 out on a wintry day how many of your neighbors have too dry air and then think over what you know about their heir health you will find I 1 believe that they are apt to be rheumatic and they are bothered with a good many head colds bulilan human HU lilan bellap are not so constituted that they can stand winter dry air in facts their sets ta of houses it without showing the ef we have in ourselves the best barometer that will tell us whether or not the hall air weare re breathing ls is too dry tor for health between your nostrils Is a thin membrane if the mucous lining linin of 0 th that at feels dry when you touch it etith with your forT finger cor then you are a good sub eject for a cold breathing breathing Br eathIn began with the first aal mal capable of living on OD dry land so the breathing apparatus Is one of the oldest Is pieces ces ot of our body ba machinery it ventilates the body as we all know and the he capillary network of blood ves vs sels Inter intertwining wining within the wall of the nose bring brings S blood close to the surface of the nose to warm or cool the air we breathe and to give it the proper humidity when air gets to the windpipe it is always body temperature temper atoe summer and winter the wall waa of the nose is our thermostat and humidifier but T if there ls Is not ilot P sh humidity in in anthe the air tn then how can the nose get sufficient S moisture to transmit trans ln to the he luns lun b S furnace heat is one ona of the big bi 0 rea sons why the air in our houses 1 U s dryer than it was in the lays of our forefathers when they had to do most of their heating of water in open kettles on top of the stove or over 1 ires but it Is not necessary to have dry air with furnace heat pans of water can be placed on tops of radiators or in the paris intended for that purpose in hot air furnaces if you are subject to frequent winter colds then give close attention to tile humidity humi dilY in your house fortunately our houses are better ventilated than they were in the past we are a little more particular about our ie smells but even so there are still far too many people who sleep with closed windows at they he seem cras to think it is too cost y to warm wa cold air they do not realize that tile most difficult thing of na all Is to warm aru stale air A cold house in the morn ing filled with fresh air can be warmed very erv quickly A house with dead air never nev feels warm most persons who have the air ar too dry or too stale in their houses also e dress too warmly when they are in dors every person unless bed ridden or dof ordered otherwise by R doctor should go out into the open opener air S every day it 1 is only by experiencing changes in hi r tem pera ture that we call make our skins react quickly to extremes in tempera lure and the person whose skin re lichts quickly does not often get colds 06 western union |