PURE AIR | AdventAI

International Tract and Missionary Society · Oakland, Cal. · Dec 15, 1887

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 13, No. 48.

PURE AIR.

PERSONS who are moderately intelligent on other topics appear to have small thought, or that very perverted, on the subject of hygiene in their sleeping-rooms, and especially those occupied by children. The ventilation of a bed-chamber cannot be too carefully attended to; and, as says Horace Mann, "Seeing the atmosphere is forty miles deep all around the globe, it is a useless piece of economy to breathe it more than once." Yet nine mothers out of ten will carefully close all the windows, "for fear of colds and night air," and leave two or three children to sleep in a stifling atmosphere, and see no connection between the colds and throat troubles they have and the vitiated air she compels them to breathe night after night.

Let the morning air and sunshine into the bedroom as soon as possible after the occupants have arisen; and if there is no sunshine, and it is not raining, let in the air. Do not make up beds too soon after they are vacated. You may get your house tidied sooner, but it is neither cleanly nor healthful to snugly pack up bed-clothing until the exhalations of the sleepers' bodies have been removed by exposure to the air.—Agriculturist.