NIGHT AIR FAR BETTER THAN FOUL AIR.
An extraordinary fallacy is the dread of night air. What air can we breathe at night but night air? The choice is between pure night air from without and foul air from within. Most people prefer the latter, an unaccountable choice. What will they say if it is proved to be true that fully one-half of all the diseases we suffer from, are occasioned by people sleeping with their windows shut? An open window, most nights in the year, can never hurt anyone. In great cities night air is often the best and purest to be had in twenty-four hours. I could better understand shutting the windows in town during the day than during the night, for the sake of the sick. The absence of smoke, the quiet, all tend to make night the best time for airing the patient. One of our highest medical authorities on consumption and climate, has told me that the air of London is never so good as after 10 o'clock at night. Always air your room, then, from the outside air, if possible. Windows are made to open, doors are made to shut, a truth which seems extremely difficult of apprehension. Every room must be aired from without, every passage from within.—Sanitary World.