Democratic Sentinel, Volume 2, Number 49, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 January 1879 — Temperature of Sleeping Rooms. [ARTICLE]

Temperature of Sleeping Rooms.

The rule should be everywhere, during the part of the year when fires are kept burning, to avoid hoisting outside windows. It is safer and better to leave the chamber door open, as also the fire-place; then there is a draught up the chimney, while the room is not likely to become cold. If there is some fire in the room all night, the window may. be opened an inch. Halls Journal says that it is safer to sleep in a bad air all night with a temperature over fifty, than in pure air with the temperature under forty. The bad air may sicken you, but cannot kill you; the cold air and does kill very often.