Democratic Sentinel, Volume 7, Number 28, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 August 1883 — Poisoned by Paper. [ARTICLE]

Poisoned by Paper.

Paper-hangings are convenient and ornamental,but carelessness and a false, lazy economy in using them make them unhealthy and dangerous. To put on new paper over old, thickness after thickness, for years, is more hazardous than the neglect of the man who put on a clean shirt every week without taking off his dirty ones, until he had six on his back at once. There was a very handsome house near one of our provincial towns which could never keep its tenants, and at last stood empty and became worthless, because a detestable fever seized upon every family that Jived fn. It. A observer promised the oMerto find oitt the cause. He traced the mischief to one room, and presently conjectured what was the matter there. He let a slip of glass into the wall, and found it the next day dimmed with vapor. He tore down a strip of the paper, and found abundant cause for any amount of fever. For generations the walls had been papered afresh without the removal of anything underneath. And there was the putrid size of old paper an inch deep! A thorough clearance, and scraping and cleaning, put an end to the fever and restored the value of the house.—Exchange. .