Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 298, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 December 1912 — FRESH AIR NEEDED TO WARD OFF DISEASE. [ARTICLE]

FRESH AIR NEEDED TO WARD OFF DISEASE.

Better Have a Husky Throat Than Be Central Figure at a First Class Funeral. Cold winds are disagreeable, but they are less dangerous than the air of a close, foul room that never is cleaned by the wind. Gales from the lake may “go through you,” but they leave no white plague germs behind than, j Open windows in the sleeping room may an occasional husky throat in the morning, but closed windows are cards of admission to the cemetery. In winter, as in summer, man is an air-breathing animal; and the only air fit to breathe is fresh air.