Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 130, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 May 1913 — FOR SANITARY CELLAR [ARTICLE]

FOR SANITARY CELLAR

LIGHT AND VENTILATION ARE THE THINGB MOST IN NEED. -- * No Apartment In the House Is of 8o Much Importance aa That in Which Food for the Family > Is Stored. The should be as light and dry and clean as any room in the house. It should hare windows on opposite sides, easily accessible and easily opened. Air at night in summer, as to admit air warmer than the inside air causes moisture to form and trickle down the side walls. Remember a heated house acts like a chimney, the movement of the air being from the bottom upward. If any one doubts this, let him unstopper a bottle of ether or boil a kettle of onions In the cellar, then go to the top of even a six-storied dwelling, and I think hiß sense of smell would soon convince him that there is an upward draught of no mean abilities. Indeed, a German inventor baa proved that one-half the cellar air la found in the first story, one-third in the second, one-fifth in the third, and so on, which impells us to think of the cellar aa a reservoir of air for the entire house. A good coat of lime whitewash should be applied every . spring. No decaying vegetables or rubbish of any kind should be stored there. The cellar bottom aud sides should be preferably of concrete. Where coal Is etored, it should be light and dry, as the decomposition of the sulphides in the coal goes on much more rapidly in a damp atmosphere. Sulphides cause silver to tarnish. The cold-air box of furnace should be so located that the outer air admitted be as pure as possible, and It should be so constructed that through no cracks or crevices could the cellar air be admitted to the heating chamber of the furnace.