Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 97, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 April 1915 — Open Your Windows [ARTICLE]

Open Your Windows

Don’t sleep in a closed room. Fresh air is the basic requisite to good health. A sealed chamber is a breeding place of disease. The lungs utilize all the oxygen they breathe and expel their impurities in your exhalations. Within an hour a man consumes all the oxygen in the average room. If the windows and transom are down and the door is shut therefater he breathes foul poisons. Rural communities should, by reason of natural advantages, be practically immune from the white plague, but statistics show a greater percentage of consumptives among farmers than any other class of people. Who isn’t familiar with the deadly parlor, with its stale atmosphere, where for days at a stretch whole generations of malignant germs are permitted to incubate undisturbed! A week often passes without the admission of sunlight. As well spend an afternoon in a smoke-lined tunnel as remain in such a pesthole. Open the windows even in the rain. Far better to spoil a few trumpery lace curtains and spot the carpet than to jeopardize the health.