Jasper County Democrat, Volume 2, Number 1, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 April 1899 — wall Paper and Diseases. [ARTICLE]

wall Paper and Diseases.

observes the Kamas City Times in an editorial article March 8, “has made an announcement which is calculated to cause a slump in the market for stock of the wall paper trust. The doctor says, that be has made chemical analysis of' a large number of samples of wall paper, and In nearly all of them has found arsenical poisons, in seme of them the poison existing in surprising quantities. He was led to make the investigation] by having brought to hls attention ai number of cases of sickness which were traced to paper covered rooms. It is to be presumed that, in the future, houses, in order to be classed as *strlctly modern,’ will have to have frescoed walls. “While on the subject of wall paper, the Cornell scientist would confer a favor upon mankind by pursuing hls 1 Investigation funner. It would be Interesting as well as Instructive to know what per cent of the inmates of Insane asylums owe their mental condition to their having been compelled to live In rooms whose walls were covered with realistic portraitures of an opium smoker’s dream. Some of the designs wMch' are alleged to make living rooms cosy and homelike resemble nothing so much as the efforts of a dissipated artist to reproduce the experiences of an attack of the delirium tremens.” Alabastlne, the rock-base cement, for coating walls, is free from these objections. It is sanitary and costs less than,' wall paper.