Jasper Republican, Volume 2, Number 11, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 November 1875 — How to Secure Healthy Homes. [ARTICLE]

How to Secure Healthy Homes.

One of the most valuable and important papers read at the recent session, in Baltimore, of the American Public Health Association was by Dr. Ezra M. Hunt, on the general subject of securing health in the construction and warming of houses. The principle upon which the doctor lays most emphasis in his paper is this: “ Guard against stagnation either in air or moisture.” This principle must be borne in mind in every detail of house construction. In sinking a cellar, for example, the majority of builders pay very little attention to the amount of moisture* which exists in the surrounding soil. How many people who have the chance of doing so, think of Insisting on a thorough system of side-drains, and are fully awake to the danger of making their inclosed cellar simply “a large terminal drain” or “ an expanded partof a continued drain” ? But a properly-drained cellar is one of the most important requisites for health in a house. Another point to which too little attention is paid is the free circulation of air in the basement floor. Partitions are constructed without apy reference whatever to their influence in intercepting atmos pheric currents, and confined closets and middle rooms are thrown in to serve as “ hiding-places for contagion and foul air.” Handy conductors for the vitiated atmosphere thus formed in cellar and basement are found in stairways and dumb-waiters connecting with the upper floor, and the inmates are condemned to inhale the poison generated below, instead of the pure air, whose abundant supply they have unconsciously taken infinite pains to cut off. Dr. Hunt also lays considerable stress upon the necessity of avoiding the use of a too dense building material, or at least of so modifying that density by the proper use of porous mortar as to prevent it from interfering with the sanitary principles of house construction. On this point he lays down the salutary rule that “a house should be constructed of such materials as to admit air, and so arranged in all its parts as to promote the insensible motion of outside air through the structure. The arrangement of heating apparatus should be made especially, with this object in view. The doctor makes a strongplea for the liberal use of open fireplaces, and for careful attention to the securing of a thorough draft in flues. The prevailing vices of house construction tend to confine the function of heaters—in a hygienic sense—to the evaporation of moisture from the walls, to the warming of the stone and lime, in fact, rather than to providing a constantly-renewed supply of moderately-heated air for the dwellers in the house. The enervating character of most of our heating arrangements is well illustrated by a reference to the ease and comfort with which or e may ride in the open air, with a great-coat, at a season when it is found impossible to secure a comfortable bodily temperature in-doors. Thb New Sttle or BcHool, by Prof. W. P. Jones, Evanston, 111., where common-school, business and early college studies are taught in the duol tneth'id instead of la classes, receives the approval of business men and the best teachers. Next term opens Dec, 0.

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Gentian was our grandmothers’ hobby for a tonic, and no bitter would be considered complete without it; hence it enters into nearly all. But experience has provid that it is injurious to the stomach if frequently used. A far better tonic is found in Chtarana Bitters. Butter and cheese are almost indispensable articles of food. Properly used, they are nutritious and healthy; but an inordinate use of either causes indigestion and dyspepsia. Parsons' Purgative Pills, judiciously used, will remove both of these troubles. Have you ague in the face; and is it badly swollen? Have you severe pains in the chest, back or side? Have you cramps or pains in the stomach or bowels? Have you bilious colic or severe griping pains? If so, use Johnson's Anodyne Liniment internally. The Tubular Lamp is a wonderfnl thing. Read the advertisement, sure. Rich Plum Pudding.— One quart new or raised milk with the cream, one cupful seeded raisins, one cupful washed, dried currants, half cupftil chipped dried citron and lemon (or orange peel candied), one cupful rice, one cupful sugar, two eggs, one tablespoonfol batter, a little salt and one teaspoonful mixed spices (cinnamon, nutmeg and a small portion of cloves). Burst the rice for two hours, keeping it on the stove in a little water for two hours until soft and each grain entire, then add the milk, the eggs beaten separately until light, sugar and batter and lastly the spices and fruit, stir carefully so as not to break the grains, bake about three-quarters of an hoar.

Housemaids can save themselves a great deal of work by using care in various ways. A particular nail for each cloth used about the sink makes it easier to keep the table at hand in order, and to cleanse the pots and kettles perfectly, and to make the pantry shelves neat. When water is slopped upon the floor if it is wiped up the rest of the floor is saved from soiling. Whole days may be saved in the course of the year, an 4 any amount of irritated temper spared, if every dish and kitchen utensil is put away in its place. An intelligent gW will save her time and strength by using her head along with hei hands. —Chicago Inter-Ocean. Fried Calf Lived -First take the skin from the liver; then wash it and cut it into slices as thick as a finger and lay them in milk for two hours; then heat good fresh batter in a frying-pan, take the liver out of the milk, strew on the slicea powdered crackers or flour, put on a little pepper and spice, then fry them in the butter until they are a little yellow on both sides. Germany, with a popuiation-of 42,000,000, last year graduated 660 physicians, rejecting 108 applicants. In the same time the United States, with a population of 40,000,000, graduated 8,000 physicians.