Rensselaer Republican, Volume 19, Number 26, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 March 1887 — Airing Rooms. [ARTICLE]

Airing Rooms.

It is a great mistake that the whole house, particularly sleeping rooms and the dining rooms, receives little ventilating and purifying the air, when it can be done with so little trouble and no expense. A pitcher of cold water placed on a table or bureau will absorb all the gases with which the room is filled from the respiration Of those eating or sleeping in the apartment. Very few realize how important such purification is for the health of the family, or, indeed, understand or realize that there can be any impurity in the rooms, yet in a few hours a pitcher or pail of cold water —the colder the more effect-ive-will make the air of the room pure, blit the water will be entirely unfit for use. In bedrooms a pail or pitcher of water should be always kept, and changed often if any one stays in the room during the day, certainly be put in fresh when the inmates retire. Such water should never be drank, but either a covered pitcher or glass bottle with a stopper should be used for drinking water, and always be kept closely covered. Impure water causes more sickness than even impure air, and for that reason, before using water from a pump or reservoir for drinking or cooking, one should pump, or draw out enough to clear the pipes before using it, particularly in the morning, after the water has been standing in the pipes all night. —Philadelphia Call.