Rensselaer Union, Volume 9, Number 33, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 May 1877 — Blinds or Awnings. [ARTICLE]

Blinds or Awnings.

Fob at least nine months of the year jn the latitude of any part of New England the sun should be considered a most welcome visitor in every home, and its presence should be studiously courted. If we have anything in the living rooms oi the house liable to injury from its effects, the sooner such, articles are abolished the better. If in rare caseß of illness the light of day must be excluded, let it be done by some temporary contrivance which may be dispensed with along with nurse ana doctor and as cheerfully. Of course temporary screens are at times needed for windows in order to secure a certain amount of privacy, although much of this seclusion is the result of a questionable change inhabits of living; but let these consist of one simple set of rolling shades of some color pleasant to the eye, and let the material be as transparent as is consistent with their intended use. For protection against the fierce heat of the few tropical days of our climate, Italian awnings to exposed windows are a good contrivance to exclude the sun while allowing free passage to the air. These may be removed in winter. j The custom which prevails with some housekeepers of . closing doors and windows in the*early morning of a hot day in order to secure coolness is most pernicious. The atmosphere thus obtained has the chill and impurity of the cellar, and is not fit for human life. If people must live4n-doorß, the nearer their habitations approach the character of green-houses the better. The oldfashioned, roofed piazza is fast giving place, except in houses for summer use only, to the uncovered terrace. This ter can be sheltered by Italian awnings from the rays of the noonday sun or from the eveniing dews, or it can be provided with a light wooden framework to support a canvas cover that can he easily rolled back, like the awning over, a cky shop front. On the score of expense these useful devices are much more economical than the universal blinds. The first cost of the latter, with the additional outlays for periodical painting and repair* ing, will far exceed that of their substitutes. It seems rather absurd for h sensible people to spend so much money ih making and glazing windows only to spend a great - deal more in devices for obstructing them. — Boston Journal Of Chemittry A gentleman who lives in Nashville has had the chills and fever every day for four years, aufihg which time he haa taken 1,800 grains of '<£rinine, 1,000 grains arsenic, 500 grains cinchonldia 500 grains of Peruvian bark and a good deal of nitric acid, withont hftVing any effect Upon him. . , \ f About 3,0©0j000 fans were shipped frota Japan In 1875, almost all of' Which came to this country. ' " '* 11