Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 34, Number 53, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 March 1902 — Bedrooms and Breathing. [ARTICLE]

Bedrooms and Breathing.

While nq scientist, I think, will recommend less than seven cubic feet of air each minute for an adult, Dr. Reed gives ten as the smallest amount that will meet the wants of the body. All of this, of course, is not absolutely used, only needed that purity may be secured. The average room—l 2by 10 and 8 feet high—even if the room is empty, will consume only DGO cubic feet, or enough to supply air for one person for about two hours. Now, when two or even four persons occupy such a room, the doors and windows closed to keep out the supposed “poisonous night air,” it is not strange that the stench of vitiated air Is overpowering to one who enters the room after breathing the pure air of heaven, such as the good Father Intended for use.— Weekly Bouquet.