AIRING ROOMS.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume VII, Issue 1623, 30 July 1887, Page 3

AIRING ROOMS.

It Is a great mistake that the whole house particular sleeping rooms and tho dining rooms, receive little ventilating and purifying the air when it oan be done with so little trouble and no expense. A piicher rf cold water plaoed on a table or bureau will absorb all the gtses with whloh tbe room is filled from tbe respiration of those eating or sleeping ln the apartment. Very few realiz. how important suoh purification is for the health of the family, or, indeed, understand or realizi that there oan be any impurity In the rooms, yet ln a few hours a pitcher or pail of oold water— the colder the more effective — will make the air of the room pure, but tbe water will be entirely unfitrfcr use. In bedrooms a pall or pitcher of water should be always kept, and ohanged often If any one stays m the room during the day, certainly put m fresh when the inmates retire. Such water should never be, drunk, but either a oovered pitoher or glass bottle with a stopper should be used for drinking water, and always be kept closely covered. Impure water causes more aio.ne?s than 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 dear the pipes before using It, partlcnlarly In the morning, after the water has been standing m the pipes all night.