Ventilation and Appetite.

Manawatu Standard, Volume X, Issue 1474, 7 October 1885, Page 5 (Supplement)

Ventilation and Appetite.

In a weaving-mill near Manchester, where the ventilation was bad, the proprietor caused a fau to be mounted. The consoqnence soon became apparent m a curious manner. The operatives, little remarkable for olfactory refinement, instead of thanking their employer for his attention to their comfort and health, made a formal complaint that the ventilator had increased their appetite, and therefore entitled thorn to a oorves- |. ending increase of wage*. By stopping the fan a pait of the day, the ventilation and voracity of the establishment wero brought to a medium standard, atnl the complaints ceased. The operatives' wages would bit just support thorn ; any additional demand by their stomachs could only lie an-werel by draughts upon their backs, which wei-e by no means m a condition to answer them. In Edinburgh, a club was provided with a dinner m a well ventilated apartment, the nir being perfumed as it entered) imitating m succession the fragrance of ( he lavender and the orange flower. During- the dinner the members enjoyed themselves as usual, but weit not a little suprised at the announce ment of the provider that they had drunk three times as much wine as he had usually provided. Elderly gentlemen, of sober, quiot habits, who usually confined themselves to a couple of glasses, were not satisfied with K'Hs than half a bottle ; others \vho cook half a bottle now extended their potations to a bottle and a half. In JaC, tho hotel-keeper's supply was drunk dry. That gentlemen who indulged m this manner were notaware of i» at the time is not wonderful ; but that they felt no unpleasant sensations the. following morning— which they dH not— is certainly curiouc — Household Guide.