has been so thoroughly dried and respired that there is not 0X3'gen enough remaining to 

 give them the ability of keeping awake. Tf now and then a delicate lady near you faints 

 away, help her out as quick as possible into the ficsh air. You need not send for a pitcher 

 of fresh water to throw in her face. The pure unadulterated atmosphere is abundantly 

 suflicient to restore the circulation, though she may suffer some time afterwards. This 

 kind act being performed, you can return again to the church much invigorated. If after 

 this experience you come to the conclusion that all these difliculties are caused b}' the use 

 of a close stove, you need not mention it to others, for they have heard of it before. If 

 your own house is warmed and ventilated according to modern notions, you may perhaps 

 congratulate 3fourself in leaving the town. In the railroad cars, you expect to get into a 

 different atmosphere, but as soon as you enter, you will only find a different pattern of 

 sto'y'emSidG exsrcsslij for railroads. The passengers may insist that every window shall 

 be kept closed, and you have no alternative but to remain a victim to the foul pent up air 

 which is so common under such circumstances, until 3'ou reach the end of your journey. 



" We have spoken thus freely of the use of the common box and tight-air stove, and did 

 we not know fi-om experience and observation, and were we not supported by the highest 

 medical authority, and most unequivocal chemical tests, that the evils resulting from their 

 general use far exceed any and all of our allusions, we should hesitate as to the propriety 

 of attacking a system which is so universally adopted. We know that many persons have 

 their houses so constructed, that it is difficult for them to make any change in this depart- 

 ment of their domestic arrangements. But if we shall be successful in inducing those who 

 have seen and felt the evil efFects of heating their houses, without any reference to venti- 

 lation or the quality of the atmosphere they inhale at every breath, they will be the bet- 

 ter prepared to appreciate the improvements which have lately been introduced. In some 

 parts of the country, several attempts have been made to introduce a kind of stove which 

 will warm a current of fresh air directly introduced from the outside. It is impossible 

 to ventilate a room by drawing oif the foul air without introducing a corresponding amount 

 into the room from some source. If cold air be introduced for the purpose of ventilation, 

 all the warmed air will pass oflf through the ventiduct, and the cold air remain. We need 

 hardly say that, under such circumstances, it is impossible to make a room comfortable. 

 To overcome this difficulty, a ventilating stove has lately been introduced in different 

 parts of Europe and in some of the eastern towns of this country." 



The pamphlet is filled with suggestions and explanations relating to the best mode of 

 ventilating and warming, much of which we have published in the " Country Houses" — 

 but which we trust will meet a wider circulation in this form. If a million of copies could 

 be circulated in the United States, it would be an immense and incredible saving of health 

 to the people at large. 



Bad air is a " .slow poison." That is the trouble. People go on taking it into their 

 lungs day after day, and night after night- They grow pale, their lungs suffer, the circu- 

 lation is languid, they take colds readily; the chest, the stomach, the skin, become disor- 

 dered, and a host of chronic diseases attack them. A little carbonic acid taken ever}' day 

 don't kill a man. It is almost a pity it did not! If a red-hot stove destroyed, instantly, 

 one man in everj' town daily, for a week, there might be some salvation for the nation. If 

 instead of fainting away in crowded and badly ventilated public assemblies, people occa- 

 sionally died outright in convulsions, the authorities would take the matter in hand, and 

 make it penal for the owners of such buildings to open them for public use without attend- 

 ing to the proper conditions for the preservation of health. When a thing is only a 

 poison," the age is too much in a hurry to attend to it. 



