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An open stove is an excellent feature in a bedroom, 

 not only because it helps vastly to maintain a pure state 

 of atmosphere, but because it makes pleasant light and 

 warmth for the dressing, undressing and bathing of the 

 children. Even if kitchens and dining-rooms must be 

 scrimped a little, endeavor to have the bedrooms, at 

 least the nursery-bedroom, large enough to admit a stove 

 of this sort. Like the hall stove, it will pay largely. 



There is a "Revolving Ventilator" sold at house-fur- 

 nishing shops, at one dollar and upwards, which is said to 

 be very effective in removing dust and impurity from an 

 apartment. The following method of cheap and sim- 

 ple ventilation has also been found to be very satisfactory : 



"Nail or screw a neat strip of wood from one to two 

 inches upon the window sill just inside the sash and ex- 

 tending across the window. Upon the top of the strip 

 fasten a piece of (( weather-strip " so that there will be 

 formed an air-tight joint between the weather-strip and 

 the lower sash of the window, whether the latter is closed 

 or raised an inch or two the lower cross-piece of the 

 sash sliding on the rubber of the weather-strip as the 

 sash rises. With this simple fixture in place, the lower 

 sash may be raised enough to admit a stream^ of air 

 between the lower and upper sashes, where they overlap, 

 without admitting the least air at the bottom of the 

 window. The air thus entering is thrown upward 

 toward the ceiling, and has its "chill taken off" before 

 descending upon the heads of the occupants of the room. 

 The fixture, with its outlet in or near the ceiling for viti- 

 ated air, ventilates a small room very satisfactorily."" 



If it can be afforded, submit this feature of building 

 to some intelligent architect, and secure your pure air on 

 the latest scientific principles, but if the purse is limited, 

 soe that all bedrooms and sitting-rooms have some of the 

 foregoing simple arrangements. Have, if possible, the 

 open fire. A bedroom is never what it ought to be, if in 



