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home-keeper's study to secure as far as possible a tem- 

 perate climate for the house. Nothing can be better for 

 bedrooms in winter than fresh air, with the chill re- 

 moved from it. Any one who can afford to have such an 

 atmosphere, and still permits himself and family to go 

 shivering to bed to breathe over and over again the same 

 icy air, the impurity of which is not at all "healthy," 

 because it is so cold, ought to be prosecuted for at least 

 an attempt to commit murder. By a happy provision of 

 nature, most people live either where coal is cheap or 

 where wood is plenty ; and in ordinary houses, such as 

 are not warmed throughout by furnaces, a hall-stove, 

 burning either hard coal or chunks of oak and hickory, 

 will give to the upper rooms in winter an atmosphere 

 that has the bite taken out of it ; while a window in each 

 bedroom, if there is no better method of ventilation, can 

 be let down an inch at the top, to feed sleeping lungs 

 with a comfortable amount of oxygen. 



If economy in fuel must be used, the stove through the 

 day need not be fed, but at night right-minded economy 

 will see that it sends out and sends up its comforting 

 cheer. 



