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the clothes room, an up-ended hood at each end window or 
door will probably divert the wind into the room. 
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ing of shutters, the wind may be deflected through a room, 
or suite of rooms. 
Beyond the ventilation to take away odors, is the more 
important ventilation of the sleeping-rooms. Fresh air will 
preserve health; it can restore health, as nothing can or will. 
Thousands of people coddle themselves into all sorts of disa- 
bilities, to disease, and to 
death itself. ‘The atmosphere, 
not shelter, is the source of 
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for their own good, that, like the apes, confinement within 
Fig. 4 doors is fatal to their physical prosperity. 
explains this; while Fig. 5 shows how, by a judicious open- 
It is to be remarked that all open air is beneficial, but cold 
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air has peculiar therapeutic and hygienic value. House 
drafts, however, are best avoided; and, consequently, so 
many imagine that a free air circulation in sleeping-rooms is 
not conducive to health. 
As in Fig. 6, where there is but one window, it is prefera- 
ble to set the bed opposite the window, which should be up 
at bottom and down at top. 
Where two rooms open en 
suite, if the bed must be 
physical wellbeing, with its 
placed near the communicat- 
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attendant phenomena of vi- 
tality and energy. 
When primitive man 
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ing door, a screen should be 
set so as partially to shield 
the bed (Fig. 7). “Hieaas 
housed himself he founded 
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architecture and the medical 
profession. As soon as man 
housed the beasts of the field, 
he created a branch of the 
shows how air passes both at 
top and bottom of an upper 
sash when it is lowered. 
Fig. 9 portrays the move- 
ments induced by the fact 
medical profession known as 
that moist, damp, saturated 
veterinary surgeons. Prac- 
tically all of the lesser dis- 
eases, and even that ogre, 
consumption, are amendable by fresh air, and especially 
open-air treatment. 
Men delight to declare that they are little less than the 
angels. ‘Theoretically it may be so; but it is indisputable 
that practically they are but animals, subject to Nature’s 
laws exactly like all animals. Men may not care to hear 
that they have evoluted from the apes; but they must know, 
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air is heavier than dry air. 
If a consumptive not yet 
bedfast will take to a “coffin” 
while yet alive, and sleep in it on a porch, or under a sideless 
tent—that is, a waterproof square piece of cloth fastened at 
the corners by ropes to posts or trees, he may continue to 
sleep o’nights above ground a long time before going below 
to bunk. I suggest this manner of making up a sleeping 
nest from my own experience in canoe cruising; for, when I 
learned to sleep in my canoe, or under it, for several years’ 
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