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CHAMBERLIN 
I^STNCE 1893-TH E STANDARD'S 
For Better Health and 
Greater Comfort In 
Your Home 
Chamberlin Metal Weather Strips stop 
draughts! 
And draughts are a menace to your health 
—an enemy to your bodily comfort. 
A draughty house is an unhealthy uncom¬ 
fortable home. 
Draughts are caused by cold air currents 
rushing in through cracks and crevices, 
between sash and frame, between door 
and floor. 
These crevices are certain to appear. They 
are the natural result of inevitable warping 
and shrinking of wood. 
For 28 years, Chamberlin Metal Weather 
Strips have safe-guarded health and pro¬ 
vided increased comforts by stopping 
draughts. 
The metal strips fitting closely around doors 
and windows thoroughly seals crevices and 
prevent the inrush of cold air. 
And as cold air is kept out so also is dust, 
dampness and rain. 
And the cost of heating has been reduced 
as much as 25%. 
The Chamberlin Metal Weather Strip Co. 
guarantees its product for all time. 
This company has a permanent service 
organization with branches in principal 
cities where Weather Strip experts are 
stationed to give immediate installation and 
adjustment service. 
Send now for interesting Weather Strip 
Book. 
FREE 
An Estimate of Cost 
Equipping your home complete—with Chamberlin 
Metal Weather Stripping is not nearly so expensive 
as you would probably think. Write us for free 
estimates stating the number, size and type of win¬ 
dows and doors to be equipped. 
Chamberlin Metal Weather Strip Co. 
702 Dinan Building Detroit, Michigan 
Send this Coupon for FREE Estimate of Cost 
Date--- 
Chamberlin Metal Weather Strip Co. 
702 Dinan Bldg., Detroit 
Provided 1 am not obligated, you may give me an estimate of cost of 
equipping my home with Chamberlin Metal Weather Strips and send your 
booklet on permanent weather stripping. 
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City and State. 
DUST AND DAMPNESS 
A Menace to Health and Home 
By Alice Butler 
A constant battle has existed 
throughout the ages between 
mankind and those destructive 
forces of nature, which have 
always threatened his physical 
well-being and his handiworks. 
Among those destructive forces, 
none have exerted a more 
damaging influence than damp¬ 
ness. However, strange to say, 
an element directly opposed to 
dampness, namely dust, has also 
proven its right to be considered 
as one of man’s ever present 
enemies. 
The Datiger of Dampness 
The literature of house dwelling 
people of practically all ages is 
full of allusions to the ill effects 
of dampness in houses, caused 
by the invasion of rain or snow. 
This aspect of the question is 
pertinent today when conditions 
analogous and differing only in 
degree exist all round us. Sani¬ 
tarians agree that dampness is 
one of the most potent factors 
in the production of the high 
morbidity and mortality rates 
prevalent in those sections where 
dampness in homes is a prevail¬ 
ing condition. The ills that 
follow in the wake of dampness 
are legion. 
Menacing as is dampness to 
health, it is equally destructive to 
property. It is conservatively 
estimated that the destruction of 
world wealth thru fire is but a 
fractional part of the destruction 
caused by moisture and dampness. 
The Dust Menace 
It is possibly not generally recog¬ 
nized that dust constitutes an 
ever present danger to health. 
However, a moment’s serious 
reflection is all that is necessary 
to emphazise just why this is so. 
Dust provides the carrier for 
myriad of disease germs of all 
kinds. These germs breed in 
dirt and refuse, which upon dry¬ 
ing out become converted into 
the dust which we see blown 
about the streets and which 
so often finds its way into our 
homes. 
Dust and Dampness 
in the Home 
It is rarely that we become 
thoroughly alive to the danger 
of oust and dampness until they 
make their appearance in our 
own dwelling. Then we indi¬ 
vidually take up the battle against 
both of these evils. In waging 
our war, our first step is of course 
to find out where dust and damp- 
dess find entrance. Naturally if 
this can be ascertained and they 
can be effectively shut out, vic¬ 
tory is quickly achieved. 
It is now generally recognized 
that dampness and dust find their 
way into our houses through the 
same channels as do draughts, 
namely, through the crevices be¬ 
tween sash and frame, between 
doors and floors. No matter how 
much is paid for windows and 
sash or how carefully the sash is 
set in the frame, the joint will 
not be thoroughly tight. The 
inevitable warping and shrinking 
of the wood makes the cracks 
and crevices through which rain, 
moisture and germs find ad¬ 
mission. 
How to Deep Out Dust 
and Dampness 
The most economical, simple 
and yet effective way of keeping 
out dust and dampness is through 
weather stripping. The metal 
strips fitting closely around doors 
and windows thoroughly seal all 
crevices and prevent unhealthful 
and destructive dampness, dust 
and draughts from sifting into 
the rooms. 
Architects throughout the coun¬ 
try are recognizing that weather 
stripping furnishes a practical 
and effective solution to the dust 
and dampness menace. It is a 
significant fact that today they 
are generally including the item 
of weather stripping in their 
specifications. 
