August, 1920 
GOOD AIR IN THE HOME 
Proper Ventilation and Temperature Combine to Make An Ideal 
Living and Working Atmosphere 
E. V. CAMPBELL 
A LTHOUGH air is to be had 
L for the asking, we have to 
woo it if we want it. But it 
pays. Keep the air about you 
in good condition and you and 
those of your household will 
soon find yourselves approach¬ 
ing the 100% efficiency ideal. 
Business has found this out 
already. Do you know of any 
factory, good school, bank, or 
department store, where there is 
not installed some sort of ven¬ 
tilation apparatus? Fresh air 
keeps costs down and keeps 
health up. On this relation of 
health and output, efficiency 
depends. 
If housewives thought more 
of home ventilation and espe¬ 
cially kitchen ventilation, we 
might have improved service, 
better tempered cooks, and a 
more satisfactory life in general. 
We should approximate, in 
our warm, comfortable rooms, 
the sweet, clean purity of out- 
of-doors. And this is easy to 
In kitchens where the stove is hooded cooking odors can he drawn off 
by a blower run by electricity from a lamp socket. This suction keeps 
the air in motion throughout the room. Courtesy of the I. L. G. Elec¬ 
tric Ventilating Co. 
do—just by proper ventilation. 
Ventilation can render air 
even better than the outdoor va¬ 
riety by purifying it of dust and 
by supplying it with the right 
amount of moisture. 
For the ordinary home the 
great air conditioners and ozo¬ 
nators, which are installed in 
institutions and factories, are 
unnecessary. The best, simplest 
and least expensive ventilating 
system for the home is the sys¬ 
tem regulated by fans and fans 
and blowers, and to this method 
we will introduce ourselves. 
It is conceded by ventilating 
and heating engineers that the 
air, to be healthful, must be in 
ceaseless motion, and it must be 
renewed constantly and evenly. 
In other words, it doesn’t make 
so much difference if the air is 
burdened with carbon dioxide 
gas which we exhale from our 
lungs, as it does if the air is 
stationary. Hence the use of 
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The simplest machine for kitchen ventilation is a motor-propelled fan installed in a panel in the upper sash of 
a window Power is supplied from a lamp socket. The fan draws out all cooking odors and hot air thus 
keebine the air in motion , which is the desirable factor in all ventilation. Courtesy of the /. L. G. Electric 
y Ventilating Co. 
