Inhaltsangabe
This historic book may have numerous typos, missing text or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1893. Not illustrated. Excerpt: ... doors, are better than large ones. How large these openings in the ceiling are made, depends upon the difference of temperature between in-doors and out-doors. The foul air in a heated room is near the ceiling. The foul air in a cold room is near the floor. Hot air is not necessarily foul air. Spring Health Notes. At this season, when warm weather comes on, a person is apt to feel languid and drowsy after dinner. Do not let your laziness overpower you. Shake off the giant from your shoulders by keeping active. Don't eat much salad. It is one of the poppy plants and contains opium, which makes you stupid. If you want to sleep well at night, avoid sleeping a moment during daylight. Don't Diminish the Clothing too Soon.--Serious and even fatal sickness is often caused by a change of clothing, -- not, indeed, by putting on more or warmer clothing, but by diminishing it inconsiderately. It is very unsafe to lessen the amount of clothing sooner than the first of May, though some of our readers, and many other persons will be foolhardy enough again this year, as often before, to do so in April. It should be borne in mind, and especially impressed on children, that such a thing as changing even from a heavier to a lighter quality of clothing, when the first pleasant days of spring come on, is very imprudent. At no season are overshoes so important as just at this. In Winter, when the ground is frozen, or even when the earth is covered with snow, rubbers are not as necessary, as in the slush and mud of April. Wear Woolen Clothing.--When a change of clothing is made, it should be only, however, to lighter material, from yarn socks to worsted; from a thick, knitted flannel shirt to one of common woolen flannel. Woolen flannels next the skin should be the rule all the year ...
Die Inhaltsangabe kann sich auf eine andere Ausgabe dieses Titels beziehen.
