The New Spirit . room evenly heated. The jacketed stove should have a direct fresh air inletabout twelve inches square, opening through the wall of the school house into the jacketagainst the middle or hottest part of the stove. The exit for foul air should be an opening at least sixteen inches square on thewall near the floor, on the side of the room where the stove is located. In using a stove one should keep a pan of water on it in order to preserve thehumidity of the atmosphere. In order to know how to regulate the temperature of the room, it is necessaryto have a good thermometer in a con
The New Spirit . room evenly heated. The jacketed stove should have a direct fresh air inletabout twelve inches square, opening through the wall of the school house into the jacketagainst the middle or hottest part of the stove. The exit for foul air should be an opening at least sixteen inches square on thewall near the floor, on the side of the room where the stove is located. In using a stove one should keep a pan of water on it in order to preserve thehumidity of the atmosphere. In order to know how to regulate the temperature of the room, it is necessaryto have a good thermometer in a convenient place so that the teacher or child helpermay see when the room is too warm or too cool. The temperature should not be allowedto go to either extreme, the correct temperature being about sixty-eight degrees. If ateacher will pay attention to the thermometer, this uniform degree may be easily kept. The school room should always have plenty of fresy air, a thing as necessary as plenty of heat. T. J. GUY. 18. (ftaptam nf tty Iteatlj Srujab? LUCILLE HATTEN Harrison County THERE are probably few diseases whose symp-toms are more generally recognized thanpneumonia. The stabbing pain in the chest,the cough, the blood-colored expectorations, the rapidbreathing, all stamp it as a disease of the lungs. Ourmost universally accepted term for it, pneumonia, ismerely the Greek equivalent for lung fever. Our deadliest enemies are lung diseases; to-gether they count for one-third of all the deaths thatoccur in a community. Ever since accurate statisticshave been kept, pneumonia has been the second heav-est cause of death, the first being ten years ago it was noticed that the secondcompetitor in the race of death was overtaking its leader, and this ghastly rivalry continued until aboutthree years ago when pneumonia forged ahead. For a long time this disease was believed to be caused from exposure to cold ora wetting. There were two reasons for this: one, that the disea
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