Image 2 of The Colfax chronicle (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.), April 27, 1907
The Chronicle COLFAX LOUISIANA Inpure Air The importance of ventilation and of i constant supply of fresh air in liv Ingrooms and wherever man abides whether sleeping or waking has often peen mentioned in these columns Without air life is impossible and un lets that air be moderately pure health cannot be maintained although it is astonishing and a proof of the wonderful adaptation of living beings to their environment to note how great an amount of impure air can be endured with seeming impunity There are two forms of impurity in the air gaseous and solid The gases those resulting from the exhalations from the lungs and in city houses from the little unnoticed leaks from the gas pipes and from defective plumbing are the most injurious For the removal of these says New York Weekly free ventilation from open winodwn and open fireplaces s most efficacious but it is of little service in the removal of the other kind of impurity that is to say the solid particles of matter Justwhich are always floating in the air of houses as well as in that of the streets A beam of sunlight entering through a halfclosed shutter makes visible