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I 5 1 32 WINNETKA TALK October 31, 1925 URGE MORE WATER FOR HOME HEATING PLANTS Health Director Gives Timely Ad- vice on Most Healthful Heat- ing Temperatures Referring to the average American home in winter as the "human hot- house" and pointing out that people of the United States now demand in- door cold weather temperatures rang- ing from 15 to 20 degrees higher than was considered comfortable a century ago in this country, Dr. Isaac D. Raw- lings, Illinois state health director, de- clares that we have our modern heat- ing systems to thank not only for the fading natural color and the corre- sponding increase in cosmetic com- plexion but for many of our catarrhal and other respiratory ills as well. In- stead of 55 to 60 degrees temperature with a relative humidity of 35 or 40 percent, the healthful, comfortable standard secured by our forebears from the open fire in 1820, we now require from 70 to 75 degrees with a 15 to 20 percent humidity at the ex- pense of extravagant fuel consumption and a lowered resistance to infections. Temperature of 65 Best "While the human body can adjust itself fairly well to temperature rang- ing over a scale of 150 degrees," said Dr. Rawlings, "adjustment to a change of 75 or 80 degrees, the difference be- tween indoor and outdoor heat on a cold day, cannot be made instantly nor will the body tolerate kindly the dry hot air that fills most of our homes, hotels, offices, school rooms and hos- pitals during the winter months. The hygienic standard for indoor living quarters in cold weather should be 65 degrees temperature with 35 to 40 per- cent relative humidity, but this is dif- ficult to secure with the average heat- ing system, a 75 degree 15 percent hu- midity ratio being much more com- mon. "Dry air 1s a poor conductor of com- fort heat; moist air is good. It re- quires about as much fuel to raise the temperature from 60 to 70 degrees as from 20 to 60. Dry air at 70 degrees may be chilly and it certainly causes) the body to lose moisture rapidly from the lungs and skin, reducing the heat capacity, sapping the vigor, destroying complexion and lowering resistance to disease. A high temperature standard for living quarters is therefore severly extravagant on the one hand, and pro- ductive of a people hypersensitive to NORTH SHORE BOOTERY 529 Davis Street at Chicago Avenue In the North Shore Hotel Bldg. The Store of Good Shoes | changes in weather, and intolerant of climatic hardships on the other. Heating System Indicted "The mad popularity of the sunny south in winter, the remarkable growth of fresh air treatment in hospitals and sanitariums, the vagaries of fashion and the waves of respiratory infections, especially of the common cold variety, that grip the American people with the first show of frost, and remain unti. the blue bird comes in springtime arc straws in the wind that point toward an indictment of our present-day heat- ing systems. "We need more water and less coal in our household air supplies, and the sooner we get it the better we shall be, economically and healthily." A number of the Winnetka members of the supreme council of the Alpha Sigma sorority are planning to attend its annual dance Friday evening, No- vember 13, at the Opera club. Miss Evelyn Pass is president of the soror- ity and Miss Harriet Conner is general hairman. ep Miss Emelie Hoyt, daughter of Mrs. College Women Assist in Hallowe'en Program Miss Gladys Huntley, 1730 Forest avenue, Wilmette, and Miss Mary Saxe of Riverside, students at the Na- tional Kindergarten and Elementary college, will have charge of the story hour from WGN, the Chicago Tribune radio station, from 5:30 to 6 o'clock Saturday afternoon, October 31. Miss Huntley and Miss Saxe will give a pro- gram of Hallowe'en songs and stories for the children. Phelps Hoyt of 484 Sheridan road, has returned from a brief visit with friends in Detroit. Turn to the Want Ads Conn SI. Smyth John M. Smyth, Jr., President ompan (Sompany MANUFACTURERS ~ RETAILERS ~IMPORTERS Thomas A. Smyth, Vice President $42.50 Fireplace Furnishings To obtain just the proper accessories for your fireplace is easily accomplished in the John M. Smyth Store. We have a wide variety of designs--this display is on our Third Floor. Truth in Advertising OPEN EVERY MONDAY, WEDNESDAY AND SATURDAY EVENING UNTIL 10 O'CLOCK -