A vase of neglected flowers will poison the air of a whole room.

In the area or cellar, a decaying head of cabbage, a basket of refuse vegetables, a forgotten barrel of pork or beef brine, a neglected garbage pail or box, are all premiums upon disease.

Let air and sunlight search every corner of the house.

Insist upon as nearly spotless _cleanliness_ as may be, and the second prime necessity of the home is secure.
When, as it is written, man was formed from the dust of the earth, the Lord God "breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a _living soul_." Shut off that breath of life, or poison it as it is daily poisoned, and not only body, but soul, dies.

The child, fresh from its long day out of doors, goes to bed quiet, content, and happy.