All This Comes Of Those Damnable Hot-Air Pipes With Which
Every Tenement In America Is Infested.
"We cannot do without
them," they say.
"Our cold is so intense that we must heat our
houses throughout. Open fire-places in a few rooms would not keep
our toes and fingers from the frost." There is much in this. The
assertion is no doubt true, and thereby a great difficulty is
created. It is no doubt quite within the power of American
ingenuity to moderate the heat of these stoves, and to produce such
an atmosphere as may be most conducive to health. In hospitals no
doubt this will be done; perhaps is done at present - though even in
hospitals I have thought the air hotter than it should be. But
hot-air drinking is like dram-drinking. There is the machine
within the house capable of supplying any quantity, and those who
consume it unconsciously increase their draughts, and take their
drains stronger and stronger, till a breath of fresh air is felt to
be a blast direct from Boreas.
West Point is at all points a military colony, and, as such,
belongs exclusively to the Federal government as separate from the
government of any individual State. It is the purchased property
of the United States as a whole, and is devoted to the necessities
of a military college. No man could take a house there, or succeed
in getting even permanent lodgings, unless he belonged to or were
employed by the establishment.
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