11. How TO Impkoye the Farm House. 



Farmer James and his wife have lived in this liome fifty years 

 amid varying prosperity and adversity. They have had seven 

 ehihlren, two of whom died in infancy with cholera infantum and 

 two at the age of sixteen and nineteen with fever. It has never 

 occurred to the family that conditions in or out of the house could 

 have caused these deaths, and in bowing to the decree they thought 

 themselves yielding to an all-wise Providence. Resolutions of 

 respect always are more readable when they say, " Whereas an all- 

 wise Providence has removed from our midst," instead of "Whereas 

 abad drain, impure drinking water and no ventilation.' 



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Happiness fdr ducks, unhealtMness for men. 



Eyes opened to need of sanitation. — Their son John came home 

 from college for a holiday vacation. The old home and the home 

 folks were very dear to him, but as he came up the lane he viewed 

 the whole scene with a feeling of uneasy discontent. He had 

 learned the importance of pure soil, pure air and pure water. 

 While the farmer was a progressive man and his wife a thoughtful 

 woman, they had accustomed themselves to surroundings which 

 John determined to change for the sake of the health of the family. 



The neighhorhood is roused on the suhject of sanitation. — Then, 

 too, at several farm houses in the neigiiborhood there were summer 



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