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broad enough so that your farmers and your wives and children 

 may sit or play upon them during your leisure hours and thus 

 breathe in and out God's precious blessing- plenty of good fresh air. 

 for 1 well remember, when a student of medicine, these words clearly 

 spoken, "The American people are too lazy to breathe right, hence 

 the great amount of consumption and other bronchial troubles in 

 our country." Look well to building a good warm house; need not 

 necessarily be so expensive, yet it can be arranged to build it com- 

 fortable, with ornaments for show or not, according to taste of 

 owner, but be careful not to interfere with proper ventilation, win- 

 dows should lower from tlie~top in nearly all the rooms, if rot all, as 

 a means of ventilating properly the rooms, both living and sleeping 

 apartments. I see in my travels over this beautiful landscape 

 many houses, the shutters of which are never opened, as those of 

 the farmer's parlor, or a good spare room, which never receive any 

 sunlight or fresh air, only when John woos Mary, the farmer's 

 marriageable daughter, or when uncle Dick and his wife make us 

 a visit, and breathe the same air that they breathed and rebreathed 

 while sleeping in the same spareroom sometime ago. The great 

 cure for tuberculosis and her kindred bronchial affections i TI our 

 human race, are brought about by our fresh air sanatoriums, which 

 are not robbed of pure golden rays of sunlight either. Farmer, 

 ventilate your living and sleeping apartments freely and thus live 

 a pure hygienic life, free from the miserable aches and illness 

 brought about by unhygienic methods as improper ventilation. 



Cellar drainage, if there be a cellar, and a house without a cellar, 

 is only a half-house, is very essential to keeping up the health 

 standard. I believe that every cellar can be drained if gone about 

 in a consistent and persistent manner. Then, too, the cellar of 

 the house should not be made a storage-room for decayed fruit and 

 vegetable matter, from which emanates foul odors which may alone 

 cause severe cases of the most malignant diseases. It should be 

 aired frequently and all noxious matter detrimental to health re- 

 moved therefrom. Next; we shall consider the cleanliness of the 

 house both inside and out. There is plenty of water, soap, sand, 

 brooms and other utensils necessary for keeping the palace clean, 

 whether it be the poorest hovel along the mountain, or the finest 

 palace in the dale. Heaven shall smile upon that housekeeper who 

 prides herself in cleanliness of her house and shall consider her a 

 jewel fit to place in the starry firmament above. The male portiou 

 of the household, as well as the boys and girls can assist in keeping 

 the house bright and cheerful, bv beinu - clean. They may assist 

 in arranging the outside of the house, the yard can be planted with 

 a few choice shade trees, flowers of different varieties, but be sure 

 not to make your yards, orchards of fruit of all kinds. Let all who 

 reside in their house (dean and be (dean forever, do not forget the 

 bath, which is a necessity, as bugs, insects and germs like to fre- 

 quent a place best suited for their habitation, and thus disease 

 lurks in about this human frame by being unhygienic about your 

 person. 



Now. let us go to the barn, which should be a modern building, 

 with its equipment equally modern. Cleanliness should be carried 

 through all the departments, so that the health standard of the 

 occupants of this home shall not be lowered; the barn should be 



