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the only expense is the piping. There are many sucli places in the 

 Ozark hills waiting to be taken advantage of. 



Tliis, you see, supplies water works I'ur llie kitchen and bath 

 room simply for the initial cost of putting in the pipes. 



In one farm home I know, where there are no springs to pipe the 

 water from, there is a deep well and a pump just outside the kitchen 

 door. From this a pipe runs into a tank in the kitchen and from this 

 tank there are two pipes. One runs into the cellar and the other 

 underground to a tank in the barn yard, which is, of course, much 

 lower than the one in the kitchen. 



. When water is wanted down cellar to keep the cream and butter 

 cool, a cork is pulled from the cellar pipe by means of a little chain, 

 and by simply pumping the pump outdoors, cold water runs into the 

 vat in the cellar. The water already there rises and runs out at the 

 overflow pipe, through the cellar and out at the cellar drain. 



"When the stock at the barn need watering, the cork is pulled from 

 the other pipe, and the water flows from the tank in the kitchen into 

 the tank in the yard. And always the tank in the kitchen is full of 

 fresh, cold water, because this other water all runs through it. This 

 is a simple, inexpensive contrivance for use on a place where there 

 is no running water. 



It used to be that the woman on a farm was isolated and behind 

 the times. A weekly paper was what the farmer read, and he had to 

 go to town to get that. All this is changed. Now the rural delivery 

 brings us our daily papers, and we keep up on the news of the world 

 as well or better than though we lived in the city. 



The telephone gives us connection with the outside world at all 

 times, and we know what is going on in our nearest town by many a 

 pleasant chat with our friends there. 



Circulating libraries, thanks to our State University, are scattered 

 through the rural districts, and we are eagerly taking advantage of 

 them. 



The interurban trolley lines being built through our country will 

 make it increasingly easy for us to run into town for an afternoon's 

 shopping or any other pleasure. These trolley lines are and more wil] 

 be operated by electricity, furnished by our swift-running streams, 

 and in a few years our country homes will be lighted by this same 

 electric power. 



Yes, indeed, things have changed in the country, and we have 

 the advantages of city life if we care to take them. Besides, we have 

 what it is impossible for the woman in the city to have. 



