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MINNESOTA STATE HORTICULiTURAL SOCIETY. 



and of Europe for pure water. It is only in the country that 

 one may drink with perfect immunity all the water he desires. 

 With care that the family cannot suffer pollution, every farm- 

 er's family may have, instead of the double-distilled Hydro, the 

 bottled spring water, the long-boiled water or other insipid 

 refrigerator products, that which the city dweller envies him, 

 pure water and plenty of it, a real value in physical existence. 



Pure food is exclusively a country luxury. From adulterated 

 groceries all alike suffer, but stale vegetables, exposed for hours 

 or days to the dust and filth of the street or of the malodorous 



Miss Margaret J. Evans, Northfiled. 



market; germ-infected fruit from crowded street corner pave- 

 ments : milk coming from one knows not what condition of cow, 

 milker's hand, can, wagon and railroad car; the factory-canned 

 goods of all dubious kinds ; the butter, always open to suspicion ; 

 the eggs whose freshness is a matter of history, — these are lux- 

 uries which the provident country housewife leaves to her city 

 friends. 



In most large cities one misses entirely that common but 

 underestimated pleasure, the sense of absolute cleanliness and 

 daintiness of the person and of the home. 



Despite the daily cold bath of the morning and the warm 

 bath of the evening, without which life is almost unbearable in 



