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in drafts there is no swamp miasma or disease- 

 breeding mosquito from below and compara- 

 tively little wet from above. However, personal 

 comfort should never be neglected. It is your 

 main stock in trade the chief element of your 

 success. First make yourself and family com- 

 fortable. Then let your income improve your 

 improvements. 



FAMILY 



COMFORT 



FIRST 



The family comfort depends mainly on three 

 things a warm house, though it be small, a 

 good and convenient water supply, comfortable 

 and sanitary convenience for waste house, well, 

 closet. 



THE TENT 

 HOUSE 



It is possible to get along with considerable 

 comfort the first season in well constructed tent- 

 houses. A good tent, stretched over a frame 

 work, with floor inside and banked up outside 

 with soil, will be found habitable. A house 

 tent, however, should have a fly over the top, 

 and where the winters are cold or windy, a 

 double wall will pay. 



THE DUGOUT Where there is good drainage or a side hill is 

 available, a dugout may be constructed which 

 will do for temporary occupancy. Such dugout 

 may be covered over the top with timbers, boards, 

 building paper or tar paper, and four or five 

 inches of soil. The average American will not 



