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bloom are ready to spring up at your beck and fill you 

 with cheer and gladness. 



On the farm there is too often a lack of conveniences 

 and comforts. The woman should have a good toilet 

 room as well as her city cousin. The inconveniences 

 to which delicate women are subjected in going to out 

 houses in the piercing cold and through the deep snows 

 might be classed among the martyrdoms. I had seen 

 so much of this that when I built I made up my mind 

 to have a good bath and toilet room first and then 

 build a house around it. I cannot see why there 

 should be such cruel neglect and indifference on the 

 farm. I know a Western ranch where the wife is a 

 noble, motherly woman and she has daughters that are 

 teachers and the husband and father has never even 

 built a small out house for them. 



The expense of home comforts is not great. - There 

 is little trouble in having a cesspool at a safe distance, 

 and as far as sanitary conditions are concerned a cess- 

 pool is no more dangerous to health than a common 

 vault. 



If possible, water should be conveyed into the house. 

 The windmill can do this much better than the wife. 

 The woman has'} a hard time at best — often without 

 help, and she should have every possible convenience. 



THE BOYS^ ROOM 



Should be large and cheery and well stocked with 

 books and papers. I know a man who has trouble 

 with his boys. lie owns a half section of land and is 



