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his beloved little ones, or scarlet fever dogging their steps, 

 or typhoid threatening the wife of his heart, would he 

 not employ every means to avert them. 



There is no excuse for bad "gases" about country 

 homes. Every owner of an acre of land has the means 

 at hand for maintaining a clean atmosphere, providing 

 of course there are no unconquerable marshes or miasmatic 

 rivers to deal with. 



The various kinds of tiles for drains for conveying 

 away slops and waste waters to points where they may be 

 speedily evaporated by wind and sun, are durable, effec- 

 tual, and cheap. Placed below the reach of frost at a 

 pitch to create a rapid now, they will not become clogged 

 and will last a life-time. 



In summers the laundry suds can be applied to the 

 garden with good effect, but there should be a kitchen 

 sink connecting with the drain not only for convenience 

 in disposing of waste water at all times, but to prevent 

 the nuisance of frozen slops and ice-clogging, which 

 generally occurs when the only opening is outside .the 

 house. This kitchen pipe can be easily "flushed" every 

 week with boiling suds, and a semi-occasional dose of 

 chloride of lime or carbolic acid will keep it clean and 

 odorless. 



Kitchen waste in the country very fortunately need not 

 await the round of the garbage cart, and can be disposed 

 of at any time before it becomes rancid and pestilential. 

 Indeed, in well-conducted house-keeping it is not 

 " waste " at all, but wholesome scraps that are well re- 

 ceived by the chickens, the pigs, and the soap-fat jar. 

 The little that cannot be disposed of in these ways should 

 be burned. There is nothing better than cremation for 

 stuff that from neglect or accident becomes unfit for any- 

 thing else. 



These two sorts of refuse being so easily disposed of, 

 the serious thing to consider is the last and the worst, the 



