XX AMERICAN HOMES AND GARDENS May, 1909 
Soda Cracker Logic 
Any baker can make an ordinary soda 
cracker —but to produce Uneeda Biscuit 
requires the specially fitted bakeries of the 
NATIONAL 
BISCUIT 
COM PANY 
All soda crackers are food. But there 
is only ove soda cracker highest in food 
value as well as best in freshness. Of 
course, that soda cracker is 
Uneeda ¢ 
Biscuit 
BUILDING A BEAUTIFUL HOME IS EASY 
If you get theright plans from the right architect. It is not a matter of money, but 
of knowing how to design properly and plan economically. I do this. Buy my 
books and prove it, or write me about your special plans. 
Picturesque Suburban Houses. By mail,#2.00. Distinctive designs for cement, 
stone and frame houses from $3000 up. Complete descriptions and estimates. 
Book of Bungalows. By mail, $2.00. All new and artistic designs for one 
and one-and-a-half story bungalows, from $1000 up. 
Picturesque Summer Cottages. Vcl. 3. By mail, $1,00. Beautiful 
designs for stone or shingle homes, rustic summer cottages and bungalows. 
Camps, Cabins and Shacks. By mail, $2.00. Forty unusual and practical 
designs. Over half of buildings to cost between $350 and $1000. 
E. E. HOLMAN, Room 14, 1020 Chestnut St., Philadelphia, Pa. 
It Don’t Pay to Feed Hens That Don’t Lay 
We have for sale 100 pure bred yearling White 
Leghorn hens—all laying to-day—$2.00 each. Also 
5 cockerels $5.00 each, or we will divide the lot to 
suit—Settings of 15 eggs, $2.00. 
BELLE HILL WHITE LEGHORN RANGE, Elkton, Md. 
the rain water as well as to the water pumpea 
into tanks from springs. In the latter case, 
however, the pumping may be done daily and 
the stored water will thus be kept fresh and 
clean. Stored drinking water becomes stale 
and obtains a bad taste from the storage tank. 
We are thus forced back in many cases upon 
the old-fashioned hand pump or well for our 
drinking water. So much has been said about 
the contamination of well water that many are 
afraid to drink water from it. “This fear is 
well founded, too, unless we know something 
about the well. In densely populated sections 
the old wells should invariably be closed, be- 
cause few of them remain uncontaminated by 
the drainage from surrounding houses and 
leaky sewage pipes. In thinly populated places 
the well water may be as pure as any water 
obtainable. But the slope of the land, and the 
location of the barn, cesspools and house drain- 
age must all be considered. Does this drain- 
age run into the well? If so, there is danger 
lurking in every drop of water drawn from it. 
In connection with the water supply system, 
therefore, the question of drainage is more or 
less involved. Not that the two must be 
worked out together in one comprehensive 
system, but if the drainage is going to inter- 
fere with the water it must be changed and 
improved. Sometimes it is easier to change 
the drainage than to close up an old well. 
Surface drainage can very easily be changed 
so as to flow in a different direction from the 
well. Small underdrains of porous, open pipes 
can be laid below the subsoil so that they will 
catch all the drainage and carry it from the 
house in any direction needed. ‘hese un- 
der drains will also make the house healthier 
by freely removing all moisture from around 
it, thus reducing any tendency to damp cellars. 
Hidden streams and pockets will be tapped 
and the surplus water carried off. 
Sewage must also be removed scientifically. 
A modern cesspool or bacterial sewage closet, 
properly constructed, is far more sanitary than 
running the sewage into some shallow stream. 
The latter method will soon become penalized 
by State and county laws. It is the most com- 
mon method of spreading disease. A sanitary 
cesspool of two compartments, so that bacterial 
action or decomposition can go on rapidly in 
one, is the safest system. ‘The cesspool should 
be made of brick or stones tightly cemented 
so that water will not leak through the joints. 
Into the first compartment the sewage pours, 
and into the second it trickles slowly, so that 
little agitation is caused. In the latter place 
then the millions of bacteria will decompose 
the solids and permit the sewage to pass off as 
a liquid. If overflow pipes are connected with 
this compartment the liquid sewage can be 
carried to lower ground and finally disposed 
of in the soil. Before it reaches any spring or 
underground water supply, then, it will be 
purified of its offensiveness and dangerous 
poisons. One thus protects his own home and 
drinking water as well as eliminates the dan- 
ger to neighbors. 
P ETRY cee 
Ornamental 
AND HARDWOOD FLOORS 
Old Style Carpets do not meet the requirements of the 
modern house; Parquetry Flooring is now holding their 
place. ‘his is everlasting, inexpensive and most pleasing 
in effect. Write fordesigns, Red Oak Flooring #%x1¥% in. 
for room 10x12, $9.60. Mantels, Tile, Grilles, Fly Screens. 
W. F. OSTENDORE, 2923 N. Broad St., Philadelphia 
Art Stone Lawn Furniture 
Will last for centuries, do not have to be taken in and 
stored during winter months. Do not have to be 
painted. Don’t fail to write for photographs and 
prices of our Cast Stone and Cast Iron Lawn Furni- 
ture. The low prices will interest you. 
SIDNEY CEMENT STONE CO., Sidney, O. 
