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The RURAL NEW-YORKER 
Are you 
going to look on 
while he tears it down? 
Are you going to let old 
man “Wear and Tear” have 
his way, destroying your 
buildings this Winter—or are 
you going to shut him off with 
a paint brush this Fall? 
When you think what build¬ 
ings costs these days; the cost 
of paint is nothing compared 
to the wonderful way it saves 
your buildings. 
You know that the trouble 
with most of your neighbors 
is: that they don’t paint until 
they have to. When you have 
to paint, your painting costs ai 
lot more than it ought to. 
Costs more, because you have 
to use more paint and have to 
do more painting. 
The time to paint your 
buildings is before they actu¬ 
ally need painting. One coat 
will then do the work of 
two. So if you can’t paint 
now, at least buy your paint. 
Send for circular on—“Figure 
Your Painting Costs with a 
Brush—Not a Pencil.” Lowe 
Brothers’ Paint is sold by the 
one best dealer in each town. 
^IxswqB rothers Company 
510 EAST THIRD STREET, DAYTON, OHIO 
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New-Idea Frame- 
less Feed Door 
The exclusive frameless 
feed door construction puts 
the New-Idea in a class by 
itself; on no other furnace 
will you find this wonderful 
improvement. It absolutely 
prevents any dust or gas escaping into the cellar. 
The frame of the door is cast in one piece; there 
are no bolts, screws or cement to loosen as in 
other heaters. 
This is only one of the many superior features that 
make the‘ New-Idea the furnace you will select 
when you know all about it and make comparisons. 
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that burns any fuel; and all the other New-Idea advantages. 
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Your money back if the New-Idea does not do what we claim. 
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Exeel lent proposition for the right kind 
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20-8 
Notes on 
Children Sleeping with Old People 
Will you give your opinion on a small 
child sleeping in same bed with an old 
person ? Some of the family do not think 
it healthful for child. c. K. 
From the standpoint of personal hy¬ 
giene it is undoubtedly best for each 
sleeper to have ,his own bed. It is, of 
course, not always possible for each mem¬ 
ber of a family to have a separate bed¬ 
room, though this would be the ideal 
arrangement. Very often, however, two 
single beds can be placed in one room, 
and the ideal thus be approached. The 
use of twin beds is a refinement of modern 
life which has a basis in very real good 
sense. Few people who have enjoyed the 
comfort of sleeping alone would willingly 
return to the custom of sharing a bed 
with another, especially after middle life 
has been reached or passed. While the 
vitality probably cannot be transmitted 
Suggested Septic Tank. Fig. 526 
from one person to another, as is some¬ 
times believed there is no question but 
that “nerves” may and the restless toss¬ 
ing about of one sleeper will very often 
prevent the getting of needed rest by 
another. 
So far as children sleeping with their 
elders is concerned, there is probably no 
need of laying down any inflexible rules 
with regard to it. As iu the case of peo¬ 
ple of similar age, it would be better for 
each to have his own bed. Old age and 
youth need somewhat different conditions 
for comfort, and it would be far from wise 
to subject children to the environment 
which age frequently craves, and which 
may reasonably be granted it. In the 
case of the elderly, warmth may be more 
important than an unlimited supply of 
fresh air, but no children should be de¬ 
prived of the latter prime necessity of 
any.healthful sleeping room because of the 
slowly circulating blood of those more ad¬ 
vanced in life. A weight of covers, too, 
that might be absolutely needed by the 
aged would often prove detrimental to a 
child. The closer the contact, the greater 
the danger of transmission of communi¬ 
cable disease, but this danger is greater 
in the case of children sleeping together 
than in that of the young sleeping with 
the old. A sad illustration of the possi¬ 
bilities of such contact comes to the mind 
of the writer, however. In this instance 
an aunt slept with a little niece, who had 
just recovered from diphtheria. The 
child proved to be still a diphtheria car¬ 
rier, and within a few days the aunt lost 
her life. It hardly needs to be said that 
no child should sleep with another person 
not in full possession of his health. The 
question, then, becomes one of giving 
each occupant of the sleeping room those 
conditions essential to bis health and com¬ 
fort,. It is a question the solution of 
which is frequently complicated by the 
love of parents or grandparents for their 
children and their desire for their inti¬ 
mate companionship. This love is pe¬ 
culiarly unselfish, however, and the good 
sense of the older ones will usually pre¬ 
vent any real injury to a child. M. B. D. 
An Improved Outdoor Closet 
Can you tell me whether there is any 
practical way of using a septic tank in 
connection with an outdoor closet, and no 
running water? Would a septic tank like 
drawing I send be practicable? There 19 
one like this on the market, and it is 
claimed that after starting it with a yeast 
cake and some horse manure it will take 
care of itself with the addition of a pail 
of water a week. No -water runs into it. 
Massachusetts. E. A. C. 
It is not very clear from your drawing 
how you expect the contents of the vault 
to be carried into what you evidently in¬ 
tend to be a septic tank. If you can ar¬ 
range to carry the solid contents of the 
vault through the sink drain into the sep¬ 
tic tank without clogging the drain,. I see 
no reason why your plan should not work, 
though I should expect that you would 
get a considerable amount of offensive 
gas frorm the tank into your closet. 
The sketch, Fig. 527, is a plan of the 
“L. R. S.” privy, designed by Messrs. 
Lumsden, Roberts and Stiles of. the U. S. 
Public Health Service. This is a com¬ 
bination privy and septic tank that has 
the indorsement of these sanitation ex¬ 
perts, thou ah I do not know how satis¬ 
factory it has proven in actual use. In 
this plan the excreta fall directly into the 
first chamber of the small septic tank, in¬ 
stead of being flushed into it by the waste 
water of a house plumbing system. After 
liquefaction, the solids are carried with 
the added water into the second chamber, 
from which they enter the disposal sys¬ 
tem of drain tiles. The authors of the 
October 23. 1920 
Sanitation 
plan claim that the addition of a small 
amount of water weekly will suffice to 
flush the closet and that it has been found 
practical and satisfactory. It violates 
several of the rules laid down for the 
construction of septic tanks by other san¬ 
itation engineers, however, and I suspect 
that, it works, as many other designs in 
septic tanks seem to work, in defiance of 
rather than in accordance with these 
rules. The designers of this closet say 
that the solid matter entering the tank 
is much reduced in volume by gas forma¬ 
tion and evaporation of liquids, so that 
the volume of discharge is small. If, j n 
warm weather, evaporation is so rapid 
as to produce thickening and offensive 
odors from the receiving chamber, more 
water can be added. 
The principle upon which these septic 
tanks work is that of the reduction of 
solids to liquids through fermentation, or 
rotting, brought about by the action of 
bacteria. These bacteria do their work 
best in tight, underground chambers away 
from the light and air. After having been 
in use for a time, a thick scum forms upon 
the surface of the contents of the tank 
thus further sealing them from the air’ 
and this scum should not be disturbed’ 
It is evident from the design of th* 
,‘L. R. S.” privy that such a scum, if 
formed at all, would be disturbed every 
time that the closet was used. The 
chamber, too, would always be open to the 
air through the closet. In the Northern 
States it seems likely also that the ex¬ 
tremely cold weather of the Winter 
months would interfere with the action 
of the closet unless the receiving tank 
was buried so deeply as to interfere with 
the disposal of the effluent through drain 
tiles. 
It should be borne in mind that the dis¬ 
charge from any form of septic tank is 
not pure and free from danger if permit¬ 
ted to contaminate drinking water. If 
disease germs are present in the closet, 
they may be carried out in the discharge 
with their virulence unimpaired. It is 
only after. they have been exposed to 
light and air in the surface layers of the 
soil that they are destroyed. Disposal 
tiles should not be deenly buried, there¬ 
fore, and they should be at a sufficient 
distance from wells and water courses to 
prevent dangerous contamination of 
these. jr. b. d. 
Controlling Flies 
G. A. asks how to kill flies in back¬ 
yard toilet. I will tell my system, which 
is inodorous, sanitary and saves a valu¬ 
able manure for the garden. The build¬ 
ing is. set about a foot higher in front 
than in the rear, where a door is hung, 
hinged on top, to admit of two boxes 
iGxl^xlG inches deep, being pushed un¬ 
der the seat and withdrawn when filled. 
These are tipped over on a heap while 
two spare boxes are replaced. Dry earth 
is raked, pulverized and stored in an ad¬ 
joining shed. A box in toilet is filled 
when required, the user with a small 
shovel throwing a pint or more over the 
discharge. The used paper is put in a 
Septic Tank from U. S. Public Health 
Service Bulletin. Fig. 52 7 
separate receptacle and burnt. The heap 
of soil when dry is spaded over occasion¬ 
ally and worked in around the plants. 
You should sec the results, especially to 
okra, onions, cabbage, etc. Flies have no 
chance with this, and screening is quite 
unnecessary. For country schools the 
system would be ideal. MRS. s. B. 
Missouri. 
Overalls for Women 
Let me say something about overalls 
for women. When I go to church I fol¬ 
low the fashion, and squeeze both legs into 
one skirt; when I go in bathing I wear 
a bathing suit; when I go into the gar¬ 
den I wear overalls, and let my neighbors 
laugh. “Knickers” are very nice, but I 
like best the man’s overalls, with middy 
blouse. Women’s ove.ralls look very silly, 
and bloomers are too floppy. I got caught 
to a limb of a tree once and decided not 
to wear bloomers again. When I am in 
the house I wear house dresses, because 
my husband likes to.see a. woman in the 
house, and not an imitation of a man. 
‘.’till, if I were single I’d wear overalls 
doing housework. M. M. m’lean. 
New Hampshire. 
Chief Big Smoke was a copper-colored 
native employed as a missionary to his 
fellow Indians out in Oklahoma. A tour¬ 
ist once asked him what he did for a liv¬ 
ing. “Umph!” said Big Smoke, me 
preachum.” “That so? What do you 
get for preaching?” “Me get ten dollars 
a year.” “Well.” commented the white 
man, “that’s darned poor pay.” “Umph. 
replied Big Smoke, “me darned poOe 
preacher.”—Turner’s Weekly. 
