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HOUSE AND GARDEN 
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The Home of Wholesome Food 
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A Germless Food 
Compartment 
It does awaywith cracks, joints, 
crevices, corners and other natural 
hiding places for dirt, odors, decay¬ 
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The J. L. Mott Iron Works 
Fifth Ave. and 17th St. NEW YORK 
and got big crops, but after that it didn’t 
do nothin’ at all.” 
“Well,” interposed Raffles, “why should 
it? What would Growls think of a man 
who fed his cows nothing but cottonseed 
meal for two years ?” But his friend 
could not see the connection. 
They worked early and late, and worked 
hard, but the days seemed to slip away 
from under their feet, always leaving 
more to do than they could quite attend 
to. And yet every member of the house¬ 
hold enjoyed the life tremendously. Rob¬ 
ert and Helen had gained over ten pounds 
each, and ate like starved savages. Unlike 
most of the farmers’ sons and daughters, 
they were intensely interested in the work 
at home, and looked forward every day 
at school to closing time, when they could 
rush home and help with the work in the 
lengthening afternoons. Their energy 
bubbled over for as many hours a day as 
they could stay awake, and then they slept 
like logs. 
Not all the life was work, however. 
There were many socials and parties of 
various sorts, at which they enjoyed them¬ 
selves much more thoroughly than they 
had at the social functions held in the city 
— which is, after all, no place for young, 
healthy growing animals of any sort. In 
the winter there had been straw rides, 
usually with the Squire’s big gray team 
and largest sled, and with that well- 
wrapped and red-cheeked gentleman him¬ 
self upon the driver’s seat, enjoying the 
affair to the utmost. It really seemed as 
if he got more fun out of it than all the 
crowd of youngsters, and it would keep 
him in the very best of humor — though he 
never departed very far from that happy 
state — for days at a time. The Squire 
was a great favorite, beloved far and near 
by old and young; and in their esteem he 
found his life’s wages, and treasured it, 
happier than any miser or millionaire. 
Nor had the master and mistress of the 
household ever been happier. That hap¬ 
piness which has not as a foundation 
abounding health is apt to be a house built 
on the sands. They were both stronger, 
younger in feeling than they had been in 
years. And although the privations were 
many, and they had fewer modern com¬ 
forts than at any time since their mar¬ 
riage, never had life been sweeter to them, 
never had the future seemed to hold so 
much in store; never for a day did they 
regret having made their break from the 
old life that lay behind them. 
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F ountains winch burst out in imi¬ 
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two at intervals of a few minutes, may be 
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outlet may be made in any way desired to 
conform to some type of fountain dis¬ 
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