New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1880-09-12

The fierce nur'eastor which swept during last
week along our sea coast AMI pCGIeG q dclU-c
If rain on all inland ,ulHmcriug places, has
driven swaIms Of plca,uic-sockeis home. In
tcrmiuablc rows of city dwellings. closed and
covered win dust since May, are 0pcn. streets
almost rs silent as the avenues Of Ponpeii begin
to stir again with busy life. The American
family during the last few days literally has
been CATHERINE about its hearth and closing it,
doors after ihc sumner yagabondagc, to begin
anew Tor tie coming winter lis home life.
There Is always u certain SENSE of novelty and
freshness IN TINS annual domestic reunion ana
homecoming. Father, mother and children,
gathering about the lite familiar table instead
OF the immense hotel board. sec each Other for
the moment a. strangers see them, aud rccoS-
niZr their own real characters. 1t Is good
time to start the whole domestic machinery on
"A new and sounder basis. \ few limit, to house
holders who are readers of TIE VRmUNB as to
hoX this may be done may be IN season.
First-liellthy minds cannot thrive except in
healthy bodies, and no BODY en- be healthy
which subSists on foul air. From every part Of
the country during the last fortnight have me
reports of rayaging icyers, principally typhoid
or malaIial. September Is TIM season Tor
Death to reap his harvest in 'cye's, rs Spilng
brings i'll his crop of nervous diseases. There
are two facts which need to be driven again and
again into the mind of the farmer about tniS
matter Where typhoid fever exists, the cause
must be sought only in animal pOs0n-frc
meatly conveyed through impure drinking
water Malarial fe yer is caused by the p0iSons in
low, svampy ground, rottng vegetation, etc.
Where a whole town or nrghbornO0d Gas has
often been the case this autumu) IS swept by
disease, there must be local cause which al
expert could readily detect. 1t Is useless for a
man to PIT his own drains in order Gas every
TRIBUNE reader doub, less mas dolc before re-
turning home) while his ncighbor chcrlshes
some yet death-brecding abomination. Before
settling down, therefore, to your family routine
foI the winter, vigorously do yodr part III clean
ing the air of your neignhorhood. Sanitary
science is as little studied by the average
American citizen now as the art of tclcgraphy
WAS 10y our gTanGfathers. II you know any
thing about it, 1t IS more your duty TO teach II TO
your neighbor than to correct his politics. The
next generation Will doubtless ooH with amaze
ment at ON open drains and uapess sewers 10
the inventions of a people bent on suicide.
Next in Importance to the air which you pro-
vide for your family comes their food. The
French with their much smaller supply Of
material have shown lis how tins can be well
cooked, nutritious and savoy, and at the
same time cheap. They have given us, too,
vet more useful hint on the variety of light un-
fermentcd drinks which is offered at every
meal of the poorest French family, instead of
liquor The Englishman of the lower class
steadily besOts himself with ale aud gin, and in
cons quencc his labor and trade steadily dcieri
oratc. rs we showed by oicIal statistics a few
DAYS ago; the Frenchman sips his
eau sucro, keeps his head clear to
economic in petty details, and in few years
paws of national debt which would have
crushed far stronger nation.
when the AIR wLich Jour children breathe is
pure and their food and drink are digestiblc
and wholesome, you Will have gone far toward
making their minds vigorous and clean. Keep
out of your sown daily conversation vulgar ami
vicious subjects, nasty pettishncss and cynical