The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1885-06-17

fouled, and Its use fraught with more or Iess
danger for either drinking or CO 0king pur.
poses. The spouis, too, which conduct this
rain to the the cistern should be taken down
and cleansed OF the accumulations of dead
leaves and straws that are every year blown
and dfifted and lodged within them. The
spaces under the plazzss, where often all
sorts Of not wholly innocent waste multiply,
and are to be found in more or less ed.
vanced stage of returning TO mother earth,
should cleansed and sprinkled with lime;
and trellises and summer. houses and back
yards, and all their belongings, should be
thoroughly scTaped and purified. The barn
cellar 100, if there be one, is to be empted OF
its contents, and ii pigs are kept there, the
better to work over these ontents, il would
he ss good as an army corpse against the en-
envy If they were abolished for one season or
removed to a distant locality, aud even
there kept with much more cleanliness than
common. Care should be taken also az once
and thoroughly to empty, cleanse, and dis
infect vaults, cess-pools hen houses, pigeon
roosts, and dog kennels, and to secure for
every receptacle OF possibly Objectionable
contents a complete ventilation, while the
house drainage should have especial and
early attention, with the best advice of the
plumber, if there be pipes and sewerage
with ashes and lime otherwise, with great
pesit Of the drippiDgs Of the kitchen sink. as
poisonous as any otner drainage, concerning
the sTill and soap grease vessels also, and
with unexsmpled care Of the condition of
the well. II COWS are kept, it should be q
matter OF moment to see that their oEn
drinking water is pure, and If milk is bought
daily 10 any amount, 1t becomes a duty to
inquire into the sources of yard, as diseases
OF cholersic nature, ss we'll as several fatal
fevers, may be received from milk, the COWS
furnishing which drink at noZious pools or
wells. In regard to the house WELL indeed,
it would not be smiss 10 have it emptied
aud wiped out. and then pumped dry q
second time, it being understood, of course,
that it is at least eighty feet from any under
drain, or any surface drain either for that
matter as the long Infltration and percola-
ton OF waste through the soil is sure to find
Ifs way at last to SO convenient spot as a
| pit apparently dug and stoned purposeIy for
| its accommodation.
Meanwhile, within doors, the housekeeper
will begin with the attic under the topmost
| pitch of the roof: she will not leave mouse
track in the wall that sine can reach, or
old paper rotting in the closets; broom and
| duster, soap and water will 90 their per-
feet work from garnet 10 cellar; gallons Of
copperas water-as cheap as any disinfectant,
and about as effective, bat always to be
| handled with care, as it is itself poison
will flush every pipe for refuse water, and
| strong saturated solution OF potash will
| cleanse the pipe of the kitchen sink from its
offensive and decEying grease. This year,
IT not every year, will no carpet b neglect
ed and denied its beating, will doaot-
| ful paper-hangings be stripped off and fresh
| ones put in their place, will new paint make
the house sweet, and clean whltswash aud
| kslsomine give it that understandable scent
that Reens to promise health at the first
| breath of It. This is not a matter OF the U.s.
usl house cleaning st ALL that, 1t is taken
/ for granted, Is done accordi ng to the family
| exegencies and the duties and necessities of
each year. This year it is quite another
thing; il is as if q whole population turned
out " ith spades epG picks 10 turn the mead
OF river threading d6solstion, and to dissi-
| pate all its current over wide marshes or d.
rect it into the slI-purifyin ing sea.
In the cellar, sgain, will the housekesper's
anxietits particularly eZpend themselves:
not vegetable there but shall be picked
| over; cats shall be bsnished from its do
mains; old ok and vinegar barrels shall be
removed or renewed, or else made fit and d.
| cent; DO fungus shall be left in crack or
| Granny; wbitewBsh shall make its illumina-
ton there, and windows shall be set wide
open and wired, that free drsughts may o.
| reer across il in safety.
Only when all this Is done can the man
and woman Of the house sit down in right.
| eous ease CT mind, knowing that the last OBJ
| stacie in their power has been put in the
| path OF the foe, and IL he comes now, Ii Is
fate and not they themselves that shall re-
| ceive the blame: it is some neighbours legli-
| geDce, not theirs, which ruins community;
it lie the fault Of the quarantine authorities;
il is the greed, the incapacity, the criminal
| reckleEsness, OF some one other than them
selves which are responsible for the suffering
and death and despair that shall ensue if
| what happens in France and Italy last
year, q nwsrned, happen this year in Amer
lea, fully aware OF the danger.
| IL all our shores, our wharves, our cities,
our avenues into this country, our country
places themselves are clean, and blown over
by clean air, then will the evil blast Of the
| cholera be turned into harmless breath, ana
we shall have taught the world lesson that
il may not be slow to learn, and that it has
been thousands of years spelling out. Surely
| it will be q splendid and triumphant expert
eDce for her, well repaying all outlay and
pIecantion, If the American housekeeper, by
! her cleanliness in doors and out, shall have
made impossible the pestilence that has
walked in the MONDAY for so many centu'
| ries, and in solemn verify shall have done
more than all the physicians and physicists
lesrnedly and angrily about microbes and
bacilh. SO far as her own portion OF the plan
ct is affected. How could a greater glory
crown her, let the work of achieving it be
labolious as it will, calling for we'll earned
after-restl Surely il Will be one of the last
| triumpbs Of civilization when the dark East
has 10 longer base creation that the foods
Of light and torrents of air of tie bright
fresh West can be overcome, lay low, and
destroy.