Mohave County miner., 1888-12-15
ABOUT HOME HEALTH.
THE LOCATION or DWELLING
HOUSES IS OFTEN VERY BAD.
Build Your Home op High Ground Ad-
NIT the Morning Sunshine. but Don't
be Afraid Of. Tree and Wines Beware
Of tho Deadly Cellar.


People are running all over the land for
bealth Every MARS home should lie, for
bin, thc lscaithiost spot On enrth II II be
no. 80. be ssaul MAZE Il 80: aud IL that he
caanos d. let hiIa rc.ssoye 20 a spot he can
render sanitary or course advice Of this
sort u 10 thOs2 who cnn control tiieir sur.
rouEdiasS The location OF hall thc houses
IN tho c0.istry 10 as had ca can DC, ard the
loratioa ~ halt tie re good deal worse
then need Le. Wiil sou note, as you drive
along t;.e highways, what you see. Choose
suburban road Tic honscs almost invari.
ably occupy fron one-soufth of an acre 90
nIore than an acre. yet obey all stani clVAe
froD.ad to the street Tho result is that q
cloud OF dust iS hah tho time, D owing over
and into such houses, carrying tho vile dung
alid refuse OF tho street Not many worse
things find their way into our nostriis and
mouths than the street dust. IL Is a mixture
OF filth and poison.
A house Should bs set back as far as posi-.
bic from the street, and not 10 Inaccessible.
know few that are approached BY elo-
CANT drives, and stand In the middle d eight
| or ten acres. consider the middle Of lot
tho ideal spot. OF course, this Is TO be modi.
lied by the lay OF the land-a bluff 10 be pre-
fnTred always Besides escaping dust, we
s,IouId aim 10 get as far ns possible above the
! low lying logs and damp spots, where miasms
collect Yet these long rows Of homes are
| as n rule, not ON the higher knobs, but on
tho --LATEST, lowest spots Apart from the
e.iarm OF outlook and landscape advantages
| 4 Eigh points, place that OF health incon
Iarably as most important. There Is IRE.
| ;GeDtly all the difference between healthy
| ZONES and unhealthy homes, dependent oi
Zee or four rods of removal The subsoi.
| 70 DC looked after, and the drainage, AID
Dpgc all, good wells. These are secured n
| 10 higher points as rule.
| Dut what next do you observe as you ritlt
| .kyutl 4 large share Of the houses, perhap
| % llaif, are unsheltered by trees. "Trea
,1ge a house damp" That Is the worss
j. Bonsense do not understand why people
| Common sense should be blind to the fact
! fses drink water ont Of the sell and ,evap
| &c it into the air. They are, above all.
irary In their tendency 10 e9ualize temper
! ,ire and moisture. You will make no mis-
/ &c il you plant trees ali about your boiise,
| .,y admitting the morning sunshine, ard
| = 10 means darkeniDg your rooms. The
| araing SUN consider invaluable, both for
/ .ctahle and animal Life. But do not b.
rad Of clean vines. such as grape vines,
'se.cysacgles, arnpelopsis, ciernatis, and lei
| III run freely over your yerandas nSd
g8 of the house have tested the yaltic
{ trees and vines In cooling the atmosphere
d know that 1t makes difference of many
'n%gees In your rooms. When you have
! .@:apness, II IL owing to excess Of moisture
/ The air, in spite Of the trees, not because oi
20 trees. Drain your land well, and th'
gliage viii then tend 10 equalize te.npera
irc and moisture.
You will wonder, on examination, TO fHC
'ow fnw houses, In spite Of all that is writes
u the subject, are free from foul drains
'oD holes, bad sewerage and mildewed Gel
.gs There seems TO be an alliance betweci
Sc common builder and typhus fever an,
.3phtheria, for II conditions were sought {,
q established favorably for the dsvelopmen
4 such diseases, nothing better could be d.
"igcd than the partly modernized countr!
logse. City houses are death traps from ih
:apo or back-set Of sewer gases, and th
reckless complication Of modern conven
ieaces," that soon ILL the finest palaces witt
Ia atmosphere Of death. But the countr.
;olise. standing apart from others, might b
.asily rendered sanitary. Invariably es
anime the cellar, for that hole under th
!lOgise Is always 10 bc found. The time vii
come when cellars will be abolished.
II underground rooms are required, k
tlsem be In the side Of hill, or otherw;s
| acparated from the house. 1t IL nearly ipl
Dcssible to furnish the two things nccessar
soT good cellar, that Is, thorough ventila
. tjon, summer and winter, and common sens
Oh the rart Of the owners 10 prevent 1t fror
. containing nildews and foul odors. II
. cellar is not sweet enough 10 be inhabitabls
il IS unfit to be under habitation. j kno,
, scores Of these terrible dens that are annu
ally flooded This Is better than that the
be never cieansed at all. But a cellar
gcry far from being the necessity that IL
5 supposed to be. A store room above tb
| ground, built without windows, will kce
| fruit aud many vegetables better than
, cellar. Other vegetables may better b
! stored in pit apart from the house, or al
I jacent to 1t, but not under it. ...
entered one recently In which there wer
IL score Of old butter jars. each one raiicid
, ,,ad most OF them more or less filed wit
soap grease Of indefinite adnlixtures. Abo
. si Cellars and build Store rooms aboy
ground, and then let them bc kept clean.
barrel Of potatoes that euiits a bad odor hold
death, and had best be at once got rid o
Vegetables not entirely fresh are dangerou
, nj all seasons Few people know bow TO kee
rsaDy vegetables free from decay. IL Is
, poor plan TO store theg, Ia quantity. Potnt
: rot has not only caused tho loss Of million
! Of bushels Of that esru!eut, but it has cause
!. | the lo1s Of thousands OF human lives fror
> the storage IN cellars Not one should /
, tolerated abort hOrrse.--M Maurice, NJ ID
!, Ia Globe Democrat.