Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1888-11-08

/ beneath the carriage, and while Dan
was at work Miss Briggs ran home for
| her own servant. After much hard Ia
Dor they succeeded in extrieating him
| from the wreck, but he was senSeleSs,
and they bore him home and sent for
the doctor. Upon examination they
found his leg to be broken, and thus
Miss Briggs enemy was at her mercy.
The days and weeks that followed
We're dreadful ones to the sufferer, but
Miss Briggs never left him. Day and
night she stood by him, and her plump
hands administered to every want.
He forgot the cow and his turnips.
He forgot the cat and the canary. He
only saw little patient woman, with a
pretty face, trim figure and tender
hands and would you believe it-fell
in love with her.
How could he help it? She had sat by
him through the dreary days of pain, she
had brought him her preserves and nice,
invigorating cordials. She had, in all
probability, saved his life.
What could he do? Nothing but fall
in love.
Miss Briggs" he said, one day when
he was able to sit up.
well, Mr.. Perry?"
"1 Ou have been very good to me, and
| feel owe you great deal"
There! now just stop where you are.
You owe me nothing"
''But would you mind if | trespasSed
a little further on your good nature
Not at all"
"Well, Miss Briggs, will you take me
in charge for the rest of my life?"
"What?"
"Will YOU marry me? There!"
Miss Briggs blushed, and her answer
came thus:
81 will marry yOu."
There was wedding in church few
weeks later, and Mrs. Perkins prepared
the wedding supper.
Mr.. and Mrs. Perry live in the brick
house, and the cottage is rented to a
young man and his wife, to whom Mrs.
Perry bequeathed her cats and the ca
nary.
The mastiff and the knOck-kneed old
horse are with their fathers.
SANITATION IN COUNTRY HOMES.
At meeting of the Social Science
Association, held in Saratoga during the
first week of September, paper was
read by Dr. Lucy NJ. Hall, of Brooklyn,
on "The Sanitary Condition of Country
Homes" Sixty-five farm-hOuses of an
average type had been examined by the
speaker in the New England, Middle
and Western States, and the conclusions
drawn from her survey are well worthy
of note, both by the farmer VINO lives in
such homes all the year round, and by
the inhabitant of cities who depends
upon them to furnish himself and his
family with refreshment for mind and
body during the summer months. Over
half these houses, DIR. Hall asserted,
were built on wet clay soil, and it sell
dom appeared that any regard whatever
had been paid to questions of subsoil
and drainage. Fiftyfve per cent. of
the houses, again, were too closely shad-
ed, sunlight being excluded from almost
all their windows or from every one.
Piazzas were likewise too extensive,
their roofs still further excluding air and
light. Nor had the character of shade
trees been more carefully considered
than their number and proximity. Barns
and stables were found in most too close
connection with the house, their aver
age distance being in New England not
quite twenty-five feet. The result of
all these various ways of disregardlng
sanitary conditions was shown by the
"clinical history" Of these siIty-five
farm houses for period of several
years. Fifty-five per cent. in New Eng
land had record of typhoid fever, and
ninety-three per cent. of lung troubles
and diphtheria, while rheumatism was
everywhere.