, 1888-11-15

AL lts respects. Inc husband usually
spends there but few hours of the wax
hours away from it. 1t is she, therefore,
who should study the material side OF the
home. and all the constant changes
brought to 1t by the changing customs of
society and by new mechanical appli-
ances. 1t is therefore quite proper that it
should be woman who, like DR.. Lucy
Hall, has spent large part of
the farm houses of New England, the
Middle and the Western States with ret.
erence to their sanitary condition. What
she had done is only beginning, for
she examined only sixty.fve farm houses
In all; but she tried to select what might
be regarded as ordinary and typical of
each region, and she carefully tabulated
her results. More than half these houses,
she reports, are built on wet clay soils;
more than half (55 per cent) are too close
" shaded and the sunlight excluded. In
New England and the Middle States the
sleeping rooms are almost wholly on the
first floor, and this is very largely the case
in the Western States also. In New
England barns and stables averaged not
more than fifty feet from the house in the
cases examined. In seventy-seven per
cent of the New England farm houses ex-
amined the slops were
THROWN FROM THE BACK DOOR;
and this also In 40 per cent of those of
the Middle States. IL is TO be remember
ed-.'though am not sure that DR.. Hall
spoke of this-that many of the New Eng
land farm houses examined may very prob
ably have been on hill-sides, where what
ever was thrown from the door may have
been deppoited further from the house
than IL the same thing had been done on
level surface. There is perllous temp.
tation in declivity. At any rate 93 per
cent of the New England farm houses have
furnished cases of lung disease and diph-
liberia, and 55 per cent of typhoid fever.
No one can say what proportion of this i'll
ness could have been averted by better
sanitary conditions, but it is certain that
a part could; and the person who has the
best opportunity to consider it closely Is
the mistress of the home.
knew a case in Western town where
there were repeated cases of fever in
house. Physicians, health officers and
plumbers had all made careful examina-
ton, and could find nothing to explain
the source OF the trouble. At last the mis-
tress of the house, driven to despair, car
ried a lantern down into the cellar, re-
solving to examine for herself every square
inch of the wall. and satisfy herself that
all was right After long unavailing
search she came upon u very few drops of
fowl water oozing between two bricks.
Causing the wall to be opened at that
point she found broken pipe which the
plumbers had failed to detect, and which
was enough to account for everything.
This being repaired. the fever disappeared,
and the health of the family was restored
by the energy and thoroughness of
mother.
woRKINGwoMEN AND SUFFRAGE.
Mr.. Hamilton Wilcox, who never al.
lows any consideration to stand in the
way of his argument for woman suffrage,
has now discovered that all the ills borne
by the prisoners of poverty" in the great
city, the Legitimate consequence of igno-
rance and incompetence on the one hand,
and Of selfish greed on the other, will be
maQically remedied by the use of the bal
lot. He says: "What avails it to blame
the manufacturer He is not really in
fault to take cheap labor when he can get
it; nor are the public blameworthy for
buying goods cheaply when they can. The
trouble is far deeper-the whole system is
wrong. Individuals cannot justly be
blamed for faults of the system, and
naught but revolution will right
it. Disfranchisement Is the cause.
So long as the workwomen are po-
litically helpless; so long as the vote of one
low man outweighs the whole 100000 of
them; so long az they are without iniu-
ence in public affairs they will be down
trodden as their brothers are in lands
where the latter are disfranchised. Mrs.
Barry may reach and strive till she is
weary in the effort to organize the work.
woman, but these poor creatures are too
weak too ignorant. too deeply engrossed
in the desperate struggle for clothes and
bread to be strong enough or wise enough
to organize effectively. Take off the bur-
den of dlsfranchisement which crushes them
into political nothingness, make them po-
| tioally free, as they are entitled to be Dy
the laws of nature and by natures God;
enable them to become the great political
bower that their brothers are, and all the
great influences of society will begin ut
once to help them up, as those influences
always do the possessors OF such power.
Then will begin the uprooting of the worst
| social ills. and in generation the metrop.
oils will be Transformed
A SENSIBLE GIRL.
A fast young man decided to make a
young lady a formal offer of his hand and
heart-all he was worth-hoping for cor
dial reception. He cautiously prefaceo his
declaration with few questions, for he
had no lntentlon OF turowinR hluseii
away" Did she love him well enough to
| live in a cottage with bmP Was she a
good cook? Did she think it wife's duty
| to make home happy? Would she con.
| suit his taste and wishes concerning her
associates and pursuits IN lifeP Was she
economical. etc.? The young lady said
that before she answered his questions she
would assure him of some negative virtues
she possessed. She never drank. smoked
or chewed; never owed bill to her laun-
dress or tailor; nev .r stayed out all night