The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1891-08-14
Fhr7 STIR
o,cFRyIyc HEALTH AND wELL.BENC.
4t. Louis Republic.

an he no real enj; yment. The all
re breath, The water we drink, The
God we eat, the aroma and per
une nom sweet apple blossoms,
,Gthe vine and even the rose pail
us and lire us unless we are IN
GOOD health. '.'Tis true. and pity
lis lis true" that the mos, tempt
ing dish of strawberries and cream,
the tit bits OF culinary art, The de-
vices of ever the French cuisine.
only vex the invalid and make him
impatient if urged t. partake
thereof. One must be IN health TO
enjoy anything that appeals to our
tastes, to nourIsh, refresh or
strengthen us. All. a good aDpe-
tile will enable us TO enjoy things
Of lie without a special tonic or
eliXis.
The fountain OF perpetual youth
has not yet been discovered; but
the fountain of health is often AT
our Very doors, only we are 100
blind 10 see it. | beg leave 10 call
attention first of all TO the closets.
There Is no better dederizer than
common earth or soil. For our
purpose let me say it is easiest OBJ
famed in the form of common
road dust. SIX or eight common
barrels, which have done duty as
salt, flour ortruit barrels should be
filled twice "A year, if there be SIX
or eight in the family. A box
holding a bushel or less with a 10
cent fire shovel should be found in
every closet tor convenience sake.
There should not be a cess-pool of
any kind, not only On farm, but
an a village or city lot. They are
an absolute abomination and
should be obliteraled from our
farm inventory. Next let the con
tents OF the closet he frequently
removed and put under ground
near any kind of a fruit tree and
the closet may be and smell rs
clean as any bedroom.
GOOD WATER
for The table and bathroom is a
great desilertum in every house
hold, but how can it be good and
pure il ii be drawn from a common
well or cistern within ten or twen-
~ leet OF a cess.pool or closet !
Were there not many wells filled
mp by order of The city authorities.
list for the reason limited above
Certainly.
Again, it there be standing wa.
ter in a cellar under the house, how
can The inmates thereof long re.
main in good health. Sometimes
a cas- OF lyphns or typhoid fever
battles a physician until he III.
quires alter sanitary conditions of
the premises, and then he finds
the cause i'll a cellar half full of
water. No cellar ought to be
built under a dwelling unless it
has a drain LAID which will take
away Immediately water which by
any cal may have found lis
way into the cellar. Sometimes
rats are the cause, having bur.
rowed into the cellar under the
foundation wall. or course, no
sane man will call IA simple hole in
the earth under the house a cellar.
Again, suppose cistern water,
which comes from The clouds on
The roofs of buildings, is not al
ways pure when it finds lis way
into the ciStern, being cOnlami.
mated by the dust, SCOTS, decay Of
shingles, etc, in transit. Well,
says The reaper, if that is not clean
and pure and wholesome, what j.?
How can we help ourselves and
avoid the conlaminatlonE
Very easily, dear friend. One
way 10 aid this process Of pure wa
ter is never to allow the water 10
enter The cistern until the roof is
thoroughly washed off. and in ad.
ilitlOn build a filter-whIch means
Il small receiver of the water
where il passes through a stratum
each of pure sand and gravel and
of charcoal. 1t is the exception,
and not The rule, that when away
from home and thirsty, | am pre-.
scented with a goblet Of pure wa.
Ter. where the dust, SCOT and ce.
ment are not part of The beverage.
but, says one, all these things
"ost money, aud we are not oyer
burdened with that commodity
very true, perhaps, but because is
not superintendent you do not de-
lay TO call a physician when in
need, do your And this gentle.
man, even if considerable and mod
est in his charces,wIll write against
your name aud the date 81 or So
for each visit. Now, how many
visits will he have TO make TO
amount 10 the cost of a filter ana
good conductors to your cislern.
/ know it will not lax your knowl-
edge of mathematics very much to
name The sum, and his charges are
Of the least sequence 10 he taken
into consideration. The loss of
The impaired health, the re.
quired nursing and others matters
will grow 10 a much larger amount
even IL the funeral expenses and a
beloved life are saved. These are
small affairs, bnt very important
ones, nevertheless.