The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1894-06-02
PLENTY OF WATER.
It's Untsid Value In the Physical Econe
Of Mankind.

When the distribution of land and
water was made, and the two elements
were SO adjusted that there were three
parts water to one of land, an inn
portant significance attached to the
case. There are many persons wis
persist in believing that the same rule
holds good in the composition of the
human body, and that many of the ills
that flesh is heir to are caused by try
ing to alter the proportions, or. what
amounts to the same thing, neglecting
to supply the body with sufficient
amount of clear water to keep up the
relative conditions
Because there is so much written and
said about contaminated water sup
plies. and the danger to health from
drainage that in various forms creeps
into our hydrant pipes. thousands Of
persons refrain from using wa
ter as beverage, and either
go without drinking altogether, or
use some of the many popular substi-
tutes. Almost all Of these have more
Or less Objectionable features. many
are positively injurious, and some of
them are nothing more or less than
slow poisoning. only requiring a suffi-
cient length of time to do their deadly
work.
Physicians and scientists who have
given the subject intelligent and ex-
haustive study, tell us that there is no
beverage in the world that will take
the place of clear soft water Filtered
water is always best, if filtering ma
terial is clean and of the proper sort
II it is not of the right kind ii is
much better to use the water without
fltering.
There is a great deal Of useless work
and more useless talk about the eff
ficiency of various appliances for puri-
flying water. There are attachments
for the hydrapt pipe, with strainers
and screens more or less complicated
and costly, and requiring various and
sundry adjustments to make them
work properly. From these apparent
ly simple affairs there are others care
fully arranged on what might be called
a sliding scale OF prices, ranging well
up toward three figures Many of these
costly complications are not only prac-
tically valueless. So far as purifying
water is concerned, but an actual
menace TO health, in that they furnish
q comfortable and safe breeding |
ground for millions Of germs that |
are merely halted in their onward |
course, and kept in the luxurious |
beds OF the scrainers |
and strata that fiji the body OF the |
much LANDED filter which Is heralded /
as an indispensab BILE part Of every we'll |
regulated household. For IL stands 20 \
reason, that unless the fltering mat
ter be removed almost daily. the dirt !
and disease germs will lodge there, I
and gradually work their way through |
the crevices and between the particles /
of sand and charcoal, and with their
fertility soon multiply into
ems of millions We can see the
spaces and openings in the flterinv
natter. and IL the deadly bzcilli are
70 small that only a powerful mzgni-
wing glass can reveal them. why
hould they not, At their own sweet
will, wander calmly on through whs:
Ire 20 them lofty archwaYs and wide
or eoat gently on IN
raft Of their own choosing. until they
Irop lightly into our gobiets and are
bSorbed into our systems 20 DO their
eadly worst until we die, victims 20
o-cailed scientific" imposition and
It Is perfectly safe 20 a.
ert that the average filter il afs.olu ;ely
worthless a. far a. keeping out the
nost dangerous forms Of bacteria il
oncerned- II strains out and stops
midway the grosser Impurities. them
elves frequently Of the mos. harmless
hzrse;er. and iets TIE enemy come in
Z will
There IL proba bly, no safe way Of
urifying water other than boiling n,
nd that a. a temperature "a high a.
ossible- Mere simmering viii not do-
nd when water i boiled and cooled 20 .
n agreeable degree i nay he taken
J quantities From one TO t-o quarts
ally is not too much
II dissoiyes acid and alkaline zcc1-
.ulz tons. reduces fererssh conditions.
ro5no;es Digestion and zssis,s the err
station. and nsay b taken freely AT
u tlaae-- except within al ho1r Or 20 / .
fer meals
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