The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-09-21

| they shall pour out the dust they scrape
off without the city into an unclean
! place. "-Leviticus xiv: Al. Fevers and
agues are engendered in undrained lands.
OF course, in this complicated civiliza-
/ ton of ours. many considerations must
enter into the calculations; but other
things being equal, other dangers being
as carefully avoided, those who live on
high, well-drained ground are less likely
| to die of consumption.
If in house, however well located and
constructed, one shuts himself in close,
1ll-venulated apartment, breathing over
and over again vitiated, perhaps to-
bacco-poisoned atmosphere, he cannot ex-
pect either long life or health.
OF all diseases of which mortal flesh is
heir consumption is one of the most aris-
tocratic. Out on the frontier, out in the
Wilds of the west, the free air of heaven
blows through the interstices of the
rough dwelling.
Consumption disdains to enter a log
cabin. where the maiden sleeps with a
blanket hung up for door.
One great advantage of good drainage
the land several degrees, thus producing
the effect. for the weak and delicate, of
a warmer climate.
A most disgusting cause of summer
sickness in the country is found in the
lack of all proper care of the outbuiid-
ingS. Many of these find for themselves
drain into the well of drinking water.
What wonder that typhoid fever and dys-
tumnal rains! Sometimes for these build
ingS a deep vault is made, which is never
cleaned or emptied. The intolerable efflu-
via Is enough to drive one not Ito the
anywhere, out of the stencil. What
headaches what neuralgias from this
cause alone!
Another thing which we must criticise
in country houses is the architecture.
This is often of the most curious and pro-
VOking kind.
1t is said that "a man who undertakes
TO act as his own lawyer has a fool for
his client" The same thing is true of
the countryman who resolves to be the
architect Of his own house.
With all outdoors to build on, he gen.
orally plans for a cellar-ktchen, some
times with outside stairs. Think of the
many, many times per day the tired
housewife must lift, not only the articles
that are necessary to carry up and down,
but her own weary weight, over those
abominable stairsi
Then If this were not enough outrage
upon common sense and the senses, he
contrives an extra stair between dining
room and pantry, and perhaps another
step-up at the outside door.
| know more than one such contrivance
where every time a stranger calls he is
sure to stub his toe on the unexpected
elevation of the doorstill. He is fortunate,
indeed, if he does not enter the hallway
sprawling on all tours.
A noted physician, whose specially is
diseases of women. once said to me: IF
/ had q wife whom ] wanted to get rid
of l would build a house with a step UP
or down in every possible place. Then
would manage, so she would be obliged
like most of the country wives, to do her
own housework, and my object would be
speedily accomplished l should soon
have a first-class invalid on my hands
for whom it would be entirely safe to ap-
point an early funeral-the corpse would
surely be ready"
Country folks have way of laundering
along through life, giving comparatively
little profound thought to the everyday
problems of life. They do as their fathers
did. whom they recollect always living
till they died. and they confidently hope
to do the same.
Country people call new ideas city fads.
1t is fad of the country people to ig-
more all fads. They can, many of them,
see no reason why a city chap should
prefer unbolted wheat bread to hot grid
die cakes, nor why fresh cream should be
more acceptable to his enlightened stom-
ach than rancid butter. In land flow
ing with milk and honey the farmer sell
dom tastes either; he sells the latter and
fattens pigs with. the former.
While he allows the city boarders to
the f1annels and the Jaeger
union suits, he (the farmerl sits around
on damp days in cotton shirts and no
coat. and wonders why his life is made
miserable with rheumatism.-The Home
Queen