The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1898-06-29

will all pass out directly, practically.
There is almost no radiation. The lit
tie heat there is rises promptly to the
ceiling. Give it free outlet and the
air coming in, IL it is stirring at all, will
carry it out. Shut off your fires and in
few minutes your room is as cool as
any in the house. You cannot say that
of common stove by any means. l
have tried it over and over with Their
mometer and it is fact that, as we
have our kitchen arranged, it is always
cooler in there at noon on boiling hot
day than out on a shady porch. Yours
will be 30 if you fix it rightly. In
warm day when passing through the
room, would not notice scarcely any
heat from the oil stove, but in going up
the back stairs when my head came
near the ceiling, have felt the heat
decidedly pouring out of upper part of
window, which comes up to ceiling.
Again the oil to do the cooking and
baking costs less than wood, yes, less
than we could get the wood cut and put
in the wood-shed for. Then there is
no storage needed for wood, no ashes
to take up, no fires TO build. Just fill
the stove once week and light match
and the fire is built, and it is as quickly
all put out and cold iron. Do you won
der that we like it?
DISPOSAL OF HOUSE LoPs.--Friend
Ballon says in regard to this subject:
"The waste water, from both kitchen
and toilet room sinks, is conveyed by
pipes to the cellar drain which, in
turn, conveys it to ravine quite a dis
lance from our dwelling. Three-inch
tiles are used in this drain" If this
was clean water it would be all right,
but ordinarily should be much afraid
of this plan. In fact would not think
of having it at our home for a single
season. The outlet TO the drain is at a
safe distance very likely. But the filth
from the waste water will stop all
along the drain and soak into the earth
between the joints of tiles. Unless
there is some arrangement not told OF
to prevent, there will often be draft
from the outlet of drain up through it
and into the house above. And the air
coming out of that drain certainly would
in time be loaded with dangerous i'm
purities. l suppose the cellar drain
and the other pipes might be success
easy matter In the case of the drain.
Without safe traps it would be far safer
10 let the waste water run out on the
surface of the ground on grass sod in
the sunshine. An ordinary under
ground slop drain is a dangerous thing.
1t is convenient, l know, but let me
beg of you to never allow filth in dark
covered drain and the drain opening
into house or cellar. l would not think
Of having it if opening outside of house
even. The waste pipe from our bath
room empties in the rear of house on
heavy blue grass sod. There is never
the slightest odor, or any wet, filthy
place. The heavy grass takes care of
what little filth there is in this water.
And being in the sunshine, too, we
consider it entirely safe. The waste
pipe from kitchen sink empties into a
barrel on wheels, standing behind the
kitchen. This is wheeled away often
and emptied in different places on the
grass in the sunshine. This we con-
slider safe, if barrel is occasionally pu-
rifed. The filthiest slops are never
put in the sink, of course, but are car
ried out in a pail and emptied once in
one doubts there being filth in this
waste water, wish they could smell of
that barrel after it had been neglected
few days. What would a tile slop
drain be in a few years? If we let
only wash water 60 out of kitchen sink,
it also might be distributed on the
grass by movable pipe, changing it
to empty in new place every week
say, and then put the filthiest slops in
the barrel, having it stand by the
kitchen porch. We have thought of
trying this plan. We have, and will
have pure air in our home and around
it. There is no accumulation of filth
any where to faint the air or well water.
We may not live any the longer for it,
but we propose to guard against dis
ease to the best of our knowledge.
Professor Delos Fall, of Albion, told
us at an institute in Michigan that the
whole world was greatly stirred up over
the loss of less than 300 men by the
loss OF the Maine, and still more people
died every day on the average in the
United States from preventable dis
eases. The audience seemed fairly as
founded at this statement, but doubt
lcsb IL WAS COIIcCIs NOW L w uOt Dt-
lieve, and never did, that God wants us
to die before we have lived out our full
days. Nor do believe that he will in
terfere to save us. He has made GER
tain laws, and given us brains to study
them out to certain extent. If we
violate his laws we must pay the
penalty, sooner or late. If sewer gas
or filthy drinking water kills person,
human beings were to blame for that
death, although we may not have
thought about it, or intended any such
such thing. 1t is wise, dear friends, to
think and study to live in accordance
with natures laws. Pure air, out doors
and in, pure water, and plenty Of sun
shine are simple matters surely, but
how many countless thousands have
gone to premature graves for want of
them. Cannot you think Of friends lost
for want of these simple precautions?
l can, and it makes me feel 30 sorrow
full. Do not understand me as saying
that all die who live in filthy surround
ings, or that We could always avoid dis
ease by attending to these matters, but