The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-06-18
HOME HEALTH CLUB

most important Of all things to health that the water we use in the way C1 sustenance should be the very purest obtainahle? In human reason there rcan be no other answer than in the affirmative.
 And yet it is true that very few. comparatively, pay any attention, whatever, to the purity or impurty of the water that they drink. Az Il result, in the same ration that this heediessness exists do people grow lprematurely aged, thus creating n large decrease in the standard of lon- gevtty as an average. =
 There is no reason, under ordinary circumstances, why life should be shortened and existence handicapped by the use of impure water, and all water is more or less impure; particu- larly so is that which comes from ordinary cisterne and such, and from towns and cities generally get their public supply. And these impurities contain among others, more or less deleterious substances, germs of dis- ease, and always the calcareous parti- cles from earthly salts that enter and become fixed in the skin, among the tendons. muscles, joints and along the channels of life. the blood vessels, veins and arteries. Thus the skin be- comes hard and shriveled-oHe of the plafnest evidences of advancing age the muscles become stiffened, the ten dons unyieIdfng and the joints lose their suppleness The deposits of cal sells, impeding the circulation, making them brittle in spots and promoting lesions that cause apopuexy, paralysis and the like.
 In short. impure water does more harm in cqrtailing the youth. elas- ticity and residence of the human body than all other causes combined. It does the work insaduously, contin- ually and surely. 70 st,3
 The facts concerning Natures ice water-or. to be more exact, the water of ice-mentioned at the outset of this writing, solves the inevitable ques- tion: 'sBut how can water. absolutely pure, be obtained ?''
 Boil the water, say, the political health boards. through their political organs, and some newspapers repeat that, for the lack of knowledge of a better way. And yet it is better to boil the water and thus throw into the circulation of the blood billions of boiled germ carcasees than to run the gaiems to infest the intestinal walls and other tissues. This in spite of the witty young lady's remark, when told to drink boiled water in which the microbes and disease germs had been filled, that she, would just as well be an aquarium as cene- tery.'' s
 Mankind never realizes an import ant necessary--that Nature has not provided-without the use of scientific research and experiment, coupled with ingenuity to achieve it. The history of attempts to purify water in sim pie way is a long and interesting one. In it all are the thousands of efforts by way of filters. simple and com plex, that inventive genius has devis- ed for the purpose under cOnsidera- tion; subsistence and decantatiOn hav ing previously been found insufficient. Even the famous Pasteur filter has not. been an entire success in this thing, the water thus filtered having been found to contain germs and earthly salts not altogether safe.
 But Nature, the Master Alchemist,s simplifies the matter by the freezing process described in the early part of this article, and has been doing that ever since creation. However, it was very lately that Chemical Science dis covered and proclaimed this fact, and the fact has long fight before 1t, yet, against ignorance and prejudice.
 Take 1t from the Home Health Club, however, which is exceeding good au- and from Professor John c. Sparks, water expert for the City of New York, and other distinguished and capable authorities, that the matter of ice as told above is the Eureka Spring in all this.