The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1914-08-27
MULE WILL GIVE WATERWORkS
$3.50 Will Give You Lights, $50 a
Kitchen Cabinet, etc.

pump, a small SaSOlne enSlue, anu
a 5O0-gallon tank for the compressed
air water-system may be installed on
any farm.
For the expenditure of $50 car
) bide lighting system, with electric
battery lighting appliances, may be
provided.
For s25 a modern kitchen cabinet
can be placed in the kitchen, and the
addition of S12 will put n the fireless
cooker with radiators and aluminium
cooking utensils.
The expenditure of something like
50 for a telephone and IS per mile
for wire and insulators will be SUI
ficient to secure telephone connec-
tions.
Fifteen or twenty dollars gets the
washing machine, and the price of a
dish washer is not prohibitive.
You can exc out an existence with
out owning any of the things have
mentioned. They are not absolute
necessities. For instance, as long as
q farm woman is able to get about
she can walk to the spring or we'll a
dozen times a day and carry the wa
ter to the house. 1t is true a gasoline
engine and air (compressed) may
place the water ready to turn on IN
the cook room, and the engine
doesn't get tired like the woman. The
only consolation we have in this case
is that it is possible for the woman
to stop and rest if she gets too tired
to keep going. We can also get along
with dim oil lights if the faithful
farm woman isn't too busy with other
drudgeries to keep the lamp chimneys
cleaned every day. Even with a
smoked lamp chimney the school
children can review their lessons by
getting close enough to the lamp. II
reading by inferior lights damages
the eyes We have eye specialists that
are anxious. to serve US, If We have
the price. Carbide light is the near
est approach to sunlight and 1t is not
as hard on the eyes as electric lights,
but with the automatic burners 1t is
just as convenient and less eXpen-
sive than electric lights. This is a
practical light for country homes. A
kitchen cabinet, properly equipped,
will save perhaps as much walking as
a water supply in the cook room.
And unless we specially want our
wives to do all this unnecessary walk
ing, just for their health, it is poor
economy to do without kitchen cab
met at a cost of s25 or $50.
And again, We are not compelled
to have telephones in our homes. We
can get along without this modern
means of communication with our
neighbors. Before the telephone was
invented and before the rural mail
system was envolved we got along
without them somehow, didn't we?
We can figure out the cost of provid-
ing modern rural conveniences, but
nobody can figure out exactly what 1t
costs to do without them. We can get
along without running water in the
house and barn until after we have 1t
and realize what it means, and then
we consider it a necessity. We can
get along without the rural telephone
system until we get the benefit of this
service in our homes, and then We
can't get along without it. In fact,
the only folks who can get along
without these conveniences, and re-
main satisfied, are those who have
never known what it is to have them.
We have only one life to live and
we ought to make that life worth liv-
ing. Inventions that save labor and
give more time for comfort, recrea-
ton and the requirement of more
knowledge, ought to be utilized by
the human race and thereby made the
means of better living and better
civilization. Thousands of farmers
who are able to provide all the con-
veniences l have mentioned, and
more, are miserly boarding their lit
tie surplus or investing it in more
land, while their home convenienees
are no bette, than their ancestors en-
joyed so years ago, and they keep up
the greedy and miserly struggle until
they pass off the stage G action, and
never know anything but voluntary
industrial slavery. Going to the 9TH
er extreme, have seen farmers who
strained themselves financially to buy
automobiles so that they might carry
their families on occasional pleasure
trips, when for the expenditure of a
much less amount any of these farm
ers could have put all the following
things in the home:
/. Water;