The Bingham County news. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1918-1930, 1922-09-08

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household use a distance OF IS feet.
Only 80 per cent Of the women re-
ported running water in the home,
and 20 per cent have bath tubs. In
one state the report of bath tubs was
as low as 3 per cent.
In the farm home the water is not
only carried for kitchen use but for
washing the clothes and cleaning the
house as we'll. This means that the
women must either carry a prohibit
tive amount of water or limit the
supply. The result is that the supply
is limited to minimum, and the work
made much harder because of the
lack of water in keeping the house
clean, and the house is usually not
kept as clean as it would be II sup
ply of water was within easy reach.
Some farmers state that they carry
the water themselves. They may car
ry the water when they are near the
house, but there are many days when
the water pail is empty. In most Of
the homes the farmers do not pretend
to watch the water pail, and in "a
per cent of the farms visited on the
survey, the women not only carried
all the water, but helped with the
field work as we'll.
If any other class of laborers had
to work as many hours with as little
pay and as little pleasure as the av-
erage farmers wife, they would have
rebelled long ago. But with the
housewife live and service is the rul-
ing motive, and she works on without
considering the hours or the pay. In
any contract of this kind the employee
is usually imposed upon.
A farmer of today who had to NOW
his grain and hay with scythe would
think himself dreadfully abused, yet
in many cases his wife Is working
with the same kind of tools, and draw
ing the water from the we'll just as
she did in the days of scythes. The
farmer mows hay two or three times
year, but the women carry water
365 day in the year. None money Is
put into farm machinery than it
would be necessary to spend to mod
ernize the home. OF course, the farm
machinery is needed IN order to make
money of the farm, but is it not
worth money to the farmer to have
his wife in good physical condition
and thereby save doctor bills, and
often times funeral expenses? At
any rate, why not make it a f1fty-fifty
proposition and put as much into the
home as we do into the farm ma
chinery?
The water under present conditions
must be carried from the we'll in pals
and set upon a table or bench in the
kitchen for use. 1t Is usually un
covered and therefore unsanitary.
After it has been used for washing
dishes or hopping it must be carried
out again and disposed Of. In most
cases it is thrown upon the ground
near the kitchen door, which is still
more unsanitary. The housewife is
not to be blamed for this. When she
works on an average Of 10 hours
day, often times in I'll health, she
cannot take any extra steps to carry
water the necessary distance from the
house.
Water can be supplied in two Diff
ferent ways which have proved very
satisfactory, either by building tanks
elevated above the level of the house,
or by putting a cistern in the base
ment and forcing the water up with
an electric motor or gasoline engine.
An elevated water tank holding four
barrels, together with an inside tot
let, kitchen sink, septic tank, wa
ter pipes and soil pipes can be Sc
cured for about 5000. A tank more
than twice this size, with full bath
room equipment, two inside toilets,
hot water tank, septic tank, and all
necessary plumbing can he installed
for about $3.50. In this climate it Is
necessary to have the elevated tanks
protected from the cold.
Bulletins giving information on the
installation of sewage systems and
water systems can be secured at the
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