. Home and health; a household manual containing two thousand recipes and helpful suggestions on the building and care of the home in harmony with sanitory laws .. . verysubstance, including paper and rags. By this arrange-ment of the inlet and outlet, the top and bottom of thetank are not disturbed, and the germ destruction goesrapidly and quietly on. Nothing but clear water will es-cape from the tank. Some arrangement should be madefor this water to be turned to account where it will notoffend the senses of any one. If the tank is to be provided for a large institution,it is well to make two
. Home and health; a household manual containing two thousand recipes and helpful suggestions on the building and care of the home in harmony with sanitory laws .. . verysubstance, including paper and rags. By this arrange-ment of the inlet and outlet, the top and bottom of thetank are not disturbed, and the germ destruction goesrapidly and quietly on. Nothing but clear water will es-cape from the tank. Some arrangement should be madefor this water to be turned to account where it will notoffend the senses of any one. If the tank is to be provided for a large institution,it is well to make two cement partitions across it, withopenings about half way up, so that the clearest portionof the water may flow through from one section to theother. Where the sewage is abundant, this method isa safeguard against the possibility of solids escaping beforethey have been disintegrated by the germs. These parti-tions are not expensive, and they improve the tank evenfor the small institution or private family. The tank should be provided with a strong, close-fittingcover, so as to be nearly, if not quite, air tight, and sothat no animal can break through into A CLEAN ENVIRONMENT The environment of a home should be a combinationof beauty, fitness, and cleanliness. The character and edu-cation of home-makers are indicated quite as much by theback yard as by the front yard. Take a stroll throughthe barns and stables, through the wood-shed and otherouthouses; smell of the drain; look for the rubbish heap,the garbage-box, and the dog kennel; and there you willfind a photograph of the thrift and intelligence, or ofthe carelessness and ignorance, of the home-makers far than on the lawns and among the flowers. Thefront yard is like the gentlemans tie hung on the front;it shows what the home professes to be; but go to theback door to see what it is. A COMMON ORIGIN OF DISEASE When disease goes stalking through a home or a neigh-borhood, the chances are, nine out of ten,
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