. 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 .. . poetry than in practice. Agalvanized iron bucket is more easily kept clean. THE OLD OAKEN BUCKET (As revised and edited by a sanitarian.) With what anguish of mind I remember my childhood, Recalled in the light of a knowledge since gained:The malarious farm, the wet, fungus-grown wild-wood;The chills then contracted thatsince have remained;The scum-covered duckpond, the pig-sty close by it;The ditch wherethe sour-smellinghouse-dra
. 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 .. . poetry than in practice. Agalvanized iron bucket is more easily kept clean. THE OLD OAKEN BUCKET (As revised and edited by a sanitarian.) With what anguish of mind I remember my childhood, Recalled in the light of a knowledge since gained:The malarious farm, the wet, fungus-grown wild-wood;The chills then contracted thatsince have remained;The scum-covered duckpond, the pig-sty close by it;The ditch wherethe sour-smellinghouse-drainings fell;The damp, shaded dwelling, the foul barn-yard by it,— But worse than all else was that terrible well,—And the old oaken bucket, the mold-crusted bucket,The moss-covered bucket that hung in the well. Just think of it! Moss on the vessel that lifted The water I drank in the days called to mind,Ere I knew what professors and scientists giftedIn the water of wells by ,^^g analysis rotting wood-fiber, theoxide of iron,The alga, the frog of unnatural water, impure as the verses of Byron,Are things I remember with tears in my
Size: 1674px × 1493px
Photo credit: © Reading Room 2020 / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
Keywords: ., bookcentury1900, bookdecade1900, bookid, booksubjecthomeeconomics
