. 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 .. . be installed for fromfive hundred to one thousand dollars; its worth is be-yond estimate. Frequently it is feasible for several house-holders to form a water company, and put in a plant suf-ficient to supply all. DISTILLING AND BOILING Distilled water is almost absolutely pure. In somelocalities distilled water is sold in bottles at a nominalprice. Where the general supply is impure, and the bot-tled goods are known to be genuine,
. 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 .. . be installed for fromfive hundred to one thousand dollars; its worth is be-yond estimate. Frequently it is feasible for several house-holders to form a water company, and put in a plant suf-ficient to supply all. DISTILLING AND BOILING Distilled water is almost absolutely pure. In somelocalities distilled water is sold in bottles at a nominalprice. Where the general supply is impure, and the bot-tled goods are known to be genuine, it is well to dependupon that supply. The chief difficulty with distilled water is its f_at is largely because the taste is unusual. This is noproof that the water is not good. Little fresh-air chil-dren from New York City often refuse at first to drinkthe beautiful spring water in the mountains because it hasless taste than the water from the New York water may be made more pleasant to the taste bypouring from one vessel to another. If any doubt is entertained as to the purity of water,it should be boiled before using. fiinrishin. A FINE ART Furnishing the home is as much an art as is paintingor sculpture; for, added to the painters exquisite tasteand skill in combining colors harmoniously, and to thesculptors skill in producing the desired effect from form,proportion, and expression, the housewife must also havea good knowledge of sanitary laws, so that, while mak-ing the home comfortable and beautiful, she will providenothing that may prove an injury to the health of herfamily. CARPETS It is a source of satisfaction to sanitary reformers thatcustom is rapidly drifting toward polished, oiled, stained,and painted floors, with a few well-chosen rugs as a sub-stitute for heavy wool carpets, nailed down, and coveringevery inch of floor space. Loosely woven wool or cottoncarpets, or flimsy matting, which allow the dust to siftthrough, are extremely unsa
Size: 2608px × 959px
Photo credit: © Reading Room 2020 / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
Keywords: ., bookcentury1900, bookdecade1900, bookid, booksubjecthomeeconomics
