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Show i for your own sake in order to have pure "water to drink. There is another item that should bo looked after closely, and that is ventilation in our dwellings. Some people are frightened if a little fresh air enters their room and think it will surely kill them. Where rooms are sua all, such as bedrooms generally .ire, there is much need of fresh air in the room to make it healthy. Thirty minutes will usually exhaust ex-haust all the air that is really lit to breathe in the generality of roois, and bed rooms especially; then all the fresh air that is obtained is that which comes through the cracks around doors and windows, and people who sleep in this kind of apartments rise in the moaning feeling stupid, generally a bad taste in the mouth, a dull heavy headache head-ache and a feeling of general stupidity stu-pidity and worthlessness. We do not make these assertions from hearsay, but we have been there and know by experience. In giving ventilation to rooms, care should be taken to steer clear of drafts, for in them is the place to take cold. Windows should be arranged to open from the top where other means of ventilation were not provided when the build- mg was erected. We believe that the seeds of consumption con-sumption are developed more in bad air in the rooms we live in, than in any other way, therefor be sure to let in enough f rosh air to keep your rooms healthy. This country is generally very healthy, but there are s jme items that can be remembered to aid in maintaining health. When fall arrives the leaves fall from tho trees and all the trees along the irrigation ditches are in just the right place to lot the leaves fall in. After these leaves lay in the water awhile they become slimy with a sort of fungus and finally the leaves rot and this fungus and rotten leaves are continually floating float-ing down stream with the water, and people dip water from this mess of filth for culinary purposes, never nev-er (scarcely ever) thinking that they are sowing tho seeds of dis-easo dis-easo in so doing. Our ditches should be thoroughly cleaned immediately after the leaves have ceased to fall before they have time to become a rotten mass of corruption. Wo do not make these assertions to find fault, but to put people on their guard in order to aid m preserving pre-serving health ; and when the ditches are in a bad condition and tho person having charge of the matter calls for help to clean them out, bo nn hand to help, not merely because you have to, but |