Show A HOMEItiADE FITER I A very simple little filter may be contrived at home which answers ever purpose for pur1ying water for the table I and which has one great advantage over many of the patent filters viz that it I has no hidden pat that cannot be cleaned clean-ed no holes or crannies where the insidious in-sidious germ may lurk I consist of an ordinary decanter a lamp chimney a little bag or sand and I a piece of cottonwool or a sponge The advantage of the cottonwool Is that It may be thrown away as soon as its freshness Is gone and renewed at a nominal cost I a sponge Is used 31 ought to be taken out often cleaned in hot salt water and rinsed in cold Place the top of the chimney in the decanter Then insert the sponge and on the top of that place a muslin bag containing the ordInary yellow sand Use n long skewer pr pencil to spread out the bag and make i fit the chimney The sand must be changed quite frequently quent Ter is not the leastdlfculy about removing the bag or sid and indeed in-deed the whOle apparatus ma be arrang trouble ad with or a expense nominal amount of time expenseMARION DEPEW |