| Show I WATER WA TER PURIFIED P UR EASILY EA SIL Y AND A ND QUICKLY Q Y when science ha NO N preyed that neArly all of the epidemic diseases s result front from contaminated water the h u problem or ol absolutely pure water has sd Im Importance The method of oC boiling bollin water Is III absolutely safe Ceo pro pre It is thoroughly done dOhe but then except with unusual l care It I Is apt alft to tobe tobe be contaminated I la pouring from on one reseat to another Moreover boiled water ater loses IMe an alL It air and becom becea flat fiat and pour poor In taste b boiled belied water hi bl un nfl unpopular popular oW evel every table and the natural dl or of humanity for tor It t often orten I leads o 0 a relaxation of the and results In I tien to all this boll boiled d water must be chilled and the tho process In summer l Is not Inexpensive and therefore bear on Ute the Class of families for whom tile the precaution III I mostly needed However science has nn now work worked out OUI a quick surf sure inexpensive and aim pUtted method or of purifying drinking water ter that h has s none o of those tI It hall hail be been n highly recommend recommended ed ad to tn the population of Paris by the authorities on hygiene and It Is claimed that its use did Wonders to toward ward averting a typhoid or other epi epidemic demic outbreak In French capital after the disastrous floods flood The means employed consist of two cheap powders that can be bought at an any dru drug store and i cents worth of each eab will purify drinking water fr for a large household la In sufficient quantity to lat last a w weak ek The two powders are the widely known of and a no new reducing agent celled lied re The permanganate of potash It Is first for It Is thIs chemical that will the water ter thoroughly and make It absolutely harm harmless I Ine The ne should be to put In InIn Inin In the proportion of oC about a halt half tea teaspoonful spoonful to it a quart of water waler then than let alone for tor two or three hours At the end o of time the Ule amount of the that win wilt hang on the end of ofa a should hould be thrown Into the I water The water will turn a brown brownIsh brownish Ish yellow at once onoe and must mut stand I ab about ut minutes minute As a matter o of fact the purification I of drinking water need not b be so 50 exact In the amounts amount used A Abig Abig big bucket of water should be purl fled td at ft a time and tho can be put In in n the proportion of about a teaspoonful to aoh two quarts or of water Two To hours hour later the re sercin should be added Just until the water vAter turns brownish yellow After standing five minutes the water should run through a funnel over which any cl clean an cotton rag has ball ben been stretched The filtration takes take takeoff off All the COloring matter mattel which stays on the tho rag In the form of oC a 8 light I bro brown n powder Tilt The water obtained is isI I absolutely pure and CUlt can contain no noI disease g germs I During An n epidemic of typhoid or where cholera Is dreaded the use of this Ine inexpensive and cert not dif cur of water sanitation will giard against all hut but tho must remote of oC contagion In addition th ater te I neither acid nor alkaline but j lust lut t the hf right neutral fluid that Itt is na naI I tre re beverage for the human race When tn the vast amounts amount spent on 1111 lI lIo 81 ot o materials are con dd the production at home or of rH per percee r ret cee et drinking water at at much less leu than rent Dt t the hf quart Ia a boon to even een the I pore t |
