es.
When the water from the different springs is all united it forms a good
sized brook. The water is conducted through pipes into the bath house,
where it supplies a row of bath-tubs with water of any desired
temperature. The surplus water flows into a large earthern tank or
artificial lake and is used for irrigating a small farm that produces
grain, fruits and vegetables.

The water from these springs is in great demand and is not only sought
by the human biped, but is also in favor with the equine quadruped.
Every morning after the stable doors are thrown open and the horses
turned loose they invariably, of their own accord, proceed to the lake,
wade out into shallow water and take a bath. They lie down and splash
the water about like a lot of schoolboys taking a swim.

The water from all the springs is perfectly soft and pure. It cannot
be called a mineral water, as an analysis shows that it contains only a
trace of any kind of mineral matter. This peculiarity of the water is
no damage to the springs, since purity is the best recommendation that
any water can have. Water that is heavily mineralized may be
medicinal, but is not necessarily remedial, or even wholesome,
notwithstanding the popular belief to the contrary. Water that is
charged with much mineral is spoiled for drinking. Moderately hard
water need not be injurious to anybody, but is especially beneficial to
children. The assimilative function in the child appropriates mineral
water tardily and sometimes absorbs it altogether too slowly for the
child's good. Its absence in the system causes a disease called
rickets, in which, from all lack of lime, the bones of the child become
soft and yielding. The bones of a rickety child will bend rather than
break. It is slow to walk and inclines to become bow-legged.

It is entirely different in old age. As the years multiply the system
absorbs an abnormal and ever increasing amount of calcareous matter.
The bones become unduly hard and brittle and are easily broken. Bony
matter is liable to be deposited in and about the joints, when they
become stiff and painful. It also lodges in the various soft tissues
of the body, and ossification of the valves of the heart and walls of
the arteries sometimes happens. It weakens the blood vessels so that
they easily rupture, which causes apoplexy, paralysis and death.
Calcareous concretions in the kidneys and bladder, also, come from the
same cause, and are ca