unplumbered

— Her picture of the corruption of politics (for young ladies at that time encountered most formidable rivals in the professional politicians who made the gratuitous task of serving on district school boards the stepping-stone to higher things), her description of the homes on which the light of a woman school director’s countenance had never fallen, her hushed fears that the school buildings were hotbeds of wasted school supplies and unplumbered pestilence, fairly stirred the fatherly man.