The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1885-07-15
DISEASE AND DIRT
Death in Foul Diah- Cloth Danger rrom
FILTHY sonp-TimcIy Advice.

Westminster Review
Judging from an past experience. a
visit from the cholera sCourge is only %
question of time
~ through adverse storms q delay oc
ours in an attack from am invading army
every hour should be utilized by taking
such measures as viii aid I'm ropulsing the
enemy
Aided by favorable winds we have
gained an extension of time before the
great plague makes its onslaught i'm
every kitchen there Is one thing which
should have attention from this time on.
One source of disease which should at.
tract the attention of every physician
every nurse, and every man and woman
who cares for TIC preservation of health
is the dish.cloth "A foul dish.Cloth has
wrapped up I'm !. the germs of more kinds
Of malignant diseases than all other
things in a household A foul dish cloth
is a perfect hotDcd that breeds cholera
scarlet fever, typhoid fever diphtherin
etc A dish cloth which q housekeeper
would be ashamed TO bring into her par.
lOr TO show to visitors is not fit for use,
and should be burned as soon as this arti-
Gle is read; /, for one, would not be will.
ing to eat food prepared in utensils wiped
with il or to eat from plates on which it
had been used. 1t is customary for
housckeepers to apologize for a dirty,
foul smelling dishcloth by throwing the
blame on their hired help This is doing
a great injustice.
When a girl starts to wash dishes she
is supposed 10 have clean dish rag, a
clean dish. pan, clean hands, clean water,
a piece of soap and q lot of sOilod dishes
if the soap does its work properly, then
at the end of the operation, the dishes
should be clean, and her hands, her dish.
pan and her dish rag should be clean; the
dirt should be in the water, just as when
a woman is done sCrubbing a dirty floor.
the dirt should be i'm the water, and a
clean house cloth and a clean scrubbing,
brushsshould be the result provided that
the soap which he uses has been made
from pure, sweet materials.
A girl cannot scrub properly with O
miserable apology for scrubbing-brush;
neither can she keep her dish-Cloth sweet
unless her mistress furnishes her with
soap which will do this, for it is an un
doubted fact that when a dish.rag gets of
fensive, or a sponge or a wash.rag loses
its sweet, clean appearance and smell il
is on account Of the soap which is used
it is an unfortunate delusiOn on the part
of the general public that "any kind of
fat will answer for making soap. This
is a decided error; tits just as important
that the dishes from which we cat should
be washed with soap made from pure
sweet, clean materials, as it is important
that the butter which we eat should bC
made from pure, sweet, clean cream.
Housekeepers usually attempt to over
come this result of the soap they usC
making the dish rag filthy by scaldiue
or boiling the dishrag but this is only d
make.shift-UsG soap which is made
from pure material and your dish-clotl
will then not need either scalding OF boil
ing, and once week have the dish IA.
brought in the paror, and if not sweet
Change the soap you are using, and keel
this practice up until you come across
soap that will keep the dish.Ng clean auC
swea-