The clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1883-1888, 1885-06-17
DISEASE AND DIRT.
Death i'm Foul Dish CIoth-Danger from
FILTHY Soap--TimeIy Advice.

Judging from all past experience, a
visit from the cholera scourge is only a
question of time.
If through adverse storms delay oc
ours in an attack from an invading army
every hour should be utilized by taking
such measures as win aid in repulsing the
enemy.
Aided by favorable winds, we have
gained an extension of time before the
great plague makes its onslaught In
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 the preservation of health,
is the dish cloth. A foul dish cloth has
wrapped up in il the germs Of more kinds
of malignant diseases than all other
things in household A foul dish cloth
is a perfect hotb that breeds cholera.
scarlet fever. typhoid fever. diphtheria,
etc. A dish cloth which a bousekeeper
would be ashamed to bring into her par
Tor to show TO visitors is not lit 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 uteSsis wiped
with it or to eat from plates on which it
had been used 1t is customary for
housekeepers to apologize for a dirty
foul smelling dish cloth by throwing the
blame on their hired help This is doing
a great injustice
When girl starts to wash dishes she
is supposed to have a clean dish rag. a
clean dish. pan, clean hands. clean water.
piece of soap and lot of soiled 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 in the water. and
clean house cloth and a clean scrubbng-
brushsshould be the result. provided that
the soap which he uses has been made
from pure sweet materials.
\ girl cannot scrub properly with .
miserable apology for serubbing 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
tensive, or a sponge or a wash rag loses
its sweet, clean appearance and smell. il
is on account of the soap which is used
1t 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; it is just as important
that the dishes from which we eat should
NC NdNHCu WIN sodP iildNe from pure,
sweet, clean materials as it is important
that the butter which we eat should be
made from pure. sweet. clean cream
Housekeepers usually attempt TO over
come This result of the soap they use
making the dish rag filthy by scalding
or boiling the dish-rag. but this is only a
make shlft-use a soap which is made
from pure material and your dish-cloth
will then not need either scalding or boil
ing. and once a week have the dish rae
brought in the parlor. and if not sweet
change the soap you are using. and keep
this practice up until you come across a
soap that viii keep the dish rag clean and
sweet