The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1889-03-22
Mr.. AND MRS. BOWSER.
TIE FORMER SCENTS DANGER AND
TAKES PRECAUTIONS.


ness or death get ahead OF us rs . fam
lily if any effort Of his can prevent, and
he is always doing the right thing in
the nick of time. One day he came
home an hour ahead OF time, his
countenancc wearing very important
look, and the first thing he did was to
bolt upstairs to our bedroom and low
er the window. although | had just
closed it after airing the room for two
hours. He then came gathering down
to ask me for a pan.
s.What on earth DO YOU want of Il
Il pam asked.
so save all our lives" he answered.
''How -
..Your bedroom is full, of poisonous
gases, which must be absorbed by IN
open vessel of water
Nonsense
Il expected it. That's the weapon
of the ignorant. Mrs. Bowser, if you
want to die by poisonous gases poison
ing the blood have nothing to say,
but shall save the child if possible.
have felt strange lassitude for sew
eral days, and a sanitary plumber tells
me that We have poisoned air in the
room.
"YouI lassitude couldn' have come
from being out to club and lodge four
successive nights until II o'clock.
could IT.
He seized the pan and hurried up
stairs, and he had filled it at the lava
tory he set in the middle of the floor
and came down with Il relieved look on
his face, to say:
"See if you don't feel better to-mor-
row than you have for month, It's
Il wonder we are not all dead
Did the ancients know about these
poisonous gasses::' | asked.
Not 4 thing. They never gave
them thought
"And yet the average of health was
seventeen per cent. above that of to
day, the average Of mortality that
much lower How do YOU account for
it:
"Oh, we'll, if You want 10 die 30
ahead. Ill even buy Il rope and help
You to hang yourself. | expected this
course. but ridicule never moves me,
Mrs. Bowscr-ncyer..
Two hours later he went upstairs in
his slippers to look FOR a paper in an
other coat, and. Of course, he sat his
foot plump down in that pan of water.
There was a yell and Il jump, and over
went the pan, and when | got mp there
he stood holding up one leg, as you
have seen hen do Il wet day. What
said on that occasion kept Mr.. Bow
ser very quiet for Il whole week. Then
he began to grow restless again, and
one night he brought home suspic-
ious-looking package and sneaked it
upstairs. After supper he suddenly
disappeared. and | looked for him up
stairs he had something in basin and
was about To hold it over Il gas burner.
Mr.. Bowser, have you got new
theory | asked.
look here, Mrs. Eowser,' he repli-
ell, as he put down the basin, lyon
have heard of bacteria, presume =
"Yes, sir
..They are the germs of disease ho..t-
ing about. They are alive If inhal-
ed, cholera, yellow fever and other
dread diseases are the result. Fumiga-
ton kills them.
"And you are going to fumigate this
room ,"
q am. am going TO kill off the
dreaded bacteria.
Well, you'll drive us ont of the
house or Kill rs
went downstairs and he burned Il
compound of tar and sulphur In ten
minutes We had to open doors and win
dows. and the cook came running in to
ask
lis it cremation Mr. Bowscr IS try
ing on US
Il am simply driving ont the bacte-
ria, he replied, coming down stairs al
that moment.
And there's bacteria in the house ?
| I'm afraid 50.
And I've worked here four weeks
under the noses Of the dreadful Great
urcs Mr.. Rowser. quits, | quits
now :"
And quit she did We had 70 slerI
on the sitting room floor last night
and three weeks later every caller
could still detect that odor. 1t Wa:
hardly gone, however. when Mr. Bow
ser began to snifl around again.
ANY more bacteria = asked.
Mrs. Bowser. ii you want TO sit her,
and die have no objections, but
don't propose to neglect common scns'
r,caulions toprcselye my own health
is anything wrong now ::
Il think 81 think can detect III
olor of sewer gas in the house
.'Impossib!e. | shan't have any NOR
stuff burned until know it IS neces
sary."
Wont Won: II there is sewer ga