St. Paul daily globe., 1889-01-21


He seized the pan and hurried up
stairs. and when he had filled it at the
lavatOry he sat it in the middle OF the
floor, and came down with relieved
look on his face, to say:
''See if you don't feel better tO-mor-
row than you have for month. It's a
wonder that we are not all dead"
Ibid the ancients know about these
poisonous gases?" | asked.
Not thing. They never gave them
thought"
"And yet the average of health was
~ per cent above that of to-day, and the
average age of mortality that much
lower! How do you account for that?'
"Oh, well, if you want to die, go
ahead. I'll even buy rope and help
you to hang yourself. [ expected this,
of course, but ridicule never moves me,
Mrs. BOWSer--neVer!"
Two hours later he went up stairs 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 yell and a jump, and over went
the pan, and when [ got up there he
stood holding up one leg, as you have
seen hen do on a wet day. What 1
said Oh that occasion kept Mr.. Bowser
very quiet for whole week. Then he
began to grow restless again, and one
night he brought home suspicious
looking package and sneaked it up
stairs. After supper he suddenly dis
appeared, ,and when looked for him up
Btairs he had something in a basin and
was about to hold it over gasburner.
''Mr. BOwser, have you got a new
theOry?" l asked.
'Look here, Mrs. Bowser," he re-
piled, as he put down the basin, ''you
have heard of bacteria, l presume?"
Eyes, sir"
"They are tue germs of disease float
ing about. They are alive. If inhaled
cholera, yellow fever and other dread
diseases are the result. Fumigation
kills them"
"And you are going to fumigate this
Ioom"
II am. am going to kill Off the
dreaded bacteria"
"Well, you'll drive us out of the house
Or kill us.'
/ went down stairs and he burned a
compound of tar and sulphur. In ten
minutes we had to open doors and win
Hows, and the cook came running in to
ask:
s'Is it cremation Mr.. Bowser Is trying
On us?"
II am simply driving out the bac-
teria," he replied, coming down stairs
at that moment.
sand there's bacteria in the house?'
'I'm afraid sos
! "And Fye worked here four weeks
hnder the noses of the dreadful Great
ures? Mr.. Bowser, quits! | quits
aoww
=. And quit she did. We had to sleep on
the sitting-room floor that night, and
three weeks later every caller could still
detect that odor. 1t was hardly gone.
however, when MI. BoWSer began to
sniff around again.
"Any more bacterial" I asked.
"Mrs. Bowser, if you want to sit here
and die | have no objections, butt don't
propose to neglect common sense pre-
cautions to preserve my own health"
'Is anything wrong now?"
81 think so. think can detect an
Odor of sewer gas in the house."
''1mpoSSible! | shan't have any more
stuff burned until know it is peces-
sary."
"Won't you? If there is sewer gas
here it must be eradicated at once"
For the next week the whole house
smelled. of chloride of lime until one
could hardly draw long breath, but
Mr.. Bowser was not satisfied.
II have been thinking" he said to
me one evening, THAT | may bring the
germs of some terrible disease home in
my clothes. l ride on car. you know,
and | ought to take precautions"
"How?''
"Carry disinfectant about me to re-
pei the germs"
''lt might be a good idea"
"NoW you are talking sense. Now
you seem 10 understand the peril which
has menaced u.s."
He got something down town the next
day. think some of his friends put
up job on him, knowing his craze. 1t
was a compound which left him alone
on the street car before he had ridden
three blocks. and he had no sooner got
into the house than we had to retire to
the back doors. The cook got a sniff OF
fl. and down went the dinner and up
went her hands, and she shouted at MIR.
BoWSer:
IA man as will keep skunk under his
house would beat me out Of my wages,
and I'll be going this minute."
1t took soap and water and perfumery
and half a days time to remove the
Odor. and when l declared that it was
the last straw, Mr.. Bowser crossed his
hands under his coat tails and replied
Mrs. BOwser, believe this house to
be clear of bacteria, owing to my pru-
dence and self-sacrifice, and l want il
kept So"
II suppose | get 'em here?"
without doubt, madame
"And all this rumpus has been on my
account?''
Exactly. But don't go too far with
ME! Enough is enough. You must
stop right where you are. have hu-
mOred you all propose tor'
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