The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1891-09-23
TIE MANNING TINES.
WEDNESDAY SEPTEMBER e, 1851.
MIR. AID MRS. ROWSER.
The Head Of the House Gets on the Trail
of the Deadly Microbe.

you SOG Iuefe! Quefleu MIS-. DoWSeI
as he came home the other day half
an hour ahead of his usual time, and
being loaded down with heavy pur-
chase of something.
Don't say word-not a word,
aud don't bother me for ten minutes
I hope I'm in time to avert the dan
ger!''
She turned pale and fell upon the
sofa, and he hurriedly broke the
string securing the package, seized
the three quart bottles which COM
priced it's contents and rushed up
stairs, down the back stairs, down in
to the basement and up again. A
strange, disagreeable odor followed
him as he hustled around, and by the
time he had returned to the sitting
room Mrs Bowser had recovered suf-
fciently to ask:
ssAIr. Bowser, what on earth are
you doing, and what in the name OF
goodness is that stuf'?''
ssWhat have I been doing? Saving
our lives, Mrs. Bowser-saVing the
life OF every one under this roof"
ssBut II didn't know our lives
were in danger"
ssOf course not. If the house was
on fire from top to bottom, and the
fremen pitching our furniture out OF
the windows you might possibly real
ize the fact, but it has never struck
you that death silently Turks in every
room in this house.
"How you talk, Mr.. Bowser! What
has been the danger hanging over
us?"
Microbes, Mrs Bowser he
whispered, as he sat down and
wiped his heated face. "Microbes
and bacteria-millions of 'em!"
ssIt can't bel" she replied.
Cant it! You've lived IN New
York two weeks, been out as far as
Broadway once, and you think you
know all about it !! I knew. Of course,
but having so many other things to
see to this one slipped my mind until
to-day"
"But what causes that terrible
odor?"
Nothing terrible about it, as I see.
On the contrary I rather like it. It's
the odor of disinfec!ants, Mrs. Bow
ser-the odor of something that has
no doubt saved our lives.
'How ?"
aBy killing off the microbes and
bacteria, which would soon have en-
tered our systems and produced
terrible illness, if not death"
"Well, suppose you know best,
she said, as she opened a window to
let yard or two of the carbolic smell
dodge out.
sCertainly I do, certainly. All hus-
bands do. Mrs Bowser, let me draw
you picture of a microbe. You can
then realize the danger that menaced
us"
He drew the insect, and as she sur
veyed it in surprise and disgust, he
continued:
aNice thing to have about forty Of
those birds cantering around through
your system, eh%
"Where do they come from?'
ssSewer gas. By this time to-mor-
row the house would have been
swarming with them, and nothing on
earth could have saved US from ty-
phoid fever or diphtheria. If the mi
crobe was the only thing to look out
for I shouldn't have been so anxious,
but there is the bacteria
ssWhat's that?"
sHere is picture of him. Comes
in the same way, and his mission is to
eat out the lungs. It IS calculated
that 1000 of them will eat out the
strongest mans lungs in a month"
esAnd they were in this house %
she asked.
"Right here, in this house"
ssAnd ready to be absorbed into
our systems"
ssNot only ready, but anxious. ."
"You are sure you don't mean
cockroaches? I saw two under the
kitchen sink yesterday and was going
to ask you to get some powdered
borax."
ssMrs. Bowser," he began, as he
stood up, care you growing soft IN
the top of your head? Do I know a
Bengal tiger from woodchuck?"
sI-I suppose So.
sEBut I don't know microbe or a
bacteria from a cockroach?" be tbun-
dered
sBut never heard you speak OF
them before, and J-P-
"Do you imagine that I or any
other husband sits down and tells
his wife all he knows?" he shouted.
Because I haven't told you that a
Jack rabbits legs have three joints
is that any reason why / haven't
known it for forty years?''
'But this is medical science, isn't
it?" she softly protested.
"And suppose it is! Do you sup
pose I've gone sloshing around all
these years with nothing bat recipe
for making soft soap in my head ?"
She was silent, and after striding
up and down the room a few times
he halted before ber and continued:
"A wife isn't expected to know
these things, of course, but I'll be ac-
counted pretty husband and father
and member of a scientific club If |
don't know all about microbes and
bacteria.
aBut that picture of bacteria
lonlc Liza O lnhctar" che nnrSisfed