The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1891-09-23
those birds cantering around through

tnoSc DlruS canterlng around through
| your system, eh?"
''Whcrc do they como from?"
''Scwer gas. BY this time to-mor-
| row the house would have been swarm.
ing with them and nothing on earth
could have saved us from typhoid fever
or diphthcria. If the microbe was the
only thing to look out for shouldn't
have been SO anxious, but there is the
bacteria"
whats that?"
''IIcrc is q picture of him. Comes in
the same way, and his mission is to eat
| out the lungs. 1t is calculated that
two thousand Of them will cat out the
strongest mans lungs in month"
And they were in this housc?" she
| asked
Fright here, in this house"
"And ready to be absorbed into our
systcms?n
| Not only ready, but anxious
"Eou are sure you don't mean cocl1-
reaches? saw two under the kitchen
sink yesterday, and was going to ask
| you to get some powdered boraX"
Mrs. Bowscr!" he began, as he stood
up, ''arc you growing soft in the top of
from n woodchucll?'
"I-I suppose So"
"But don't know microbc or q
bacteria from n cocl1roach?" he thun-
dered.
but never heard you speak of
them before, and II
"Do you imagine that or any other
husband sits down and tells his wife
all he llnows!" he shouted. because I
haven't told you that jack rabbits
legs have three joints is that any rca-
son why l haven't known it for forty
ycarsr'
but this is medical science, isn't it?"
she softly protested.
"And suppose it is! Do you suppose
I've gone sloshing around all these
years with nothing but recipe for
making soft soap in my hcad?"
She was silent, and after striding up
and down the room Il few times he
halted before her and continued:
"a wife isn't expected to know these
things, of course, but I'll DC accounted
pretty husband and father and mem
Der of Il scientific club if didn't know
all about microbes and bacteria"
'But that picture of Il bacteria looks
like lobster" she persisted.
''Lobstcr! Looks like lobster, does
it? Very we'll, Mrs. Bowscr, this dis
cussion will end right here 1t is plain
enough that you haven't the necessary
knowledge to appreciate it."
''But don't you"
''Ncvcr you mind, Mrs. Bowser!
Let it drop right here. Is supper
ready?"
The odor was so strong in the dining
room that the butter tasted of it, and
after supper the cook called Mrs. Bow
ser into the kitchen to ask:
as it going to be like this all tho
timc?''
ooh, no. Mr.. Bowscr had to kill off
the microbes and bacteria, you see"
whats them?"
'T'll have him come out and explain
''No need of it, ma'am, for my bun
die is all made up, and I'm going. A
man who'll drag dead cats through his.
own house would cheat Il poor girl out
of her wages at the end of month. j.;
Microbes and bacteria, CHI? don't be-
lievc it! Let him show them to me up
in the geological gardensr'
When Mrs. Bowser told Mr.. Bowseri
what had occurred he bristlcd up, got
red in the face, and exclaimed:
81 see how it is; couldn't carry your.
point with me, and so you went out
and upset the girl! Mrs. Bowscr, you
are trcading on dangerous ground =
very dangerous. a husband may be q
worm, but if that worm is stepped on
too often he turns!'-M. Quad, In N. ".
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