Lawrence democrat. (Lawrenceburg, Tenn.) 1884-1925, 1891-07-31
those birds cantering around through
your system, eh?"
"Where do they come from?"

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your system, eh?"
"Where do they come from?"
"Sewer 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 diphtheria- If the microbe was the
only thing to look out for shouldn't
have been so anxious, but there is the
bacteria"
whats that?"
Here is 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 eat out the
| strongest mans lungs in a month"
"And they were in this house2" she
asked
"Right here, in this house."
"And ready to be absorbed into our
,systems?"
mot only ready, but anxious"
"You are sure you don't mean cock
reaches? / saw two under the kitchen
sink yesterday, and was going to ask
you to get some powdered borax."
MRS. Bowserl" he began, as he stood
up, "are you growing soft in the top OF
your head2 Do know Bengal tiger
from woodchuck?"
"I-I suppose So"
"But don't know microbe or
bacteria from cockroach?" he thun.
dered.
"But 1 never heard you speak OF
them before, and I-I"-
"Do you imagine that or any other
husband sits down and tells his wife
all he knows!" he shouted. Because |
haven't told you that a jack rabbits
legs have three joints is that any rea-
son why haven't known it for forty
years!'
But this is medical science, isn't it?"
she softly protested.
Sand suppose it is! Do you suppose
I've gone sloshing around all these
years with nothing but recipe for
making soft soap in my head?"
She was silent, and after striding up
and down the room few times he
halted before her and continued:
"A wife isn't expected to know these
things, of course, but I'll be accounted
pretty husband and father and mem
Der of a scientific club If didn't know
all about microbes and bacteria"
"But that picture of bacteria looks
like lobster" she persisted.
Lobster! Looks like lobster, does
it2 well, Mrs Bowser, this dis
edssionswill end right here. 1t is plain
enough that you haven't the necessary
knowledge to appreciate it."
But don't you"
"Never you mind, Mrs, Bowserl
Let it drop right here. Is supper
ready2"
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:
"Is it going to be like this all the
time?"
"Oh, no. Mr.. Bowser had to kill off
the microbes and bacteria, you see."
''Whats them?"
"Ill have him come out and explain.
mo 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 hih
own house would cheat poor girl out
of her wages at the end of month.
Microbes and bacteria, eh? / don't be-
lieve it! Let him show them to me up
in the geological gardens"
When Mrs. Bowser told Mr.. Bowset
what had occurred he bristled up got
red in the face, and exclaimed:
81 see how it Isl couldn't carry your
point with me, and so you went out
and upset the girl! Mrs. Bowser, you
are treading on dangerous ground -
very dangerous. A husband may be a
worm, but if that worm is stepped on
too often he turns!"-M. Quad, in N. Y.
World.