Grand Rapids herald. [volume] (Grand Rapids, Mich.) 1892-1959, 1892-10-03

tie cholera germ found Maade read
ing then one morning when l came 70
breakfast
'.dowdy," said she, looking a. from
this interesting document, ''yon are do
ing nothing, absolutely nothing, -
guard against this terrible plague"
I TOOK the printed rules from her
hand, and read substantially a. follows:
Personal cleanliness Is the first and
great Preeaution- Frequent bath
ing -"
my dear" said I. your remark
strikes me as bitterly unfair"
But | don't mean that part Of IT,
Further down it warns you not 10 eat
any fruit. because you can't tell where
40 comes from nor who handles IL. You
s.e two apples before you went 10 bed
last night"
And you know where they came
FROM" interposed- They were sent
20 US from old Constitution, Me. My
dear cousin Jennie. knowing how much
I used 20 like Bob Perkins apples. hired
two Of her Sunday school scholars TO
shs&e the tree after Mr. Perkins had
retired. IL was very kind and thought
Of her, and they are exceedingly whole
some"
Perhaps they are" said she, but
should feel safer II you would eat moth
ing but beef tea for few weeks; and,
oh, Howdy, please wear powdered brim-
stone in your shoes. read IN one Of
the pape,s that that was the very best
thing in the world"
MY dear Naude," said i, whether
cholera or something else carries me
away. feel confident that l shall not
be expected To furnish my own brin-
stone"
This is fair sample of our converse
ton during the first two weeks OF the
scare. and know that we did not suffer
alone, because women were all the time
running In To tell Maude of something
new which they had discovered. Fur
thermore, the fat but romantic poet
who has a desk in my office came TO
work one day with the aroma of dis
infectant about him which he said his
wife had used upon his clothing while
he slept. because he told her that he
had been handling newspaper cable re-
ports from Hamburg. This disinfectant
was well fitted To commit aggravated
assault and battery upon any germ,
however we'll heeled IL might travel.
After spending a day in the society of
the disinfectant. was satisfied that for
steady company preferred any bacillus
of good moral character. returned
home thankful that had wife who
was above such petty anxiety for the
health of husband who was insured in
three companies of good financial stand
ing. After dinner, with my usual cour-
tesy, / asked permission to smoke in the
fat, on the plea that it was raining
without. and the people next door
to us had had boiled dinner. Mau6e
srnilingly consented, and opened q win
dow which would let the smoke out and
let the breeze in upon the back of my
neck. Then she brought the smoking
jacket which she made herself on the
latest Partisan model, and the slippers,
also of her own construction, one of
which fits me too hard, while the other
was evidently made for the statue of
Horace Greeley and has TO be tied on
with strings when / walk. After re-
ceiving these delicate attentions, / set
tied myself in a comfortable position
and lit my pipe which Maude had filed
for me. took one long, deep breath,
and then did not breathe again for fif-
teen minutes At the same time q
vapor rose mp from the pipe bowl and
killed the canary bird.
did a great deal of thinking during
those fifteen minutes, although 1 did