Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-10-09
A Little Experience in the Flat.


assault and battery upon any germ, how
ever we'll heeled it might travel
A Little Experience in the Flat.
After spending day in the society of the
disinfectant, I 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
standing After dinner, with my usual
courtesy, I asked permission to smoke in
the flat, on the plea that it was raining
without, and the people next to US had a
boiled dinner. Maude smilingly consented,
and opened window 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 evil
IDENTIFY made for the statue of Horace Gree
icy, and has to be tied on with strings when
I walk.
; After receiving these delicate attentions,
settled myself in a comfortable position
and lit my pipe, which Maude had fillsd for
me. I took one long, deep breath, and then
did not breathe again for Is minutes. At
the same time vapor rose up from the pipe
bowl and killed the canary bird.
I did a great deal OF thinking during those
15 minutes, although 1 did not do much
talking, for obvious reasons. 1 recognized
the presence of a new cholera scare.
"Maude," 1 gasped at last, ''confess.
What is it?''
One Man Used 1t TIL He Died.
s'Oh, the little bit of thing that put in
the pipe?" she said cheertully. 'It's moth
ing at all bat small quantity of camphor
and one or two other disiniectants which
Mrs. Jibbletts on the third floor lent me.
She said it helped her husband very much
when he had the grip. He used to smoke it
every day before he died. Go right on
smoking, dear, I don't mind it bit,"
and she put her head out of the
window and took large bite of
humidity out of the atmosphere. L
am a forgiving man, but said few
hot words. They were heated by
passing over my infamed tongue. And
she cried, and said was very unkind, and
I tried to demonstrate with her till my
palate swelled up SO that couldn't talk
any more. After which she cried again,
and forgave me for having been nearly
cnoked to death by her devices And she
made me drink some hot lemonade, which
removed the small particles of lining that
still remained upon the inside OF my
mouth.
As said before scare is always funny
after you get over it, and now can laugh
at all these troubles. / can laugh at the
men whofiH tie first few weeks of the scare
learned more about disease germs than Pas
teur ever hoped to find out; who went
around talking as if bacilli of all sorts were
their intimate friends, and had everything
dead wrong of course, as such people al
ways do. These things are amusing after
they are over, but the fact is that the men
who now tell you that they never gave
cholera a thought are the ones who per-
fumed their handkerchiefs with carbolic
acid, and who said their prayers night and
morning, for the first time in 40 years.
HOWARD FDIELING.