Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1893-05-16
MIR. BowsER's THEORIES.
uru. Bowser Gives an Account of His Ex
periments.

came home an hour ahead Of time, his coun-
tenance wearing q very important look, and
the first thing he did was to bolt up stairs TO
our bedroom and lower the window, although
| had just closed it after airing the room for
two hours He then came gathering down to
ask me for pan.
"What on earth do you want Of a panF'
eked.
ITO savo all our ivesr' he answered
"Howp
"Your bedroom is full of poisonous gases,
which must be absorbed by an open vessel Of
water"
"Nonsensep
II expected it. That's the weapon Of the
lgnorantl Mrs, Bowser, il you want to die
by poisonous gases poisoning the blood,
have nothing TO say, but shall save tho life
Of our child, II possible. have felt strange
| lassitude for several days, and sanitary
plumber tells me that we have poisonous air
| IN the room.n
"Your lassitnde couldn't have come from
being out to club and lodge four successive
Nights until IL O'Clock, could itr'
He seized tho pan and hurried up stairs,
and when he had filed 1t at the layatory he
sat 1t In the middle Of the floor, and came
down, with relieved look ON his face, to
ny:
1850 II you don't feel better tomorrow
than you have for month It's a wonder
We are not all dead"
ibid tho ancients know about these poison
GUS gasesr | asked
mot thing. They never gave them a
thought"
"And yet tho average Of health was II per
cent above that of today, and the average Of
mortality that much lowerl How do you
account for it9'
"oh, well, IL you want to die 80 ahead.
III even buy rope and help you to hang
yourself. expected this, of course, but ridi-
cule never moves me- Mrs Bowser-never.
Two hours later he went up stairs in his
slippers to look for paper in another coat,
and, OF course. no sat his foot plump down In
that pan OF water There was yell and a
Jump and over went the pan, and when got
up there no stood holding IN ono leg. as you
have seen "a hen do on a wet dry What |
said on that occasion kept Mr.. Bowser very
quiet for n whole week. Then no began TO
grow restless again, and one night he brought
homo a suspicious looking package and
sDeaked II up stairs. After supper he sud
denly disappeared, and when | looked fo;'
him upstairs he had something in basin and
was about to hold it over a gas burner.
"Mr Bowser. have you got a now theory"
l asked
Look here, Mrs Bowser," no replied, as
he put down the basin, 'you have heard Of
bacteria, ] presume"
eyes, sir"
"Thoy are tho germs of disease floating
about They are alive II inhaled. cholera,
| yellow fever and other dread diseases arc the
result, F,un.gation kills them"
"And you arc going to fumigato this
| roomr
81 am. am going to kill of the dreaded
bacteria"
"Well, you'll drive us out Of tho house or
kill U.S."
| went down stairs and no burned a COM
pound Of tar and sulphur In ten minutes
we had TO open doors and windows and the
cook came running IN to ask:
us 1t cremation Mr. Bowser Is trying on
usp
II am simply driving out bacteria" he re-
Piled, coming down tho stairs ut that mo-
ment
"And there's bacteria In the houseT
"Im afraid sou
"And I've worked here four weeks under
tho noses of tho dreadful creaturesl Mr..
bowser, quits quits nowl"
And quit she did. We had TO sleep on the
sitting room floor last night, and three weeks
later every caller could detect that odor It
was hardly gone, however, when Mr. Bowser
began to sniff around again.
ANY more bacterial | asked.
Mrs Bowser, II you want TO sit here and
die have no objections, but | don't propose
TO neglect common sense precautions to pre-
serve my own health.'
us anything wrong nowr
u think 80, think can detect an odor
| OF sewer gas in tho house,
Impossiblel ! shan't have no more stuff
burned until know it is necessary"
won't your III there is sewer gas here 1t
must DO cradicated at oncen
For tho next week the entire house srnolled
of chloride of lime until one could hardly
draw long breath, but Mr. Bowser was not
satisfied
II have been thinking" no said to mo ono
evening, that may bring tho germs of
some terrible disease home in my clothes
rido ON tho ear, you know, and | ought to
take precautions"
"HowP
Garry disinfectant about mo TO repel the
germs
~ might DO good idea.
ASoW (Ou ue lhlhlIs SENSE. NOW YOU
- w 'N' ~" "uiVh las nieii-
He got something down town ths roxt ,,o,,
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