Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1893-06-10
MR. Rowsea,s rAeoRIes.
uru. Bowser Gives an Account of Hts IA.
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enfn0 nome an nnuf hlff.ti Oh TIME, His Ghuil-
tsnance wearing very important hook, and
tho first thing be did was o. bolt ~ stairs 70
our bedroom and lower the window although
| had Just closed II after airing the room for
two hours He then came gathering down 10
ask me for a pan.
'What on earth do you want Of panF' |
mked
"To save all our livcsir he answered
"Howr
"Your bedroom Is full OF poisonous gases,
which must bc absorbed 10y an open vessel Of
water
"Nonsenseir
81 expected IT, That's the weapon OF the
Ignorant Mrs Bowscr, if you want 10 die
by poisonous gases poisoning the blood,
have nothing 10 say but shall saye Ia" lifo
Of our child. II possible. | have felt a strange
lassfrude for several days, and a sanitary
plumber tells me that We have poisonous air
IN the room
"Your lassitude couldn't have come from
being out to club and lodge four successive
nights until u O'Clock, could it"
He seized the pan and hurried up stairs,
and when he had Tiled it at the lavatory no
nat 1t In the middle of tho floor and came
down, with a relieved look on his face, TO
ny;
''See II you don't feel better tomorrow
than you have for a month It's wonder
we are not all dead !"
'Did the ancients know about these poison
Gus gasesr' asked
mot thing They mover gave them .
thought
"And yet the average of health was II per
cent above that of today aud the average OF
mortality that much lowerl How do you
account for itf'
"Oh, well, II you want 20 die 60 ahead
I'll even buy a 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 Tor a paper In another coat
and, OF course he sat his foot plump down in
that pan OF water There was yell and IA
Jump, and over went the pan, and when got
up there he stood holding up one leg, as you
have seen hen do ON wet day What |
said on that occasion kept Mr.. Bows,r very
quiet for whole week Then he began 10
grow restless again, and one night he brought
home suspicious looking package and
neaked II up stairs After supper no sud
denly disappeared. and when | looked for
him upstairs he had something In basin and
was about to hold it over gas burner
mir. Bowser, have you got new theory
l asked
"Look here, Mrs Bowser, he replied, as
he put down the basin. you havo heard Of
bacteria, presume
Eyes, sir
"They are tho germs of disease floating
about They arc alive. II inhaled. cholera,
yellow fover and other dread diseases arc the
result Fumigatiun kills them y
And you arc going to fumigato this
roomf
III am. am going to XIII OF the dreaded
bacteria"
"wcll, yourn drive US out of the housO or
kill us"
went down stairs and he burned com
pound OF tar and sulphur In ten minutes
we had TO open d1ors ami windows, and tho
cook came running in 10 ask:
sis 1t cremation MIR. Bowser Is trying ON
usF
~ am simply driving out bacteria he re-
piled, coming down tho stairs at that mo-
ment
"And there's bacteria In the houser'
"rm afraid So"
"And I've worked hero four weeks under
the noses Of tho dreadful creaturesi Mr.
Bowser, quitsi quits nowln
And quit she did We had 10 sleop on tho
sitting room door last night, and three weeks
later every caller could detert that odpr. II
began TO sniff around again
"Any more bacterial | asked.
"Mrs Bowser, II you want 10 sit here and
die have no objections, but don't propose
10 neglect common sense precautions 10 pro
serve my own health"
sis anything wrong nowf'
81 think ~. | think | can detect an odor
Of sewer gas In the house,
Impossible | shant have no moro stuff
burned until know II IL necessary
wont youi Ii there l. sewer gas hnrs it
must be cradicatell at ones
For the next week tho entire house Srnellcl
Of chloride of limo until ono could hardly
draw long breath. but Mr. Bowseg was not
satisfied
IL have been thinking ho sail to mo ono
evening, that | Inny bring the germs Of
some terrible disease home in my clothes.
ride on the car, you know, and ought TO
take precautions"
"HowF'
'Carry dixinfcctant about mo TO repol the
germs"
at might DO good idea
Snow you are talking sense. Now you
seem To understand the peril which has men
aced uS"
He got something down town the next day
think some Of his friends put upa job on
him, knowing his craze Il was a compound
which left him alone on the street car before
be bad ridden three blocks. and he had no
sooner got into the house than We had 10 re-
tire 10 the back doors. The cook got a sniR
Of IT, aud down went the dinner and up weat
her hands, and she shouted at Mr. Bowser;
"A man Us viii keep skunk under his house
would beat me out Of my wages, and Ill bc
goin' this minuteln
IL took soap and water and perfumery and
half a days time To remove the odor, and
when ! declared that II was the last straw
MIR Bowser crossed his hands under his coat
tails and replied,
Mrs Bowser. believe this house 10 he
clear OF bacteria, owing TO my prudence and
self sacrifice, and l want to keep il sou
III suppose got EN- heref'
"Without doubt, MADAME
sand ell this rumpus has been ON MY no
countr
Exactly. But don't 60 too far with me.
Enough Is enough. You must stop right
where you ara / have hnnored you AL |
propose toln-Detroit Free PraSa
An Interesting Controversy.
Bobby-They were talking about you lasa
night, Mr. Featherly.
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