The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1894-06-26

lock the door until can fumigate it."
but, James, dear''-
Don't stop arguing, Lucy. We shall
be losing valuable time. Ill run round
to the chemists for few things. In the
meantime just see that there is plenty of
hot water for disinfecting baths and fas-
ten sheets over all the doors And what
ever you do, Lucy, keep cool. Don't be
frightened or nervous. I shAn't be long.
By Jove, I've got a nasty sore throat my
self hope it's nothing"
"Disinfectants, STRIP
eyes. There's serious outbreak of fe-
yer at our house. What have you gotS''
@'Hosking's patent purif1er''-
''Send a dozen bottles to go on with"
fDabb's huid''-
ttSame quantity"
''Wobster's ozone DISCRIMINATORY
six viii be enough
"Jasper's disinfectant, an excellent arti-
Gle
TN have a dozen of that"
'tCarbolic acid, sirf''
''Well, yes. Say gallon, and pound
of pernanganate of potash crystals -
Anything else, sir?"
"a quarter of hundredweight of chic
ride of lime, three or four pounds of rock
sulphur, and put in anything else you can
think of that have forgotten. How soon
you send those?''A
Immediately, sir. see my boy has
just como Dack with the cart.
'sNow, my dear, the disinfectants are
here. Is everything ready"
Il think SO, James
The master OF the house then took off
his coat, turned up his shirt sleeves and
set about his task. First of all he sent his
wife to Tommy room and peremptOrily
ordered her to remain there Cor six weeks.
He then emptied bottle of Jasper's dis
infectant into bucketfu1 of water and
with a garden syringe proceeded to play
upon the sheets fastened over the doors
until the landing was converted into a
running brook and the stairs into small
cascade. The drawing room underneath
resem bled the dropping well at Knaresbor-
ough, and the ceiling of the hall was COW
cred with liquid brown beads
He next powdered every room with
Wobster's ozone dissemination until it look
ed like the interior of f1ourmin. 1t was
almost impossible to move without put
ting your foot in a bowl of Dabbs fluid or
knocking over dish of Hosking's patent
purifier.
Then he transferred the contents of the
kitchen fire to a large metal dish, which
he deposited on an iron support in the lit
tie breakfast room and covered with four
pounds of crushed rock sulphur, carefully
sealing windows and doors and closing
the register of the fireplace
After that he poured half a gallon of
carbolic acid down the sink and covered
the scullery floor an inch deep with chic
ride of lime
By this time the atmosphere of the place
had become little oppressive and it is
perhaps not surprising that both he and
the servant felt sick. This he interpreted
as another bad symptom, but he was sat
isf1ed that he had done all he could.
He then proceeded to take a hot bath,
in which he had dissolved half an ounce
of the potash crystals, and went to bed,
having thoroughly drilled the servant in
the precautions she should take and or
dered her to take a similar bath herself.
He hardly slept at all that night. First
he had a very sore throat, then pains in
the back. He was feverish, too-decided-
1y feverish; felt sick and had quick
pulse. When he crept down stairs in the
early morning, his legs shook beneath
him, and he lOoked-no, he did not look
pale. He would have done SO, though,
had not the strong solution of potash crys-
tails dyed him rich brown. When the
maid, a perfect nut brown maid, saw
that her master was the same color as her
self, she grinned from ear to ear.
What are you laughing at. you boo
by?' he exclaimed in anger. "Isn't it
better to be copper colored than fever
stricken There's the doctor at the door.
Let him go up STAIRS
When the medical man came down and
met the anxious father at the foot Of the
stairs, he could hardly keep a serious coun-
tenance.
''WeH, DOCTOR how is the patient7''
"Quite well, I'm glad to say
"Quite welll''
Eyes. 1t was only bilious attack, aft
er adjust a little overeating or some
thing of that sort. -
Tommy's father was for the moment
speeches. He could not make up his
mind whether he ought to thrash his off
spring or the doctor. 1t wasn't exactly
that he was sorry it was not scarlatina,
after all, but he wanted to kick somebody
He didn't care particularly who it was
and would have kicked himself if he had
been able.
Doctor " he at length gasped out, 1--WE
been fooled L don't say you've done it,
but feel I've been fooled. Five hundred
dollars won't cover the damage and ex-
pense of this business. But should like
you to distinctly understand one thing
I'm not at all nervous man. Don't get
that idea into your head But believe in
taking proper precaution-in always being
the safe side. -
II quite understand, +" said the doctor,
land it is very laudable, but don't you
think that it is sometimes possible to have
just little too much of good thing2"-
Tit Bits.