The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1895-04-25
THE DOCTOR TALKS.
Hooks aud Co~u,nglou. Diseases.
Tho Possibility Of q Worry Close Connuo.

49, s''' W. ~ 49, N'sNShJ
and | believe that thorc is-lhcn old
b%ank.notos arc certainly disease car
ricrs. But people lom sight Of tho pos.
ability OF infection In their oagerno,.
to pocket legal tender. A man would
be considered eccentric, to uso tho
lnildost word. wsro no to roiuSo Il iiyc-
dollar bill because II wa dirty, and,
most likely, full OF bacteria. Mon do
very Quoor things sometimes. but no
one has yet, TO my knowledge, refused
to take n sporo.laden bank motto for
purely hygionic reasons.
THE SAME WITH HOOKS.
sand tho samo With books. One can
no. very vol 90 to a public library, call
for n certain book. aud ,hcn refuse to
take 1t because it happens to be dirty.
Such f~astidiousncss would justly DO
characterized rs extreme. II might DO
said TINT any one bonnliting by II public
library should not complain because tho
books arc soilod. ! seldom got time to
read public library literature. but to
illustrate what am going 20 say. | hap.
pom to have q novel here from our
Wheeling public library. 1t was pub.
lished you see in 1890. Look at il now
Much like a dirty bauk note, isn't II?
And like u bank note, through how
many hands. clean and unclcan, has il
passed since il cane from tho prcss?
One can hardly rcalizs that it was once
new and liandsome; it is now such u
filthy, malodoSons old wreck.
DISEASE NAY ne ISIr I.
ITO think that tho last person who
had it was atll cted with some con.
tagiou, disease might destroy n sensi.
tive person. pleasure in reading it. A
nice, clean book is beautiful TO look at
and agreeable TO handle; n filthy QUO
just the reverse. And most OF tho
novels in public libraries are decidedly
unclean. In fact, the dirty books are
nearly all novels. They circulate rap
idly, and soon, by abuse and careless.
ness, combined with a small amount OF
natural wear and tear, become soi!eI
aud tAiterei.
"The margins are thumbed to pieces
and the coruers oil the leaves are dog'.-
cared and torn. The driod remnants Of
some unfortunate ty are not iuire.
quentlv found o%rnamenting u page:
while crnmb, OF cake and bread, REM
nants of past collatious partaksu OF
during petusal, may be seen between
tho leaves. Many OF the leaves adhere
tenacIously 10 each other, showing tina,
some youth has combined the pleasure
OF eating molassc, candy with the bust
ness OF imprinting with his sticky
fingers his trade mark upon tho pages.
CONVENIENT FLy-rW,rH.
MANY OF those getting works OF tic.
ton from a public library possess few
books OF their own, and evidently do
not know how TO handle n book. They
are apparently ignorant Of the fact THAI
n book isiuade TO be read. and not 10
be used Is n hy-trap or a receptacle for
crumbs. Go into tue readin. room OF
our public library aud watch the pro-
ceedlngs Of some Of those engaged in
residing books and periodicals. You
will then see why 1t is ttiut library lit
era,nre is. Us a rule, in n state OF wreck
and ruin.
at is to be expected that after cor-
tinuous use books show signs OF wear;
but in n public library Il new novel re.
mains in good condition but a few brief
days. Now. when n book becomes
sticky aud dirty it begins to collect DIS
ease.germs. The leaves being hard 10
separate ON account OF dirt, people, to
more readily turn them. thouglilsssly
moisten their fingers With their lips.
wv hat are the consequences? Well,
the reader licks up from the dirty pages
any germs that may happen 10 adhere
10 his moistened fingers. II. ior III.
stance. aperson suffering from ruDercu.
losis has previously read the book. and
has moistened his fingers to turn the
leaves, he has very likely deposited OH
the latter On OF the bac;lli peculiar to
his disease. These little nlants thus
placed on the paper soon die. Hut be-
fore doing so they develop spores, which
are really seeds. These seeds under ia.
vorable conditlons-sucti MS certain por.
tons OF the human body furnish-vcr-
inmate. and oon produce Il new crop vi
%Oacilli, all ready for business.
MESAGE;tE OF BACTERIA.
"As many as sixty-.hree varieties OF
bacteria, among them being represents.
.ives OF tuberculosis, scarlatina, and
d%iph;heria, have been enumerated BY 4
French bacteriolosist in one square
centimetre Of paper taken from M old
book in a hospital library. When o
remember that n SQUARE coutlmetro
is lcss than ono quarter OF a square
inch, YOU see that thsro must have been
a pretty considerable number OF mi
crobes in tho book. Every dirty
library book that comes into the home
should DO regarded az a discase.carrier
and handled accordingly" said tho
doctor, emphatically. III tho leaves
stick together, they should be opened
with II paper-cutter and not with the
moistcncd fingers.
"Whilu it i, probable that low roally
contract disea'e from library books. it
is yet well TO run no risk with them
especially the dirty ones. Handle them
exactly as il tloy arc dangerous. and
you will take no harm from the iilthIest
one among thom. Ana in" here the
doctor was summoned bv 4 man in Il
violent hurry about something or other,
aud abruptly oniod his talk.
AN Ape ,ui,lTIS ROMANCE.
\ Marriage Ceremony Performed Before
tho Dprrn Ion,