Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1901-06-20
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Written for the Times Republican.

<AiS Spu iiSlellIIlE, 4ITS. asked stnt.
| scribe. Seraphina please hand me the
/ foot rest, was the reply TO this ques-
| ton from the lady in the rocking chair
do You remember, Madam was the
next question of the lecturer. .of some
remarks of mine upon the friendly BAG
| teria?" II do said the now placid
lady of the house. do you understand
| the scientific meaning of steriliza-
| tion?" Sometimes it refers TO a con-
clusion of mind mascullne mind, =.
was the frosty answer To proceed. :"
said the writer, Il will read from the
paper before me:
A bacteria-infessed age may breathe
! freely again. French Investigators have
| put guinea pigs thru a thorough course
/ of sterilization With fatal results and
| the Inference is that an unsterilzed
! world somehow has in it elements of vi
/ ,aiity that cannot be put away wish inn
I puni,y Messrs. Charpin and Guile
monat have reported their experiments
i 70 the Academic DIES Sciences of Paris
They took twenty-seven guinea pigs
| rut them in disinfected cages. fed them
| With sterilized food and allowed them
| 10 breath only sterillzed air. and nine
/ teen of the twenty-ssven died. OF TWEEN
/ ty-nine other guinea pigs. treated as
| nearly as possible like the others save
| that no attempt al sterilization was
| made. only ten died. The first lot also
| lost much more weight than the second
/ The experiments seem 10 SHOW that the
/ vitality Of IN organism and its power Of
rtsisting disease are diminished when
| lis surroundings. the air il breath-s and
| its food are steriizedH
Mrs. Il. appeared 10 ne interested.
Am ! Il understand that II these
guinea pigs had been placed in injected
cages. had been fed With ordinary food
/ and they had breatheii every day sort
81 air they would have lived? That
4 nineteeen out of the iWenty-ssven
! would have lived ~ That's the logic Of
4 II. Madam, said the writer VIII this
i lngic Apply To ba bies2 was the next In
1 teragatien sCertainiy said the writ
or, habies are only luny animals"
NON le9.k here MI, Birdseye, are your
4 giandson's Iuny animals y, Mrs. II.
4 fer once your conversation has been
along scientific lines. please drop your
temininity. your granamotherness. Stick
a To science" ..All right, was the sus-
Il picipusiy mild answer, go ahead With
Your sterile Thoughts | viii, il 4 car
have an uninterrupted attention. Mad
am the world has gone daft on mi
cuuhss and bacteria. These F'N.nch IN
q vestieators open our eyes. Here you
u have educated your daughter 10 buy
milk in bottles for the,use Of our grand
children. AT an expense of $40 Isput ii
at your request a filter for water fol
drinking purposes. This city Of Mar
4 shalltnwn has spent thousands Of dol
lars 10 get drinking water free from mi,
erabes. Money wasted. money thrown
away
: There being no Interruptions the lee
turer proceeded '.Mrs b.. do yo,
! know that the Indians near Montou
: make practice Of buying of the stool
S shippers all cholera infected hogs
O. That during the warm summer weathe
they eat freely such unsterilized pork
I'm giving you some cold facts. madam
Are you aware that high rollers in on
: cities buy game ard keep il until ii !
, ripe. that the gamy favor of an unster-
illzed quail needs only 10 be enjoyed I
: be appreciated: that eournands irefe
9 cheese that has signs Of life; that Win
: eear is only the juice of apples tina
n have been changed by my friendly mi
e cr,bes from sweet cider that yoli
$ bread made from yeast weuld not ris
f unles lifted by bacteria Madam. 70
/ have eaten, drunken, breathed arc eve
absorbed thru the pores Of pour skin
bacteria ard microbes ever since yo
!. We're born You needn't RAISE YOU
q voice so loud said Mrs Birdseye,
d am not denying any q these things"
1t That's the 'foup!e win such wpihe
It as you ana your aaush'era, RESUME
i TINS pniiosopher. You VIII hot gen
If anyihihs' p'3t Disho!s aceep. eSe3S roo
ish laa presented. iou Don ana iii.t
our dflnkitis water. Don our 'iillh' nay
;, crank IDEAS on vehtlla.ihe our mouse
put a city IKE Marsnalitowh 20 nous
= amos OF dotiaFs expense ior seWeraf
~ basins put up pest houses ior cnleeI
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