Williston graphic. (Williston, Williams County, N.D.) 1895-1919, 1903-09-03
STATUES HAVE SMALLPOX.
Marble Figures i'm Athens Museum
Become Anectcd-Peculfar All.
paents of Ina nimat Objects.

Marble Figures i'm Athens Museum
Become Anectcd-Pecultar All.
ments of Illuminate Objects.
When the man who does his own shaw
ing, patronizing the barber only to get
his hair cut, enters one of the better
class barber shops in any part OF the
city nowadays he is struck by the great
prominence given to notices advertise
ing the fact that everything on the
premises is conducted along "hyg1enic"
lines. Razors are disinfected, towels
sterilized in steam ovens, the use OF
sponges discarded and the hands OF the
attendants carefully treated with anti
septic solutions, says the New York
Herald. .. ..--
The man who is shaved in barber
shops habitually does not notice these
things so much, because he has been
getting used to seeing them more and
more for some length of time.
It is even declared that the peripatetic
bacteria can completely ruin BARRIERS
razor, not only becoming means OF In
tually causing the instrument to itself
become afflicted by special ailments, and
to literally die" 1t may not be quite
accurate to say that the razor has con-
tracted cholera, for instance, or grip,
or any other particular human disease,
and yet in a way that is just what it has
done.
That this is no mere fanciful state
ment, but that inanimate objects may
be attacked by ailments very similar to
those which afflict human beings, re-
ceived very striking illustration in the
discovery, announced by cable recently,
that the bronze statues in the Egyptian
room of the National museum at Athens,
were afflicted by what was pronounced
to be practically identical with small
pox. Five statues-Anta, the goddess
of war; Maount, wife of Jupiter Ammon;
Isis, and two statues of Osiris, one of
them Of the greatest value-were found
to have broken out with pustules which
constitute the characteristic feature OF
he malady, in q most aggravated form,
and these were at once segregated and
treated to a course of brine baths, fol-
aowed by hot lamentations.
The popular belief In yellow fever dis
tricts in the south that watches have
been afflicted with the scourge when
ever it has broken out among the peo-
pie, a belief which was for long time
laughed at by scientists, is now recog-
nized to have foundation In fact.
Investigation has shown that watches
worn by persons stricken by the dis
ease went suddenly wrong, or stopped
altogether. Moreover, for third per-
son to handle such watch was re-
garded as highly dangerous. and jew
elers in the infected section have re-
fused to make repairs until the watch
had been allowed certain period in
which to get over it's attack.
Pianos, too, have been known to be
attacked by what may properly enough
be called grip during an epidemic of
that ailment in the community. The
felt covered hammers of the instrument
afford an excellent breeding ground for
peripatetic bacilli, and millions OF them
can easily gather on few inches of the
felt. When q piano has grip it acts very
much like a human being does when Ia
boring under q similar disability-it
gives out dull. hoarse. unpleasing
sounds.
1t is this invasion of the microbe into
realms which have never been regarded
AZ immune which has led the barber to
sterilize and disinfect every part of his
establishment, from the razor and strop
to the hot towel and cake Of magnesia.
In one of the most pretentious Of the
shaving and hair cutting establish
merts-in the way Of sterflfzing the mi
crobe, at any rate-the customer seats
himselef in 4 white enameled iron chair
that has been washed in distilled wa
ter, and leans the back Of his head on
an india rubber pad that has likewise
been sponged with distilled water since
It was last used. His feet rest on nickel
plated bars that are supposed to not at
tract dust, and a sterilized india rubber
cloth protects his collar and shirt front
The barber who does the shaving is
enveloped in a sterilized rubber coat;
the soap which he uses is antiseptic,
and the shaving pot is duly rendered
STERILE" The shaving brush is treat
ed like everything else, and an anti
septic solution into which the barber
dips his fingers insures immunity to the
face of the man getting shaved. The
strop on which the razor has been
sharpened has sterilized nickel handles,
and when the shaving is over the Gus
toner's face is carefully wiped with
sterilized rubber sponge dipped in an
antiseptic solution.
A fresh towel is taken from drawer
into which no microbe could have pen