The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1908-08-13
SANITARY RULES FOR
THE H~OUSEkEEpER
The Housewife Should Know
That ALI Supplies Are
Pure and Clean.

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Consumers league, with headquarters
in New York city. has Just issued a
leaf1et of sanitary maxims which every
housewife should read to tell intelligent
what they will not have,
and manufacturers will fall in line il
they know that there will be no sale
for their products unless they conform
to the pure food laws. Among the
"maxims" are the following:
Dirt, danger, disease:
Clean water, clean food, clean
streets, clean houses, keep us healthy
At the store-buy food at the clean
est stores only.
Buy only clean, fresh food.
Refuse to take food handled by dirty
hands. Insist upon its being well
wrapped. Paper bags are best.
Buy only the purest candles.
Is the candy pure and clean that
your children buy from the p~ushcart?
Do not buy decayed fruit because It
is cheap.
Do not buy bread and cake at dirty
bakeries. Look into the baking rooms
If possible. Are they clean?
Examine the packages OF cereals for
worms before cooking. Packages on
standing often become infested with
worms and are sometimes found at the
best stores.
Does your grocer keep his butter and
milk in clean. colo places and are
they covered? Does he keep his candies.
figs, dates, berries. lettuce, bread, etc.
exposed to flies and dust from the
street. in shop or show windows? Flies
carry dirt and disease to food and man.
Are your grocer, butcher and baker
cleanly in person? Are their clerks
cleanly?
Urge them to keep their goods off the
sidewalk. There is d~angersapf disease
in street dirt. Ask the Eelicatessen
~storekeeper and the pusiicart man to
buy food sold in open buckets which
stand in the store day after day.
In the Kitchen.
Keep all food covered IN the ice box
or cupboard. A paper bag is easily
slipped over a pitcher or platter of food
to protect it.
Save your clean paper bags.
Keep your ice box clean and filed
with ice If possible.
Don't leave food standing around I'M
kitchen or living room.
Don't stand 1T in a sink or washtub.l
Keep your garbage can clean and COW,
cred, and don't stand it neal the ice
box or where You keep food.
Protect All God From Flies-Wash
thoroughly all meat, fish andsvegetablest
and fruit before using.
Boil or filter the drinking water If II
is not clear.
Don't let drinking water stand UNI
covered. The air of living rooms. is full,
dirt from human ~brea4hEand human;
bodies; therefore air youIsNSooms daily.
Keep your cooking Utensils clean
and off the floor.
Vermln n mice carry infection,
They never stay in clean places.
Don't serve O on a@sdiEty table,
nor from dirty utensils. Kespathe dish,
pan clean, n eyerythingasl else that a
must be clean. Typhoid fever has been.
contracted from dirty hands.
Keep flies out of your house. espe-
cially the kitchen.
A Few Milk Rules.
tuberculosis kills 5,0oNDDDapeople n
n.ually. It may be carried through in
milk.
ba ss1set Clean : m'lh, a'af5ss who s,st has n. clean! ssa
ans clean bottles.
Do not select a milkYnan because ho
sells milk cheap.
Refuse milk that shows sa-deposit Of.
dirt In the bottom of the bottle.
Do not forget thas dirt IN milk is Q
to health.
Do not forget hat dirty milk may
kill the baby.
Always keep pasteurized.s milk cool.
Use at once. Dc not forgetAhat germs
more rapidly In pa~steurized
milk than in any other.
Do not leave milk uncovered any
Do not.leave milk In d warm room
unehiiled Ice box. PEpAect it from
DO not leave It oMtsaSpfsasdoors IN
the sun, or exposed to catsnRand dogs.
Do not use the milk bottles for any
thing but milk
Wash and scald nailkIbotfIes as soon
as ennptied. Return c~1eanssbottles to
the n1ilkman.s Buy only bottled milk
IL possible.
While these tt.maxfms'' may horrify
some good housekeeperS who would
never think of being gutlty4pfthe neg
implied, there are Homes with
out number, nice homes. Zoo, where
sanitary and hygienic ruIeHsare yio-
lated constantly. In some bf sthese it is
because the housekeeper is young or
inexperienced. In others, here the,
care of the kitchen ana rnaTketine aro
left entirely to servants ignorant or
constitutionalIy careless.