Kingsbury County independent. (DeSmet, Kingsbury County, S.D.) 1894-1929, 1908-08-14
SANITARY RULES IN
The HOUSEkEER
The Housewife Should Il
That AL Supplies Are
Pure and Clean.

Line IOOu COluiIilLtSt VI the MAJ
Consumers league. with headqua
in New York city, has just issu
leafiet of sanitary maxims which
housewife should read 60 eeli intel
consumers what they will not
and manufacturers Will fall In Ii
they know that there will be no
for their products unless they cor
to the pure food laws. Among
''maxims'' are the following:
Dirt, danger, disease:
"Clean water, clean food.
streets, clean houses, keep us heal
At the store-buy food at the {
est stores only.
Buy only clean, fresh food.
Refuse to take food handled by
hands. Insist upon it's being
wrapped. Paper bags are best.
Buy only the purest candles.
Is the candy pure and clean
your children buy from the pushc
Do not buy decayed fruit becal
is cheap.
Do not buy bread and cake at
bakeries. Look into the baking |
If possible. Are they clean?
Examine the packages of cereal
worms before cooking. Package
standing often become infested
worms and are sometimes found a
best stores.
Does your grocer keep his butte
milk in clean, cold places anC
they covered? Does he keep hts cal
figs, dates, berries, lettuce, bread.
exposed to flies and dust from
street, in shop or show windows?
carry dirt and disease to food and
Are your grocer, butcher and
cleanly in person? Are their c
cleanly?
Urge them to keep their goods Of
sidewalk. There is danger of dh
in street dirt. Ask the delicate
storekeeper and the pushcart ma
keep their eatables covered. Refu;
buy food sold in open buckets "
stand in the store day after day
In the Kitchen.
Keep all food covered in the Ice
or cupboard. A paper bag is ca
slipped over a pitcher or platter Of
to protect 1t.
Save your clean paper bags.
Keep your ice box clean and
with ice If possible.
Don't leave food standing arour
kitchen or living room.
Don't stand IT in a sink or was
Keep your garbage can clean and
cred, and don't stand it near tn
box or where you keep food.
Protect All Food From Plies
thoroughly all meat, fish and yeget
and fruit before using.
Boil or filter the drinking water
is not clear.
Don't let drinking water stand
covered. The air of living rooms !
of dirt from human breath and hi
bodies; therefore air your rooms
Keep your cooking utensils
and off the floor.
Vermin and mice carry infe
They never stay in clean places.
Don't serve food on a dirty
nor from dirty utensils. Keep the
pan clean, and everything else tina
to do with food. The cooks ]
must be clean. Typhoid fever has
contracted from dirty hands.
Keep flies out of your house.
the kitchen.
A Few MIX Rules.
tuberculosis kills 5000, 600 peopl
nually. 1t may be carried throug
fected milk.
Select a milkman who has
clean clothes. clean w
clean cans. clean bottles.
Dc not select a milkman becau
milk cheap.
Refuse milk that shows a depo
dirt In the bottom of the bottle.
Do not forget that dirt i'm milk
menace TO health.
Do not forget that dirty milk
kill the baby.
Always keep pasteurized milk
Use at once. Do not forget that 5
multiply rapidly I'm pastel
milk than in any other
Do not leave milk uncovered
where.
Dc not leave milk in a warm
unchilled ice box. Protect II
flies. Do not leave IT put of doe
the sun, or exposed to cats and d,
Do not use the milk bottles for
thing but milk.
Wash and scald milk bottles as
as emptied. Return clean bottl
the milkman. Buy only bottled
IL possible.
While these "maxims'' may h,
some good housekeepers, who
- .I -
ligence implied. there are homes
out number. nice homes, too. v
sanitary and hygienic rules are
lated constantly. In some of these
because the housekeeper is your
inexperienced. In others, here
care of the kitchen and marketin
left entirely to servants ignoral
constitutionally careless.