Kingsbury County independent. (DeSmet, Kingsbury County, S.D.) 1894-1929, 1908-08-14
SANITARY RULES FOR
THE HwOUSEkEEPER
The Housewife Should Know
That ALI Supplies Are
Pure and Clean.

Consumers league, with headquarters
in New York city, has just issueo q
,eatlet OF sanitary maxinns which every
housewife should read to tell intelligent
consumers what they win not have,
ana manufacturers will fall In line IL
they know that there will be no SAFE
for their products unless they CONFORM
10 the pure food laws. Anon the
"maxims'' are the following;
Dirt, danger, disease:
"Clean water, clean FOOD, ciean
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 ood handle by dirty
hands. Insist upon its being Wen
wrapped. Paper bags are best.
Buy My the purest candles.
Is the candy pure n clean that
your children buy from the ~pushcart?
Do not buy decayed fruit because AZ
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, cold places and are
they covered? Does he keep hts ndie
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 danger of disease
in street dirt. Ask the delicatessen
keep their eatables covered. Refuse TO
buy food ole in open buckets which
stand in the store day after day. i
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 1t.
Save your clean paper bags.
Keep your ice box clean and filled
with ice If possible.
Don't leave food standing around In
kitchen or living room.
Don't stand 1t in a sink or washtuo.
Keep your garbage can clean and COW
cred, and don't stand it near the ice
box or where you keep o
Protect All Food From Flies-WaSh
thoroughly all meat, fish and vegetables
and fruit before using.
Boil or filter the drinking water If it
is not clear.
Don't let drinking water stand un-
covered. The air Of living rooms is fuii
of dirt from human breath and human
bodies; therefore air your rooms daily.
Keep your cooking utensils clean
and off the floor.
Vermin and mice carry Infection.
They never stay in clean places.
Don't serve food on a dirty table
nor from dirty utensils. Keep the dish
pan clean, and everything else that has
to do with food. The cooks hands
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 5000, 900 people an
nually. 1t may be carried through in
fected milk.
Select a milkman who has clean
hands. clean clothes, clean wagon.
clean cans. clean bottles.
Do not select a milkrnan because he
sells milk cheap
Refuse milk that shows a deposit Of
dirt in the bottom of the bottle.
Do not forget that dirt in milk is q
menace to health.
Do not forget that dirty milk a
Kill the baby.
Always keep p~asteurized milk cool.
Use at once. Do not forget that germs
multiply more rapidly In ~pasteurized
milk than in any other
Do not leave milk uncovered any
where.
Do not leave milk in a warm room
or unchilled ice box. Protect il from
flies. Do not leave it put of doors in
the SUI or exposed to cats and dogs.
Do not use the milk bottles for ny
thing but milk.
Wash and scald milk bottles as soon
as emptied. Return clean bottles TO
the milkman. Buy only bottled milk
IL possible.
While these "maxims'' may horrisy
some good housekeepers, who would
never think Of being guilty of the neg
ligence implied. there are homes with
out number, nice homes. too. where
sanitary and hygienic rules are vio-
lated constantly. In some of these ID IN
because the housekeeper is young or
inexperienced. In others, here tho
care of the kitchen and marketing are
left entirely to servants ignorant or
constitutionally careless.