The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1909-01-26

Writes interestingly on the Sui
iect-"Wc Do Inherit Tubcrclcs. Nul
by Blood, But in Blankets. Carpet
and i'm the Clothes of Dear One
Who Have Worn Them Throu2lt
All the Weary Journey to the Grave.
Tho Legislature Should Stretch
a Helping Hand TO These Wan and
Weary Victims Painting, Strugeling
for Breath.
Greensboro Record.)
The Record has received the fol
lowing from a lady we'll known i'm
Greensboro and AXE pleasure in
publishing it, Withholding the name
on account of the personal nature of
h articles:
Nothing in The Record so inter
ests me as your occasional warning
about tuberculosis.
Il notice that you do not quit.
accept the theory that the diseasc
is a physical inheritance. l believe
that the experience of those who
have watched it's victims will teach
us that it is true. My own life is
one Illustration OF this truth. Ny
mother died of pulmonary consump-
ton as it was then called because
men knew nothing about tubercles.
She had been i'll of it five or sin
years before my birth and died when
l was two years old. Three children
survived her. No m ,0f us has had
it, though it had been in her family
for generations.
My husband died of it.. His vas
the first case in the family of his
father or mother. He contracted il
in a boarding house.
There is a large connection in
one of u State counties through
which it has stalked unchecked TIL
and children were its victims for
nearly a century. Changes in indus
trial conditions have sent many Of
the young people from the old homes
They and their children, as q rule,
have ESCAPED it.
1--WE do inherit tubercles-not i'll
blood but in blankets, carpets and in
the clothes of dear ones who have
worn them through all the weary
journey to the grave.
mo one viii impugn the house
keeping of our mothers. but we re-
membe the dark parlorS where the
handsome carpets and damask cur
tains were protected from the suns
fading and purifying rays. A house
looded with sunshine was considered
almost vulgar. The whole house was
swept certainly and busted, yes. but
haste was made to draw the shutter
btIOIc any germ cOuld tlc III JlI'
corners, in the velvet Of the carpet.
or the old of the curtains. Thesc
dark, cool rooms We're the favorite
resting places for the invalids.
W. who have arrived at middlr
age know that the bed blankets;
indiscriminatcly by the family, sick
or we'll. Children slept with sick
parents. h healthy girl or boy was
bed-fe1oW with the precious sister or
bIn Or 90 fast ~ Esno frnr,a hnp1N
When death released this one, the
clothes. books, toilet articles, We're
treasured as the most sacred con
tents of the home. They were laid
away in dark closets to be visited
now and then in loving memory. If
they felt that so much that was good
be Of service, the effects were
distributed among kindred or friends.
thus passing on from one to another
the death dealing germs.
I'm. spite of the widespread en-
lightenment on this subject. much
of this sentiment is yet INDUCED
in. / was visiting u country ON
last summer. In moving the furni-
ture to sweep, | found "a box covered
with a wooden cOunterpane. Before
| moved it, a little girl exclaimed:
Oh please do not move that. NV
aunt packed the box and coyeTEer
n says 1T nv died severa
she left it, The auntiosIs ana 91Neld
years ago Of tubered. She niana d rev
days before she dox where go t.eSt
effects in this med. Only @lHc'
It has remaifowed '"oepihG
around At is AZ mothers and Soma T..
Educated ajtrse M5lnrGs ca!l clean an
otherwise. II find but fe,. g'lseder> very
have learned to dust. The our girls
oIousiy every -pIece OF furnitnm VIZ
feather dustcr as they ran the
with a dry broom.
In washing glass and china. they
apparently know nothing about the
sterilizing effect of boiling water
Verify our Industrial schools have
grave responsibility upon them
Extremes meet in Utmost cNe< y
crisis when men set out to accom-
plish any great work in the existing 4
vigorous war against the great Whlte ]
plague too many are apt to stltie pity
for the present sufferers; IN their
anxiety for Themselves. or their fam
lies Hardly any sHch cruelty is
to any other class of unfortun-
ates. If q consumptive has no homet
God pity him People, otherwIst
kindly disuosed. will leave him 10
himself because they are afraid. The |
orphan the aged, the insane, IS CARED
for tenderly by the State or by Tin
church. But for the consumptlvc,
there is no retreat except at q cost
greater than the average family can
afford. In our large cities are sani-
forums for the poor but for the in
valids in the country homes whose
friends know least how 10 care for
them. what is done? An institution
in North Carolina for the care of
these is about to he opened, we hope
but will it accommodate the multitude
who need its careH
F.NVilI our legislature stretch out
helping hand to these wan n Wearj
victims painting, struggling f.
breath. as they move on surely con
dernned to the most hcart-rending
deaths with no hope of reprieve
conditions are today in North Care
lina2"
Possibly the hold-up man takes