Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1910-07-21

Don't Half Believe It!
Just at this time Science and
the Physicians, are trying to
create the opinion that the dead
ly little Microbe lives upon the
lips of every pretty lady, just
waiting to light upon every one
who dares to steal a kiss from
such tempting lips!
We don't half believe such re-
ports. The practice of kissing
has been as common among the
nations of the earth as to breath
the free air of heaven. ever
since the morn when Mother
Eve first kissed her first born
boy Cain, and the fashion has
continued in existence, and to
grow in popularity from that
day to this.
That the practice of all USE
ing or drinking from a common
cup on the railroad trains, and
in hotels and public watering
stations, ought to be discontin-
ued, is certainly true, but n. t
from fear of that little, deadly
microbe, but rather from useing.
a common cup used by the to-
bacco chewer and smoker, or
the whisky drinker, a habit dis
gushing to social custom and
Objectionable to many.
We know a man who has been
known to kiss mother, wife, sis
ter, daughter, pretty girls, wild
ows, grass. widows and the old
maids, and no microbe interfear-
ed, the man has weatherei the
storms of life for nearly ninety
years and is vet hail and hearty
and with no fear Of or from all
these death dealing microbes.
AS we'll try to learn the little
busy bee not to sip the honey of
growing flower, or the humming
bird not to drink the dewdrop
from the petal of the rose, as to
try to change the custom of the
ages in this matter. 1t is as
common, when friends meet or
part, as it is to shake hands, and
like the injunction to the wine
bibber, "Not to tarry too long
at the wine cup" there is the
only danger of the microba.
1t may be impudence or gno.
rance, or perhaps both, not to
believe in this late Scientific
scare of the deadly invisible in.
sect called a microbe, but if so,
we plead guilty to one or both
of these charges, and trust to
luck for salvation from it's dead
ly power. Like many other late
"fads," it will have It's day.
1t is the outgrowth of that
higher education that has, of
late, discovered so many new
ideas, in regard to health, that
we hardly feel safe to breath
the air for fear some little in
sect, too small to be seen, yet
so deadly that the mere touch
is certain death. We are told
that disease is communicated by
a microbe, and that there are as
many kinds of these microbes as
there are diseases, but that all
are related, and to kiss is to en-
danger your life. 1t may all be
true, but we have lived a long
time, right among these little
d--s and suffered no harm, but
science and learning have so
declared, and the ignorant heads
must bow to science or get out
of the way so that knowledge
will protect the lives of the hu-
man family. So far as we per-
sonally are concerned. it is no
difference whether microbes ex-
list or not, they cannot cheat
us out of many days, so let the
microbe work and let the kiss
ing business be stopped if possible
LIT they can. We would however,
advocate the use of the person
al drinking cup, on all trains,
and personal places, not from o
fear of the microbe so much as
from common decency and a
desire not to come in contact
with undesirable parties who
use the public drinking cup.
d. M. H.
Williams Kidney Pills