The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1910-01-07
SAN PLACED ON PUBLIC DRINK
ING CUP IN HOTELS, STATIONS
AND RAILWAYS.
ORDER BOARD Of HEALTH
April I is the Day Set-mereharts
WI Carry Folding Cups in Stock
as They Do cisars-Publie Schools
Have Already Eliminated the Cup

The city schools have already
done away with the public drinking
cup ard the W. G. r. T.. women
must take the cups from their
fountain.
Hotels. city halls, court houses.
railway stations and railway trains. .
Hobbies to all sky-scrapcrs and halls /
to all big building. restaurant .
in fact all places in their nature .
public. will come first of April .
hold no more welcome drinking
cups for the thirsty pubic
For an order from the state
board + health. to 20 into cffeot .
at that time, prohibits them. What .
has long been source of accom- /
modation, but in reality a breeding
ground for all manner OF disease, /
will he no more. and the man who
called on Lazarus was In no worse
fix than will be the parched ones
who. depending on the public FUN.
tain. expects free furnishing OF cups.
Ever now, in some of the hotels,
nd in many public places. the drink.
ing cup has been withdrawn This !s
no evidence of economy on the part
of the keepers of these places. but
comes in the way of gradual ed
ucation to a people which has been
depending on the public fCunt to
supply its thirst-reliever. In the
place of the cup. sitting on "A stand
or hung to chain where the hale
and hearty and the sick and the
lame, halt and the blind alike may
drink, there must be the individual
receptacle, of some sort or other
if he who is parching would par
take
This new law gives rise to an in
dustry which heretofore although in
existence. has never flourished with
vigor the 70 dingcup industry
These, made Sometimes f tin and
sometimes of paper preparation,
may be purchased for a small sum,
and easily fit the pocket. The one
who would drink. instead of reaching
for the same cup that many con
sumptive may have drunk from,
feels instead among his diary and
his fountair-pen and his check
book. until he feels the little flat
contraption. nudges it into cup
shape and turns II the faucet. Such
will be the case with every one
who would drink publicly after the
first OF April.
This law, published first few
days age with the rest of the rul-
ings of the board Of health, among
which are official bars to cracked
dishes in public restaurants. re
Quirements Of absolute sanitation IN
the handling of public foods, and the
like, physicians say, will greatly
decrease the spread of tuberculosis.
Germs of this disease are easily dis.
tributed by the drinking cup method
With over half-mi.lion consump-
tives over the country, travelling
from homes to health resorts, cups
on trains and In railway stations
and hotels are literally saturated
with these disease germs. say the
| authorities. Long use, without clean.
ing, is maintained In most CT the
places mentioned, and one vessel
| infected may distribute tuberculosis
to a countless number.
Consumption is contagious when
the person exposed Is In any way
run down physically, and may lodge
not on.y in the lungs. but in
weak knee or an ailing stomach. or
in any place about the body where
normal health has been dissipated
/ These weak parts. unless exposed,
may remain only weak throughout
life, physicians say. without much
harm to the one afflicted, but II
tubercular exposure Is made and
| the disease sets in, active inyalids
are exposed Cutting OF the drink
/ ing cup. resulting in slight incon-
venience for awhile will result even.
tua.ly in the public becoming used
| TO the change, and n decided de.
| praaga in tho tuharpular rata