Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1913-03-13
EVER LOOK FOR
HIDDEN BAC|LLI?
SATURDAYS THE DAY WHEN WI
GET RID or ALL THE OLD
TRASH IN TOWN.
CLEAN UP. CLEAN UP!
II You Haven't Got Time Yourself,
Let the salvation Army Furnish
Assistance.

Rreathes there a man with soul so
dead who never to himself hath said:
"Wcll, for the love of Old Stoney-
brook Look hence at yonder back
lot Look thence at yonder front
lawn. Gad2ooks! Elftsoons! ! wot
not such accumulations Of trash could
occur in less than five years, BY my
halibut, as well as by the salt mack
erel which grape-sugared my mouth
AT this a. ms meal Will | this day
cause such dsntigratng offalness to
be generalized into piles and heaps.
Then will ! call up the health de-
partment Of the Wonder City on the
Arkansas and tell them to send one
of the mule teams in a hurry"
Any Kind of Wings.
And then will come one of the
mule teams. if the foregoing fellow
who just discovered his soul. Will put
in his call to the health department,
and said-mule team will bear away
on the wings of morning, or after
noon or night, or any other old kind
of wings. all OF the hye-year old
filth that has accumulated on his
property in the past few months.
Don't Mind the Ncighbor.
And there is some filth, too,
around that home of yours. There
may be some more filth just across
the line fence" between you and
your nelghbor's place, but your
neighbor hasn't any monopoly on the
filth habit. However clean your prem
ises may be, you can always dig
enough to fill a piano box or two II
you look around a bit. Go look in that
old closet up stairs, right now. See
that old trash in there? Yep, there
in the corner is that old bottle
nearly always a bottle of some kind
: VI in that closet, but that doesn't ne
ccssarily cast any aspersion on your
habits Of tcmperance-and when you
put that bottle there one day last
summer, you tired to hide it with a
pair of old suspenders which you
"sweatcd OUT twenty-seven years ago
and rotted the rubber until ii stuck
oJt here and there ike basting thread
in a skirt that has gone through fun
season Of blackberry picking.
Kcr-Choe!
Ninety billion of germs to the
square inch is a conservative estimate
IN relation to that handkerchief in
your last summers coat pocket My,
you had an awful time with that sum-
mer-cold -hay-feVer session last Aug
ust and September! Johnny, too, has
helped you out in filling up that
place. He has used it as refuse es-
tab tshment for tho undesira BILE
things from his experimental station
in the attic, and there's all kinds Of
germs and bacilli and bacteria and
microbes and barnacles and micro
ccccl and whatisits and there-they-
come c-after-uses in the things he has
left there unbeknown to you or
mother, and as you don't care much.
and mother has had the rheumatics
for the past six months, there's been
a regular carnival of deadly para
phernalia going on in that old closet
for the past year.
Begin at the Bottom.
You've got to get in and clean 1t
out before any good is done All the
fumigating on top of earth won't do
any good You can shoot disinfect-
ants In there with fire hose and
spray the entire landscape with car
belle acid, but II won't do any good
unless the seat OF the trouble is vac
cinated with a good kick. You can
pasteurize and FriedmaniZe and anti
Septic and sulphate dioxide and cor
rosive sublmate the walls and the
ceiling an dthe floor and then put
on mayonaise dressing of coal tar,
sulphur. crude oil chloride of lime.
formaldehyde. chlorine. rat biscuit
and roach paste thick enough to stop
n 1iinch shell-but why not merely
go in there and kick the germs out
Of the back window and yell for the
health department like a house on
FIRE Kick the stufln out'n them
only put the remains in a box or a
barrel or trash can, because the
drivers Of the health departments
trash collecting brigade positively re-
fuse to scoop up trash from the
ground. And they won't come in on
your premises to get the box or bar
rel or can, either-you've got to put
~ ii1hA 'iNh ilfNl W Allf ulltN
or stick II right out in the alley. Put
II right where it can't help but be
noticed.
Mosquito Eggs.
But it's not only In the closet and in
the attic or in the corners of the
bath room where there has been high
jubilee among the death dealing mi
crobes-should shay not There's
enough old rotten stuff out in the
back yard to clog a seventeen-foot
sewer at the hour of midnight. Under
that piece of board there, there are
eight hundred and ninety-seven cock
reaches by guess. Actual count
would perhaps boost the figures. but
III estir .ating populations in Tulsa,
everybody is conservative. Just one
little old board the size of the pam
of mans hand is a-nawful thing
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