Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-06-14

Wood alcohol fumes do not take imme-
date effect. They rarely manifest any &C
ton until after the lapse of eighteen to
twenty-four hours. Then dizziness may ap-
pear, followed by partial or complete blind
ness. We might remember, in passing that
breathing small quantities of wood alcohol
fumes at intervals may cause weakness OF
the eyes, or defects in vision. If your eyes
smart after visit to the barber, or after in
haling some of your favorite perfume, or
even from the fumes Of your chatting dish,
you had better change BARRIERS, or dispense
with that perfume, or substitute something
for wood alcohol in your chatting dish.
The BARRIERS clippers should be thorough
ly boiled, like any other surgical instrument,
before being used on a trusting customer.
1t is the pet vehicle of the little, berrylike
germ of boils. Many hearty man whose
neck neer bent to boss or tyrant, such as
bend his neck in any direction-so that it
will be in the line of least resistance to full
grown boil. And once these germs get into
the body, they may travel at their leisure
through the circulation, and eventually take
up homestead claim where they will be
most useful to themselves and most OBJ
noMous to their host. If you want to stop
having boils on your neck, wear loose, non
cha6ng collars, and be sure your BARRIERS
clippers are Ster1l1Zed.
THEORETICALLY, the surest possible
way to avoid contracting barber borne
diseases is to shave yourself and cut your
own hair. As this is not feasible, and as
civilization is steady progress from the
simple to the complex, and for the reason
that with all his faults we love him still,
We'll have to retain the barber-but purified
and made over.
He, quite naturally, does not mean to
maintain a microbe exchange. He does 1t
unconsciously, because he doesn't know any
better. So it devolves upon us to educate
him. Teach him the rudiments of the germ
fact" of disease, and give him some knowl-
edge of antiseptics. Any intelligent man
should be able in two days to acquire a
practical working knowledge of all that is
necessary for him to know in order to run a
sanitary shop that really would be sanitary.
Then the barber himself should be thor
oughly searched at intervals. If found to be
suffering from dandruff, itch, acne, boils, or
other contagious Diseases he should be sent
to a hospital, treated at public expense, and
not be permitted to work again until cured.
Also no one suffering from an infectious dis
ease should be served in public barber shop.
Make the sanitary barber shops" SAM
tary. If it is not possible to give aseptic
service at the present charges, Tie pllCt
should be raised. Perhaps, for those unable
to pay for sterile treatment, free barber
clinics could be maintained, and BARRIERS
paid by the State could keep her loyal sons
free from scabies and eczema.
BARRIERS should also understand that it is
absolutely useless to sterilize razor, and
then rub it on an infected strop; and that
even if they sterilize both razor and strop,
as well as their hands and towels, so long as
they continue to use shaving brush they
are bound to convey disease germs.
If BARRIERS would provide themselves with
extra sets of instruments, and throw razors,
shears, tweezers, combs, and brushes, and
all tools used in their work into sterilizer,
to be boiled, as any dentist or surgeon boils
his instruments before using, they would do
much to prevent infection.
Razor strops should be sterilized by some
suitable method, as should all towels. Who
ever receives money and makes change
should do nothing else. All vaseline, cocoa
butter, and pastes should be kept in col
lapsible tubes, and the old-style jars should
be thrown into the ashcan.
Soap and powder and piece of fresh alb
sorbent cotton for each patron should re-
place the old shaving mug and brush. And
the general standard of care and discrimina-
ton should be raised