The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-04-17
B0WSER SAVES FAMILY
But the Cook Is UngratefuI and
Quits Her Job.
Mr. Bowser is not eccentric
He is not irresponsible.

Quits Her Job.
| Mr.. Bowser is not eccentric
He is not irresponsible.
He has bought burglar alarms.
| He. has invested in nine kinds of
fire, escapes.
He has kept cows and pigs and
chickens.
He has bought little less than a
car load of patent cures.
He has, according to his diagnosis
had every ailment on the list of hui
man ailments.
All this and a heap more. and vet
he is not far ahead of the average
husband.
1t is that every new idea looks
good to him. and he wants to be
helping to shove the old world along
his office. a sudden thought made him
start and turn pale. He didn't wait
two minutes before taking action. He
| rushed down stairs into a
drug store-rushed home.
Mrs Bowser noted his excited look
and the package under his arm, and
was at the door to exclatm:
IF anything has happened why
didn't you telephone me? What is
wrong, and what have you got there?
Don't keep me in suspense!"
Don't ask me any questions now!'
he replied as he dropped his hat on
man in danger.
rs anything wrong-are you sick ?"
she anxiouSly demanded.
Don't say q word-not word, and
don't bother me for ten minutes. I
hope I'm in time to avert the dan
|gerl"
She turned pale and fell into
chair, and he hurriedly broke the
tho three quart bottles which COM
prised its contents and rushed up
stairs. down the back stairs, down
into the basement and up again. A
strange, disagreeable odor followed
him as he hustled. around, and by the
time he had returned to the sitting
room Mrs. Bowser had recovered sur
ficiently to ask: --'
Mr.. Bowser, what on earth are
you doing and what in the name of
goodness is that stuff"
What have been doing? Saving
our lives. Mrs. Bowser- saving our
lives and everyone under this roof"
But II didn't know our lives
were in danger!'~
fire from top to bottom, and the fire
men pitching our furniture out of the
windows you might possibly realize
the fact, but it has never struck you
that death silently turks in every
How you talk, Mr.. Bowser. What
has been the danger hanging over
us?"
Microbes, Mrs. Bowserl'' he whis-
pered as he sat down and wiped his
heated brow. Microbes and bac-
teria-millions of 'em!''
TT can't be!' she replied.
Cant it, You know nothing what
ever. about it! I do, of course, but
having so many other things to at
tend to this one slipped my mind I'M
til today.
But what causes that terrible
odor?''
On the contrary, rather like it. 1t /
is the odor of disinfectants, Mrs.
Bowser-the odor of something which
has no doubt saved our lives"
"How?''
by killing off the microbes and
bacteria, which would soon have en-
tered our systems and produced ter
rible illness, if not death"
We'll, suppose you know best"
she said as she opened a. window to
let a yard or two of the carbolic
smell dodge out.
Certainly 1 do. certainly. All hus-
bands do. Mrs. Bowser. let me draw
then realize the danger which men
aced u.s.
He drew a picture of that insect |
with his pencil and as she surveyed 1T !
Mice thing to have about forty of !
those birds cantering around through |
your system, eh 2?
where do they come FROM?
Sewer gas. BY this time tomor- |
row the house would have swarmed |
with them, and nothing on earth |
could nave saved US from IypnOlQ |
fever or diphtheria. If the microbe |
was the only thing to look out for 1 |
shouldn't have been so anxious, but
there is the bacteria"
whats that?"
Here is a picture of him. Comes
in the same way. and his mission is
to eat out the lungs. 1t is calculated
that 1000 of them will eat out the
strongest mans lungs in month"
"And they were in this house,:
Eyes, and ready to be absorbed in
to our systems. Not only ready, but
anxious
You are sure you don't mean cock
reaches? 1 saw two under the kitch-
en- sink yesterday. and was going to
ask you to get some powdered borax
Mrs. Bowser." he began, as he
stood up, "are you growing soft in
the top of your head? Do 1 know a
Bengal tiger from a woodchuck? ?"
II suppose So.
but / don't know microbe or a
bacteria from a cockroach!" he thun-
dered.
But I have never heard you speak
of them before, and ~
do you suppose that or any 9TH
er husband sits down and tells his
wife all he knows?" he shouted Be-
cause I haven't told you that a jack
rabbits legs have three joints is that
any reason why I haven't known it
for forty years2"
But this is medical science, isn't
it ~ she softly protested
And suppose it is? Do you sup
pose I've gone sloshing around all
these years with nothing but recipe