Norwich bulletin., 1915-09-18
BLAMING IT ON THE GERM

if they made any. remarks at all. would | have commented on how good every | thing tasted when eaten by the shore. |
 Now, in the course of time Bobby's | people will return to town, possibly | to have no unpleasant reminders of ] that bakers. bread and all the un- seen dust and germs attached there to. and for which the baker gets no pay.
 On the other hand, the family may be scarcely well established in their city home, when some member of the household may be taken down with what is suspiciously like typhoid Then what hue and cry there will arise, about the dangerous character of the milkman's supply, or of the city wateri
 And all the time. perhaps, the dead ly internal abscesses may be the nat ural outgrowth of the careless use of what had been contaminated by the reins. or the fish bait, or the kitchen flies.
 A camping party starts of for stroll. An! Here are such tempting red apples, hanging low over the road sidel
 They are anybody's who will take the trouble to pick them; and each member of the careless group feasts. Not one takes the time and pains to pare the fruit, but all swallow with the apple skin the particles of dust which have been flying along that post road since the fruit first set. Is 1t wonder that much of the post summer result is illness in one form or another?
 Now, nature provided a safeguard for just such eases, in some instances making the covering of fruit and nuts and vegetables so forbidding that one has to remove it. if one would get at the palatable portions.
 Nobody tries to eat the skin of the banana, the burr of the chestnut, the rind of the orange.
 But there are countless laZy people who will never take the trouble to pare a peach, or throw away grape skin; who will say. of a strawberry:
 "oh, you lose the flavor, if you wash the berries!" We'll. better lose the flavor than eat grit, slime, hardened dust, maybe the poisonous powder put on other things in the garden to des- troy insect pests, and which has been blown over the berries Even though one has picked the berries ones self, that is no reason why they should not be washed, and washed repeatedly and carefully.
 Isn't 1t nice, to eat, in a restaurant or at one's own table, huckleberrtes and blackberries mixed with little bits of twig, parts of leaves, dried berries which have fallen into the pail? And all because people are really too sloth- full to see that these and similar ber- ries are washed clean.
 AIacLI Summer outings are respon- sible for many more things than coats of tan and money all spenti With the idea of taking 1t easy, | many campers and others will subsist during an entire season on a diet of canned foods. There will be fresh vegetables almost for the asking. fresh grains not so far away, or so high in price. But they are out to eliminate
 work as far as possible from theiI | daily schedule; and so they cut out
 cooking whenever possible. | It frequently happens that, after .
 can of something has been opened there Is carelessness about leaving the | substance in its can. Campers never \ seem to have enough boiling water tC | properly wash their dishes or to ster-
 ilize their cooking utensils Possibly that can, in its deadly form of food which has been acted upon by the oxy- gen of the air. may be lazily utilized to supplx another meal. Often ther' | will be quick results in the shape o ptomaiDe poison. Nobody planes eith' CT the canned stuff or the lazy camper
 but again there will be loud outer!
 against impure milk or contaminated
 water!
 The evil results may not nnanifes
 themselves until weeks after vacation
 has ended; and all the time the vaca
 tionists have been carrying around il
 their systems the accommodating pois ons. When these begin to get busy
 and levers or other maladies develop
 myi what long names the specialist
 will give the troubles. and what leaT7> ed remarks will be heard anent tn
 deadly germs which infest the inno
 cent looking river bank or pasture lot
 or shore dunesl Everybody takes
 fling at the poor germ. while not on
 word is said about the careless, in
 dolent, over-eating. uncleanly camp
 eri
 Why don't these specialists take foe their own size. instead of alway
 swatting the little germ? Another danger turks about in tn summer custom of going so much un } qloved. The woman who will handl her nickel car-fare-Eome few actuall hold dimes and nickels In their mouth I-will later sit at a luncheon table, O
 break off a wafer or pinch off a bi of cake, while cooling herself wit | an ice, or drinking a. cup of tes with the same f1ngers-and. of cours' ! unwashed. Dropping a letter in a ma ' box, turning a door knob. graspin } the handrail of a car or train, in ? thousand ways the uncovered hand 3 can collect such deadly dirt, that thos 3 horrible pictures we are shown of tn r filthy feet of the house fly seem i'm r maculate in comparison. r Let us take more precautions our r seelves, and when we offend in thi
 matter of cleanliness. let us be -fai 8 not blaming everything on the Doc wee germl
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