The silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1909-1925, 1915-07-17
LOOK OUT, OR THE
GERMS WILL GET YOU

If the medical fraternity do not stop
discovering disease germs and the way
the pesky things are carried and alb
sorbed into the human system. there
will be nothing left for the people to
10 in order to keep well but to wash
in the creek, sleep on the grass and
rim around without any clothes on.
Disease germs and modern conven-
'enees seem to come to us in the same
package
Not long ago kissing was tabooed
by the doctors. When you kiss your
best girl by the old garden gate be-
meath the silyery moon, yon and the
girl are simply both swapping an as
sortment of tiny bugs that are liable
TO land either or both of Won in the
hospital. And now a physician says
that toothbrushes are the worst kind
OF breeding spots for germs-even
worse than towels and drinking cups.
1t appears that whatever touches
our persons should never be used more
than once, and should be soaked "a
hours in a solution of alcohol, I've and
carholic acid before applying.
All underwear, hosiery, and even
shoes, should be burned before retir-
ing, and paiamas should go to the bon
fire the first thing in the morning, to-
gether with the bedding and mattress.
A man is allowed to wear the same
pair of pants three or four days, pro.
viding he has them examined by the
board of health. It's the same way
with the ladies' gowns. Under no. cir
cumstances should handkerchiefs be
used. When you want to blow your
nose, take it to a plumber, and demand
a new blow-pipe for the operation.
Never get into a bathtub where any
body else has bathed, or eat with a
knife and fork that another has used.
are exposed to the germs every
time you do these things. Do not
breathe the same air that you have
freathed before, nor sit on a chair
that has previously been sat on. Ev-
cry sitting matches germs that are wait
ing to inf1ict themselves on the next
In fact, it is better not to sit
at all. Keep moving, or the germs
viii get you.
Disease germs are not known to
travel, except when carried by some
such means as MOSQUITOES, flies and
rumor. Clothing made in sweatshops
furnishes a convenient vehicle to car
~ germs
Also wells dug adjacent to a barn
ward or cesspool. Rivers and streams.
into which cities and towns dump their
sewage are great resorts for germs. 1t
that about the only safe drink
place these DAYS is a brewery.
Germs exist in everything we devour
that has been handled by human hands.
such food is unfit TO to eat. The
butcher and baker and cook should be
provided with disinfeeted gloves. Far
mers and truck gardeners should wear
a suit of rubber tights soaked in BIZ
chloride of lime.
There are many other precautions
that people should observe in order to
keep strong and healthy, that are too
numerous to mention. Among these
nav be cited the Democratic and Re-
publican parties-manv a poor work
in eman has wasted away from assoeia
ton with these. Also, if you value
your health, avoid war. Wal contains
more deadly germs than all the other
foul things known.
All germs, we are told, come from
filth.
TT seems too bad we are not socially
and physically clean.
We would then have no germs TO al
fret us.-H. Teiehnor, in the Ripsaw.