The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1924-03-08

some Just about az Gar AZ they can
Ia tho matter OF aanitation and that
from now on the only Improvement
We eaa leik for la tho matter OF
the public health viii have 10 be
supplied by tho individual. In other
words. our fellow countrymon must
be educated In the matter OF per.
sonal ana homo sanitation"
well. u IL my opinion" Ulysses
Gruhh declared. that human beings
are just as dirty and inshnltary M
they ever we've. that they prefer "a
live that way and that they resent
and resist any intimntion that they
aren't ~ Glenn and healthy as they
ought 10 be-"
You iIhhoring jackdawr' cappy
blazod az tho mlsanthroplo Grub.
How Ions Is Il since you've seen
a frowsy old housewife drift into the
butcher shop 20 buy a chuck roast
and. preliminary 60 buying. make a
round OF all the prime cutA jabblnE
them with her unmanicurod index
finger 10 SEQ n they were tender or
othcrsiscg''
I've never seen that done"
Well have. Ulysses. Forty
years ESQ that was a common sight
IN buioherahops. The butchers didn't
know any better themselves. so they
allowed H. Finally. sensible. clean
people commenced 10 object because
they were the buyers OF the prime
cuts. No the butchers commenced 10
azx the finger. pokora. with the re-
suit that gradually the habit was
discouraged and died out with that
generation, Then hoarda OF health
commenced 10 discover things about
flies. with tho result that meats
vents under glass case which com.
pieteiy flahhorEastod tho last OF the
finger.pokers, II any. and by the
way. have you seen any fancy edged.
ooiored forests OF papers on butch.
crshop ceilings for Giles 20 hide in.
lately7"
mot since l was a boy" Mr..
Grub admitted.
They Just aren't Ulysses. and
tho reason they aren't Ia because
butchers have found Il cheaper and
easier TO gct rid OF flies altogether
than maintain paper junglsa for
them 10 reside in Man. think OF the
centuries Of Ignorance during which
alleged intelligent butchers spent
good money 10 coddlc nie8. ny the
way. Ulysses. whore worp you born
and ralsed.''
''on a cattle ranch In Eastern
Idaho. cappy."
~I'li bet a eookey your mother
used 10 throw the dishwatsr out tho
front door
she had definite purpose IA
doing Il. at any rata Mr. Grub de.
Tended I'm thnao days every
mnchcr'H wife threw hsr dshwater
cut into the front yard. but my
mother didn't have any front yard.
She had n garden In froat OF the
farmhouse and roses In the garden
and she irrigated the roses with the
dlss water"
And attracted flies 10 pick on
you ~ you lay helpless In your crib
You being 10 rcd and sticky. doubt
less. they mistook you for a rose.
Ulysses. did you ever have a ring.
wormT''
"F'reaucniiy--as n child"
That's because you played with
cats and because tho cats played
with rats and mice a while before
killing them and because tho rats
and mIco played in NTH before the
cats killed them. and tho nth was
present becnuso-well. don't care
TO insult your family. 20 ! Will
merely remind you that rinKworm
has gone. practically out Of fashion.
even on farms. because farmers have
been told BY tho bulletins 0f the
public health service that rats and
mice will not stick around where
waste food II not thrown out into the
front yard with the dinhwatcr; con-
scaucnfiy. with the disappearance Of
rodents tho necessity for maintaining
all tho cats in tho world Il gradu.
ally disappearing Exit cat. exit
ringworm. Simple. isn't it,
I'VE do live and learn J. Angus.
tus Redcll agreed with cappy. ~
darczay tho manufacture and sale
Of lightning rods has fallen Off about
90 per cent In tho past 20 years"
Remember how VIC use 10 put a
piece Of red flannel rag or chunk
OF biuestone In kerosene lamp to
keep Il from expioding7" cappy re.
minded his little audience. Who
can doubt the spread Of education
in Wow OF these facts.''
'wcil. there are people residing
in Southern California who still wear
red flannel underwear. cnppy."
such atrocities will die with the
wcarers." cappy declared. THE rca.
son IN that rcd flannel underwear N
no longer advertised. Do you ro-
member. Augustus. that as late Ms