Show I Chautauqua Salute Menace to Health WILLIAM C WOODWARD DR health ofllcer of tho District of Columbia Is In favor of abolishing tho only form of athletics Indulged in by members and graduates of the Chau tauqua literature and reading circle Ho says that the Chautauqua salute Is a menace to health The salute as all Chautauquans know IB a waving of tho handkerchief when friends make a hit on the lecture lec-ture platform or sail away for distant lands Everybody waves and everybody every-body Is happy provided that one doen not overtax his or her energy The custom of waving a handkerchief handker-chief vigorously tho air says Dr Woodward is dangerous Nearly ev ory contagious disease can bo communicated com-municated in tills manner if the handkerchief hand-kerchief Is slightly soiled If tho linen lin-en square has just been purchased or has come straight from the laundry there is not time slightest danger but the waving of a handkerchief that has been used even once Is harmful When a handkerchief Is waved the wind blows tho germs from It Ty phold fever scarlet fever tuberculosis tuberculos-is smallpox and chlckcnpox measles leprosy and diphtheria may bo thus spread The Chautauqua salutors criticise the health officers remarks Dr Woodward does not knowwhat ho is talking about said a young woman wo-man Wo never carry soiled hand kcrchles |