Show 6 germs gerins in paper alo money fl ez the fear ot of contagion from disease microbes mic robes our ancestors never felt because Igno ignorance ranco was VMS to them seems to be putting its ban upon one thing after another one may not indulge longer in clams oysters watercress ter cress spinach lettuce slavi shaving ag kissing public library books feather dusters and aad numerous everyday necessities without taking antiseptic precautions now comes a chemist at washington who has found a greenback which aias ft as tile the favorite resort of il kinds of the disease ml mi crober startled by the announce ment seme brokers already are moving to protect cashiers and tellers by dis infecting all currency one boston scientist has suggested tile the placing ot of cotton nasto naste saturated with knitli formaldehyde in the sate safe or money drawer and ami another the pouring of a spoonful of it in a vault each night which boards of health say will destroy millions of germs some millions of germs some bankers ore are inclined to sniff at the precautions they rightly affirm that the microbe though a comparatively new discovery is as old as time lime that paper money la Is nearly as old as t time imo that cashiers and tellers have been handling the microbe and the currency without destroying the one or sterilizing lite other and that they W were ere healthy and long lived even though they directly exposed themselves by putting their lingers fingers to their lips when counting money which cashiers and tellers no longer do the tha microbe and money matter it if it should occasion any widespread apprehension 0 of contagion will make life much harder than it Is now wo we must have mosey money even with microbes mic robes on it and cannot stop to inquire who had it last or through how many pockets it has passed gathering new styles of 0 microbes mic robes at every remove if th the m mic robes would confine themselves to 1000 bills it would not be so bad because they do not circulate so freely as fives do but the microbe Is no respecter of bills the microbe might hat haie e some difficulty in finding the 1000 bills but it can find dollar bills with case and they are softer anil and more bo homelike melike than tho others |