Show THE BACTERIA FAD i 5 y f science gone mad in of enthusiasts c t these doctors are a wearisome lot the milwaukee sentinel if the world were foolish enough to at au their suggestions and t avoid all that hygienic cranks declare to be dangerous living would except under conditions that 1 living intolerable the latest to the disposition bf ur geons to extirpate anU organs two aind bacteria everywhere and to warn people against doing for fear of baca teria what it is necessary to do ini order to get along at all A buffalo doctor has found nothing io oc cuby his tune or to advertise himself than under the microscope the straps in the street cars by which unhappy wretches main 1 tarn as upright position when the cars are crowded he these straps fairly reeking with bacteria this is a strange use of the word we might as well speak of the atmosphere as reeking with birds reeking means tea nung ov bacteria have just as much right to be everywhere as birds and butterflies have to fly in the air and they are for the most part is the ideatha doctors seek to L convey ia that where there isa micro lif ethere is danger to health it there is a space on earth where microscopic life does not aist man can not exist on that spot the air we breathe the water we drink is full of harmless and would not be life sus otherwise we are warned against sneezing es cep tinto a bacterium receiver for fear of letting loose into the air destructive bacteria to attack the nasal membranes folks we are warned against receiving money hard money or paper money without first putting it through dis infecting process we are told to go through the world with a strainer over the nose and the mouth with car Holi zed soon in short if WB are to stand any show of living to reasonable agee are to shut ourselves gauze saturated with dis infecting preparations drink distilled water abstain from every thing we like no other concern in the world than the caffe of healthy th e icare certain reasonable sanitary rules ased on a few facts of observation that are worthy of serious attention they are not attended to ordinarily because hygienic cranks urge so many ridiculous and impossible rules and so constantly shock the common sense of mankind to ask a rational being to refrain from gras pinga friends hand for fear of bacteria to deny himself the pleasure of osculation and all that is too much if these doctors persist in pointing out microscopic life wherever they find it the thing is to recognize the fact that microscopic life is edibles edi blei and wholesome raw fried stewe d baked or in any other form we are made up all of us and in every part of us of microscopic organisms A man a collection of suan organisms gani sms every minute particle of his being having an independent life there is nothing to be f tightened at bacteria have joeen world a good while and enough people have managed to live to make it a pretty active world 1 |