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Show Colli and Couh. Salt Lakb City, Jan. 3, 1S79. Editors Icra'-i : Some hygienic iLtecxisi; a-eit ih.-.t. as diee-sj is a penally fi-r the transgression trans-gression of some law or la we of health, alt dUeases are avoidable, and that consequently for any person to be sick ;b a folly if net n crime. I Bhould very much like to know how the 20,000 colds and dry, bark ing coughn which havj prevailed in tnio city during tbe holidays could bave been avoid t-d by the viciime. I take pleasure in charging a large part of these inflictions to the acamut of that nasty, cold easl wind and dust storm on Tuesday, December 24th. But bow people could have avoided that storm, or its disgreable effects, I do not know For nearly every adult body had to go out that day and see a man, even the venerable and benevolent Santa Claus, and remind him of tbe numerous little responsibilities responsi-bilities in the family, and the great expectations of those little responsibilities, responsi-bilities, as evinced by the thousands of little stockings pendant, more or less of 1 hem. in evprv rhimnpv nnmpr. But, whether people went out or staid at home, the cnld and cough found them just about the same, which mikes the matter more mysterious. How was it? The wherefore of this thing is what puzzles me. Dry Cocgiike. |