Show S U UThe The Roller Towel They have cut their whiskers out In J and put shower baths Into their houses they have ceased wearing their boots to bed and hae have made tho the public drinking cup a felon but still their passion for militant bacteriology remains insatiate Its latest victim Is the relic towel that drooping but romantic relic of simpler days and braver men Kansas calls the roller towel pathogenic and sees In Its mysterious folds the Gar den of ot Eden of all germs It la Is the father and mother says fays Kansas of eczema op and dandruff It abrades and In Inoculates inoculates Inoculates the human hide It spreads pes pee pestilences pestilences and offends the eye It is Im Immortal immortal mortal ortal and being Immortal Kansas has hils made It 11 illegal A triumph for asepsis but a Waterloo for romance Who will wUl forget the noble uses of ot the roller towel In other and arid hap happier happier happier pier years It was an essential orna ornament ornament ment an Integral part of ot all aU ancient inns taverns and ordinaries It adorned all printing offices It 11 was learned counsel in country towns The Thep passing p of travel from his boots the dust of at the tha road from his face it had its ita regular customers Its loving clients Its devotees That was before belore the day oi ot parlors parlon Turkish baths and other such degenerating luxuries Tho The roller towel served all purifying pur purposes purposes purposes poses It was the one cleansing angel of ofa a frowsy world Eugene Field and Bill Bm Nye Nya were full fun of ol anecdotes of famous roller towels Field used to tell of one In a printing office In Chicago which grew so hard with Ink and silicates that It gave out a musical note Nye claimed forone that he loved that it had been used by a printer of his acquaintance to stab a Mark Hark Twain In his bis palmy days had bad elm sim similar lIar ilar tales to toll ten But enough nough of all aU that thaL The roller towel Is done dono for Printers now mop their brows with mth gauze even lawyers fear tear bacteria In a few years perhaps the roller towels will wUl be a rare thing a curious antique to be gaped at by loafers and honey honeymooners moon era in muse vms People will speak of It as they speak today of or the rabbit foot camomile tea the thc medicated lingerie the thEl haircloth sofa sota populism and all the theother theother theOther other dear things that were but are are not Baltimore Sun t |