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Show AFFLICTERS OF MANKIND. Nothing in these later times scares the average person so much as to have the word "Microbe" yelled at him; and the would-be health specialists (who, by the way, are almost always frail and unhealthy specimens of mankind themselves) them-selves) never tire of calling out the afflicting af-flicting word. To tell a man that he Is afflicted with microbes is to scare him into a decline, though, if nothing had been Paid about it, he would have lived long and hearty The tooth-brush has always been considered con-sidered an implement of cleanliness and utility. But now comes a sanitary expert proclaiming that It is the most dangerous thing there Is; the mouth is a perfect hive of microbes, these get on the tooth-brush, which cannot be properly disinfected, and when it is used again It causes local Inflammatory affections, abrasions which may poison the glands, and "even systemic infectious infec-tious diseases, such as diphtheria, scarlatina, scar-latina, etc., are frequently caused by local infection of the mouth" from the tooth-brush, of course. Of the same class of objectionable things Is the shaving-brush; then, knives and forks are so seldom disinfected disin-fected or put In acids to boll the microbes mi-crobes off them, that their sanitary cleansing may be said to be almost never complete. So we must discard them, and spoons are no better. The foods we eat with these dangerous implements im-plements are so adulterated oa to be unlit for use. too; they need embalming, or baptizing in disinfectants to make them wholesome; in some cases even this won't save them. Meat Is unfit to eat; the dishes, pots, kettles and frying-pans are all a mass of microbes, and It Is impossible to get sanitar cooking; there Is no such thing. Fruits, also, are the abiding places of multitudinous multi-tudinous microbes, which lodge In the furze, abide In the skin, revel In the revlces of the berry, It is as much as one's life Is worth to eat an orange or a plum. What, then' Why. chew up the heads of wheat before they are threshed; exercise your teeth on the corn in the ear; and for variety, relish and succulence, have on the table a platter of Utah favorite vegetables, raw. nnd exercise your voice In the meek supplication, "Please pass the carrots." |