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Show Copper as Genii-Killer. "Copper is a marvelous preventive of disease. If we returned to tho old copper drinking vessels of our forefathers fore-fathers typhoid epidemics would disappear." dis-appear." The speaker, a filtration expert, took a copper cent from his pocket. "Examine this cent under tho microscope," micro-scope," he said, "aud you will fiiud it pltogethor free from diseaso germs. Examino gold and silver coins aud you will find them ono wriggling and contorting con-torting germ mass. Yet copper coins pass through dirtier hands than gold and silver ones you'd think they'd be alive with micro-organisms. But no. Copper kills germs. Diphtheria and chol era cultures smeared ou a copper cent die in less than two hours. "They havo many cholera epidemics in China, but certain towns are always immune. These towns keep their drinking water in great copper vessels. Travelers have tried to buy these vessels, ves-sels, for they are beautiful,but the villagers vil-lagers will not sell them. They havo a superstition that their health and welfare wel-fare depend on their retention. I wish all superstitions were as true and salutary salu-tary as that.' Philadelphia Bulletin. |