Show OFFICIAL BRILLIANCY It is a dangerous business to lo give some men office of of- of fice A case in point is Middletown l N. N Y It has a aboard aboard aboard board of health That board of health has lately decided decided de dc- de- de that no Middletown milk will be permitted to tobe tobe be he sold in New York unless the are first equipped with white duck overalls Now most of the milking around Middletown l is done clone by the farmers farmers' farmers farmers' farm farm- ers ers' wives and the buxom New York Dutch girls who in that region offer their services as dairy maids The occasion for the order is not explained but the theW W wives and maids draw the theline line on odd white duck overalls over over- overalls alls aBs and and emphatically declare that they will win not go o on that kind of a dress dress parade i if jf never again is is' isa s a cow cow milked in I ln The farmers are in ina a a. fix They make their living by selling seIling milk but hilt there here are no save the women and girls and the they decline the thc uniform prescribed by the board of health The last stage of the difficulty was in the form of a petition to that board oard of health to modify the order and have it read that t no no cow should be bc milked in Middletown l unless said cow was first clothed in white duck overalls o It is js thought that such an arrangement would satisfy the bacteria and bacilli just as as well well- as the original order ordel In th the meantime the lowing herd winds slowly and milk- milk less oer o'er the thc lea |