| Show CLEAN UP FOR WINTER THIS is the time of year above all others othen when the seeds of disease are planted broadcast over the country are scattered millions of tons of vegetable products which if not collected and destroyed must rot where they happen to fall the gases games which wise arise from all such collections of vegetation are poison if on the banks of a stream they poison the waters water and if in the immediate neighborhood of a dwelling they carry infection into the very atmosphere of the household in the case of a great many malignant diseases that mysteriously attack and carry to their graves otherwise strong anti and healthy children and some times older people thew these vegetable emanations are the direct and only cause and though the fatal disease may be communicated con by contagion death itself might still be the result of the plentiful nourishment afforded to the disease by these products of decay there is in no form of vegetable or animal matter that to is not baneful to human health what is true of the leaves weeds and so forth that are falling in heaps heap everywhere is doubly true of the various forms of household filth that are too often allowed to accumulate near residences during the season mown of growth the effect of these theme products of decay to is cou counteracted interacted by the tremendous absorption of the gases by the growing vegetation of which these very poisons are the main source of subsistence but now that absorption has ceased and all these them rank products are unloaded upon the air we breathe the sequence to these theme facts ought to be comprehended at once irmay it may be expressed tu iu two small words clem clean up not a vestige of this putrefying putrefy ing vegetation should be left ui unburied burned or unburied either in toe cities or at country homes to dispose of such matter is in a small labor now but pretty soon the snows will come and then it will be too late it should be constantly remembers remember od I that cleanliness as a post tive law of heaven should be likewise a prominent law of man in dense denie communities particularly it is an essential law of lve ife |
