| Show ON THE 1166 4 t the comic Parag raphers thing tunny funny in thenell cal mans warning that the custom or of kissing la Is glar glaringly ingy un hygen c and they are doing all in their oscr to nullity nullify that warning a and U d to be regarded cd as aa I 1 laddish faddish and rab surd meanwhile elderly persons affected I 1 w with ith tuberculosis and other transmissible disease continue to fondle bables babies and condemn them to beith death while we look on and smile at Ws this pleasing e evidence of family affection th abo 0 dietetic and hygienic gazette N Y 0 october ct ober remarks that in an age when saul sanitary tary science has divested Uv ested I 1 the old oaken bucket of its romance and is prying suspiciously inton ant other chor sacred realms of sentiment when even the common chalice is suspected and investigated public health requires that wo we should be a little careful even about what it calls merits of friendship 1 A dut but the sacraments of friendship are too strongly entrenched in our manners and customs to be easily dislodged by anything short of a social convulsion one of the inalienable rights ob of frion friends ds secured to us by centuries of tradition la Is the indisputable right kissing ind and being kissed kiss edri we have driven from our courts them the old custom of wising kissing the book because ol of its evident peril to public health heal but to refuse th the ekiss hiss 0 of a friend Is to ts deny j our friendship it is a sign afre of re pu budta llAlon tion even those who practise kissing ds as a mere formality are apt aj to regard it indispensable when friend greets friend and so the traveling gitig public Is treated treated to frequent G eions of this custom in all places ana ild at ill all times the old and oung Sho he washed and the unwashed the a liras I 1 re and the impure all mingling anu lad exa ex changing this symbol ci of f at ait oit ut going the rounds ad n nasseam nauseam nau ausean I 1 seam aen then there is tho the kiss of pil privilege Allege the first I 1 kiss or one of its As many bucce successors 3 01 often assumed or p ranted granted wl wita 11 so no thou thought glit of its io prible this s the ass that rave 4 ajit alt and story writers take lake pages and pages page to properly record we r are re not writing poetry or fiction on kisses and the result it is unnecessary to go into details here it is enough to adaller stand that there are cases 3 contact moans anfe int est alon lon most if not all of the centa contagious diseases disease shave have bc len m TT I 1 V I 1 at af manner xi khoii KH iii is perfectly saca sac anly when th no possibility ot of exposure to infect ei i our chief excuse for this arti ale i 1 found in a report by dr J P 1 kli of the indi na aa bato labora 0 o D r y ranted in in the Diff bulletin letin of the indiana sate board of he ath in which ie yes bacs the reco records da el f five cases of 0 lab ec emulous ulous meningitis in chil children dren A a ia ing from eight to thic thice e years of age four or of these children ar ars a i known knew to have been infected by association with older relatives in advanced t stages pulmonary 1 I 1 fonde led and kissed hissed and loed until 4 they fell victims to tuber culos sn n ore one of the worst forms act 1 et rs las aws jd ono one case as representative of th thear ejr 31 I 1 asi casc 4 this thi as an eight ni of oil I 1 t city ly girl arho ano lived in a towi tow i a short distance from indianapolis A specimen of cerebrospinal fluid was vias brot to he atory feb 2 1911 by dr J 11 II taller tailor of this city we are unable able to find tubercle bacilli avith tho the microscope but a guinea glinea pig injected with some of the fluid flolid died in duo due time of generalized tuberculosis on A it was found that the childs child Is grandmother had died a short time before ot of tuberculosis she begged to have the child brought to her before her death she fonde led ed it and kissed it a groat great deal and doubtless her kisses the child died a few days her br kisses the chil lied died a few days lalar after the cerebrospinal fluid was brought to the labra torr atorY no one n ill deny that tour four old people dying of consumption were greatly comforted and cheered in their last days by the company ot these four bright and jolly babies it would have scorned rely cluel to them of 0 tile privilege that they prized so iii hig ii i A meningitis is cruel tho the man mail ot ol statistics statistics goes on to these cases are only ili rad and do bisot by nry icy means indicate the claar of deaths fro from this dreadful disease in 1410 there were 25 2 deaths in n indiana from of these ilc tims iga or 64 percent per cent were under five years of 0 age if thero there was tho the same ratio 01 definite history of exposure in these cases as in the the fhe reported above at least got their infection because of the ae ignorance of parents or tola rola tires th CB in allowing them to abe 10 closely clorety associated with ar or petted ind and k kissed 1 I 1 by adu adults its who were buffering n from tuberculosis A respectable poet once remarked and we hoar it often now where ignorance is bliss foly folly to to lo 10 wise I 1 what do yo you i think of that bit of poetry poetry today to io adayr day |
