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Show DANGER IN FOOLISH CUSTOM Those Who Bite Penholders in Public Use Are Hereby Warned of Possible Infection. That the penholder, such as most of us frequently use in hotels, post of-' of-' rices, bank3 and other public writing rooms may be as deadly a carrier of disease germs as the roller towel and public drinking cup, 13 the suspicion for which the boards of health be- ; lieve they have found ample grounds. ! The next time you use one of these public penholders you will notice, if : you examine it carefully, that the wooden handle is covered with little ' dents. These dents are the imprint ' of the teeth of persons who have used ' the peu before you; ana as the mouth Is the favorite port of entry for dis- ease, each dent is usually full of mi- ' crobes. ' To expose yourself to sickness and E death therefore, all you need to do s is to bite on the penholder. Every 5 time you do this, you take into your mouth the germs which scores of other persons have left by similar bites. t Healta officials "plan to secure legis-' legis-' lation abolishing the public penhold-S penhold-S er. In the meantime they urge the V public to try to break itself of the airs ai-rs most universal habit of holding a pen it In one's mouth while folding a letter or blotting a check. |