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Show DOY3 AK2 SURE TO REVOLT. Cruel Scheme Proposed to .Rcn.er Them Immune to Grrms. When tho purely scientific Investigator Investiga-tor Introduces us to a new variety of jcrm and leaves us alono with It whllo iie plunges Into pastures new to scaro up germs of unotlicr feather wo may feel somewhat down In tho mouth, but wo can contemulato tho gcrrny schemo of things In sorrow rather than In anger. Hut when a mngnzlno writer gets possession of the facts tho scion-Ml. scion-Ml. has dispassionately unenrthed and tries to frighten us into attempting to dodgo tho microbo by executing feats compared to which tho tasks of Hercules Her-cules would be mero calisthenics, wo havo every right to resent It. A serlous-rulnded contributor to an altogether serious .periodical urges that whenever children -return from playing In tho streets thoy should bo treated thoroughly with a poworful germicide. It Is difficult enough to catch little WIllIo and hold him down whllo scrubbing the shadows from behind be-hind his ears and hard enough upon Wllllo In tho opinion of any man who romembor3 tho days, many and full ot troublo, whon he was pounced upon by a merciless being with six times his strength and none of tho tenderness that should accompany might and hold In a vlsc-IIko grip whllo an attompt was mado to rub Ills back hair out by tho roots with a rough washrag. It Is dlfllcult enough to circumvent llttlo Wllllo once or twlco a week and get him into n healthful but hated tub. To Inaugurate a policy of spowlng a germ-lcldo germ-lcldo all over him whenever ho comes Into tho halls of his ancestors would bo to allenlato him utterly. If It did not crystalllzo his latent determination determina-tion to become a boy highwayman or causo him to drown himself In tho rain barrel ho would surel) rtrlko out for himself as a street sweeper, a garbago cart driver, a Junk dealer, or In ono of tho soveral honorable callings which appeal to tho Imagination of the street-bred street-bred urchin. Ot cour3e, somo spiritless spirit-less and superlatively good children might tamely submit to tho ordeal of the medicine bath, but whom tho gods lovo dlo young In any ovent, so why mako them mlsornblo during tho brief period ot their stay on earth? |