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Show DANGER IN PUBLIC SPEAKING. Proof That Orator 8howers Audience With Microbe. Heceut experiments In England recall re-call the fairly tale of the princess wnose nor ils turned Into toads as they dropped from her mouth. It now seems certain that a public speaker projects from his mouth with his every utterance a shower of hac-terln, hac-terln, and with sufficient force to scatter them plentifully over tho too In which he speaks. Dr. Mer-vyn Mer-vyn Gordon has shown that a loud speaker distributes minute drops of his sallvn to a distance of forty feet. The presence of theso drops may bo tested by means of the specific microbes mi-crobes that they contain. Dr. Gordon Gor-don uses this tost as a gauge (of air-contamination air-contamination which ho regards as more trustworthy than chemical methods for the detection of carbonic acid. In addition, one cannot help speculating 011 the possibility that a diseased oiator might thus sow Infection Infec-tion broadcast among his auditors. |