Show 4 11 1 I 1 I 1 I 1 FUNERAL FOLLY by 4 several persons who arc are well in informed formed and well intending we I 1 have havo crepea repeatedly gedly b been een requested amsted to warn the public against those invitations to the funerals of children aho abo vho succumbed t R the decad a 1 scourge 0 f t scarlet fever a disease more contagious a than smallpox small pox it is natural for people who lose loved ones to desire tho the consolation derived from well atten ded funerals and anda the extended at the ob obsequies z but at 1 the ille same time we do not think that anybody wants to endanger tho the health of the living while they are Bor borrowing rovin g over tho bier of the dead I 1 I 1 it is a positive fact that the ilie deadly germs of disease will be and are carried about bithe by the parties attending tho the funerals lu of people who died lied by infectious or contagious diseases la Is there then any pen sense se in in our people going to catch these germs of mortality simply while intend intending iq to mourn n oyer dead friends there is a gaylong let the dead bury their dead abany at any rate it will be better for tho the hying living not to contract or in vite death while burying bryin 9 their dead to sum up let all funerals of persons who died of d dis disi is i cases be private strictly private if leglio municipal authorities pass ordinances or issue orders to that effle effect ct I 1 I 1 I 1 I 1 I 1 |