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Show MAN WAS TAKING NO CHANCES. Elaborate Precautions to Forestall the Festive Germ. A man whose poor hearing obliges him to use a epeaking tubo met another an-other man who certainly deserves to be set down as the champion foe to germs. The meeting took place in the street. The deaf man signified his do-sire do-sire for conversation on a certain subject sub-ject The enemy germs listened to the question put to him, then surveyed his end of the speaking tube dublous-1)'. dublous-1)'. Before attempting to answer he took the deaf man by the arm and piloted him into a drug store, where he called for a liquid disinfectant In which he proceeded to immerse a portion por-tion of the tube. "These things are worse than telephones tele-phones to spread disease," he complained. com-plained. "I don't know who talked into this last. I'm not going to take any chances." The owner of the first aid to hearing hear-ing looked on in consternation that was half anger, but as ho was very anxious to secure an answer to his qviestion he did not protest against the "sterilization of tho tube. |