Show MICROBES AND PLEASURE lt edgar in his syndicate letters attempts to tell how to prolong life f and he starts out by calling attention to the principal cause of death as discovered by M the worlds foremost biologist who declares that sclerosis is the human races enemy and sclerosis i of the cellular tissues induced by microbes mic robes generated and generating in our very midst the fermentation of these liello bilings produces a poison which acab sobbed passes into the blood and there ca an irritation from which sclerosis results and death ensues barring disease accident etcetera death and its precursor oli Tage arc therefore due to a sort of flora and intestinal these premises accepted it follows that a good way to postpone old ago and its successor death would bo through the invention of an antiseptic capable of transforming the fungus growth into a vilifying vivifying vivify ing vegetation this antiseptic M thinks some lister of the future will produce views of this gentleman merit respect but not necessarily acceptance the mi clobes we can swallow since indeed we must but hardly their transformation into the philosophers etoni even otherwise that stone was found by and the finding of it did not postpone hla obituaries a minute on the contrary he died very young for him and so presumably must we all clr saltus concludes his artl f de by giving this advice the one way thus f a rediscovered of prolonging life consists in not shortening it that is in avoiding its pleasures all of which as every one knows or ought to know aro injurious when they are not and expensive to boot mr saltus Is hitting close to the mark the average person can rest easy in a sense of security from the attacks 0 microbes mic robes if he will conserve hia vitality by avoiding excessive indulgence in what is broadly termed pleasure |