Show e apt pa i cr common utensils ai aie e vehicles c cf f diseases this is true of co common in cups handkerchiefs towels etc tuberculosis culosi typhoid fever anil and other diseases may be spread in this avoy disease germs have been found on common towels een E en if this were not so debei decency ICY would dictate the suppression of the common towel georgia white has attempted to espre express ss her feelings in reference to the common towel in verse there are few good poets in pubic beadth work and georgia white is not one yet she does get is over several useful points THE OLD ROLLER TOWEL how dear to our hearts are the things of our childhood when fond recollections pr present sent them to view the 0 ld district schoolhouse the rail a and nd the dipper the same cud of g gum nm whick in turn we would chew no fear of a microbe ever beset us 13 no state board of health interfered then at all we bathed dirty faces in one com non basin and turned to the towel th it hung on the wall 1 the old roller towel the alie stiff roller towel the germ laden towel that hung bung on the wall of crash was vas this towel in gefrois gen rois roas proportion and never was changed mere than once in a week t we turned it around and used it all al over and for a dry spot it was idle to seek jtb with use and abuse it grew grayish in color acquiring an odor exceedingly rank by saturday night it presented a surface ul face As hard and unyielding as any inch plank the old roller towel the stiff roller towel from which the fastidious foolishly shrank but now it is gone vanished out of existence by virtue of power which the board of health holds no more can we bury our streaming wet faces f within its bacterial dangerous folds no longer we meet with the discolored disc dincol olred wed banner which hung from a roller ii nailed ailed upon the wall on clean huckaback huck abuck initial embro embroidered dered we wipe away tears which intrusively fall fr the old roller towels the stiff roller towels the germ laden towels that hung on the wall |