A Valuable Hint.

Feilding Star, Volume XVII, Issue 37, 12 August 1895, Page 3

A Valuable Hint.

" *fy husband" saul a phys : cnn's •sd'e not long fi-go "chaacad tj see one day, standing on a >h-:\f outside «ur kitchen window, fom? moulds of j ell v cooling for the night's dinner. They weru uncovered, as they wf-re out of icach of cats, and in full view of the cook's •watchful eye; but he questioned me about them, and asioi if it was our usual custom to leave jelly tlius unprotected. I was obliged to reel? that so far as 1 knes-, it was Then he s;iid •don't you know that when we medical men want to secura minute organisms for investigation, we expose gelatine to the air or iv places where wj have confiaed malignant germs? Tie gelaiiae speedily attracts and holds thora. I'm afraid jour fLiv~urod gelatine does the s:irac. Co. 1 the j-lly i? you mu-t, but cover it with a piece of cloie muslin And wo bavo alwt.ys. Wone that since taeu -" Itistibs fared that kitchen processes are sources oi il'ness m o ro often than is itn-tgiard. La miny ctj boures the little kitchen annexe, where stands the rcfrinesator. aai where vari^ ous eatables are kept, is directly agnmts a drain. Yet here stauda daily un:cv. erod milk, butler, of! en oustards and puddings anl various oilur absorbent. Tha aver .iRe cook is absolutely ignorant of s<:n\t.iry cinses aud effect, and tlie eternal vigilance of the house moiher is the family's chief safe. guird.