Stranger than Fiction

Horowhenua Chronicle, 6 March 1914, Page 2

Stranger than Fiction

(By AValt Mason.)

It's strange that people live ho long , , remaining healthy sound and strong , , when all around us, eveiywhere, the germs and microbes fill 'lit , air. The more we read about the germs, in technical or easy terms, the stranger does it seem that we have so far dodged eternity. No wonder a poor mortal smtirms; all thing's are full of •I-, adly .'.verms. The milk we liink, the pies we eat, the shoes ve wear upon our feet, are haunts )i vicious things which strive !"o make us cease to be alive. And V"t we live on just the same, ignore the germs, and play the bailie. Well, that's just it; we lo not stew or fret o'er things we cannot view. If germs, were big ;>.« hens or hawks, and flew around cur heads in flocks, we'd just throw up our hands and cry: "If is , no use—it's time to die !" The evils, that we cannot, see don't cut' much ice with you and me. A bulldog by the garden hedge, with seven kinds of teeth on edge, will hand to me a bigger scare than all the microbes in the air. So let us Hyp am l j IaTP our f u ,^ and woo and wed and blow our

mon, and not acknowledge coward fright of anything that's out of sight.