MONDAY, 8.30A.M.

Hokitika Guardian, 14 July 1917, Page 1

MONDAY, 8.30A.M.

Some Reflections on a Boiling Copper. “The cooper’s boiling”—this is the commori phrase of early Monday, the housewife’s call to the weekly task. Let us follow it with a question that is not so simple as it sounds : “What is it boiling for?” Most people would answer, “Why, to boil the,dirt out of the clothes, of course.” Quite so, but for health’s sake something more than dirt has to be done away with in the household Washing, namely, the’seeds of infectious disease. Infection may be communicated to a whole city (and beyond it), from one single patient, of which the smallpox epidemic is a case ip point.' It is due to tiny organisms, hardly visible through a microscope but intensely alive, thrown'off in the course of the disease. These float in the air or dust and drift to clothes and house linen as naturally as steel draws to a magnet; we call them “ Germs,” or seeds of disease, because just as an ordinary seed grows to a' plant, so a disease germ on a human body breeds disease; the only protection against germs is to destroy them. The question is: Will boiling water and common soap do it ? Not always ; some disease germs may thrive, or even breed, in both. So we must use a cleanser that will nof only clean clothes and house linen thoroughly, hilt also kill all disease germs that have lodged in them.' Fortunately fetus,: manufacture and science have combined to meet this want with Lifebuoy Soap. By using Lifebuoy Soap in the laundry the germs of infectious diseases are caught'and kiljed wholesale, because Lifebuoy Soap' is both a perfect: laundry cleanser and a strong disinfectant as well, and when the household clothing and linen are washed with it, disease germs find destruction instead of a refuge. Our crowded population doubles the risk of infection, Lifebuoy Soap reduces it; but Lifebuoy Soap must be so used as to cover both cleansing and disinfection; Lifebuoy Soap lor the bath, Lifebuoy Soap for floors and walls,' Lifebuoy Soap for kitchen and scullery, ©and when the copper* boils on Monday morning, then let it be'especially always 'W&m §s« $5 washing.' *

when the rivers were, uubridged, and roads unknown, and drowning was the favourite mode of passing hence, the Church cared for her people in South Westland, and there was no one else to look alter them. Of course, this is changing as the population grows, as the rivers are bridged, as cultivation-is extended, but the people in the south never forget the Church that careffi for their souls when they were few in numbers and widely scattered. The heavy draft upon my staff of clergy for chaplaincies at the front,” his Lordship concluded, “ makes it exceedingly difficult for me to carry on the work as I should wish in this long strip of country.” A CURIOUS FACT. “It is - a curious fact that the further north you go, the less patriotism you meet with,” remarked Bishop Julius. “South Westland up to Teremakau, has sent large numbers to tlie front, and is wiiole-hearted in its support of the country. I held a memorial service at Hari Hari for three young men who .had fallen. “As you get up to Greymouth, however,” Bishop Julius continued, you find a mixed community. Not a few 3’oung men fled to the bush when they were wanted. As you travel north you find communities who, generally, prefer German to British rule. It is a great pity they can’t be under German rule for a while. k “ Whether this is due to the climate, or to the people’s occupation—they are mostly , miners— 1 or to the fact that they have gone from this diocese to another, is not, of course, for me to say,” added Bishop Tulius with a smile. Q