FRIGHTENED INTO SENSE.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXII, Issue 9008, 22 November 1907, Page 4

FRIGHTENED INTO SENSE.

A professor of hygiene, according r to the London correspondent of the Scotsman, lias frightened the workers in three Hoxton factories into a wholesome respect for fresh air. They were all women, and an ignorant majority who suffered from the fatuous idea that fresh air meant colds refused to allow the windows to be opened, and the proprietors , were powerless until they thought of the professor and a lantern lecture, j The proprietors suggested his sex- • vices were wanted, and the professor brought with him a series of lantern slides showing on the screen microbes magnified as large as mice. I The effect was instantaneous. A ! shudder went through the audience, and next day all the windows in the I factory were open. The girls in the j other two factories were enter- j tained on the two following nights ; to the same lecture aud tho same 1 lantern slides, aud the results, were identical —no more closed windows whatever the character of the weather. Tho success of the cr.ponmeut got noised abroad, aud o', aer factory owners who found it impossible to keep the atmosphere passably wholesome are calling in the same professor to repeat his lecture on the evils of unvontilated rooms.