THE BRIGHT SIDE OF MUD.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXXXIII, Issue 52, 18 March 1901, Page 4

THE BRIGHT SIDE OF MUD.

Had if*, ri'ugfclv ni'-s-k it s, wet dust and du-.t :s dr* ivuul; biit> r.U- tvii effect iof duat fir fr,ujEce d these of Bod. In the disse j-.in'tifci of diieise, mod remain; compirft' ive'y i;ii'c?nt, bat fir iifc.i hoh>>vi ur i f dast- in this respect d-i ci:: br. ,"oo strong. ■Widely disteai nu ed and inev,tab!y inhaled, duet particle* cirry end deposit taoru:o is qnaniitiea ,£ disease. Its local aui trifling damages, corjar.ctms, pharyngitis, find rhinria pate b'-f.itß its evil jo*er in carrying more f rnri iahle diem darn. It has recently been ih wa how hammer d ; arrhcea is wont to prevail mo t; where theie is mcst du.t, and that dast may contain the dried sputuru tf phthisical patients i? <n y too familiar to us a'l. We have mentioned only two of thi graver diseases in the riittribntioa and issplaniiati. n of which ordinary dust plays a lading pait. There ar ■ still other complaints in which tbe inhalation of ordinary dmt is banefu , not to rtu q< iou the <. p r f i;! diseases cans d entirely by spec.al forma of dust, and we would have it home in mind that m'jd hai no similar 8»il influence. Mod is largely water. Paradcxic& : , as it may sound, innd is clean, at least as cornealed with duet. Mo.-t over, the ultimate fate of mud is in the drain-pipo of tbe street, but dust too cften enda in the windpipe of a maß, if not in even the alveoli of his longs. In future, then. let us not revile the pasting hansc.me, nor, es we wipe from our collar thn mud of London's wintrr streets, tio freely coudemn it; but let os rathsr grabfaliy reflect that a paeaiDg irconveLi nee, a mere temporary diefigaiement, is a small price to pny frr freedom from the evil possibilities of an apparently brighter day.—Lancet.