FIGHTING MICROBES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 48, 17 July 1914, Page 4

FIGHTING MICROBES.

Tlii' lot of housewives to-day is to be burdened with the revelations ■< f -••ioncc in the matter of microbes, and it may V that the move seiisith'e and i oliHeientiou-s of the women folk are -"inewlia( scared by the magnitude of tin- dangers which lurk in fcli" air. mi Ihe floors, and in every wiu'oivable place. The prominent attention u'iven in these days to the question of microbes h;K almost made life hardly worth living. There is the common house fly, with its enormous capacity for collecting and distributing disease genns, to contend with, and, if possible, lo exterminate—a work of nuver-cciisinjr activity \ow comes the dU'omvrtins; that the process: of swopping out rooms, if carried out without moistening the floors. U> deadly and lil'ed with the dispeiiser> of disease. Well may tin 1 housewife - Land at Toe ovil-t by which .slu* is siiri'oMndI'd. hut there is the consolation that d healthy 'blood will fi,uM and over-(-01110 "•unst <v the e\iL\ and thit, v'neevt'u!p!us sensible precaul inns., will i:o f;iv lo minimise the microbe scare. Tin-,- pests arc noi tin* invention of It>-day. but have always o\i-ted. If,: ionly liiodf'n eruditions of lite hat haw allow"! tlie breeders of pe'-tilenr ( > full play. Wiity of fre-sh air, clean-ines-. and nutritions food, exercise and Vmphr, meiit. coupled with the avoidance. ;t- much a> possible. of crowded 'i!'! in anilary buildings will enable mo-'t p"inile lo enjoy life as they slhmi.M. Above nil, people should not. allow the microbe -eari ji.- on. their m-vves. ;ii(d then tin-;, will b,> a-- happy as iheir p-rd'atheiv. who know not, microbes.