MONDAY, 8.30 A.M.

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2717, 11 March 1916, Page 15

MONDAY, 8.30 A.M.

Some Reflections on a Boiling Copper. "The copper's boiling"—this is the comW phrase of early Monday, the housewife's call tothe weekly task. Let us follow it with . r question that is -not so simple as it sounds : 2 "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 in point. It is due to tiny organisms, hardly visible through a microscope but intensely alive, thrown oft in the course of the disease. These float in tKe air or dust and drift tb clothes and house Jinen as naturally as steel draws to a magnet; we call them " Germs," or seeds of disease, because just as an ordinary seed grows jo 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 not-only clean clothes and house linen thoroughly, but also kill all disease germs that have lodged in them. Fortunately for us, manufacture and science have combined to meet this want with Lifebuoy Soap. By using Lifebuoy.Soapin-the'laundry the germs' of infectious diseases are caught and killed - wholesale, because Lifebuoy Soap is both perfect laundry cleanser; and a' strong dis-' infectant as well," and when the household clothing and linen are washed with it, disease 1 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 for the bith, 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 gnd always Lifebuoy Soap, for the day's Cashing.