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Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 2976, 13 January 1917, Page 6

MONDAY, 8.30 A.M.' Some Reflections on a Boiling Copper. "The copper's boiling"—this is the commo a 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, "AThy, to boil the dirt out of the clothes, of course." Quite so, but for health's sake something more than dirt has to be dona away with in the household washing, 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 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; som®. disease germs may thrive, or even breed, in both. So we must use a cleanser that 1 will not only clean clothes and house linen thoroughly, but also kill all disease germ,! that have lodged in them. Fortunately for ns, 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 killed 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 for 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 and always Lifebuoy Soap for the day'i ■■ashing. 1 WOOD-BORER EXTERMINATED. READ THIS LETTER! | A Petone Resident writes: ' "As a means of destroying the Woodborer I engaged your firm to carry out the fumigation of a room which wa3 rather badly affected. " I have to report having made a very careful examination of the room, and also the contents, consisting of furniture more or less affected by the borer. .1 cut out several of the alfectcd boards after the fumigation, broke them up, ■discovered the Borer—many specimens —and also tho fly which is the forerunner of the Borer, microscopically examined the same, and in every case [ am pleased to say the pest was absolutely destroyed." _ . Original letter may be inspected. Investigate to day. Particulars and estimates free. Blades' Palent Gas Fumigating Co., Ltd. P.O.Box74tiWellington. , Phone«72ae<!t47l« ffi.