MONDAY, 8.30 A.M.

Evening Star, Issue 15882, 14 August 1915, Page 10

MONDAY, 8.30 A.M.

Some Reflections on a Boiling Copper. “The copper’s boiling”—this is the common 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, “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 ’.way with in the household washing, namely, be seeds of infectious disease. Infection maybe communicated to a whole ity (and beyond it) from one single patient, J which the smallpox epidemic is a case in point. It is due to tiny organisms, hardly visible through a microscope but intensely dive, thrown off in the course of the disease. 1 hese float in the air or dust and drift to clothes md house linen as naturally as steel draws to I magnet; we call them “ Germs,” or seeds of lisease, because just as an ordinary seed grows o a plant, so a disease germ on a human, •ody breeds disease; the only protection -gainst germs is to destroy them. The question is : Will boding water and common soap do it ? Not always ; scy-.t lisease germs may thrive, or even breed, :n noth. So we must use a cleanser that will ■tot only clean clothes and house linen Boroaghly, hut, also kill a!i disease germs hat have lodged in them, fortunately to; js, manufacture and science have combined II meet this want with'Lifeouoy Soap. :;v wing Lifebuoy Soap in the laundry the g:nr.< >t infectious diseases arc caught and killed wholesale, because Lifebuoy Soap is both a perfect laundry cieansof and a strong disniVcunc as well, and when the household .‘billing and linen are washed with it, disease terms find destruction instead of a refuge. ■ Our crowded population doubles the risk 4 infection, Lilebuoy Soap reduces it; Put Lifebuoy Soap must be so used as to cover >oth cleansing and disinfection ; Lifehaoj map for the bath, Lifebuoy Soap f«r floors md walls, Lifebuoy Soap ’for kitchen and -cutlery, and ’when the copper bolls on Monday morning, then let it'be especially •ind always Lifebuoy Soap for the risy's washing.