MONDAY, 8.30 A.M.

Grey River Argus, 20 October 1915, Page 7

MONDAY, 8.30 A.M.

Some Reflection! on a Boiling Copper. "The copper's boiling*' — this is the coranon phrase of early Monday, the housewife's :all to the weekly task. Let us follow it with 1 question that is not so simple as it sounds i "What is it boiling for ?" Most people would intwer, "Why, to boil the diit out of th* rlothes, of course." Quite so, but for health's take something moie than dirt has tb be done tway with in the household washing, namely, he seeds of infectious disease. Infection may be communicated to a wholt •itv 'and beyond it) from one single patient, >{ which the smallpox epidemic is a case in point. It is due to tiny organisms, hardly visible through a microscope but intensely ilive, thrown off in the course of the disease. These float in the air or dust and drift to clothes And house 4inen as naturally as steel draws to a magnet ; we call them " Germs," or seeds of disease, because just as an ordinary seed grows 10 a plant, so a disease germ on a human body breeds disease ; the only protection jgainst germs is to destroy them. The question is : Will boiling water and common soap do it ? Not always ; lomt 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 as, manufacture and science have combined tb meet this want with Lifebuoy Soap. By using Lifebuoy Soap in the laundry the germl 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 S«*p 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 en Monday morning, then let it be especially and always Lifebuoy Soap for the day's washing.