THE CURE FOR ALL DISEASES
rybody else. A sleeve is handy for children. The inside of your
T-shirt for T-shirt wearers. The inside of coat for suited persons.
The inside of the neck line for dresses. Of course, paper is best,
but in emergency use cloth. Never, never your hands unless you
are free to immediately dash into the washroom and clean the
contamination off your hands.
Teach children this old rearranged verse:
If you cough or sneeze or sniff
Grab a tissue, quick-quick-quick!
And if you're sitting at the table
Do it in your sleeve if able.Better Housekeeping................................................
Throw out as much of the wall to wall carpeting as you can
bear to part with. It is injurious to everyone's health, even though
it's comforting to bare feet and looks pretty.
Carpets clean our shoes. Modern shoes, with their deep
treads, bring in huge amounts of outdoor filth which settles deep
down into the carpets. In spite of vacuuming every week, the filth
accumulates.
Vacuum the carpets when the children, the sick and elderly
are out of the house. The dust raised and distributed throughout
the house isn't just dirt, it's infectious dirt. It lands on tables and
counters. These get wiped with a cloth or sponge and then ap-
plied to dishes. The dust in the kitchen falls on open food and
into open containers.
Clean carpets with a “steam cleaner”. When you see how
much filth is in the water and realize how much dirt you were
living with, you might be willing to trade in the “beauty” of
carpets for the cleaner living of smooth floors. Don't add chemi-
cals (commercial cleaning solutions) to the steam cleaning ma-
chine; these chemicals leave a residue in the carpet which dries