GERMS! by Helen A. Steinhauer

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Apr 28, 1898

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 24, No. 17.

GERMS!

By Helen A. Steinhauer

Two winsome little folks, a laddie and a lass, were playing in the green field south of my house. Suddenly the wee mon, who is a great friend of mine, rushed up to me—blue eyes distended, and horror depicted on his round, chubby face—as he held towards me a paper sack which he had picked up, and excitedly exclaimed:—

“O! look at the germs!”

The old bag had evidently contained sugar, once upon a time, and an army of small ants, out foraging, had taken possession of it with a view to carrying off the grains that still adhered to its sides.

At this moment our small Scotsman’s little French playmate caught up with him, cheeks aglow, and eyes shining with the importance of the find. Turning her pretty, bright face up to his, she inquired eagerly:—

“W’at is oo doin’ to do wiz ze germs, Davie; burn ’em?”

“No,” promptly replied the petticoated doctor of the next decade, solemnly shaking his blond curls, “I shall bury them!”

Es geht ohne sagen (it goes without saying) that the parents of these well-informed infants were employees of a famous Sanitarium which makes a specialty of germology, and is noted for its discoveries in that line.

Roentgen rays, Crooke’s tubes, calcium tungstate screens, etc., are all well enough in their way, but what may we not hope from the unassisted vision of the rising generation!

HELEN A. STEINHAUER.