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DON’T LEAVE JELLIES UNCOVERED

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Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Jul 8, 1897

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 23, No. 26.

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DON’T LEAVE JELLIES UNCOVERED.

“My husband,” said a physician’s wife not long ago, “chanced to see one day some molds of jelly set to cool outside the window. They were uncovered, as they were out of reach of anything.
“He asked me, ‘Is it your custom to cool your jelly uncovered?’
“I was obliged to say it was.
“Then he said, ‘Do you know when we medical men want to secure minute organisms for investigations we expose gelatin to the air or where the germs are, and it quickly attracts and holds them? Cool your jelly if you will, but cover it with a piece of muslin.’”