Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 93, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 April 1912 — Disinfecting Arabs a Puzzle. [ARTICLE]

Disinfecting Arabs a Puzzle.

Rome, Italy.—A dispatch from Tripoli says that the military authorities have had recourse to an ingenious expedient to disinfect the Arab population, but it was difficult to know how to apply it without hurting their feelings or prejudices. The office of hygiene has established, dext to . the American consulate, a pump which sprays A disinfectant The Arabs at first ran away frightened, thinking it was a kind of quick firing gun, bat whan they saw the Italian soldiers going under the spray and coming dad refreshed and perfumed they all rushed to do likewise, and now there is a dally procession of dirty, ragged na-