Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 263, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 November 1912 — A Germ Immune. [ARTICLE]

A Germ Immune.

—“Well,” said the old gentlemanr walking through the International Tuberculosis exhibit, “when I see all this I wonder how I have ever lived to be 84 years old, and I never took a mite of care of myself, either. You see, I was born in the days before they discovered germs. I have slept with the snow blowing in on my bed, cut through the ice to wash my face and hands, eaten all kinds of rich, hearty foods, got my feet wet and let them get dry again or stay wet, put my flannels on and took them off when 1 pleased—am 84 years old and never had a serious illness. I am afra.d now, however, that I will never reach 90 years, as my father and mother did. Looks like a man don’t have a fair show with so many germs ready to floor him."