Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 154, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 June 1913 — Ironing as a Germ Killer. [ARTICLE]

Ironing as a Germ Killer.

To mere man, uncultured and unashamed, the flatiron seem* a thing of evlL Ita use renders the house uninhabitable one day out of seven; tt distracts woman’s attention from the all-important matter of preparing food. In shameless conspiracy with starch, it renders clothes uacomfortables, turns napkins Into slippery boards, and banishes sleep from beds. Civilised man is a slave of the ironing board, and the boiled shirt is the emblem of his degradation. Now, the scientists teH us that Ironing has an Important function as an antiseptic; that the hot Iron is one of our leading germ killers. This Instrument of torture may have a temperature of 266 degrees, and that, they say, Is more than enough to satisfy the most fastidious bacHhia. in places where sterilizing devices are not handy, surgical dressings may be ironed with great advantage, and in a recent experiment clothing which had been worn by diphtheria patients waa completely disinfected by the use of a hot iron. - Long-suffering man will note with relief that the scientists have said nothing in defense of staroh. There has been no vindication of the 'boiled shirt.—Success Magazine.