Jasper County Democrat, Volume 5, Number 20, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 August 1902 — A Dangerous Salute. [ARTICLE]

A Dangerous Salute.

The Christian Register condemns the so called “Chautauqua salute,” which has been popularized at religious gatherings and which consists of waving handkerchiefs simultaneously. “Unless all the handkerchiefs are clean,” it says, “think of the microbes with which the atmosphere is charged after hundreds of them have been waving in the air of a hall closely packed with human beings!”