Rensselaer Republican, Volume 14, Number 31, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 April 1882 — Dust. Dusters and wipe. [ARTICLE]

Dust. Dusters and wipe.

Do not dust, but wipe! Who would believe it the duster, that peacful emblem of domestic toil, may, under cert <in circumstances,become more dangerous to handle than a six-shooter, We are in dead earnest. An eminent scientist declares it to be a fact. Do you know just what you are doing when you brush away dust? You disseminate in the air, and consequently introduce into your own interior into your tissues and respiratory organs, all sorts of eggs, spores, epidemic germs and murderous vibiones which dust contains. One movement with a feather duster may be enough to poison both you and your neighbors—to inoculate you all with typhoid, varioloid or cholera —strange as it may appear. Instead of a feather duster take a cloth, w ipe away the dust instead of stirring it un. In short, wipe—nevder ust.