IT’S strange that people live so long, remaining healthy, sound and
strong, when all around us, everywhere, the germs and microbes fill the
air. The more we read about the germs, in technical or easy terms, the
stranger does it seem that we have so far dodged eternity. No wonder a
poor mortal squirms; all things are full of deadly germs. The milk we
drink, the pies we eat, the shoes we wear upon our feet, are haunts of
vicious things which strive to make us cease to be alive. And yet we
live on just the same, ignore the germs, and play our game. Well, that’s
just it; we do not stew or fret o’er things we cannot view. If germs
were big as hens or hawks, and flew around our heads in flocks, we’d
just throw up our hands and cry: “It is no use—it’s time to die!” The
evils that we cannot see don’t cut much ice with you and me. A bulldog
by the garden hedge, with seven kinds of teeth on edge, will hand to me
a bigger scare than all the microbes in the air. So let us live and have
our fun, and woo and wed and blow our mon, and not acknowledge coward
fright of anything that’s out of sight.
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