O O Q pile, it crawls over our cakes and secretly plants the seeds of 

 disease in baby's milk! It does more to spread the germs of 

 disease than any other known agency. 



Early in the nineteenth century, the British in India learned 

 of that mysterious, dark band of Thugs, devotees of Bhowanee, 

 at whose shrine they offered up human sacrifice. His followers 

 were initiated with solemn ceremony and taught how to 

 strangle with the sacred cloth, neatly and quickly in order 

 that no moan, no cry, no muffled scream should escape the 

 victim. They travelled in bands and, overtaking smaller groups 

 of merchants benighted in the bleak unpeopled wastes between 

 villages, offered them protection. When a sense of security had 

 stolen over the weary camp, when the silence of the night was 

 broken only by the laugh of a jackal, the doomed were seized. 

 "The sacred cloth was whipped around the victim's neck, there 

 was a sudden twist, and the head fell silently forward, the eyes 

 starting from the sockets; and all was over!" Champion Thugs 

 were Futty Khan and Buhram. Futty Khan's list was 508 men 

 in twenty years, and he was still a young man when the British 

 Government stopped his activities. Buhram's list totalled 931, 

 but it took him forty years to accomplish this. 



In the United States alone, over five hundred men, women 

 and children are strangled every day! Thousands daily, slowly, 

 but surely, reach the point of suffocation! And their death is 

 not a merciful one. With wasted bodies — hungering for air — 

 they die with the hope of life still in their eyes! The annihila- 

 tion of the followers of Bhowanee immortalized England. 

 What are we doing to destroy the "great white plague?" . . . 

 A victim of consumption "may expectorate from 500,000,000 

 to 3,000,000,000 tubercle bacilli in twenty- four hours!" In 

 summertime this sputum of the gutters, the alleyways or our 

 parks, is attacked by a horde of house flies which smear their 

 feet in it, rub it off upon their wings, or devour it. Where then 

 do they go? Shall they visit your house, to clean themselves 

 upon your bread or to leave microscopic tracks on the edge 

 of your baby's glass? That is not all, for having swallowed the 

 germs, the fly acts as a culture tube for them. Now each "fly 

 speck" may contain as many as 5,000 germs of tuberculosis! 

 It has been proved experimentally that thirty infested flies may 

 deposit from six to ten million tubercle germs in three days! 



