48 ILLINOIS DAIRYMEN'S ASSOCIATION. 



I remember some time ago in our College paper managed by the 

 students, the statement was made that "The very hairs of our head are 

 all numbered," and under that another little, "Some of our professors have 

 only the back numbers." I keep on my cap. 



We have vague ideas about cleanliness. The good housewife scrubs 

 and polishes and makes things bright and fine, but sometimes in doing 

 this she uses what is called a dishrag and after she has done with it, she 

 puts it up until it is time to use it again, and then goes through the same 

 operation. 



The chemist thinking he can do better, fixes his kitchen utensils in 

 better shape. He washes and scours and then turns in acid and various 

 other things to get off the last remnant of dirt, and he has thought he 

 was doing excellent work, and possibly some one comes along and 

 remarks in each of these cases that great pains has been taken to do 

 certain necessary things, but the very particular, necessary thing has been 

 left out, and we have been leaving that out in a great many of our opera- 

 tions and affairs. 



Perhaps it would be unwise to point our particulars near at home, 

 but in the old world in the middle ages, in Europe, one-third of the total 

 population of that whole European country was swept off in one year by 

 the plague. In London the bodies of people, so many of them were lying 

 in the streets and in their houses, that those who were left could not 

 take care of them who had died. The whole atmosphere became tainted 

 with the contagion and it was impossible that burial should take place 

 fast enough to keep up with the deaths. This same kind of thing would 

 have prevailed and in our own country, but for provisions that this other 

 country did not have; information that these people did not know. 



I do not think our people work any harder or are any more particular 

 in their modes of life than the people before them. These good house- 

 wives are doing the same things in keeping the rooms, tables and dishes 

 clean, but after all, in a great many instances we are leaving undone the 

 thing that leads towards cleanliness, that we ought to look after. 



I believe this is the first time in American history that a fine luncheon 

 has been served with such attendants on either side. The natural idea 

 I suppose would be that the place was some out of joint, but I tell you if 



