A READER sends in th following verses, which appeared some years ago in the "North-China Daily News," under an excerpt from a Health Department report to the effect that "Find Sprayed Droplets," attending an unguarded sneeze, were responsible for a spread of disease.
"Oh! beware of the finely sprayed droplet That attends an unforeseen sneeze, It bears such a wonderful crop let O purely microbial disease.
When out on your lawful occasions And you hear that a sneeze has been made, Turn and flee from the ghastly invasions Of ároplets, maybe finely sprayed.
The sneezelet, the cough let, the laugh let, The chuckler, observed in your child, Should be sternly reproved, and please let It know why you pitch it in mild.
And if despite care you are And in "Bubbling Well"
Let this on your tombstone be written "Of droplets, he died, finely sprayed."
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.