The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-06-11
DOG DAYS COMING.
Everybody and Ev-
erything' Is I'm
comfortable.
YOU MUST BEWARE OF THE DOG.
But if Bitten, Follow
These Instruc-
.tions.

The dog days are coming, the most
disagreeable of the year.
The advent of summer is always
looked forward towith feelings of pleas
ant anticipation by people but as every
pleasure has it's one accompanying dis
agreeable feature, summer has its dog
days 1t is during the dog-days when
the air is full of humidity, when clothes
will not set on the body in a becomini
way, and when the clothes that are
worn hug the flesh like plaster.
1t is the time of year when every man
sets himself up as the modern Job, be-
| cause he bears the unpleasant condi-
lions with what he considers becoming
grace. He does not respond to the
feelings of destruction that beset his
mind as a vent to his uncomfortable
feeling. The feeling is common and
shared by man and beast alike, but the
beasts have not the resources for ale
Waiting the feeling and they have no
example Of Job as a man has and the
only recourse for them is to get square
for the uncomfortable feeling by max
ing some other animal uncomfortable
The beasts must have the power of
utSGtIulHtult IOI Lnty Itduiiy IGdllHN
that man is the only member of thel
animal order who seems to get through
the season with the least Inconvenience.
The man can shed his clothes, and if he
lives in the proper locality and is not
sensitive to the gaze of casual way
farers, he may stalk abroad as naturel
adorned him, but not so with the beasts.
They must wear their shaggy coat, Of
tentmes longer than during the winter
T1onnthgs thew cannot dictate relief
cannot make choice of the coolest andI
most soothing food and drink; and can
not be relieved of duty, but many times
have the duty increased by getting al
share of mans to do.
All the domestic animals are effected
during the season. The gentle old
Dobbin acts strangely; old bossy is La |
Bile to give an aerial pass to trespassersl
in her pasture. Tabby wants nothing |
but her milk, and that often, and isl
likely to leave her mark on the hand |
of the too gay visitor; and honest old |
Rover, Fido, Carlo, Pete or whatever
his name may be, seems to have all the |
ills of the others and his own. Nothing |
goes right for him. He froths at the |
mouth, flies refuse to be dislodged, and
other things get deeper into the hair |
and bite as though they were possessed. |
Everybody and everything is uncom |
Portable, and the dog is dislodged from
his cool, secluded spot, and because he |
does as man would do and resents. Peo-
pie are led to the belief that all the |
dogs have combined their cay and pro-
pose to make the most of it. Every dog (
has his day, but during dog days, all
dogs have their days together. The |
dog, to relieve his feeling, snaps, and |
if a person is close enough, oftentimes
bites, and in such cases there is danger
to the individual. If the bite is not
attended to, there is danger
of hydrophobia, and man is liable to
move about as a two-legged dog as far
as his actions and offerings are con-
cerned.
The bite of a dog is at all times |
painful. If the animal bites only the |
clothing and gets away with a portion |
of it, the sensibilities and properties |
are Jared. but if the dog sets his teeth |
deeper and gets a hold of the flesh, the |
whole system is Jared.
There is nothing that the people ap-
parently know so little of as the treat |
ment Of a bite and in answer TO in |
quires, the director of the institute has |
replied to several. He says that -'theo- |
retically. the immediate application to |
all the recesses Of the wound OF any |
agent which destroys protoOlasm |
should suffice to kill any germs lodged /
therein, and remove all danger of a /
general infection. Practically UGH ar
plication cannot be made. and a lato- I
not only does no good |
but does harm, in lending a false sense
of security to the minds of the patient /
and Of his friends.
1T is best to treat the wound as
che would treat any infected wound 1
and at once. 1t is not hypothesis. but /
a demonstrated fact. that every day
Of delay adds to the uncertainty Of =