Evening star., 1914-08-09

ring could be readily heard in the The poor
little chap whooped and coughed and sputtered impair
TALLY his infant relative and his two baby sisters.
of whom showed any signs of having had the
disease.
The mother who occupied coign of vantage in the
seat back of the nursemad kept turning idly the leaves
of fashion magazine, except she aroused atm
tervals by exceptionally turbulent outburst from
her Then she would look up and smile fat-faced
smile of satisfaction to learn that her hopeful had not
vet choked to death.
Such sta-fed ignorance this prosperous looking
exhibited enough to turn ones blood cold.
She seemed not to have the slightest conception of the
tremendous contag1ousness OF whoopng cough or that
the disease young children infants might be very
grave not to say fatal ailment
l felt like paraphrasng Madam Roland with 20
Motherhood, what crimes committed in thy name!"
Instead made of myself by apologetcally telling
the lady that her whoopng child very serious
to her other three and that in the interest OF
these three the little boy should be headed the right
direction, and provided with handkerchief to whoop
in For this altruistc act was thanked with naughty
and intimation that if l had any business to
mind had better mind it, and not be insulting de-
cent, respectable people-busily engaged in dissent
mating whooping cough in their own decent, respec-
table way.
Treating every case though it most serious
condition., it sand excusing the children from
all and exertion until they completely cured
would prevent threefours of the thousand deaths
from whooping cough that annually shame the United
States
MUMPS is another highly contagious, but-among
~ civilized races-not very fatal disease. Mothers
should learn to recognize its symptoms as it is ex
tremely common, and but rarely under the complete
of medical man.
Mumps usually makes its appearance slight cold
with perhaps little cough There is then period of
depression, and elevation in temperature with pos
sibly headache and some vomiting
The child complains of pain and feeling of tightness
a.,
followed by gradual enlargement of one both glands
under the jaw, running up to the back of the This
swelling has tendency to make carcature OF a ravlng
beauty, and freak of ordinary individual-par-
ticuarly he be male adult There few funnier
sights than full-grown, angry man with the mumps
He is swollen and pulled that his protrude
in grotesque fashion, and involuntarly you catch
yourself watching or them to wiggle They are just
that kind of Ringing in the and earache
are quite common. The attack usually lasts about
a week. after which the swelling gradually subsides
and by the tenth twelfth day has completely dsap
peared.
The same septic symptoms that follow scarlet fever
and to extent measles also occasionally
in mumps Middle-ear trouble and deafness, chronic
swollen joints, kidney Inflammation, and occasionally
that grave condition known meningitis Gnfamma-
ton of the coverings of the bran may leave the victim
partly paralyzed for life, speechless with de-
fective intellect, totally blind.
So do not make light of mumps. In fact, it is good
policy and shows excellent sense not to despise any
physical ailment, matter how humble it may appear
to be.
CHICKENPOX is another disease of childhood that
is regarded more joke than disease Ere
quently the victim is not i'll enough to remain in bed,
unless by due process of force. Yet at times this dis
order flares up with all the virulence of smapox-for
which it has often been mistaken.
Not distinctly traceable, but the less serious
in the long rum the conditions following these
tagous, preventable diseases Usually there is loss
of vgor absence of appetite perhaps digestive dis