South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1916-05-27
TheGiraffe5 6Feet
Of WeryJore Throat
1t Took Quarts and Quarts

IF anything could suffer more
than a centipede with the govt
or a snake with a backache 1t is
a giraffe with a sore throat. Six
feet CT Inflammation is no joke!
There isn't much 10 a giraffe but
his neck. so when he gets anything
that's where he usually gets IT.
The giraffe has It on US when II
comes 10 enjoying cocktail or dish
OF Ice cream. but when the bacillus
tonsilitis giganticus invsdes his
thorax and proceeds TO raise a lot
OF children and spread infection up
and down that six-foot throat we
are glad that our valued neck is as
It is.
All OF which has to do particu-
larry with Mary, the well-behaved
and moth srly giraffe with Barnum
& Baiieys circus. Mary caught
cold coming in from Barnum &
Bailey's Winter quarters in Bridge
port to Madison Square Garden,
New York. Mary's been suffering
terribly lately from amygdalitis. or
sore throat in a giraffe, and Andrew
Zingara. the trainer, has had his
hands full trying T. cure II and pre-
vent II from spreading to the other
giraffes in the circus. You see, the
malady is very contagious among
CRATES. The long necks OFFER such
fine opportunities 10 the germs 20
stake out claims that they are eager
TO proceed thither. and 1t is no easy
job to thwart their fell purpose.
Ordinarily the isolation OF the
indisposed animal is resorted to IN
order to prevent the spread OF the
malady to the others, but in Mary's
case an obstacle presented itself.
The obstacle happened to be Baby,
Mary's two months old youngster.
It hasn't been christened yet, but
when II is II will be named Bill or
Bess or something like that, and
until that time comes II Is being
called Baby and II.
ANYHOW. when Mary's throat got
sore and began TO get worse a foot
at a time, Andrew was much per
plexed as TO what 70 DO with Baby.
OF course, II could be put in a cage
by itself. but every now and then
Il would insist that another hole be
punched in its meal ticket. And
while pipe lines are all right for
oil they're impractical for milk.
Consequently, Baby would have to
be thrown into more or less close
relationship with its mother. for
reasons that were obvious, especi-
ally TO Baby.
But Andrew. who has taken a
course in preventive medicine for
CRATES. thought Il over and de-
cided he could handle things so
that Baby would escape It's mothers
misery. and he has done so splen-
didly.
First. he had TO doctor up Mary.
TO do this he had TO get two gal
Ions Of medicine, fifty yards of nice
warm flannel. ten pounds Of ONT
ment-and a step-ladder. Andrew
wouldn't tell us what the medicine
was. When we pressed him he
said. sibiIantly. that II was a secret.
Well, for all we care. he can keep
his old secret locked tight In his
breast indefinitely, because we
don't expect to own any CRATES.
for a while anyway. and darn sure
we wouldn't use II on ourselves.
Andrew has been valeting and
doctoring the Barnum CRATES for
twenty years come next Tuesday,
and the antidotes he used on Mary
were the result OF much expert
menting and research, and nobody
In that Ringing bunch is going 70
fatten on his years Of hard work
not IL he knows IL
But 10 get back TO Mary and her
troubles. After preparing his med
icines Andrew mounted the step