Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1916-04-23
The irafe5 9 Feet
Of VeryJore Throat
1T Took Quarts and On

tHdH CeDnpeQe WITH the govt
or 4 snake with backache it is
giraffe with a sore throat. Six
feet Of Inflammation is no Joke.
There Isn't much to giraffe but
his neck, so when he gets anything
that's where he usually gets it.
The giraffe has II on us when it
comes to enjoying cocktail or dish
Of ice cream. hut when the bacillus
tonsilitis Eiganticus invades his
thorax and proceeds 10 raise lot
OF children and spread infection up
and down that siX-foot throat we
are glad that our valued neck is ms
1t is
All OF which has to do particu-
larry with Mary. the well-hehaved
and motherly giraffe with Barnum
& Bailey's circus. Mary caught
cold coming in from Barnum 6
Bailey's Winter quarters in Bridge
port 70 Madison Square Garden,
New York. Mary's heen suffering
terribly lately from amygdalitis. or
sore throat in a giraffe, and Andrew
Zingara. the trainer, has had his
hands full trying TO cure it and pre-.
vent 1t from spreading TO the other
eiraffes in the circus You see, the
na!ady Is very contagious among
CRATES. The long necks offer such
hne opportunities TO the germs to
stake out claims that they are eager
TO proceed thither, and it is no easy
Job to thwart their fell purpose.
Ordinarily the isolation OF the
!ndisposed animal is resorted to in
order to prevent the spread of the
ma!ady to the others, but in Mary's
case an obstacle presented itself,
The obstacle happened to he Baby.
Mary's two months old youngster.
1t hasn't been christened yet, but
when it is it will be named Bill or
Bess or something like that. and
until that time comes 1t is being
called Baby and 1t.
ANYHOW. when Mary's throat got
sore and began to get worse a foot
AT time, Andrew was much per.
picked as to what to do with Baby.
OF course, it could be put in a cage
by itself. but every now and then
II would insist that another hole be-
punched in its meal ticket. And
While pipe lines are all right for
OIL they're impra ctical 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 10 Baby.
But Andrew. who has taken a
course in preventive medicine for
Eiralfes. thought it over and de.
cidcd he could handle things so
that Baby would escape its mothers
misery. and ne has done SO splen-
didly.
! III %, ne i!iu 10 QOCtOT uD Mary.
To do this he had to get two gal.
Ions 81 medicine. fifty yards of nice
WARM flannel, ten pounds OF oint.
ment-and step-ladder. Andrew
wouldn't tell us what the medicine
was. When we pressed him he
said, sibilantly, that it was a secret.
Well, for all we care, he can keen
his old secret locked tight in his
breast indefinitely, because we
don't expect TO own any CRATES,
for while anyway. and darn sure
We wouldn't use it on ourselves.
Andrew has been valeting and
doctoring the Barnum giraffes for
twenty years come next Tuesday.
and the antidotes he used on Mary
we're the result OF much experi.
menting and research. and nobody
IN that Ringing bunch is going 10
fatten of his years OF hard work
no. ii he knows it.
But TO get back TO Mary and her
troubles. After preparing his med.
iCines Andrew mounted the stem.