Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 168, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 July 1912 — BOY SUCKS SNAKE WOUND [ARTICLE]

BOY SUCKS SNAKE WOUND

Rattler Attacks Girl of Nine While Picking Berries and Her Brother Saves Her. Alpine, Tex.—Mollie Measday. nine-year-old daughter of F. W. Measday, a wealthy farmer, was bitten by a rattlesnake last Friday, and her life saved by her eight-year-old brother, who sucked the wound, it became known today. Mollie complained of being siok in the morning, atfd~her mother on examining her found her leg was badly swollen. The child. was questioned 'tqril then related how a rattlesnake had bitten her while she and her brother were picking berries. The brother, Charles, promptly sucked-th* wound, aM out his mouth at. a near-by stream. Neither child said a word of the affair to their parents. - % Doctors were summoned when the mother learned the nature of her daughter’s Illness and said the chila would recover. Mollie declared she “did not want to scare her mother” by telling her she had been bitten bythe snake, while Charlie feared a whipping if he told he had sucked the wound. Asks Protection From Wife’s Kisses. Tonkers, N. T.—Andrew Shampnoy has appealed to the police to make his wife stop teasing him. Sometimes it is too much kissing. Again it is too much hanging about his neck.