Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 227, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 September 1914 — An Unknown Ailment [ARTICLE]

An Unknown Ailment

A small boy of Nashville has been afflicted with mumps. The siege was unusually long fend disagreeable. One evening recently an aunt, who le A newspaper woman, called up the boy’s mother on the telephone to cancel an engagement. She was absent and the boy himself answered the call. "Tell your mother,” said the aunt, "that I can’t come out this evening because I have an assignment Can you remember that?” ’Yes, ma’am,” said the boy, "I’ll tell her.” When the mother returned he said to her: auntie telephoned that she couldn’t come, because she Is sick.” "SlckT Why, what’s the matter?” she wanted to know.

"I forget what it Is she’s got” said the boy, "It’s something she has taken, but It isn’t the mumps.”