Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 266, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 November 1914 — Not Due to ignorance. [ARTICLE]

Not Due to ignorance.

Doctor Briggs received a note from a farmer living back quite a way in the country, requesting him to come as quickly as possible to see bis child who waß very sick with “a very bad cold.” The doctor examined the child and then turned to the mother. “Don’t you know,” he asked, "tbat your little girl is coming dowq, with the measles?” "Yes, doctor,” was the woman’s reply; “I kpew she was.” "Then why in the world,’[Asked the doctor, “did ywb write me that she had a very bad'cold?” Tbe woman hesitated, for a moment, then, looking at her husband, said, with sullen frankness: “Neither him nor me knew how to spell ‘measles.’ “—National Monthly.