Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 290, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 December 1914 — SHE WHACKED CONSUMPTION. [ARTICLE]

SHE WHACKED CONSUMPTION.

Red Cross Seals Are a Powerful * Weapon. She was richly, gowned and bedecked with furs and jewtels. He was a shabby, wlsen faced sort of man. Both of them came up to the Red Cross Seal booth at the same time. “My wife Is dying with consumption," be said In a husky voice, “an’ we ain’t got much money, because I’m out of work, but she did want me to buy five of them seals. She says If she can take a whack at consumption aforre she dies she’ll rest easier, an’ I guess she wilL" He wiped his eyes with his knuckles and reached for the package of seals which the pretty attendant had put up for him.

“Where do you live?" said the richly dressed woman, who had been an Interested listener to the shabby man’s brief story. He gave an address In one of the poorest tenement bouse neighborhoods. “I was going to buy a few seals for my little girl," said the woman, “but your wife’s desire to get a whack at consumption has shown me what I should do. Please give me SSO worth, miss. Tell your wife she whacked consumption harder than she expected.”