Jasper County Democrat, Volume 21, Number 21, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 June 1918 — TEMPERATURE AND TEMPER. [ARTICLE]

TEMPERATURE AND TEMPER.

Here is a good old story that somebody has taken the trouble to dress up In khaki —or hospital blue: Sister Anne was going the round of the ward in the big hospital for wounded soldiers, examining the medical charts over each bed and taking temperatures. Reaching the side of one hero, in whose mouth she. had left the thermometer a mindte ago, she was horrified to find, withdrawing it, that it registered 120, although only an hour ago the patient was normal. Swiftly she summoned the house doctor, but he, on arriving, was seriously perturbed, as there was nothing in the patient’s condition to account for the. sudden rise. “Look herg,” he said to the soldier, “have you dropped this thermometer or been fooling with it?” “No, sir. Only been stirring my tea with it I”