Evening Star Newspaper, January 27, 1929, Page 125

Paul is forever forgetting his handkerchiefs ing no end of worry in crowded public conv THE such by snuffling loudly. A nervous person can almost hear the germs cry, "Whoopee!” SUNDAY Mr. Fred Bitter, Mrs. Bitter and their lovely daughter, Miss Frieda Bitter, are getting over the flu in their two-room apart- ment in a family hotel. The hotel is very ritzy below stairs but not so good above the lobby, the ceiling being about five feet high and the rest to scale so that t[l_ree people therein are never far apart. First Mr. Bitter gets a little better and then Frieda and Mrs. Bitter reinfect him and then no sooner do Frieda and mamma begin to look up than Mr. Bitter reinfects them and so it goes. Dorothy and her mother are frightened to death by crowds, chil- Dorothy keeps from everything crowded except theaters, and her mother dren with running noses and open-faced sneezing s out of everything except the department stores during the Both are very careful not to go near a crowded church because you know they air them so seldom flu epidemic man has just sneezed on Dorothy’s neck and her mother is going to write to the Evening Boil about it, the minute they get home. =AMl ") O STAR, WASHINGTON, D. No party is a success this Winter witho are just up from a bed of pain. A terrible nose. After spreading a few he: The Flu Germ By W. E. Hill (Copyright, 1929, by the Chicage Tribune Syndicate.) ‘Oh, but Hattie,” comes the voice from the phone, “I don’t believe you were as sick as I was. Even my toes throbbed and my finger nails were loose and"—etc,, etc, etc. It's very difficult to discuss flu symptoms over a telephone because no sooner has Clara begun to tell Hattie about the hot and cold flashes that racked her than Hattie interrupts to tell Clara all about the screeching in her ears and how the medicine seemed to be worse than useless. althy germs they go home to a relapse and more fl ut two or more guests who have been down with flu, and They are easily detected because of the chapped look around the u. C.—GRAVURE SE(CTION—JANUARY 27. 1929 The inoculation. “We never dreamed he had mumps, doctor! We thought it was just his inoculation taking.” Those people who are the happy recipients of a jab in the arm against flu,watch eagerly for symptoms of “taking.” Anything from whooping cough to a broken ankle is looked upon as nothing more than a flu inoculation taking successfully. At the first symptoms of flu, and even before. Mitchell, the home remedy boy, will rush for the flaxseed poultice, the mustard, the hot ginger tea, and the oil of the castor bean. Good Nurse Connelly is one of those girls who look on the bright :Idv:‘ every ho!.r of the twenty-four, except during those¢ when ght Nurse Sleeping” is attached to her door. Believes in never alarming any one. “Oh, he's just fine today Connelly over the phone, “Just fine! Of course. sinus infection pulls him down, and he gets pretty wheezy toward night, but otherwise he's just fine, as lively as a cricket all day!” gurgles Miss