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Show Society Has a Jew Ailment Hoaeola, Latest DiBease, a Cross Between Be-tween Measles and Old-Fash-ioned Hives. WASHINGTON, May 28. Secretary of the Navy Moody Is the latest victim of tho socloty ailment, roseola. Shortly after ho had reached the office today his countenance counte-nance became scarlet and blotched with small pimples. For a while there was a llttlo excitement In the department, becauBo someone started the rumor that Mr. Moody had contractod the smallpox during his Cuban trip. This was set at rest by a doctor summoned from tho Surgeon-General's olllce. but Mr. Moody was ordered home and to bed at once. Miss Alice Roosevelt haH recently been the victim of roseola and was provented from meeting the Chinese Chi-nese prince when he was here. Mtf. Roosovelt has alBO had the ailment and the entire family of Roosevelt boys have suffered from It this spring. Even Admiral Dewey has had a mild attack. He pronounced the disease a crosm between be-tween the measles and the old-faah-loncd hlvea. |