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Show CONCERNING MEASLES Measles has generally been considered con-sidered a comparatively harmless dis. lease which, in the natural course of ! events. ec r child Is bound, sooner ior later to catch. It has been observed ob-served though, of late, that the dis-east dis-east i not so innocuous as generalh supposed; and has caused a numlier of 'Icaths among young children een in Cache valle Vssistanl Surgeon General Gen-eral W. C Rncker of the United State? public health service has written writ-ten an article w arning people that so j fur from beinu almost harmless, I measles Is realh one of the most deadly of diseases, causing the death of full) eleven thousand childroji of the conntrv each year, not to mention other thousands who die of bronchopneumonia broncho-pneumonia and of tuberculosis that b'gan with measles. Il kills ten times as many children as succumb to smallpox, the doctor says, and loaves ninny of the children who survpo With lung, ear, or eye troubles He Issues the following warning to mother? moth-er? not to follow this example. Little Mary's mother thought it i wisfr to have the measles o'er, so she took her little girl to play with John next door Two weeks later Mary Sickened and her little life went out Every one of you will catch it if you don't watih out Whcli contains more truth than poetry and more tragedy than comedy even though In the form of humorous Jinglet |