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Show BOARD OF HEALTH 010 NOT FILL THIS DBDER It would be a very sad world If It were not for tho fact that the heaviest moments of gloom are lightened with the humor that is in every event were one keen to sight it and know It for its worth Not all tho busy doings of the clty'board of health have been weigh -tened down with deepening gjoom. Notwithstanding all tho sickness and the trouble of the city just now, there havo been occasions for heartiest laughter, as, for instance, when the leaders of the "gang" came into the office for gauze masks in order that they might play their game of "bold mnn" Mi o hpttpr nnrl that thev might prove to weaker minds that the day of ghosts is still here. The -pinnacle of humor was reached yesterday, however, when the office of the board of health was mistaken for a "bootleggers" headquarters and the officers in charge considered as high handed dealers In the liquid of momentary mom-entary cheer and continual depression. It came about in this way: From the quiet of his book entry labors Mr. Stevens was called by tho ring of the telphone. The voice that greeted him was sweet and low and belonged to a woman, who had heard, so she said, that whisky was the finest kind of thing for influenza, and she understood (here the voice became, if possible, sweeter and lower still) that it was possible to procure a necessary quantity, if one went about it the right way by applying to the board of health. Mr. Stevens sufficiently recovered to say as gently as he could that he thought the Inquirer was misinformed. Being reassured by further sentences to the same effect, the sweet and low voice, which possibly was not the voice of a low person, faded silently away. What do you know about that? oo |