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54 WINNET KA TALK September 24, 1927 Mr. and Mrs. J. Milton Coulter, 1065 | Mrs. Franklin Courtney Ellis of Ro- Chatfield road, announce the birth of | chester, N. Y,, returned to her home a son Wednesday, September 14, at |{ Wednesday after a ten days' visit with the Evanston hospital. The baby has | her parents, Mr. and Mrs. L. Harri- been named Joseph Smith Coulter. | son Mettler, of 1119 Sheridan road. EDITH BIDEAU NORMELLI CONCERT SOPRANO--TEACHER OF VOICE is receiving enrollments now for Fall term Concert -- Oratorio -- Opera Repertoire -- Engagements secured for professional pupils. Interviews without charge. Studio Building 1718 Sherman Ave., Evanston Phones: FAMOUS DOG FANCIER TALKS ABOUT RABIES Appearance of Rabies on North | Shore Recalls Comment by Albert Payson Terhune Pevalence of rabies among dogs throughout the north shore area within the past month and the resultant or- ders in various communities for inocu- lation of dogs as an alternative' to muzzling, has occasioned considerable discussion among those who cherish Studio. Greenleaf 3523 -- Residence, University 7278 canine pets. This general discussion North Shore Garden Service VALLEY VIEW FARM--Waukegan Road --GLENVIEW Building and Construction of HOME GARDENS PARKS PLAYGROUNDS TENNIS COURTS GOLF COURSES FLAGSTONE SIDEWALKS DRIVEWAYS, ETC. Black Soil $7.00 truckload delivered. Telephone GLENVIEW 141-J concerning whether or not innocula- tion is efficacious has brought to the attenion of the editor the accompany- ing extract from an article appearing recently in the Saturday Evening Post, of June 11, 1927, penned by Albert Payson Terhune, famous author and dog fancier. We quote: "There is more profoundly hysterical talk of rabies and less actual knowl- edge of it than of any other menace on earth. Rabies exists, even as the sleeping sickness and leprosy and ossi- fication exist. But it is one of the rarest of cammne diseases. Not one supposedly mad dog in many hundreds actually 1s rabid. "A dog is mortally sick and tries to get away to some quiet place to die, or a dog is lost in a crowded street and is driven wild with terror and con- LMOST at your door Uptown Chicago offers amusement that those less fortunately - located willingly travel miles to see. 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CAGO People One of a series of advertise- ments for Uptown Chicago, sponsored by the Central Uptown Chicago Associa- tion and paid for co-opera- tively by Uptown Chicago's businessmen. fusion by the pursuit of small boys, or a dog is tortured wtih thirst on a red-hot day, or has a fit. At sight of his uncertain gait and foaming jaws up goes the panic yell of 'Mad dog! That cry is ever lurking, eager for utterance, in the fear swamps at the back of human brains. The crowd forms, the bellowingly wary chase be- gins, and someone wins honor by firing six wabbly-aimed shots into the body of a pup that is probably friendly and harmless. Describes Rabid Dog "The genuinely rabid dog seldom will swerve an inch from his path to attack. On he runs lurchingly, snap- ping at the air--and at nothing else which does not come within his direct line of travel--until he drops from ex- haustion. He is little more likely to turn aside to chase a human or any other dog than is a typhoid patient likely to pursue his doctor up an alley- way with an ax. "A bite census was gleaned {from several big-city dog pounds a year or two ago and the results were pub- lished. Some of the figures covered a period of more than a quarter century. The toll of impounded dogs ran high up into the thousands. The number of bites received by poundkeepers and dog catchers was appallingly large. But out of all those innumerable bites not one employe had incurred rabies or any other lasting injury. Rabies Rare Ailment "It has been estimaied that S. P. C. A. employes have handled in all more than a million dogs, and this without the recording of one case of true rabies among such handlers. In Constantinople and in countless other Eastern cities for a thousand years stray dogs were tenfold more plentiful than they are in any American city. Yet rabies among Orientals was al- most unheard of. "Those facts by themselves ought to form a fairly sufficient exorciser of the mad-dog bugaboo. The dog catch- er's prey is made up chiefly of the stray and sick dogs which are reputed to be the most virulent rabies carriers. New York's Health commissioner cites only nine reputed deaths from rabies in that city of about 6,000,000, since 1920--an average of less than one rabies death a year to every 3,000,000 people. . . =... "Too often, when a dog is ailing, rabies is the instant diagnosis. Nobody takes the trouble to hunt for a simpler solution of the trouble. As wisely diagnose every prickly heat rash as incipient smallpox. I have known five instances among my own friends' kennels where a dumb-rabies verdict was given against a suffering dog whose jaws were fixed and wide, and where a morsel of bone proved to be the sole disease germ. Please don't think I am belittling genuine rabies. It does exist. But it is almost negli- gibly uncommon in most parts of America and it is practically unknown in modern England. "I have been bitten again and again in the course of my lifetime acquain- tance with dogs. Two of the biters were said to be mad. Thus far I have not developed rabies to any alarming extent. I have but one form of treat- ment for dog bites, a treatment which I and thousands of other folk have found 100 per cent effective, and which I think any physician will in- dorse. Here is the idea: "A dog bite is as dangerous, no more, no less, as would be a similar wound from a piece of sharp metal or bone or other inorganic substance; plus any infection--not germ of rabies --that may be on the dog's teeth. As a rule, there is no infection on the teeth of a healthy dog. "Tf the bite is where your lips can (Continued on Page 56)