A Vaccination Story.

New Zealand Mail, Issue 870, 2 November 1888, Page 5

A Vaccination Story.

Maidenly modesty and female vanity have had a sharp struggle among the young ladies of Philadelphia since the small- phx scare began. Few of the young ladies, with, visions of receptions next winter before them, 'when they would appear in low-cut corsage and sleeveless bodices, cared to have the disfiguring marks placed upon their arms. It has generally keen decided by the fashionable female to have the delicate operation performed upon the calf of the leg, and this required the servioea of the elderly practitioners, as the ladies were loth to submit to the gaze of the youthful doctors. A lady, who mauages a fashionable boarding-house in the city, recently determined to have all of the yonng ladies, under her charge vaccinated. Those who were boarders at the school were to be vaccinated by the physician, an elderly and well known practitioner, who has usually bepn called in to attend such ills as school girls are heir to. The young ladies all protested against tfle marking of their arms, and it >yas determined, after a solemn conference, tflat each one should be vaccinated upon the calf of the leg. This was entirely satisfactory until the day appointed for the operation, Instead of coming himself, the doctor sent his assistant, a very yonng man with a blonde moustache, whom the girls declared looked 4 just too sweet. ’ There was a harried consultation of the ladies, ‘Never l’ *ITI take jtho small-pox first!’ fHe-shall pot vaccinate me 1’ Such were the exclamations of the girls. The yopng doctor wa3 compelled to retire, and the kindly old gentleman who is his preceptor was sent for. The gjrls then submitted without a mprmgri-