DANGEROUS GIFTS.

Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 5, Issue 135, 21 January 1916, Page 3 (Supplement)

DANGEROUS GIFTS.

The writer of tile woman's letter in .Melbourne "Table Talk" is responsible for the following : " I have just heard of such a heartrending tragedy arising out of this dreadful war that I feel I must tell it as n warning. A young Australian soldier husband, anxious to send a souvenir of the East lo his women-folk. secured two handsome Egypt'an scarves and sent word they were coining. His young wife was living with his mother and sister, and as Me said no word as to who was to iiave them there was a little controversy over the matter, but his sister felt that they should be for his wife and his mother. I'nlike so many pane!-, th s arrived -aiely unfortunately, as it proved: and in order to wear and show the beautiful wrap/, tke trio went to the theatre one night. Almost immediate, afterwards the young wife, who had worn :i decollete frock, was troubled by an intense irritation of her shoulder, which became .so unbearable that .-.!:•■' was advised to consult a medical man. Tin's she did, to learn the dreadful fact that she had contracted one of the leprous forms of skin diseases. She wis ;it once ordered into quarantine, and is now eating her heart out there. Siie is under close observation, and lias not been sent to all i-olated place. for mercifully now, some forms of this dreadful disease are curable if treated m tune. What adds to the tragedy S the fact that her soldier husband is on his way back to Australia wounded. Th:- is not one of the wild canards that have been circulated from time to time, but unfortunately, a fact. Such lovely iii'iijh from the mysterious Fast. o<_ pecnlh li t-i.\ uv embroid: : - od or are ant : que.s, should be regarded with suspicion and handled cautiously iinle-s they have been disinfected. This can be done bv exports without harming the fabriis.