A VACCINATION STORY.

Waikato Times, Volume XXXI, Issue 2555, 24 November 1888, Page 2 (Supplement)

A VACCINATION STORY.

Maidenly modesty and female vanity have had a sharp struggle among the voung ladies of Philadelkhia since the small-pox scare began. Few of the young ladies, with visions of receptions next, winter befora 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 been decided by the fashionable female to have the delicate operation performed upon the calf of the leg, and this required the services of tho elderly praoti tiouers, as the ladies were loth to submit to the gaze of the youthful doctors. A lady, who manages a fashionable board-ing-house in the oity, recently dete mined to have all of the young 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 been called in to attend such ills as school girls are heir to. The young ladies all protested against the marking of their arms, and it was determined, after a solemn confrrence, that 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 bis assistant, a very young man with a blonde moustache, whom the girls declared looked ' just too sweet.' There was a hurried consultation of toe ladies. ' Never I' ' I'll take the small-pox first!' 'He shall not vaccinate me!' Such were the exclamations of the girls. The young doctor was compelled to retire, and the kindly old gentlemen who is his preceptor was sent for. The girls then submitted without a murmur.