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ZURICH CITIZENS NEWS
THURSDAY, JUNE 25, 1973
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Today, my friends, is the
first day of summer. I won't be
sony to see it come. Maybe it
will mean an end to some of
life's little problems which have
loomed in our home during the
past few weeks.
I think I told you about our
recent bout with the chicken
pox. Well, the blisters had hard
ly dried up and dropped off
when our youngest child appear-
ed at my bedside one morning
complaining of a sore neck.
"I think it is the mumps,
Shirley, " advised my husband.
I looked my son over carefull'
I felt his jaws.
" Your eyes are better than
mine, " I told my husband. "I
don't see any swelling."
"He's swollen alright, " my
husband assured me. "I think it
is the mumps. "
"How do you feel?" I asked
my youngest.
"My face is sore when I lay
on this side, " he answered,
pointing to his right cheek.
Our discussion was overheard
by our daughter who carne rush•
ing onto the scene. Keep in
mind that she's not yet had the
mumps.
"He did it on purpose, " she
charged, her voice to a fever
pitch. "He knows I'm out of
school now for the summer and
could be having some fun and he
wants to give me the mumps."
"He's got to go, mom, " she
went on, boardering hysteria.
"First it was the chicken pox.
Now it is the mumps. Who know
what he'll bring home to us
next. He's got to go... or I'll
have to move out."
I told my daughter I wasn't
convinced he had the mumps.
"Well, take him to the doctor
right away and find out, " she
demanded," At least that way
we will know what we're fight-
ing."
The last remark made good
sense so I called for an appoint-
ment. Luckily, I was able to
get in right away.
"It is the mumps alright, "
the doctor said. Did I detect a
menacing grin? Couldn't be.
Must be my imagination.
"It isn't swollen glands, " I
offered hopefully.
"No, it is the mumps alright,
he answered with confidence.
Upon revealling this good
news to the household, I also
presented some further informat-
ion.
"I've made arrangements for
you two older children to go to
the hospital this evening for a
shot which should give you some
additional protection, " I told
them, "Then, in about six week,
you'll have your mumps vaccine
and we shouldn't have to worry
about mumps again."
BY SHIRLEY J. KELLER
Son Number One, who had
not had all day to worry about
the possibility of contacting
mumps because he'd been at
work when junior arose in the
morning, was very docile about
the whole thing.
Daughter, on the other hand,
wasn't so easily satisfied. She
wanted to know the odds. Was
it ten to one she wouldn't get
the mumps... or was it one in
ten that she'd succumb to the
scourge. Somehow, it made
considerable difference to her.
The next morning when junior
leaped from his bed he'd been
magically cured through the
night. He requested permission
to go to school.
"Certainly not, " I told him
"You're sick. You've got the
mumps. The doctor even said
so."
"They're gone, " he answered,
coming closer for me to feel
his jaws. I hadn't ever been
able to detect any swelling in
the first place so I wasn't too
surprised when I could find none
that morning.
" Well, you are not going to
school, " I insisted. "Doctor's
orders."
The big srriile turned upside-
down into one of the biggest
pouts I've ever seen. He left
the room, resigned to his fate
and mumbling, "Gee, I don't
even feel sick."
All day long, the mumps
victim played and sang and
teased and frolicked... and, oh
yes, he ate up a storm including
oranges, ketchup, pickles,
tomatoes, pineapple.
That evening, my daughter
was in real misery. She had
reacted to the shot, I suppose.
She could hardly raise her arms.
She had pain, but no mumps.
(Simple justice, I thought to
myself.)
0
St. Boniface CWL
The monthly meeting of St.
Boniface Catholic Women's
League was held on the evening
of June 12 in the school auditor-
ium. There were 34 members
present.
The president, Mrs. Claude
Gelinas, opened the meeting
by leading the members in
prayers. Father Durand explain-
ed extracts from Pope Paul's
encylical "Humanae Vitae."
The vice-president, Mrs.
Case VanRaay, read an interest-
ing report on the 53rd Diocesan
convention which she and Mrs.
Gelinas attended May 8 and 9
in Chatham.
The League will sponsor a
play staged by the Ladies of Mt.
Carmel C.W.L., on June 27,
at 8 p.m.
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