There are hundreds of women in this country who each summer, live in a state of mind bordering almost on frenzy. They scarcely see a dog on a hot day but they fear hydrophobia. They wear themselves and their children out with nervous warnings to look out for dogs. They read the sensational reports of the bites of mad dogs in the newspapers and the cases of hydrophobia resulting therefrom, until they work themselves into a state of nervous exhaustion. So widespread has become this tear of hydrophobia, and public belief in it that it is to-day almost impossible to convince people that, as an actual fact, there is no such specific malady as hydrophobia, and that, in reality, it is almost un-possible to find a record of even a single case in the United States during the past twenty years. All this may seem surprising to those who have not given the subject careful attention. —The Ladies Home Journal.
Keep yourselves from all evil. For lie that in these things cannot govern himself, how shall he be able to prescribe them to another?—N. T. Apocrypha.
