106 April 16, 1906 — To-day Dr Spelman and I gave antitoxine 

 to two wee ones at the Westside convent. One is serious — com- 

 plicated with whooping cough. Her name is Thekla. The other 

 is a tiny girl usually full of life and sassy, but to-day very 

 meek. — Elsie showed me her new red and white dress. — It is 

 very hard to educate the doctors to the necessity of giving 

 prophylactic doses of antitoxine. I shall try again to-morrow. 

 ... I have my room all rearranged and soon will have some 

 photos of Philippine types hung up. Then I shall feel quite at 

 home among the savages again. 



April 30, 1906, Monday night — I must send you a line to- 

 night since I neglected you yesterday. It was a strenuous and 

 expensive day, and it served me right, for it was Sunday. After 

 working all morning I received a telegram from Dr Ricketts 

 asking me to meet him in Butte if possible. Thinking it some- 

 thing important, and as I could catch him in no other way, 

 I hired a team and drove ten miles in forty minutes to Warm 

 Springs to catch his train. I found him on board with Dr 

 Chowning, on their way to Butte and Helena — Ricketts per- 

 force, and Chowning with a crazy idea of petitioning the 

 Governor to allow them to inoculate one of the state crimi- 

 nals (life sentence) with "Spotted Fever." The idea might 

 have been a good one if everything that could have been done, 

 had been done. But so far only a few mediocre men have 

 worked on the disease and none has even tried monkeys. 

 Ricketts is trying to get some but cannot afford them. The 

 disease is not contagious but must be frightful. They told 

 me of their two last cases which turned almost black before 

 death. I am going up one of these days to see some of them 

 and have arranged to supply Ricketts with guinea pigs and 

 media. Who can tell? Perhaps Kismet sent me out here just 

 to help in this way — and not primarily to separate me 

 from you! 



Little Thekla died a few days ago of uraemic convulsions 

 when well convalescent from diphtheria. I felt like saying 

 "I told you so," but refrained, for they wouldn't push the 

 antitoxine at the start. She was such a patient and sweet 

 little thing too. I went to-night to make cultures from the 

 rest of the family to see if we can break quarantine after 

 fumigation. Did I tell you about their method of fumigation 



