166 THE NEXT GENERATION 



The evening came to an end, but the laws of cause and 

 effect did not go out of service. On the twenty-fifth of 

 March one of the girls he had kissed found a sore on the 

 right side of the lower lip, and it became as large as a pea. 

 A second girl discovered her sore early in April. In fact, in 

 her case there were two sores, one on the upper, the other 

 on the lower lip a double proof that microbes had entered 

 her body and were doing damage there. On the thirteenth 

 of April a sixteen-year-old girl noticed that she too had the 

 dreaded sore. Six cases followed each other through the 

 months of March and April, and each victim was one of 

 the number that had been kissed by the young man at the 

 entertainment. 



Dr. Schamberg goes on to say that " this most unfortunate 

 epidemic should teach a lesson which cannot be too strongly 

 impressed on the public, that is, the danger of promiscuous 

 kissing." 



Perhaps some one may answer : " But a little sore is n't 

 anything. I 'm not afraid of sores." No, an ordinary sore is 

 nothing, but this particular kind of sore is a signed declara- 

 tion that the body has been invaded by a foe more cruel than 

 death itself, that the foe has already increased its forces 

 beyond the power of human reckoning, that these forces 

 have entered the blood stream, that the entire body in all its 

 parts is threatened, and that even the children of the next 

 generation are in danger. 



Whether the disease is passed on by kissing or by some 

 other contact of the body, the microbes always pass from one 

 person to another under stated conditions : 



1. The disease must reveal itself in a sore. 



2. This sore must come in contact, either directly or in- 

 directly, with a surface of the skin through which there is an 



