WHOOPING COUGH 



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WICHITA 



The Man and His Work. Whittier was six 

 feet tall, slender and very straight. His mouth 

 was sensitive and refined, ami his deep, dark 

 eyes showed his common ancestry with Web- 

 ster and Hawthorne. He was a delightful 

 talker, with a plain, direct manner which put 

 one at ease. He never married, and in 

 one of his poems hinted that death had early 

 ended his romance. Music and art had little 

 or no attraction for him, and he never attended 

 the theater. His life, as well as his poetry, was 

 molded by his religious faith and insight. 



Whit tier's verse is sometimes rough, poorly 

 rhymed and loosely worded. These faults 

 come, however, from the very ease with which 

 he wrote, and to have remedied them might 

 have been to lose the qualities which have 

 made his work live. His poems of freedom are 

 usually too full of the slavery debate to be 

 great poetry, but they have at times an almost 

 terrible energy a spirit far from Quakerlike. 

 Whittier was not, indeed, distinguished for 

 meekness and submissiveness, yet he would 

 have allowed the South to secede peacefully. 

 Snow-Bound will long stand as the true story 

 of the old, rugged New England. His hymns 

 breathe the very spirit of Christianity; and his 

 use of the most effective details, as in The 

 Barefoot Boy, his fineness of sentiment, as in 

 Telling the Bees, and his story-telling power, 

 as shown in his ballads, are not surpassed in 

 American literature. A.MCC. 



Consult Carpenter's John Greenleaf Whittier; 

 Higrginson's Whittier, in English Men of L/etters 

 Series. 



WHOOP 'ING COUGH, a highly contagious 

 disease of which children are the principal vic- 

 tims. It is a more serious ailment than is 

 generally supposed, and yearly causes thou- 

 sands of deaths because of complications, such 

 as bronchitis and pneumonia. The early symp- 

 toms are running of the nose, slight fever and 

 a dry cough. In the course of a week the child 

 begins to have paroxysms of coughing, and as 

 it draws in its breath a sharp, shrill noise may 

 be heard, known as the "whoop." Even in 

 mild cases there are four or five coughing spells 

 a day, and in severe ones a great many more 

 than this. The climax of the disease occurs 

 about the end of the fourth week, after which 

 the paroxysms gradually diminish in number 

 and severity. 



Every mother should be careful to keep a 

 child afflicted with whooping cough away from 

 other children, for the disease spreads very 

 rapidly. During the course of the attack the 



discharges from the nose and mouth should be 

 received in pieces of cloth, and these should be 

 burned. The little patient should have his 

 own dishes and silver, and separate wash cloths 

 and towels. It is important to give the child 

 nourishing food and to have the sleeping room 

 well ventilated. Fresh air is one of the best 

 aids in curing the disease. When the weather 

 permits, the child should play out-of-doors (by 

 himself) as much as possible. It is well to 

 have the advice of a good physician from the 

 beginning of an attack. C.B.B. 



WICHITA, wich'itaw, KAN., the county 

 seat of Sedgwick County, situated in the south- 

 ern part of the state, and after Kansas City the 

 largest city in Kansas. It is situated on the 

 Arkansas River, at the point where it receives 

 the waters of the Little Arkansas, seventy-six 

 miles southwest of Emporia and 213 miles 

 southwest of Kansas City. It is the distribut- 

 ing point for a large district, having the service 

 of the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe, the Chi- 

 cago, Rock Island & Pacific, the Frisco, the 

 Kansas City, Mexico & Orient, the Midland 

 Valley and the Missouri Pacific railways. Elec- 

 tric lines connect Wichita with cities and towns 

 north. The place was settled in 1870 by Indian 

 traders, and was named for the Wichita tribe 

 of Indians. In 1871 it was incorporated, and in 

 1872 it was chartered as a city. In 1909 it 

 adopted the commission plan of government, 

 and in 1917 a city manager was provided. In 

 1910 the population was 52,450; in 1916 it was 

 70,722 (Federal estimate). 



A large territory around Wichita produces 

 live stock and an abundance of grain, especially 

 wheat and corn, and the city is an important 

 market for these products and for dry goods, 

 groceries, hardware, broom corn and machinery. 

 There are large wholesale and jobbing houses. 

 The leading industrial plants are stockyards, 

 meat-packing houses, confectioneries and manu- 

 factories of saddlery, harness, clothing, brooms 

 and tobacco products. The car and repair 

 shops of the Kansas City, Mexico & Orient 

 Railway are located here. Wichita has a hand- 

 some county courthouse, a Scottish Rite Ma- 

 sonic Temple and a Roman Catholic Cathedral. 

 The Mason's Home, Live Stock Exchange, City 

 Hall, Commercial Club, Y. M. C. A. building, 

 Schweitzer office building, Union Station and 

 Terminal, and the Forum, with a seating ca- 

 pacity of about 8,000, are all especially note- 

 worthy. For advanced education the city has 

 Fairmount College, Albert Magnus College 

 (Roman Catholic), All Hallows Academy, 



