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'West Coast Wood Tank Assn.-January 10-11. Del Webb Towne Ilouse, San Francisco, Fred Windeler, chairman.

Redwood Region Conservation Council-Ianuary 25. Annual Meeting, at the Eureka Inn, Eureka, California.

Typhoid

In the old days the medical profession believed that a generous supply of cold water was bad for a typhoid patient. And how many people died of thirst before our good doctors found out that water and plenty of it was the best thing for such a patient, the Lord in His infinite mercy only knows. But one day some poor devil who was burning up with fever said to himself : ooW'ell, if I'm going to die anyway, I'm going to get a drink FIRST, see?" So he crawled out of bed to where there was a big pitcher of ice water, and he drained it to the very dregs. And when the frightened family brought the old-fashioned doctor in, he took his temperature and found it was lower; he saw a gentle perspira' tion break out on the forehead of the sick man. But he wouldn't admit the great truth that the Lord Himself was holding before his eyes. He just threw up his hands and exclaimed: ooGood Iord! What a constitution this guyos got!"