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Mrs. Feist came up and said not to worry; that Carl did not have the mumps but it was some trouble with his teeth that caused the swelling.

  But yesterday when I was passing their house she called out to me inquiring how Malcolm was. He was taken that morning and she should have had no reason to suppose him sick. I told her he had the mumps and she remarked that she supposed he had caught them from Carl!   It was about two weeks previous that we had sent him home.
  Malcolm is not very ill. Is up and around today. Slight fever yesterday afternoon and evening. In bed from 3 p.m. yesterday to 8:30 this a.m. Am hoping he will be fully recovered by the time Tunsilu arrives. Called the doctor yesterday on the phone who gave me a few instructions as to open bowels, keep him warm, etc. 
 Buddie has been sick since Friday. No swelling, but fever most of the time so Mrs. F. says. Says does not know whether he has mumps or not. Mrs. Kopp says the children in the Schoenfeld house also have it - just getting over it. No attempt at quarantine or publicity for these diseases, I think the doctors are very lax and the parents send the children to school without troubling themselves to find out whether they are sick or well, on whether the