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to vaccination and went to Dr. Spaulding of the Health Department to protest against it and against her incarceration in the pest house. Spaulding, however, told her he had been responsible -for her going there and would send her there again if he felt like it. A Day Book reporter, after hearing Mathilde's story, visited Dr. Spauld ing. "Yes, I sent her there," ths doctor snapped. "And I'd do the same thing to you under the same circumstan ces." The reporter, completely cowed, made the feeble suggestion that Ma thilde had complied with the require ments of the law before she was sent to the pest house and that Norden had the certificate proving it and that it seemed a criminal proceeding to ex pose the girl to contagion when she had complied with the ruling of the Health Department. "The certificate don't count,' the doctor said. "Anybody can get certifi cates. We got to see the place, and she wouldn't show it to us." "But you could have found out from Dr. Eberhart " The doctor interrupted. "That won't do; we got to see the place." The reporter suggested that high handed proceedings of this kind might be against the law, but the doctor held that compulsory vacci nation is lawful and "seeing is be lieving." "But as a matter of fact she hasn't been vaccinated really, yet," the re ported suggested. "Well, we saw that it didn't take, anyway," the doctor replied, "and she wouldn't let us see before." And so Mathilde was exposed to contagion in a pest house because she was too modest to show a vacci nation placed where her vanity told her it "wouldn't show," and because the Board of Health believes it has the right to ignore the certificate of a reputable physician unless it is "shown." , FEDERATION MEETING Federal inspectqrs were severely criticized by Victor A. Olander, secre tary of the Lake Seamen's Union, at the regular meeting of the Chicago Federation of Labor yesterday after noon. Adequate lifesaving devices were demanded and overcrowding of ex cursion boats was condemned. Upon the request of Elizabeth Ma loney, business agent of the Wait resses' Union, a committee was ap pointed to investigate the actions of the police operating under orders of Knab, the restaurant keeper. o o FOUND OUT I Shptre- She Is that your eye doctor? He He was until he sent in his bill. Then I discovered he was a skin specialist. o o A house in Lewiston, Me., has one half on each side of the street. It was cut in two and one section was moved across without a permit, but then the obtaining a permit halted the removal of- the other section. 4.. -m4jkab&.