Translated from the Ladies' Home Journal

Mumps

Until recent years, mumps (the "abu k'ayb") was considered among the least dangerous of children's diseases... confined to swelling and some pain on the two sides of the cheeks, which soon passes; after three days the child rises from his bed, feeling health return and course through his

small body, while family and neighbors greet him with the words: "Thank God for your recovery, my darling!" But is it true that this child has escaped the consequences of mumps — or is there an enemy lying in wait for him behind the door?!

Sayings have spread among mothers that mumps may in some cases strike a deadly