Anecdotes: The Professor's Garden / Vaccinating Children

• The professor was forever talking about his garden, until its picture grew vivid before his students' eyes and they came to believe it a paradise full of flowers and trees.

One night some of them called on him and found him sitting within four walls enclosing a narrow patch of ground. One of them remarked mockingly: "Your garden is very small, professor."

He smiled, and pointed to the glittering stars, saying: "Yes — but look how high it is!"

• It has lately been established in medicine that vaccinating children at birth against whooping cough and croup is a safe procedure that produces no reaction and gives them strong immunity. . .