Two Centre for 21 st Century Humanities historians have delved into different aspects of the Spanish Flu pandemic, revealing little known histories which have become even more pertinent during the COVID crisis. It arrived in Australia in and about a third of all Australians were infected and nearly 15, people died from it.
In late November , it was decided that, based on the positive claims for vaccines in reducing the deadliness of the flu, the Commonwealth would pay for citizens to be inoculated with two doses, through a scheme to be delivered by the state governments. Many people did not put themselves forward for inoculation. Cases in which people were inoculated and then contracted the disease were publicised, causing concern.
Others, in their thousands, did roll up their sleeves. Having read about the dreadful effects of the flu overseas, many were keen to do what they could to protect themselves, their families and their livelihoods. I knew at once that here was the appointed comrade, while in Miss Harding there was the immediate recognition of a complementary spiritual force. Of course it was my red hair.
Be strong, Jane— cling to the Dynamic Thought! I never saw anyone get so pink about the eyes and nose at the smallest sign of weeping, and yet she is always doing it. Just when I was learning to expand my individuality—and then you come and somehow make it seem so much more difficult!
I rose. For the present I suppose I had better leave you to company so much more favorable to your soul development! It was so much in the air, and the deck of the Rufus Smith was so unstable, that I fell over a coil of rope and fetched up in the arms of the Honorable Cuthbert Vane. Fortunately; this occurred around the corner of the deck-house, out of sight of my aunt and Miss Browne, so the latter was unable to shed the lurid light on the episode which she doubtless would if she had seen it.
Vane stood the shock well and promptly set me on my feet. Thought she was rather remarkable old party—goes in strong for intellect and all that, you know. Of course I meant to take her back with me, to put a stop to. Only I'm sorry you came against your will. Rather fancy you had it in your head that we were a band of cut-throats, eh?
And as to old H. Tubbs, you know, Miss Browne met up with him on the boat coming down. The rum old chap got on her soft side somehow, and first thing she had appointed him secretary and treasurer—as though.
Shaw was quite a bit upset about it. He and I were a week later in arriving—came straight on from England with the supplies, while Miss Browne fixed things up with the little black-and-tan country that owns the island. I had no wish to blight his faith in the superlative Mr. Shaw, and said nothing. This evidently pained him, and as we stood leaning on the rail in the shadow of the deck-house, watching the.
It seemed that as soon as Miss Browne had beguiled Aunt Jane into financingher scheme—a feat equivalent to robbing an infant-class scholar of his Sunday school nickel—she had cast about for a worthy leader for the forthcoming Harding-Browne expedition. All, the winds of fame were bearing abroad just then the name of a certain young explorer who had lately added another continent or two to the British Empire.
Linked with his were other names, those of his fellow adventurers, which shone. The hook of a block and tackle had caught him, ripped his forehead open from cheek to temple, and for a time threatened the sight of the eye. Slowly, under the care of the London surgeons, he had recovered, and the eye was saved.
Meanwhile his old companions had taken again the path of glory, and were far on their way back to the ice-fields of the South Pole. Only Dugald Shaw was left behind. As neither of us had ever heard of Miss HigglesbyBrowne, we were both a bit floored for a time. And I do assure you, Miss Harding, it strikes me as no end of a lark—besides ex-.
Well, it was a plausible story, and I had no doubt, so far as the Honorable Cuthbert was concerned, an absolutely truthful one. The beautiful youth was manifestly as guileless as a small boy playing pirate with a wooden sword. But as to Mr. Are even the most valiant adventurers invariably honest? Left behind by his companions because of his injury, his chance of an enduring fame. The Honorable Mr. Vane I had already so far exculpated as to wonder if he were not in some way being victimized too; but Mr.
I felt that he must have gone into the enterprise with his eyes open to its absurdity, and fully aware that, the only gold to be won by anybody must come out of the pocket.
He lifted his helmet, but met my eyes unsmilingly, with a sort of sober scrutiny. He had the tanned skin of a sailor, and brown hair cropped close and showing a trace of gray. This and a certain dour grim look he had made me at first consider him quite middle-aged, though I knew later that he was not yet thirty-five. As to the grimness, perhaps I unwillingly conceded, part, of it was due to the scar which seamed the right temple to the eyebrow, in a straight livid line.
But it was a grim face anyway, strongjawed, with piercing steel-blue eyes. He was welcomed by Mr. Vane with a joyous thump on the shoulder-blade. Miss Harding has turned out to be the most fearful doubting Thomas—thinks whole scheme quite mad and all that sort of thing.
Shaw looked at me steadily. His eyes were the kind that seem to see all and reveal nothing. I felt a hot spark of defiance rising in my own. I seem to remember one Christopher Columbus, for instance. By a vivid lightning-flash of wrath I felt that this adventurer was laughing at me a little under his sober exterior —even stirring me up as one does an angry kitten.
He waited until the Honorable Cuthbert, looking rather dazed, had retired. We stood facing each other, my breath coming rather hurriedly.
There was a kind of still force about this mastered anger of the dour Scot, like the brooding of black clouds that at any moment may send forth their devastating fire. Y et I myself was not endowed with red hair for nothing.
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News of the sickness first made headlines in Madrid in late-May , and coverage only increased after the Spanish King Alfonso XIII came down with a nasty case a week later. France, China and Britain have all been suggested as the potential birthplace of the virus, as has the United States, where the first known case was reported at a military base in Kansas on March 11, Researchers have also conducted extensive studies on the remains of victims of the pandemic, but they have yet to discover why the strain that ravaged the world in was so lethal.
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