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Ever since Jim had arrived at the
hospital, weather-beaten, tanned and
much in need of a shave, and inci
dentally with a wrenched knee that
had to go in plaster cast and a dis-
located shoulder, he had been the fav-
orite of the men’s ward.. If he had
. been
of rugged, honest manhood he
have gone In the children's ward and
been known as “nurse's pet.”
No knew much about
Obviously a man who earned his
ing with he had
brought (n night in forlorn
dition by Dr. Robinson, who had sal
that she man had no friends in tow:
and might not be able to pay his bills
for Ta He wed no
more than a professional
the ¢
He ha
brushed and shave FH
differes king individual
there in pia
gored
that made him look
of place in a hospital bed
the first “Jim"
rorite, and the m
a brighter place because
nresence,
would
“Tim.”
one
his muscle,
one con-
SOV
weeks,
180
as
ht
out mudi
ster casts,
the tan li
roughness
and a
sort of
© out
from
en's ward
seem
of hic
“It w
hetter
nurse
ting at
when he's ali
dressed,
seem queer
and and
one of her companions
the desk where she had been
making up charts, “We've all treated
him like a nice blg boy—and
just what he seems to he. Perhaps
we've petted him a bit too much, bring-
ing him funny papers and puzzles just
as if was a child—"
“One often does get a jolt when a
patient and up all
dressed,” the second nurse, “It's
funny Jim. It isn't that
makes an effort to he jolly. It just
ity.”
him,”
“Even Dr. Martha Yates, who
ily dreadfully
men's ward, stops and
She treats him as if he was one
the ¥ in the
little
up
to sit.
he
recovers, stands
gall
aiid
seems to be his persona
“Evervhady lkes sald
other
is
in
him
of
ward—hrings
things
she
USN $0 professional
the
ungsters children’s
him
pats him on the shoulder w
and calls him “Jim'
the way we all do.”
It that Dr. Martha
usual when
games an
Len
asses just
was true
her
ward-—
Per-
necessary to
youth and a
Martha had
rt of
made
the children’s
attitude she
in
geratedly professional
mired sg
rounds—save
wns
much
too
ich prettiness
minis
I
her career as a legacy
9
her father, At his death his
emesd comnle
KO
felt
far from
it was her dt
and country
the f1
HOTS
it was
pped at his shop to buy
{is for her office
of the florist
is work In his greenh
devotion her father
during the illness of his
many years ago. when he
struggling along hardly making
ends meet In his nursery business
Dr. Yates had refused to send
bill. and even when the florist had
prospered, the doctor had never ac-
cepted any back payment for the
years of service that he had done,
“Perhaps 1 ought to have: insisted
more,” sald the florist. “But now |
am going to Insist on this one thing:
Whenever you want any flowers you
come in here and plck out just what
you want and they will be yours. Get
them as often as you like. You just
know people who want them.
for instance, we are having an extra
big yield of roses—don't know why,
but they seem to be coming to flower
a little sooner than we expected, Sup
pose you let me send you five or six
dozen. 1 could sell them cheap, but
I'd rather you'd take them. If you
don't want them yourself perhaps you
know some one that does”
Dr. Martha Yates thought for a
moment. She anid she wonld take
them with her to the hospital. She'd
leave two dozen In the children’s and
two dozen in the women's ward and
another dozen she would give to Jim.
She remembered that Jim had been
especially delighted with a single rose
that she had left at his bedside the
day before and had been fondling it
that very morning—faded and dried ns
ft wns, Surely, he must he very fond
of roses, and probably In all his life
he had never been able to buy a doz-
en of them out of season,
“I've brought some roses for Jim.”
Dr. Martha Yates told the nurse in
charge of the ward when she returned,
“Iz he awake?”
“Yes” sald the nurse, “and I'm so
gind you have. He's been very un-
comfortable, though you couldn't get
him to admit it. You knows Dr. Reb.
fngon hand to change the cast today
and-well, nny one but Sunny Jim
would have made a fuss about it. And
the poor thing--having no friends or
guything. I'm so glad you brought the
roses today.”
had
shown hil
dren
bot}
And
So Dr. Martha Yates went to Jim's
parrow cot and no one in the ward
seemed to feel the least bit jealous or
slighted when she put the whole glori-
ous dozen on his table. For Jim was
as popular with the other patients as
with the nurses and doctors.
Jim looked up quickly straight into
the eyes of Martha Yates and for just
| one moment felt a little uncowm-
| fortable—wondered if after all
ought to have brought him the flowers,
His eyes had never looked that way
before—they seemed bright and
clear. from beneath lids that betrayed
the recent suffering that he would have
been loath to admit, He stretched out
| one large hand, still strong and show.
ing a peculiar pallor overlying the sun-
| burn that had not yet disappeared, and
this hand he took Dr. Martha's
| smal! hand in his,
“Thank you, doctor,” he sald. “You
she
she
80
i with
don't know how 1 shall treasure them.”
Dr. Martha Yates had gone away in
difficulty
ili
{| confusion that she had with
| concealed, Suddenly it seemed as If
1
| Jim, who had seemed only a fine
| grown boy, had been transform
a man, strong and virile In spite o
| present prostration She
{ sorry that had taken
hat she
ips it had beer
flowers—perh?
profession
{ spomed
Jim was quick to recover a
allowe
he
and sit In a chalr for a
{ And the next
| whisked him off,
the 1 t
| new banknotes the fee for bon
ward The
Dr. Robi
them of his
away, and only
happened to be In
{ time had an opportunity to say goo
i to him, and she had been so surpr
{ the week was
day
tonnine
stopping
office just long enough
nurses were vexed
for he had
intention of taking
Httle
On
the nurse
the svard at
{ at his sudden
| fli-fitting suit
a rt y§
arigre, in a
dep
and ulster that
for him, that
where
tn
riends
{ tor hro
asked 1}
| vited
| his
“Jim's
Martha
fav
day.
ryovby b gh
he was goin
the hospl
there
im
him
many
revisit
gone” the
Yates
nurses
when she
oment Martha
not
Fora m start
too, seemed to regret
an opportu to say good
have four little
this mysteri
brightened
!
i pital during
1
night she found a man
tr In the walting room
an hour before
her cust
The indeed Jim,
now
and it was not until Martha bh
man
was
looking at him for a full minn
she wns quite sure of his
tin that Jim
han
“
minute
1 she
Who
asked whe
dim light of the waiting
simple work
You"
Bradle
‘NOW
ames
“You
he's
of
Martha knew him
who had
{ half of the
simply
lHeve president ard of
i
trustees the hosplt 1 Th fo
¢ Brad
than
arted
ley contributed
funds that had sung
| the hospital
“T've heen
many No one
This you know,
gome criticism of the hospital.
for many years
from he
eran
gone
away
years remembere me
summer, was
sald that a poor man didn’t get a show
—that the ward patients
You know, of
| father wns annoyed and grieved
i felt sure it wasn't true
i
{
were
| lected, course My
in the
always
was off roughing it with
mountains Father
him
and 1
And one day 1 lost my footing In the
{ header. 1 wasn’t so very badly hurt
that I should do a little spying on the
glide, So we got In touch with Dr.
{ Robinson, who let It he understood
{that 1 was just any one. And you
know what T learned—I learned that
the men In that ward are as decently
and as well treated as they would be
in private rooms, and [ learned to ad.
mite the nurses and-It's all
out in a report my father will
ready for the next meeting of
board of trustees
“In the meantime” James Brad.
ley drew hia stiff office chalr close
ta that of Dr. Martha. “In the mean.
time | learned to love son. 1 know
your heart iz In your work—but it's
such a big heart! Can't you let me
share a little of It, too?
ing the ideals of her father when she
told Jim she would put her whole
heart Into his keeping.
Ten Great Books.
The ten most important hooks In the
world, according to H. (3. Wells. are:
Isaiah, St. Mark, “The Great Learn.
ing.” the Koran, Plato's “Republic”
Aristotle’s “Natural History.” Mareo
Polo's “Travels,” Copernicus’ “The
Revolutions of the Heavens.” Bacon's
“The New Atlantis,” Darwin's “Origin
of Species,”
“The Great Learning” Is a product
of one or more of the disciples of Con.
fucius. Wells Includes It as repre
senting the literature of a people and
an epoch, This I= his method In com:
piling the list. He does not urge lit
p rary value or any other quality,
Straight Lines as Well as
More Frivolous Modes
Are in Evidence.
The tes Top:
new
in
vagpled
silhouettes represented
frocks this spring are
to.straight lines, afternoon dresses are
more frivolous, observes a fashion au-
thority In the New York Tribune.
dress the straight
noon
has
silhouette
in spite of the fact that it
rivals There is the 1850
with bustle, whic
the diam
ruffles
its
and
ette i
Ha
Wool dresses for morning
Unger
revealed at the
’ : ' .
protrude the botts
Oft
at
en these blouses
Used With Black Satin
the unique design coming from a
French shop.
Chic Blue Grosgrain
Silk Coat and Skirt
This attractive
from Paris
grain silk.
three-piece tailleur
is of marine
in a matching pattern with marine blue.
An English Feature in
Chic Morning Sui
Berthas of |
ts
|an
ress
suits are
character
Hed
and when
afternoon
much dressy
entirely
more
in
tailored styles if in
being HOOF fancy
cloth,
Lace or Malines.
Black lace or black malines is used
soften the rather hard line about
smart black turbans,
tn
The day of the elaborate table set
ting is passing. For decorative effect
low and simple and makes of her fruit
flower centerplece a beautiful
painting. The final touch that most
often adds to the table the charm and
ribbon,
uses that the
ful
80 many with
person
ble stamps the hostess
A piece of soft ribbon placed be
tween the stocking and the metal fas.
tener of a lady's garter, which
hold the ribbon in place when it is
'
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at the same time In the best of taste.
No garment seems in the mode un.
less it has at least a ribbon touch.
Even the shirtwalst must have its bow
son is embroidered in narrow ribbon,
or embroidered with silk or wool on
wide ribbon, then stitched to the
It no way does the culture and finer
insflnets of a hostess stow quicker
than by the appearance of the dining
table,
brightness of the glass, the shininess
of the china, the lay of the silver, and
Baby's Dainty Bib,
Bibs for the infant of sheer linen or
soft slik are more beautiful than ever,
The bibs tie at the back of the baby's
neelt with a plece of ribbon that is
run through a buttonhole at the neck
ends. A plece of embroidery or the
linen Buttonhole stitched at proper in
tervals forms the bottoms of the bib
and rung well back under the arms,
Ribbon is run through ties in the back
and holds the bib in place.
EN
life of the silk stocking, as it prevents
runs,
Interesting Numbers
A clever idea in tallored things, and
one which is seen frequently, is the
little jacket with belt, In jumper form,
go cleverly arranged with the se
quence of lines in the Jacket and
at one har the impression of a
The jacket, however,
may be removed, disclosing a dress
with fancy silk to or a blouse of
silk or organdie.
A novelty trimming on tatlored suits
of bands of bright-colored
in a design on dark cloth, usually dark
blue serge. The trimming is in orien
tal colors.
Asremarkable bit of coloring In an
afternoon sult is In a model showing
a crepe de chine dress with a mane
darin jacket of orange crepe de chine
embroidered in a Persian design.
—-———
Capes for Summer,
Some of the early summer cnpes are
bound prettily In slik ribbons, Others
have panels faced with exquisitely
combined ribbons.
Ne traveled through the soundiess
night,
ithed the
wr A TY ”
fragrant June,
unwaning moon
whitened field
along the hill
with sudden
SEASONABLE SUGGESTIONS
from much standin
When washing
the
1a . 3
iace it In
down
sud-
water edgewise, set
bottom,
expansion,
as,
often cracks from
ie
il
den
i
pet with wool of the same color, being
careful to match the color. The spots
will scarcely show,
Some dress goods are hard to press,
For such gowns hang them
bathtub or in the bathroom, turn on
the hot water and shut the
windows tightly and let then
hours, then open the room
and let the garments dry in fresh alr.
Hanging a gown over a hotalr regls
an hour or more will often
Here is a good homemade break
fast food which is worth while trying
on the family. Take three-fourths of
a cupful of flour, three-fourths of a
cupful of graham flour, mix well, add
and cook to the consistency of mush.
and sugar.
A little tartaric acid, the crystals
Wash the
A roast of meat should always be
served on a platter large enough to
carve it easily, and never serve it
with gravy, if you care for your linen.
Burn cinnamon or a few cloves on
the top of the stove to purify the alr
after cooking cabbage or onions,
A lump of sugar added to the rinsing
water will stiffen fine organdies and
musling,
Ham is delicous bakpd in milk.
Also with potatoes and milk, as escals
loped, with a slice of ham on top.
To remove egg stalng, rub with com.
mon table salt. +
Add tomato catsup to the sauce in
the pan when cooking fish,
Mertic Mawel
od Evening,
Fairy Tale
mens CTR BY WITTEN SPW AFTE Daim wm
BIRDS
ging”
ather fond
perc h
ong is so loud
impossible to
i you some
lately in
ople want
* {0 trans
anguage.
us
near by
Billie
larinneg
glorious
Brownle
Of
of the
most beauti
Br Thrasher
¢1 win
clear whistle which
-
1.
told the
had heard
Brow
that not
inal ways, and
owf way o
ing wh
but
people said
was so useful and
aid so much good.
And that made
the pretty Brown
Thrasher very
happy, for he was
such a nice bird
go eager to be
liked, so eager to
do good.
He said he had
been away for the winter, unlike the
other birds Billie Brownie had been
talking to who had not gone away,
but who had stayed where it wasn't
exactly warm, but where it wasn't very
cold.
Before Bllile Brownie went back to
Fairyland and Brownieland that eve
ning the Brown Thrasher sang for
him the most glorious of songs, and
then the Brown Thrasher went to bed,
but Billie Brownie traveled home slow
iy, for he could not go quickly when
he was thinking so hard of his day.
“Birds,” he sald to himself, “what
joy you do give to the world. You
don't know how much you add to the
world's beauty and glory™
“Me Sang For
Billie”
Meteors and Steel,
A study of the great collection of
meteorites In a European museum has
ted to the interesting conclusion that
meteoritic fron, as it falls from the
sky. and the various steels produced
in our modern steel works are the re-
sults of essentially similar chemical
and physical causes. One of the most
striking characteristics noted In me
teoritic irgn is the presence of a con.
siderable quantity of nicke!.