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The Brussels Post, 1913-10-9, Page 6?el feelaseiteleseitaqtabetese004000041 ereelefieceeeseeelteeeeteletwileteeeefertielleheeeMal HONEST TEA IS THE BEST POLICY LARGEST—SALE tN THE WOLD elte.sotteer=atettOgottentmeatiocee4ferweimoesSee)relaliteacHteesealaleereS/4 WATCHERS OF THE WARD NURSE'S LIFE AT A. GREA. LONDON HOSPITAL. T Work and Worries of the Minister- ing Angels in the Institu- tions. "In two months I had an average of fifty visits a week to make to the worst parts of the East End at all hours of the day and night: one week, indeed, I got but eighteen hours' sleep." It was a girl of twenty-four or twen- ty-five who spoke—a nurse at one of the great London hospitals; and she Was telling something of her life, says London Answers. It is easy to weave romance into the work of a hospital nurse; It Is not so easy for the gently. nurtured, well-bred woman to per• ceive anything but its drudgery, its hardships, and sometimes its dangers. After Long Years. For the work of a hospital nurse does not consist of sitting in airy, well -lighted hospital wards by a suf- ferer's bedside "soothing his brow with her fair white hand." She has the grlmest, hardest work that a wo- man could well undertake for a com- pensation which, measured in money, Is utterly inadequate. There is no royal road to hospital nursing. A girl, whatever her her octal rank and influence, begins at the bottom. An interview with a kindly, shrewd matron who swiftly judges her temperament and adapt- ability, a stringent medical examin- ation, and she begins a long and ar- duous apprenticeship which may ex- tend from two to four years before she gains the coveted nurse's certi- ficate. For two years she is a probationer —the errand -girl and general factotum of the sister and nurse in charge of a ward, though, of course, her duties are very strictly mapped out. At Duty's Call. She gets eighteen pounds a year and her uniform—something less than many servants—and may, if she sticks to the life, rise to £30 or so at the end of about four years. She can become a "staff nurse" at the end of two or three years, but has to spend some period with the hospital at a reduced salary as compensation for her training. Nurses have thoroughly to learn their profession. There is no such thing as a "born nurse." From the moment she dons her uniform her every moment is occupied. In the well -organized hospitals there Is no excuse for laxity or unpunctuality. Every duty has to be done to the second. Medicine has to be admin- istered, beds made, unruly patients soothed, meals given, and lectures at- tended in the twelve hours' turn of daytime duty. There is work, inces- sant work. Many give up in the first few months, but there are others who remain—women whose indomitable spirit Is often greater than their phy- sical strength. Often the soft•footed, dainty -handed nurses are more 111 than the patients they attend. They know they have but to say a word and they will have everything that skill and sympathy can suggest. Yet too often the word never panes their lips, and they go I on till the inevitable breakdown I comes. The writer knows of one nurse who held to her duty to the last. One night she attended an oper- ation; within a few days she was dead. Merely Spring Cleaning. It is 'known that medical students often faint when first witnessing an I operation; what, then, must be the effect on the delicate imagination and highly -strung nerves of a girl? In most hospitals the period of nurse's duty Is three monthe' day work and three months' night work. At night there is a full twelve hours in'the ward with no respite for meals as in the daytime. Even when there are lectures to be attended the nurse must steal the time from her sleep. Nothing is spared the apprentice nurse. She has to take her share in every part of the work of the hospital. There is a touch of humor about the experience of one girt She was trans - THE UNION TRUST GO. LIMITED QUARTERLY DIVIDEND 140Gioe le hereby given that a Dividend of Two and Cinched/ Por Cont. for the ottrrent quarter, be- ing at the rate of IO% Per Ainneerea on the Paid-up Otteitre. Dt001X af thlo Corporation, has been &clan ed, and that the Same will be Pal, able on and eller Wednesday, the First Day of Oetabet neat, to Shereholders of record at the cisco of boasters( on the teth day of Denteelher, By order of the Board I JO= M. McWP4N0, General leesseer. ferred from ward to ward in the ordi• nary way until at last she appeared before the matron and expressed her wish to resign. She was willing to pay the sum which all probationers are liable to if they give up before the period to which they have bound themselves expires. "Weil, I am sorry that you think of leaving us," said the matron. "But, at any rate, you have learned some. thing while you have been in the hospital." "I don't know," replied the girl doubtfully. "I have spent most of my time spring-cleaning," It appeared that by a coincidence eaoh of her transfers coincided with the commencement of spring-cleaning in the particular wards to which she was allotted. A curious fact is that many nurses are found to volunteer for what must be the hardest work in the profession. They become district nurses attached to the hpspital, and at any minute of the day they may be called on. Way Down East. Take, for Instance, the huge area In the East End which looks to the Lon- don Hospital for relief. District nur- ses—whb must not be confused with parish nurses—are on duty at all hours—they must go out when called upon. There is a regular round of daily visits, but even when they are over a girl is never certain that she is done. It was in reference to this work that the remark quoted at the begin- ning of this article was made by a nurse. "While district nursing I never have had one full night in bed," she said. There are places where even the police never venture except in pairs. But no slum is too squalid, no neigh- borhood too reckless to daunt these slim young girls on their errands of mercy. The wildest ruffian in Lon- don, even those who would not stick at murder would hesitate before in- terfering with "the green charity"— a nickname, born of the green cloaks and bonnets that the nurses wear. The nurses, who, before they entered the hospital service, may never have taken a dozen steps in the well -lighted West End without protection, go fear- lessly to and fro to streets of evil re- pute without escort, and unprotected save for the uniform they wear, If there were a ruffin daring enough to molest one he would meet short shrift. The grade of "sister" in charge of a ward la a promotion that not every nurse can afford to receive. The pay is higher, but it is swallowed up in a score of ways --ornaments and flowers for the ward, little presents for the patients, and so on. The staff nurses and probationers also feel the drain, but not to the same extent. The "sister" is responsible for a ward, but the others are her assistante. In one respect she is more comfortable; she is spared a great deal of night duty. At night the ward "sisters" are off duty. One there is who supervises the entire hospital, but in the wards there are only the nurses and proba- tioners. By Voluntary Contributions. While hospitals are supported by charity of the public, it is impossible that the comparatively meagre remun- eration given to nurses can be in- creased. This, perhaps, is one of the rea- sons why there is a dearth of com• petent nurses at many hospitals, and why so much is performed by those who do exlat. Obviously, the salary paid to a nurse is no standard by which her value to a hospital can be judged. For instance, when a nurse is loaned to one hospital from another the sum paid for her services may range from two to four guineas a week—and this although her actual salary may be only £80 a year. Sim- ilar sums are charged when a nurse is sent to a private house. Great Britain owes much to its hos- pital nurses, whose quiet, devoted ser- vices meet with so little reward. Only great enthusiasm for the relief of suf. tering And a resolute gallantry, far beyond that which has won many men fame, could enable these women to live the livethey do. BLACK BREAD BEST FOOD. German Scientist Recommends It For the Working Classes. Dr. Kunert, one of the highest au- thorities In Germany on food analysis, considers that black rye bread should be the chief item of nourishment of healthy men and women, and main- tains that, in earlier timer:, when the working onuses did not eat meat to any extent, but nourished themselves on black bread, leguminous food and groats, they were full of pith, and were strong and healthy. Sine° meat, wheaten bread and sugar became the staples of daily fare their power of resisting disease has sunk. Evert for weak stomachs Dr, Kunst prefers blank bread. A student had been bragging of his various accomplishments until One of the company, losing hie pa- tience, mid; "Now, we have heard quite enough of what you can do; just tell us what; you can't do, and undertake to do it myself, - "Indeed; well, I can't pay my bill, and run very glad to find that you can do it," replied the student, Amid the hilarity of the eorepany the guest redeemed his rash pros mise. IRE WORLD IN REYEW .43MINDIMOVOIMINUMMaini•IN.arnill Soy SeoUte and militarism. It le rather diCtlealt to noderetand what fe meant by the tharge that the Dor Semite are being militarised. If it could be shown that any 'Leonides were at Work to ell the boys' heads with dreams of military ooncineet and to inspire them with distrust and hatred of Germans and Americans and Japanese, it would bo the duty of every good eit,iaen to prothet. No- body hati oharged, however, that the minds of the boys are being thus poison- ed, All that. has been done apparently is to Impress upon the boys ono of the fundamental duties of eitiaenship, the importance of being trained to defend their eountry if it should be threatened by an invader. 18 this miechievous teach. Ing? Ts it rromothing that ought not to be impressed upon bit eboys? Be Prepared" has been the motto of the Boy Woouts ever since the organist. tion was formed. They aro trained to Astigtitria,r5d.loa mai.eoneyaintaanyce.rgr dolt/ g.t shown of Boy Scouts risking and even secrifloing their lives in order to save the lives of others or to protect their property. They are wheeled in the craft of the woodsman, taught to find "sermons in atonal. books in the running brook.. to be givil, cleanly. obedient to authority, respeOtful to their elders and helpful to eaoh other. If to this training le to be added training In simple military man. oeuvres and in the handling of arms, what harm will be done? To condemn this trebling is to insult every volunteer in Canada, and to imply that he le CM - gaged in something disgraceful when he turns out for drill. A Mistaken Idea. It le a very general orror of under- standing that when the Panama Canal is completed the waters of the Atlantic will rneet and mingle with these of the Pacific. They will not, unless they meet down at Cape Horn. There has been a half accepted theory that the waters of the Pacific ars on a higher level than those of the Atlantic on thle aide at the lethzuns, and several writers have said that a swift current might flow through the oanal. The error loeaeily discerned when one thinks for a moment. The canal le not ou the water level, but far above it, nearly 100 fee.t On the Ate Matto side the canal has been out some distance 'eland to where the mountain begins to rise, and there a great look Is built, and when a ship enters it, it Is raised up to the level of the canal by means of river water, not sea, Crossing the mountain by canal and lake full of fresh water, the elite 15 let down into the salt water on the Pacific side. The salt waters do not meet, but are almost as far apart as ever. A Freak suggestion. . One Ernest Archdearen, described as the mast prominent patron of aviation in Prance, ennies to the front with the 'Meet freak suggestion of peeudo-science. 10. Archdeacon finds himself jaded with the tedious pace of a. 12.5-mile.an-hour plane and the monotony of being cobbl- ed. cribbed and confined in the present airlanes, and be proposes being shot to various, parts of the volar system by ra- dium power. Ile figures that with twenty - novae kilograms of radium aboard a pro. jectile weighing a ton could be sent to the moon in forty-nine hours, and with 400 kilograms a visit might be made to Pewee, Ultimately, so runs the prophecy, the Inhabitants of all the planate will make mica other's acquaintance and inter- planetary congresses will be held. M. Archdeacon seems to forget that atmos- phere to breathe is ono of the little con. veniencee which earth dwellers might miss in a journey to our airless *mtg. lite and that they might also And the temperature of Venus a little too high for comfort. Besides, radium le already so seams as to be a ooneiderable Item in the cast of living, and we have other usee for it than as. fuel for interplanetary lImlted expresses. Huge Law Costs. Herr Thyseen, an ironfounder, who be. gun life in humble circumstances, is one of the five or six richest men lu Gemma 9, and lu Industry hie importance can 0111- lenge that of the Xruppe. His son, after incurring heavy debts, was offered oar tain terms by the father on the condition that these were to settle definitely the share in the father's estate that should devolve to him - t death. The son main. tained that theoffer was oonsiderably smaller than he was entitled to, and brought suit against hie father. The son hes twice lost themuse, and now hae pealed. Already, however, the coete of the ease amount to 82,048,750, as estimated 01319 at the rate Axed by the rogulatione of Prussian procedure. Sundry expenditures have to be added to this amount and it is estimated that the total costs will have amounted to very nearly $2,600,000. When the case has been disposed of for a third and last time, ()oats exacted by the court to the extent of 0450,000 and couneel'e fees amounting to 8104,000 will have to be added, making a total outlay of $2,602,760, The beide for this exorbitant expenditure is the amount of money in dispute, which 00105 no less than 517,600,000. But one may ask would it not have been better for the con to 1)5 satisfied witk a nest egg of over $17,000,- 000 rather than the full-fiedged bird to which he thought ho wee entitled? SEA BIRD PARADISE. Millions of Fowl Inhabit Lonely Spot Near Honolulu. Laysan Island, a dot on the chart, situated in the Pacific' Ocean, 800 miles west of Honolulu, is coarsely three miles long, with a levee in the 'centre, and were it not for its binds it would be the loneliest epot on the globes Myriads of see -fowl fill the air and cover the ground. As far as the eye can see, the island is dot- ted with lordly albetroeses, the snowy whitenese of their heads and lower paths glistening in the semi- tropical sun. Thousands of swallows or terns dart back and forth !through the air, and keep up a pa.ndernonium enough to drive men to madness. Visiting Laysan, one hoe diffi- culty, if he wiehee to °roes the is- land, to avoid crushing the eggs of terns, and as one prooeeds he is oontenually breaking through the roof's of petrel burrow's, whioh everywhere honeycomb the soil. The bird population is so exterse sive that all donot 'nest on the sur - feet,. but instead live tenement- faeleon. Some, like the petrels and thearwaters, must tunnel benearbh the sand and rear their young in. derkness. Others occupy the ground floor, and foremost among these are the albeerosscs, terns and tropic birds, Two etriking fads at once im- press the visitor; the countless numbers of birds and their sun' prising fameness. They pay little 01 100 attention as one 'movers among them., There are literelly a million alba - trove nestling oe this tine atoll, end they dninM ali the other birds as rulers of they demain. The old birds speed Inuish time •in a curious dance, Or, perhay more appropriately, ti, "Leaks:walk. Firth, two birds! approach other, bowing profoundly and ate ping heaviiy. They en'sgger 140' each other, nodding and ecrurtes ing solemnly, thee suddeinly bogi to fence a little, (noosing bills an whetting them together, eemetini with a whistling eound. All at once a bird lifts its close wing and nibbles at the feethe beneath, or theely, if in a hurr quickly turns its head The par ner clueing this short perfermame assumes a. etetuesque, pose, en either looks mechanieselly from aid to side, or metes its bill loudly few times, Then the first bit' once, and, pointing its head and beak straight upward, rises o its tees, Puffs out its breast, en utters a prolonged nasal "Ah-hshe Early in the morning they hi themselves off to eea and scour th waves for the elusive squid, whits ie a staple article of diet, for th larger membere of the vast bir population, Then, about sunrise the white company 'begins to retur and the mothers give the babie their breakfasts, regurgitatin squid and oil. At this single meal eaoh youn, albatross oonsuanes from a pound to a pound and a half of squids', and as there aro fully re million, birds old and young, the daily aggregate would surpass 600 tons. The albatroesee live 011 Laysan fully nine months of the year. Dur- ing the last days of Otteber, before the winter, therms set in, the mighty arms. appeara. Health More Than Wealth. It is a well-known fact that the three richest men in the world would gladly barter the greater portion of their' wealth for good health—literally speaking, for a good digestion. A perfect digestion is the secret of buoyancy and eltal- ity of a really healthy man. The state of your body acid ruled at the time you partake of a meal are a big feature as to the ultimate geed the food will do you. If physically and mentally tired, always rest for at least ten minutes before eating. Bad temper is enough to give you indigestion, whilst cheerful com- pany and interesting talk causes the muscles ancl juices of the stone aoh to work properly. It seems in- credible that such ulterior forces should be of importance, but science will not be denied, oner than eat when not properly hungry, miss a meal. Never take food more thara three times a, day; use will soon accustom you to this habit. Take your meals in a well -ventilat- ed room. DIDN,T44—KNOW a, tech P- It Y- 01 00 rs 1, e, d 51, 11 h g g That Tea and Coffee Cause Trouble. So common is the use of tea or coffee as a beverage many do not know that they are the cause of many obscure ails which are often attributed to other things. The easiest•way to find out for oneself is to quit the tea and coffee for a while, at least, and note re- sults. A lady found out in this way, and also learned of a new beverage that is wholesome as well as plea- sant to drink, She writes : "I am 40 yeare old and all my life, up to a year and a half ago, 1 had been a coffee drinker. "Dyspepsia., severe headaches and heart weakness made me feel sometimes as though I was about to die. After drinking a cup or two of hot coffee, my heart would go like a clock -without a pendulum. At other times it would almost stop and I was so nervous 1 did not like to be alone." Tea is jug aS harm- ful, because It contains caffeine, the same drug found in coffee. "If I took a tvalk for exercise, as SOOn as I WAS out of sight of the house I'd feel as if 1 was sinking and this would frighten me terribly. My limbs would utterly refuse to support mo, and the pity of it all was I did not know that coffee was causing the trouble, "Reading in the papers that many persons were relieved of such ailments by leaving off coffee and drinking Postum, I got my husband to bring home a package, We made it according to directions and I liked the first cup. Its rich anappy fla`rhrawvowsdelicious, '1 usinggPostum about eighteen months, and to my great joy, digestion is good, my nerves and heart are all right, in fact, I am a well woman once more, thanks t°P°setu7 Na,mn. by Canadian Postum Co, Windsor, Ont. Write for copy of the little book, "The Road to Wellvillc e2) Postumomes in two forms: Regular POstunt — must be well b°lIiitesdta'ut Poetilin is a soluble pow- der. A teaspoonful dissolves quick- ly it a cup of hot water and, With cream and sugar, makes a delicious beverage inetantly. Grocers sell bot`'llThkebriecIsv sa reason" for Postern, ,p --- Too Much. Mrs. Illew—Oh, dodos, what ails him? Doctor — Ilhettmetoral erthritie Mrs. Blew—Oh, doctor, we are i very poor—ean't you make it some- thing plainer immoolloommummom.Sr.111 1 READ THE LABEL COR 'THE PROTECTION 05' THE CON- " euesn 1'148 INGREDIENTS ARE PLAINLY PRINTED ON THE LABEL. IT IS THE ONLY WELL-KNOWN MEDIUM - P ffalc,rED BAKING POWDER MADE IN Aft M AND WHICH HAS ALL THE CAlreDA THAT 0085 NOT CONTAIN REDIENTS PLAINLY STATED 011 THE LABEL. MAGIC BAKING POWDER CONTAINS NO ALUM ALUM IS SOMETIMES REFERRED re AS SUL- PHATE OF ALUMINA OR soDlc ALUMINic SULPHATE. THE PUBLIC SHOULD NOT BE MISLED BY THESE TECHNICAL NAMES. E, W. GILLETT COMPANY LIMITED WINNIPEG TORONTO, ONT. MONTREAL CATCHING THE lk ILO PONIES ROW PRE ROUNDING -UP IS DONE IN ENGLAND. Something About Britain's ma Horses and How Ownership Is Determined. "Wild horses I" It will be a sur- prise to many to hear that such a-nimals exist in England. Yet there are at least three traces of country in England itself where horsea—or, rather, ponies—live in a wild condition. That is to say, they roam at large, they are nob artificially fed, and they face every kind of weather without being af- forded artificial protection. These teethe are the forests of Dartmoor and Exmoor and the New Forest, says London Answers. Get it out of your head, please, that is. `forest" has anything to do with trees. There are ,precious few trees on Dartmoor or Exmoor ; and, although it is true parts of the Nsw Forest are heavily wooded, even there one may find greet, spaces, covered only with bracken and hea- ther, lying open to the sky. Each forest has its' own breed of ponies, which have existed there from time immemorial; and, al- though all the animals have owners, vet many roam unmolested all their Marked with Owners' Bfialld.S. Their only mark of identification is a brand put on with a, hot iron. In .order to brand the young Dart- moor ponies there is a regular drive, or "drift," once a year in the autumn. All the moormen, turn out, and beat the whole vast moor, finally driving all the animals into an enclosure, where they are sepa- rated out, and the "suckers"—as the young ones are called—are marked with their owners' brands. Very much the Settle sort of thing takes piece aenually on Exmoor. But in the New Forest the case is different. For one thing, there are many more owners, and numbers of these men have to work hard at various or:impatiens, and could not spare the time for a regular "drift," or round -up. So there ie nothing of the sort, in the New For- est; and when a pony has to be caught for branding the owner usually waits until some friend; or perhaps an "agister," tells where- abouts it may probably be found, and then he immediately rides off and drives it in. New Foseet ponies are known as "colts," and the law laid down by the Court of Verderers is that all colts must be branded with their owners' special brand, And Also Tail -Marked. The branding, once done, lasts for a lifetirme; but the tail -mask, quite separate from the owner's brand, is less lasting, and the animal has to be caught again for the purpose of renewing it. Tho Forest is divided into four 'walks," over eaoh of which pre - aide's an "agister," appointed by the verderers to see that no pony is turned out unless, duly marked. Each of these four wail, has its particular tail -mark, quite separate from litho owner's brand, and it is, naturally, aegreat aesistanee to an owner colt -hunting if the aelster can tell him that his animal 1, still in it5 proper quarter, or hes .ray- ed to some other pert of the Forest. Supposing an owner hears that a mare with a Ducker that he wants to brand is "haenting" in some particular pert of the Forest, The first thing ho does is to try to, get a, friend to helphim. Then the two, mounted on sturdy penies, start out early in the morniers. The ponies they ride have halters or: besides their bridles, and the owner carries A. Pair of Field Glasses, if he peseesses such things or can borrow them. The riders probably •carry some breed and cheese in thole pockets, for the hunt often is apt to be a long job. Arrived at the spot where the Mare was lath seen, they sem and examine the various 'groups visible trough the glasses!. If the mere spotted then, of 'course, comes ,ho job of tutting. her out. Nice work it la, too, for she is almost sure to go off at full tilt. And the Forest is no country to ride hard in. There are dangerous bees, heavy thickets, and, worse still, gravel pit e and deep ruts half hidden under the heather. Sometimes the mare makes straight for the thicket covert and hides. Sometimes. ehe simply goes straight away, and then there is nothing for it but to gallop in pur- suit. The owner does not necessarily driv,her hick home in order to do the branding. Any enclosure will do. And so soon as the young one is branded off he and his mother gallop, and once again find them- selves free as the wind. 101 SOME EVERYDAY PHRASES. How a Casual Renmrk Becomes a Common Saying. "What is' a -peculiar phrase?" someone once naked. "Something we all repeat like eserrots, without knowing its real origin or mean- ing," was the reply of the cynic; and to a certaist extent he was right. How many of us, for in- stance, can tell how these common phrases "tuft -hunters" and "fools' paradise" arose ? We have an idea that the former refers to the person who seeks the society and apes the manners of the upper ten, but why tuft? And why paleelise for the fool who shuts his eyes to threaten- ing teoubles and dangers, satisfied with the enjoyment of the moment? As a matter of feet, the latter phrase originated in the theological argument that there is a place for fools just outside paradise, while the term tuft -hunting took its rise et the universities of Oxford and Cambridge, where tut one time the young nobleman wore a. peculiarly formed cep with a tuft, which pro- suinably attracted hangers-on. It is related that Holeson's choice arose from the fact that Hob - eon, a rested caerier in Cambridge, would only let out his horses and coaches for thire in rotation, refus- ing to allow his cue -mars to choose, a customer being compelled to take the horse nearest the dose. Thus it became cuetoanary, when anything was forced upon ono, to say "ECobson's Eating humble pie ie a phrase which really arose from the *army - tion of the word Disables as num- bles the coarser paths of a deer killed in hunting, wheel, when made into a pie, were formerly re- served for the lower hunt servants; while cooking his goose is a phrase which originated when the king of Sweden, on approaching a hostile town, excited the contempt of the inhabitants by the smallness of his army, To express this they hung out a goose for hire to shoot at, whereupon the king set fire to the town to "cook their goose," Long ago unscrupulous people used to take e cat in os bag to mar- ket, where they tried to sell it for a pig, If, however, a purehaeer opened the beg 'before buying, the cat, of course, jumped out, display- ing the fraud. Hence the term "letting the met out of the bag," "Going to the doge" corns from the s,s4, where dogs aro scavengers of the streets, and beooane DO un- clean as to be unfit to 'touch; while the expression "Toll ie to the mar- ines," used to show disbelief in the truth of the story, arose fnoan the fact that when the marines first went afloat they were naturally very green oonoerning medical af- fairs, and someone who related a very tall yarn was told to "tell it to the marines," the idea being that they could bo more' easily It is a curios% fate that the' phrase, "bald as Si badeer," owes its origin to authors of the past who .had no exact knowledge of natural history, and whos because the fore- head of a badger is covered with smooth hairs, came to the conclu- sion that it was htta Years ago a the/ethical malinger - of the bogus type had in, his eonl- peny an fo0I)Or Whose strong point wan the ghost in Menke, his sal- ary eves not forthcoming on Save day, the actor would 'exclaim, "Merl the ghost will not walk to- night," a phrase which is shull used by 'macre on peseley, and \relish provides a eleiking illustration of how a casual remark becomes a common Seyieg. The course of true love often leads to metrimony, TOOLS SOWN UP IN WOUNDS TILE CARELESSNESS OP SOBS DOCTORS. Patients Cart'y Away Doctors' Pro.' perty and Also Some Germs. Hardly a week goes by that some patient who has undergone an op- eration does not find that he has been enriched by, a pair of scissors, a lancet, a piece of gauze, a finger ring, or some eh -eller foreign body, whieh, through the negligence of the surgeon or his aseistante, has boon sewn up in the wound. How it happens that eveo the best surgeons are thus frequently exposing !themselves to the charge of gross carelessness or even mal - practise can be snore easily account- ed for than exeused. In the up-to-the-minute hospitals no operation, however simple, is performed by a surgeon single- handed. TJeually the operating sur- geon is assisted by at least two or three other doctors, three envies and an .anaesthetist, besides an orderly who carries the various articles needed back and forth. Sell of the doctors and nurses are fully covered from head to foot in white sterilized linens. Their heeds, arms, faces and hair are thorough- ly disinfected, and even eyeglasses and finger rings are carefully freed of germs. Stitching euleirly Done. After the incision has been made the busy assistants and nurses deft- ly and in a flash stitch up eaoh bleeding spot. So quickly is this accomplished nowadays that even in a tedious operation on the kid- bnieoya .or appendix lasting several loses more than a thimbleful of oci hours it is rarely that the patient Between the skillful moves of the chief surgeon the others stanch the drops of blood with pincers, for- ceps, needles and sterile game°. Everything that roaches the wound is thoroughly sterilized and per- fectly free of germs. But with twenty busy hands, twenty busy fingers and thumbs, all itt work at the same time over a gaping wound and handling many hundreds of small instruments such as lancets, -scalpels, forceps, eels - sera, needle holders, bits of gauze and silk, it is hardly any wonder that every now and then one of the instruments or a pieoe of gauze is stitched up in the wound. Aecording to the doctors, none of these "foreign bodies," if free of germ lite can do any harm, man tissues, they point out, cannot be injured by steel, iron, gold, nickel -plated or linen materials., Instruments, gauze, or even rub- ber, may be allowed to remain itt a clean-cut wound for years without harm of any kind resulting. But despite the utmost care of the nurses responsible for the ster- ilizing of the instruments and other articles to be used in the operation it is quite possible that germs may still remain or find lodgement after the sterilizing process , has bean oompleted. Despite the assurances of the doc- tors, therefore, the patients inter- ested '9,re loth to admit that foreign bodies thus left in their wounds can in no way harm them. It is true that the only reason a splinter, a rusty nail, a pin 01 a needle that gots into one's throat, foot or fin- ger ceases damage, sometimes death, is became of dirt and mi- crobes that cling to them. _Although everything enimate and inanimate that gets near the white -marbled operating rooms of ,a modern hospi- tal is supposed to be made free of ultra -microscopic life, it is conceiv- able that germs may find their way into even those well -guarded pre- cincts. The viewpoint of the patient rae ther than that of the surgeons is the one which has been taken by the courts, The microbe, about which we hear so much nowadays, is surely the most amazing, as he is the most aecommodatirg, of created things. He can and does make his home everywhere—in the earth, the air, and in water. The soil holds me crobes in uncountable billions make their hard beds even in coal and chalk; the air literally swarms with them—there is mul- tiple death in every breath WO draw. They are in the mouths and hair of all men, as well as on the wail of their houses and in all they eat said drink. But the babit- take they love best is milk. In a wineglassinj an heur old, 1,R,go,0v of them have been calculated. Seven hours later, the ntunber had grown to two millions; and by the time the hour hand had been twice er170 s,— more round the dial,,utileoehesoiluz- veriled no fewthan million rotighly half file pop rope. All these le one small draught of milk 1 If you wero to dip a pert into the glass, you could remove many thousands of them en its point, so microscopically small are they!