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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Clinton News Record, 1920-7-22, Page 6Hardy's Luek By J. W. MARSHALL, Young Dr; Haedy's long run of luck was over. He acknowledged it to Irina self when be awoke that morning in his room .et the Univesnty hospital. And then, as he dressed, he went back to the beginning of it all, a little more than few; years ago, and summed it up—that long run of luck. .began the evening that lie ma- triculated et the uneveosity, when the dean's cleric tools the matriculation fee and smilingly wished him "good luck" in the course, He kuad, been liaving.it ever since. He had worked in one of the government departments by day, had attended agetures and done hie work at the university from Half past four until ten, and had studied from hale past ten until—well, until he had finished, He had managed to get in his clinics by taking his annual thirty days' leave from the department an hour or two at a time, and at the end of his four years had graduated third man from the top of his Blass. Luck enough! But besides, he had taken a prize in chemistry, and won first hon- orable mention in pathology. As he walked Home from the graduating ex- ercises with his• M.D„ his prize _in chemistry and the first honorable men- tion tucked under hie arm he had apostrophized himself as Lucky Tom. -He had wanted above everything else to go on as extern at the hospital; but externs maintain themselves out- side the hospital for a year, and be- cause of the expenses of Ms university course he had not been able to save anything from his salary. So he had resigned himself' to the prospect of working on at the department until he could save enough money to begin practice without the coveted hospital experience. And then came an epi- demic of typhoid at the hospital; two of the internes were down, and again luck was with him he was offered a place as substitute interne! He ar- ranged with his chief for two months' leave without pay and, never stopping to think that his record at collegehad anything to do with this opportunity, rushed to his luck, At the hospital his wonderfulluck had held. ' He had wanted to crowd experience into every hour pf those short sixty days, and when he showed willingness to ."work his head off" the regular intense joyously told him to "go as far as he. liked. - "What sale is that Dr. Hardy sup- posed to be on, anyway?" said a nurse in "A" to a nurse in "Ii," as they mot on the stairs. The nurse frons "Ii" looked puzzled, "Old Tommie. Why I did ]snow, but i guess I've forgotten, Of course he was Mat on one side or the other. Isn't he the most serious old thing you most ever saw? 'Why?" "Oh, nothing! Only, iffrim sent to the medical side, I'nc assisting Dr. Hardy; if the surgical, I assist Dr. Hardy; in the dispensaries I mostly assist Dr. Hardy. If I'm sent to .the, laboratory, •themes Dr. Hardy humped over a microscope. And the night nurses say that if, they semi down a call Dr; 'Hardy always comes up. Doesn't the man ever sleep or eat? No wonder they -call him Old Tom- mie!" The nurse from "fI" laughed. "Eat! The might nurses in `II' asked him to' midnight supper in the diet kitchen once when he was still in the labora- tory. They thought it would -be such a lark. Well, he lugged along his old microscope' and spent all the supper hour sliowing the girls some new germs he'd•been staining! And sleep! The night boy on the telephone switch- board says, 'Heim, Dr. ]lardy, he don't never sleep!'. Ouch! Just see how my ankles are ,swollen! I've been on duty You •See Thein Everywhere 40 TN the country, as in the. city, Fleet Foot 1 is the popular footwear this summer: Whether at work or•play, Fleet Foot shoes - are ideal for warm weather, because of their superior ease and comfort—their at- tractive styles—and their sound economy compared with leather shoes. There are Fleet Foot colored shoes for work, and white ones for rest and pleasure. Ask your dealer to show you some of the Fleet Foot Shoes for men, women and children. Fleet Foot Shoes are Dominion Rubber System ProductS The Best Shoe Stores Sell Fleet Foot far ten whale hems, andef Pm not ra- 1levetleaprd nuettyrse!" ypon, I'11— hSi1! Here's the b When Ilaardy's two months at the hospital were almost up, one of the two internes who had been ill with t,vphois( eeslgned, and went Itame to i'eeupo ate, "Goiod-bye, • oldpian!" he sake to Hardy on leaving. "You sure Imo made good herd, from what they tell nit, and I wish you could have bad my place." That !et the eat out of the bag! Hardy inferred that it had already been settled that the other substitute, nephew of the chief of staffwas to have the appoiittment. His long ran of luck was over. IIs thought about it as he dressed that morning—the nuorni ng after the interne had med'e his remark. When, he had finished tying his shines he stood up. He was "sandy cotnpiexien- ed" and short,'—almost a 'tubby,- with a large head and a big mouth. His deep -gray eyes behind large round lenses travelled wistfully round the four walls of the little white room, "Well," he said to h niiielf, "I only expected to stay two months when I came, and you can't expect such hick as :I've had to last forever.." As she waystarted." for the door he sada aloud, "And I've got one whole day left, any - He hurried off up the corridors, meeting no one except maids and scrubwomen and orderlies who were hurrying to complete the toilet of the hospital before the work of the day began. Lip one flight of stairs he turned to the left, entered ward "G," and stepped . directly to bed Ne. 41, The little night nurse, who hail not yet gone off duty, came ever as he took the chart from tete head,of the bed. When he had,read,through the notes of the night, she asked a very unprofessional question, "Dr. Hardy, what es the matter with this. patieet, anyway?" Dr. Hardy made an extremely un- professional reply. "I don't know!" he said. "But its a very interesting case. He was -brought in two deem ago in this semi -comatose condition from a tramp schooner clown in the harbor. Every visiting 'staff doctor and most •of the city physicians who have patients here had gone over the case in these two days, and the diag- nosis is still obscure. The trouble is, you a see--" He ran his eye over the meagre "history" that they had been able to get from the patient's shipmates, tele obscure physical findings, the baffling temperature curve, the conflicting symptoms.. And then, grasping for any straw, he in turn asked an un- professional- question. "Maybe you can make a suggestion, Miss Maynard?" The little night nurse gave one anxious glance at the semi -comatose Patient. "Yes," she said, "I can. I think you'd better get busy and find out what's the matter ,before it's too late! If I were a doctor—" She• was hurrying oil 'indignantly, when she stopped and flushed. "Excuse me, Dr. Handy, I--" But Dr. Hardy was not at all in- sulted. He even smiled at her heat. "Doctors are pretty helpless at times, aren't they?" he said quizzical- ly. "If medicines were only an exact science, now, like mathematics, but it isn't. The picture of any given die - ease e ie-ease, is so often modified and distorted by ether underlying conditions, by idiosyncrasy and temperament. Per- sonally, I've given every extra minute I could find to this case, and wiser heads than urine have puzzled over it, and we're no nearer a diagnosis than when it came -in.; but we're still trying. "I know you are, Dr. Hardy," she said contritely. Then she flared up again. "I was thinking of that chief of staff's nephew. He's on this service; why don't he do a little hard work? He's smart, they say; why doesn't he show some of it here? 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"Nlighty risky, wasn't it? 1---I mean 'twos mighty Mee in her to offer—you know what I menu. Ile pulled -a Chau' to the bedside and sat down. "I'11 just sit hen and study the ease till breakfast time, The halo might nurse smiled and wrote oe her order' pati for the day nurse, "At 7.80 tell Di, Tlardy to ge to breakfast, At a quarter of eight the day nurse touched Dr. hardy on the fhqullder and showed him, the order. He stewed, mumbled • sou'ietiang . about having "clean eorf otten," rose, and tramped thoughtfully back through the °cirri- dors. Ile sat dewii in has place at the doctors' table and began mechardeally to eat. The talk stopped. Glances travelled from Hardy's troubled Ruse to the nephew of -the chief of staff— daseceniug glances; but the nephew evidently did not see thein. (To b continuednext easua,) Nine Points of the Law. Which are the Seven Seas? This is an expression as old al; Shakespeare, yet even to -day nobody is quite sure about the seventh, Any- body can name six—the Atlantic, Pa. oiilc, Arctic, Antarctic, and Indian Oceans, and. the Meditsrraneen Sea -- but there has always been a doubt whether the seventh was the Baltic or the North Sea. 'Phe expression "the Seven Seas" is really another•way. o1 saying ail the world. What were the Seven Wonders of the World? This question can be an- swered in rhyme: The Pyramids, first, which in Egypt were laid; Next Babylon's garden, for Amytis mage; Then Mausolcs's tomb of affection and guilt; Fourth, the Temple of Dian, in Ephe- sus built; The Colossus of Rhodes, cast in brass, to the Sun; Sixth, Jupiter's statue, by Phidias done; The' Pharos of Egypt, last wonder of old, Or the Palace of Cyprus, cemented with •gold. It appears that, as in the ease of the Seven Seas, only six wonders were agreed upon -universally, opinion be- ing divided ae to which constituted the seventh. What are the Nine Points of the 1 Law? It has been said that success tin litigation requires a good deal of I patience, a good deal of money, a good 1 cause, a good lawyer, a good counsel, good witznossos, a good jury, a good judge, and, last but not least, good luck. But the saying is really a part of the proverb which says that "pos- session is nine points of the law," and that anybody is welcome to the tenth if they can -get anything mut of it. • Sa1wi13q Sunken Ships. A,method has been devised and suc- cessfully tried by which sunken ships can be salvaged with comparative ease. Instead of using heavy steel tanks, whose weight must be added to the lifting force employed, the new way is to place fabric bags in the hull of the vessel, and inflate them with air. To augment the effect, a number of bags may be attached to the outside of the hull The bags are made of very strong rubber water -proof canvas, are from thirty to forty feet long, and displace from fifty to one hundred tons of water. There is no difficulty in placing them inside the ship's hull. They are flexible, and can be folded to fit a small space during transportation, in this respect being very different from the more clumsy steel tanks ordinarily employed. In order that the compressed air within the bags will not be forced to the bursting point, each bag. is pro- vided with an automatic blow -off valve. When placed -in the ship, the bags are flat, and lie against the gird- ers, and the vessel begins to rise when sufficient air has been blown in- to the bags. Since time bags are placed just where the greatest weight is encountered, the ship can be lifted without any severe strain on the structure—a very great advantage over the old method. The first vessel to be salved by this system was the steamer Main, which had been sunk by a Germansub- marine in Luce Bay, oft the coast of Scotland. The bags displaced one hundred tans of water ouch, and weighed only one torr complete. Larger bags are being made, and it is rumored that the Lusitania may ho raised trona the beim of the ocean by - this system of air -inflated bags. From Here and There. An man, on an -average, drinks one ton of water every twelve, mouths. The average temperature of Egypt is being slowly lowered by irrigation. Proportionately ants have larger brains than any other living creature, Forty yeas ago Japan Itad only one newspaper; now it has several thous- . ncl. Seventy feet is the longest distance known •to have been leaped by a kan- garoo., The Belgian city of Ghent stands on twontysix islands, connected b3' eighty bridges. - Sonne of the mountains on tete noon aro estlmate.O to be 36,000 feet high. Dogs fir Mongolia and Manchuria are reared for their skims, in 'which there is: a large trade. In formes tines Sandwich Island widows had..thoir htisbaud's names tat - Weed 00 their tongues, Mercury, Ilio sWiitost traveller among the planets, »raves through space at tate rate of thirty miles a second, Matured champagne goes through about 200 clitfereat operations, extend- ing ins over two ahcl a half years, The passage through the Suea Canal, ninety -vino nines lopg, reduces. the journey frole Iburopo to India )1Y 4,000 melee. The Witten t tree of idast iddfa ie re• mankcuble for Lho feet that rte brooches droop to the ground and take root as separate stents. Sewing Pointers. If a ohild'.s dress es short, lengthen tt.'yyjth :a fold of contrasting material flowed to the bottom of the skirt. It is ail eepeoially good idea for a dress that is faded, eo that the let -down hem ahowe a difference in color. Juat Cut off the hem and se* e fold of ma- terial to the bottom, provided, of mane, it ie a etra,irght , skirt. If the skirt is circular, than the band must be circular too, and the exact flare of 'the sleirt.' bolds from three to six inches wide cite be used to very good advantage, but some sinact little frocks have misch••wider brands. It is a good plan to add a touch of the contrasting material to the waist in pipings or:a new eollar. If your suit is out-of-date. or unbe- caning, cut the coat- over into an Eton jacket—that is, 11 you wear a youth- ful style. Almost any coat can be made into an Eton. All it means is cutting the coat off about three inches Above the waistline. It's tpeite likely you can use the collar just as it is, but if you want a _ change make the coat collarless, cut away the front in open style, and wear it with one of the new frilly lingerie blouses. And don't forget to add a crush girdle and sash ends to your skirt. `If they are Roman striped ribbon, so much the smarter. If the skirt is tight through the hips and it happens to bea serge, trieotina er gabardine skirt, the fault can be remedied this season, and the skirt made smarter than it has ever been, with inset panels of tricolette. Of course, the tricolette must be a matah- ,ing color. The width of the panels does not matter so much. Some are mere slot seams, and others are Sour or five inches wide. Some are just plain inset panels, and others have the tricolette laid in crosswise tucks. If it's a dress, add a collar of the tri- colette too; or, if it's a suit, try cut- ting away the front of the goat and adding one of the new vestees. If you have one' of the old-time gor- ed skirts in smooth material, such as serge, it too tan be made up -to -elate by combining it with a remnant of tie- colette, Cut the gores into straight strips, and alternate them with strips of the silk, pressing the edges of the cloth over the silk, box -plait fashion. Just hang ;it from a belt of grosgrain belting, and wear with a tricolette out- side belt and you will have as swagger a sports skirt as one could desire, If you are oversupplied with ordin- ary blouses, anti want one of the new over -the -skirt blouses, try this plan. Cut off the bottom of a blouse until it hangs over the skirt just the same amount at all points. Then gather the lower edge a little, and join fronts and back to bands of 'contrasting ma- terial which. extend beyond the side seams for five inches and bind them. When you wear the blouse, knot the sash ends at either side and let them hang down. French blue gorgette bands on a tan georgette blouse give a very pretty effect. A "Can -a -Day" Canner. A home-made device that saves in more that one way is my "wee" can- ner. As my family is small, I often have enough vegetables or fruit to -fill one jar, besides what I need for the immediate meal. By using material at hand we made a donor to hold a quart or pint'jar. I often fill a jar with the surplus, and boil it while getting a meal, tents adding to the store of good things to eat, and saving fuel and products that otherwise might go to waste. For the container I use a gallon syrup pail, with wire rack that fits inside the pail. The rack is made of two pieces of baling wire, 22 inches long. They are crossed at centre of each, and securely tied with picture wire. Any kind of fine, pliable wire win do to tie with. The wires are bent upward at right angles, two inches from centre; the ends are bent back at top, to make ears to lift by. Two circular wires are fastened to the upright wires with the picture wire, two ,inches from top and bottom. When I have more fruit or vege- tables than required for a meal, I fill a jar, adjust rubber and lid, place in a rack, thea to pail filled w;th call water to neck of jar, I:oi1 the required minutes, and seal. Often I cooked a large pumpkin or squash which I do not wish to use all at once. It is only a few minutes' week. to fill a jar and process it, and I have pie filling ready :for any em- ergency. In winter I have preserved fresh meat .for future use, a can or two at a time, with the same tittle outfit. The neat must be cooked tender, put in sterilized jar, covered with its own broth, and boiled an hour three con- secutive days. It can be boiled for three hours et one tine, but I think the former method is the safer otic. How To Do Things. '- For nothing lovelier can be found in woman, than to study household good Milton. When mosquitoes bite, moisten the enti of a cake of common toilet soap, and rub it gently over the spot, In a few minutes all srgne of irritation will have disappeared, Should fat in the frying pan or that in the dripping pan of a gee or oil- stove become ignited, peer some milk directly on the flames. If only a table- spoonful of milk it used the blaze will be extinguished. Lemon egg -nog ns a food as well as a bevetsagc. Make it by beating ah egg yolk initl1 it is lemon colored mei thick, Gradually add a teaspoonful of sti r and Wier; this with he stiffly heater; white o the ' g and ono top - eel of milk. Add a ,tablespoonhut of lemon juice turd serve while eold, To make ;sticicy fly -!raper, thorough- ly mix •sjiwtees ot1ri0os of rosin Wille about six and ane -half pints of castor- oil end heat tmtil n liquid is foretell, With It brush apply titin coat - lege ti' the liquid to shoots of Iteayye wolg'ht Manila paper, leaving a one- inch horde around the edges, Tilde formula is sufficient to cover sixteen cheats of paper measuring 17 x I.2 inches, Fruit which is sweet enough to be eaten without sugar can ibe suecess- fully mimed in its own juice, without sugar. Select one-third er one-half of the fruit which ,is least perfect in shape, and extract the julet at for jelly -making; that is, by simmering it. • Forvery juicy fruit nee about a cupful of water to four or five quarts of ;fruit, and for less juicy fruit suffi- cient water to cover it, Goole the fruit until tender, then drain it in a jelly -bag, Can the perfectly shaped fruit which •was reserved for this pun - pow, filling the jars, with the fruit juice instead of Syrup, and follow the directions for canning by the told - pack method. Fruit canned thus keeps its shape and has a good flavor. • Pleasing Verandah Furnishings. Cretonnes which aro to be used out- of-doors should be bold or strong in design." The codons may be gay, but should be harmonious. The dainty patterns, which are charming in a beds -roam, lose their character when used on a verandah. When many chair coverings and pillows are needed, a worth -while economy can be achieved by covering some of the pillows with the better parts of old bedspreads. The material thus obtained is dyed to harmonize with or repeat one of the colors shown in the cretonne, the 'woven pattern of the bedspread showing up very pret- tily. In order to obtain satisfactory results, select a dye intended for cot- ton and one .which requires the ma- terial to be boiled in the dye. Experi- Ment with n scrap or the geode and felleW diriNtione, closely, A hotter effect can bq oatained i'! the Slime are uniform or herlyxonioue in color, than 11 a variety of covere figs is used; and 11 the pillows aro stufi'ecl with warn -out stockings they will Cost ,Almost nothing, Cut the stockings into small please if you want the pillows to be soft, . S'S'l+en a porch is famished with a collection of gdcl piecea, they can ba brought into harmony and. present a neater appedrance if all the pieces of furniture are painted in Pee :color, if it harmonizes with the colon of the house, a ,good, clear shade of gray paipt is very satisfactory, for it ie durable, restful to the eye, and makes an excellent background'for cretonnes, Table 1iil anners. "Eat quietly" figures amen she junetions given in a recently publish- ed work on etiquette, ' The carne injunction is given with greater emphasis and detail in 'Mfrs. Hannah' Woolley's "Gentlewoman's Companion," velaclr had a great vogue in the seventeouth century. "Gentlewomen," wrote Mrs, 'Woolley, "discover not by any ravenous ges- tures your' angry appetite, nor fix your eyes too greedily ou the meat before you, es if you would devour more that way than your throat would swallow. "In enrving, avoid crapping your fingers in your mouth and licking them after you have burnt them. Close your lips when you eat, apd do not smack like a pig. 1111 not your mouth so full, that your cheeks shall swell like a pair of Scotch bagpipes. It is very uneomely to' drink so large a - draught that your breath is almost gone, and you are forced to blow strongly to recover yourself." What you put into the moments of they pass will make the substance of the moments to come. Shark skin is so hard that after exposure to the air it can be grouni to powder and used in place of dia, mond dust for polishing diamonds. t 1 1 111.1' 111 11r 'Let's go _ tt Loew's' 11 UJdl'1;1 t31I This suggestion is made a thousand times every evening in any city or town where there is a Loow's Theatre, LOEW'S THEATRES IEA.TRES -AMUSE YOU Loew's Theatres Cart Also Make Mosley For You. IVa now offer 0100,000 7% Preferred Stock in Loew's Metropolitan (Montreal), Limited, carrying a snbatantial bonus of Common Shares. 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