News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1888-09-27
At the Hospital.
INTERESTING LETTER CONCERNING THE
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| INTERESTING LETTER CONCERNING THE
| CONSERVATIVES HOME AT BOSTON.
Editors Neaos and Citizen -
Those who can think OF nothing but
suffering and sorrow in connection
with a hospital would do well to visit
the Consumptive's Home at Boston.
1t is quite possible the visit would
cheer, rather than depress them, and
give us, one of the nurses would say,
ga brighter view of living" L have
visited the Home several times this
summer and each time have said to
myself, 81 hope to come again" Leav-
ing the steam cars at the Lowell and
Maine depot, I look for a horse car
bound for Shawmutt Avenue and
Grove Hall. Grove Hall is one of
those misleading names so common in
our language, for it does not mean a
hall or any particular building, but a
locality, and quite pleasant one, in
Roxbury, now part of Boston. The
horse car ride does not furnish as
much enjoyment as many OF the horse
car rides about Boston, although one
gets some pretty views of Chester
Park, Union Park and quite attractive
streets running parallel. AS we 60
further into Roxbury there are to
be seen suggestions of the coun-
try, as the succory plant growing
by the side of the road. The friend
who was with me on my last trip to
the Home, called this plant chiccory,
but we had no dispute on the subject,
remembering the story of the men
who differed on the same name. One
declared with emphasis that the plant
was succory, and the other with equal
emphasis pronounced it chiccory.
Each appealed to his encyclopedia to
prove his point. The one who looked
for succory found ''see chiccory," and
the one who looked for chiccory found
"see succory."
There Is an immense lawn in front
of the Home, with many fine trees
upon it and on pleasant days some of
the patients are generally seen rest
ing in the shade. The patients were
not in long wards, where the woes of
each are intensified by a sight of all
the rest, but in pleasant rooms, with
seldom more than one patient in a
room. There are pictures on the
walls and in some chambers plants in
the windows. Here and there an easy
chair offers a restful change. Many
of the pictures are really fine, as
"Pharaoh's Horses" by Herring
"The Good Shepard" by Goodall
"Wild Cattle of Dillingham;" by
Landseer. Some of the walls nave
been decorated by the patients them
selves with numerous gay cards. The
rooms are not numbered, but named,
it being designed in that way to make
them seem more home-like. Over
some of the doors the names are
printed in illuminated letters with an
text beneath. Perhaps
some of my readers may like to search
for a few of these texts. L will put
them in here with that thought in
mind: "Chamber of Trust" Psalms
IS; chamber of Rest" Matthew
25 :35 "Chamber of Love-" Rom.
10 10; chamber of Pearls" Rev.
21:2l; "Chamber of JOY" Psalms
las 2 ;"Pilgrim's Lodge" Job 81 :32 ;
Chamber of Faith" Mat. 9:29.
There is pretty chapel in the Home,
with stained glass windows, each being
, memorial window. Three are in mem
Dry Of little children, one whose age |
Sin months, not years, was reckoned."
The little chapel has gallery, so that
he patients on that floor can attend
services without climbing the stairs.
Each ward has a pleasant dining room
If its own, which being comparative
V small, adds to the homelike air.
There is also a we'll stocked library in
he Home. Some of the patients en-
oy reading very much, and some who
ire comfortable, read to those who are
more feeble. One patient has been in
he Home for years, having the old
ashioned consumption that often pro-
ongs the weakness and pain of the
uffer through the larger part of
life time. Some have been admitted
n the morning and died in the after
loon. Chinese and negroes are often
.mong the inmates; natives of
warm climate they are peculiarly sus-
eptible to lung and bronchial diseas-
8. When 1 visited the home pref
y deaf and dumb lady was among
he sick ones. Her husband is also
.eaf and dumb. They have had five
children and strange to say they can
ear and speak, unless, possibly, the
ably is an exception, who is not old
nough to talk. This lady has been
o much relieved by the treatment she
as received that she hopes, by and
" to 90 back to her husband and
hildren. She is graceful as well as
retty, and to acknowledge kindness
7ill sometimes throw kiss. One
Dung lady whom the patients and at
endants all love, is very i'll. I shall
ever forget the illumination on her
see when some one offered her some
overs. She lifted herself on her ell
ow, caressed them and exclaimed,