Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1889-04-19

dinted with dimples, and a round little
head completely covered with short,
golden brown curls.
Her real name was Eliza, but her
brothers and sisters, of whom she had
a gOodly supply, called her by the
pretty Pet name of ella.
One bright sunny afternoon LiIa's
eldest sister, Nan, sat in the large, old
| fashioned kitchen, picking over dried
beans for baking.
Nan had on big blue-checked apron,
and held a bright tin pan in her lap,
into which she threw all Of of the good
beans.
Little Lila had been playing for over
an hour, call by her lone self, as she
expressed it, and was getting dread
fully tired. when all OF a sudden she
heard the beans rafting into the big
tin can. This caused the dimples to
dance into view and the blue eyes to
sparkle, as Lila quickly threw down
her toys and soon stood by her sisters
side.
"Don't touch the beans, Lila, said
Nan.
ME wants some to pay wiz, said
Lila, eoaxingIy.
mo, not one, said Nan, rather i'm
patiently, for she felt anxious to get
through, and didn't want to be both
cred.
Then, quick as a flash, Lila's little
fat hand buried Itself in the midst of
the pity white fngs, as she called
them, and before her sister realized
what she was doing, she ran across the
room, one chubby hand shut tight and
filed with beans.
Nan put the pan down and ran after
her, and feeling sure she would catch
her and take the beans away, Lila in
stantly put them into her mouth.
"You naughty child" said Nan,
catching hold of Lila and trying to
make her spit the beans out of her
mouth.
But Lila struggled to get away,
commenced to cry, then to cough, and
terrible to relate, she sucked one of
the beans right down her throat into
the windpipe.
But Nan didn't know this. When
Lila commenced to cough two or three
beans few out Of her mouth, and Nan
thought it was all Lila had.
As for poor little Lila, she was too
young to understand that she had
sucked one Of the beans into her wind
pipe, only her throat hurt her dread
fully, and so she kept on crying until
her mother came into the room.
Nan began to feel a little frightened,
so she told her mother truthfully Just
what had happened,
Little Lila grew worse so rapidly
that the family doctor was sent for,
and when he came and heard what had
occurred he looked very grave, and
said at once that nothing but an OBJ
Grafton would save the chi1d's life, and
what was to be done must be done
quickly, for the bean was swelling rap
idly and would soon cause her death.
! He also thought 1t best to send for
two other doctors.
Poor little LiIai This terrible acct
dent happened many years ago, long
/ before the discovery of chlOrofOrm, so
It was much more difficult and danger
/ GUS to perform the operation; still, it
was the only chance Of saving her life,
! and must be done.
/ know it VIII make you feel badly,
i dear little readers, and i can imagine
/ your eyes blue. black, aud brown
/ filled full Of tears, when L tell you that
/ they laid little three-year-Old Lila on
/ the table, and while the two assistant
/ physicians held her hands and feet
! DR., Johnson performed the terrible
/ operation of cutting open her throat,
4 then cutting the windpipe and taking
out the swollen bean that so nearly
! caused her death.
Dear little Lila screamed and stTug-
/ gIed, then tainted and soon it was al
i over. Then the doctors waited one
holding his watch, while Dr.. John
son held his ear down to hear If she
breathed again, while little Lila lay as
+ if dead.
la the other room her poor dis