The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-01-01

skin on her way to school one morning.
never saw such looking foot. thought
II certainly would have TO be amputated.
She had the best surgical skill in the city
and didn't improve one bit. She bad an
old aunt visiting her and she told her to
keep it in poultice of bread and vinegar.
She did 10 and in q week was back IN the
school room-1ust bread and vinegar
The music teacher had heard that there
was nothing better than strong salt and
water. Everybody knows how strength
enlng salt and water Is.
Then they all went away. and toward day
light the colonel fell into a troubled doxe
he dreamed that his foot had turned to
metal and was white-hot. Legions of imps
surrounded him, each Offering him remedy
that promised 30 increase the heat some
hundreds Of degrees. His slumber was not
refreshing; neither was the dainty and ap-
petizing breakfast that was brought 10 his
bedside-nor the later verdict OF the doctor
when be came again at Q O'Clock.
Lovely morning out, !" he said. "a con-
stttutional such a morning as this adds ten
years to a mans life. Ideal winter dayi
Let's see the foot"
Then all the bandages were peeled off,
There was no lessening in size or toning
down in tint. "Um-well, the second day
Is always worse the first. Tomorrow will
try your patience still more, but after that
you'll pull along. Now, you must not
move it. You must keep 1t perfectly still.
Every twist You give It increases the in
Illumination. Then you must put 10 into
scaldlng water twice day and I'll tell you
why" de did, and went away leaving g
vivid anatomical chart In the patients
mind. Later in the morning the surgeon
Tor the accident insurance company called.
THE INSURANCE MAN.
Eyes, that's bad hurt" he acknowl-
edged. He corroDorated the other doctors
statement. "You may get over it in few
days. and then again you may not walk for
a year. But you must keep trying to uAe IL.
Put it 70 the floor and move IL back and
forth. That will keep it from getting stiff 4"
And the colonel smiled grimly. Move
that stiffened joint back and forth A table
leg had about as much elasticity.
But his cup OF misery was not yet full
| One Of his chums at the Calumet Club had
heard of his misfortune aud dropped In to
| condole with him,
TOO bad, Charley. he remarked, sympa-
thetically. 'Ive been through II all. /
didn't use my foot for fourteen months. In
fact, never have COTTON over it. Ny ankles
| regular barometer-swells with every
| change OF the weather and every little twist
give it, Too bad you couldn't be at the
| True Blue banquet last night. think ID
was really the most elegant affair we have
ever had. Brown was there and he told some
awfully clever stories. You how entertain
ing he always Is. Never saw him In quite
the vein be was in last night And Robin
son sang song-swfuIly jolly. His voice
was superb.
''Of course. you'll not try TO go to the
Assembly ball Tonight, ! suppose II will
to miss 1t, and l don't suppose
you will be able to 90 to any of them this
| season. A man can't dance much after he's
had such hurt as that"
The colonel dryly remarked, with a sur
vey of the cushion on which the reoreant
ankle was reposing, that he did not think he
| would try-Rnd, fortunately, had no great
desire to experiment., Then the genial
olubman departed, after telling him not DO
be discouraged, that 10 might have been a
| great deal worse, and that the time would
pass somehow. and that he certainly would
be out by spring at the latest--in time for
the Derby, anyhow. .l.
The colonel began to cast up his accounts
l. 10 might be well in week, or be
might not walk for q year.
2. Spray it with cold water.
8. Put It twice a day Ia soalding water.
4. Bandage IL.
s. Don't bandage, because that impeds'
the circulation. ...a- t.
9. Plaster cast. arU
2. Shoe with steel appliance.
8. Keep perfectly quiet and rest 10 IN on'
position.
9. Move 10 about. stand on IL, try TO walk
and thus keep the joint flexible.
10. Keep IL cool.
IL. Wrap 1t up and keep 1t warm,
The suggestions in the way OF remedies
footed up az follows:
Hot alcohol.
Gold water,
Hot water.
Vinegar and bread poul.ice
Chloroform IMMINENT.
Lakes extract
Vinegar and salt.
Volatile liniment
Hops and vinegar.
Mustard plaster.
Common salt water hot.
Common salt water, cold.
Then outraged nature asserted herself
The colonel raised himself on one elbow an {
yelled for the housemaid. She came witt
reluctance, evidently thinking he had bone
daft. He sternly pointed to his feet and
then Recommended: "Go get the doctor an(
tell him TO amputate this thing"
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