The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-01-01
STORY OF AN ANKLE.
COL. BRNDE r SLIPPED AND GOT A
BAD 6PRAIN.

bA0 6FSA1H.
Then He Resenoled Job, Inasmuch as
Many Comforters Came to Him.
After Bearing All the Advice Given
he Concludes TO Have an Amputa-
ton.
From the Chicago Inter Ocean.
Col Bender set out on Sunday even
ing to pay a call. BE wore his best clothes,
his box overcoat that bagged in the back,
and had big chrysanthemum in bis button
hole. He stood on the corner Of Thirty first
strest and Indiana avenue. At that particu-
lar point there is curb-stone some two feet
in depth. It has escaped the wary eye Of
the city engineer and the street commission
ers, and will until their attention is reused
by big expensive suit for damages. 1t 10 q
common occurrence for the unwRry to top
pie over, fall, lie like the dead and be picked
up, carried into neighboring drug store,
and there be revived and carted away IN
such vehicles as may be called up through
the telephone. Sometimes IL is q limp and
sobbinR woman, and again it Ia bearded
| and swearing man. 1t, is always somebody,
| and the week that passes without two or
| three such casualties is dull indeed,
The gallant colonel, proud Of his new
overcoat and his chrysanthemum, did not
know this. Otherwise he would have been
on his guard. The car came rattling along
and he stepped down jauntily 20 take It. II
was not matter OF three or four inches.
but of twsnty-four. He felt as II bolt OF
lightning had shriveled every nerve ia his
| body. Then everything turned black and
he was relieved OF all further trouble until
half an hour later. When he recovered CON-
seriousness be was stretched on two chairs
tn the drug store above mentioned. Some
body had taken off his shoe, and somebody
else was pouring whisky down his throat
and ne a prohibitionisti Then q carriage
came and took him home. The doctor came
and looked at the injury, pinohed 1t, twisted
| IL, and then said: "Can't tell whether it's
broken or not; the swelling will have to go
down. and that will take several days.
You must stay In bed and keep perfectly
quiet. and above all, don't worry"
THE DOCTORS ORDERS.
"Stay In bed"-if there is any worse tort
ure TO an able-bodisd citizen whose only
physical disability is q sprained ankle 1t Is
yet to be named. Verify, our astute mothers
knew what they were about when they hit
upon it as punishment for unrnly child
hood. The repugnance the colonel mad had
for it Ia his tender years had grown with
his growth and strengthened with his
strength.
And, "Don't worry" The next day there
He wanted to be on hand-as well as on
foot to prevent O combination he knew
was being arranged, and proxies were pro
bibIted. Then there was a real estate deal
| to clinch, and a man he must see who
would leave town on the afternoon train
for San Francisco.
The doctor took out his note book and
a r1raaNr{Nkian In haA illaOthla nhir-
| ography peculiar to the profession.
II don't thtnk much OF linimsnts," he
said when be finished, but IL 10 gets to
hurting you too much this will act as an
anodyne. Nothing but time will cure 1T"
''Timel How muohr growled the pa
tient, looking ruefully at his foot, which
by this time was as large as two and striped
with ominous purple.
20, as to that, you can never tell about
hurt like this. That's the bad thing about
'em. 1t would have been q great deal bet
ter IL you had broken the bone--if 10 isn't
broken-then we would have known some
thing definite. You may be all right in a
few days. or you may not walk for year.
But don't you worry. Good nightn
And the doctor let himself out, with UNI
ruffied composure, singing softly as he
went. He was young.
III don't think the IMMINENT will help you
much :" said the landlady-after the doctor
was entirely out OF hearing. ~ always
use Lakes extract" she said, with an air Of
experience, as if she were In the habit of
falling down and spraining her ankle every
little while, when other meaus OF diver
sions failed. "Of course, the doctor knows
what he's about, but prefer Lakes extract.
It's perfectly wonderful what 10 will do.
Mr.. Jones let his desk down on his toe and
nearly killed himself. he used the extract,
and In three days be walked as well as ever
But suppose you'd better follow the doc
tors advice. You must use your own judg-
ment."
THEN CAME THE OTHERS.
Then the lady boarders dropped In 10 con-
dole. "a sprain is the worst possible
thing" said the stenographer. II fell over
while ! was putting ON my overshoe and
didn't walk a step for three years ! wore
q plaster cast for six months, and /
didn't get q bit better until did"
"a poultice Of bread and vinegar 10 aw-
fully healing, said another. you know
Miss Tenpenny, who teaches over on tbe
West Sidel Well she, slipped on q banana