Asheville daily citizen., 1894-11-24
Edgar ". NyI and THE NURSES
TcoSrINuEp FROM FIRST rAGR.l

Pefferian whiskers of q rich cherry color
and with yarn ravelings in them, step
ned up and asked in q little Punch and
Judy voice:
"What will you charge me to wash
and do up child's dress!"
We'll" was the reply, 81 couldn't
do it short of 35 cents and make any
thing ont Of it..
"But that's too much, amt it?' ask
ed the other, with a cough.
"Well, possibly it is" said Colonel
West, "but can't seem to do it for less
and make anything out of it. You see,
Just doing one that way l don't really
compete with the laundry people here
who are in the business and handling
them by the hundred. Ialways did hate
to stop my business to do up child's
dress"
MONDAY, 4 T. .M-Tomperature two
tifths of 1 degree above normal. Pulse
regular, but sluggish. Have got all my
business arranged, even to terms for
shipment home. Ate scraped raw beef
for breakfast, using rear quarter of Col
orado steer, with pepper and salt on
same. Acute gastritis seems to be one
of the features Of disease. l have to eat
simple things like raw bullocks and kog
oysters.
Another chemical and microscopic
analysis was made yesterday of sputum,
showing traces of nicotine and other
poisons Adieu, kind friends, I'm going
home. A sweet young novice, who is
training for nurse, took my pulse this
a. IN. Took quite awhile to find it, but
did not murmur or ropine am try
ing to learn to love everybody, for to
that bourne to which my chemist says
that l am going should carry with
me no cnmities, no bitternesses. Ia, ia,
vain world, begone-
All, here comes the other rear breadth
of the bullock! Pass mo the salt, please,
and sec that my grave is kept occasion.
ally sQuirtcd on during the dry weather.
have left small fund for that pur'
/ pose.
The life here at tho hospital is de-
lightful, and while | am fading away it
is "a joy to have loving hands bathing
my little hot FOOTE'S and manicuring my
knobby brow.
The Stockyards' FL wer mission paid
q visit this q. IN. and left a big wet
caulihowcr on each breast.
Olo large portorhouse lady with q
blue badge on her flank laid a big egg
plant on my pillow, and when ! sung out
rh"erilv. "Cut. cut. cudat cut!' she
rs bona tido and caused American socur
tiles to 90 down two points in ono day.
like it here very much.
ATURpAy.-Another little cripple
boy named Charlie comes afternoons to
play with nc. We have a set of build
ing blocks and can make most every.
thing.
Yesterday the Chicago Ladies' Socie.
ty For the Prevention of Good came to
see us and gave me kiss and red ap-
pie
The lady who kissed me was the vice
president of the society and hurt me
when she strained me against her breast
pin. | hate woman who cannot con.
troll herself that way.
l went and took dose of medicine
to take the taste ont Of my mouth.
Tomorrow we have an operation here
in my ward. A large lady from La Salb
will be removed from Hungarian tn.
NOR
The medical students will bo here
and sec the operation. The best student
for 1894 who has been neither absent
nor tardy will get tho tumor,
| have to diet very closely, or / may
gradually have diabetic tendency.
get slice Of toast every day and ther-
mometer.
, The rules are very strict. Patients are
requested not to die in the house.
Some of the nursegirls are perfectly
, lovely. They ARE very pretty and kind
, hearted. like to have one of them hold
me up in my little cot while am drink.
ing my koumiss at night
SUNDAY, 8 2. M-An analysis to-
c day shows moro casts, fbrin, gelatin
| and some zinc and copper. The chem
: ist also discovers that in 1858 | fell
, from an apple tree and tore my panties
in two places. He also says that l will
, be unhappy with my third wife She
n will be unhappy also.
: Last evening we had concert and
e operation at the hospital. Yesterday
e afternoon the North Side Ladies' Socie.
= ty For the Prevention of Good paid us a
visit. crawled under tho covers and
remained in rigid attitude, giving
;, them sort of stiff, as partially idiotic
;. friend of mine said afterward.
, The general secretary spoke rs she
B; passed by something about "kissine
b him for his mother" but as she started
n to raise the sheet from my face l bi
t her little in sportivo mood, and she
y gave shrill and echoing scream. I de
:, not mind being an invalid, but charita
BILE societies must not press me to theil
~ bosoms. 1t hurts.
l heard simile the other day thai
| was not half bad, as Matthew Arnold
II used to say to me. 1t was mado by {
z, temperance lecturer, too, which makes
o one wonder where he got it, for maj
who is strictly temperate has to skir
= mish pretty hard for anything Of tina
!, kind. John b. Cough never acquired ,
!. good story after his reformation, it il
r said, but had to use over and over tn,
/ witty things he got while he was
It naughty man.
e This temperance man was lecturinl
d in Chicago church and paying his re
spects ever and anon to the saloon keeper
II but, dear friends" said he, II d
not hate the saloon keeper personally
!, He is man and q brother. 1t Is not tn
A. personality Of the saloon keeper that
demur to. l feel opposed to him just u
! | do to the bedbug-because ] don't lik
o the way he gets his living"
Last week ]. J. West of this cit
stepped into large and prosperou
y laundry to talk business or politics wit
y the proprietor and all hands. While h
was standing around the counter wit
tho air of one who owns what is i