The Wichita daily eagle., 1895-08-28

hen grossly insulted the violinist. when
quick as thought pruning knife flashed
forth, and with shrill cry the offender
fell to earth with his whole system of
doing business exposed to the prying
eyes Of the world.
The pruning knife not only slashed
open the whole abdominal cavity, but
laid the stomach itself open, while at
the same time the curve or hook at the
end of the blade drew the stomach out on
the grass in such way as to make the
gents supper menu no longer secret.
Naturally the wound was regarded as
fatal No one had ever heard at that
time of repairing u fractured rennet, and,
far from medical assistance, weeping
friends gathered about the young man s
PROSTATE form, for every one realized
that even this phenomenal climate,
which for years has euchred the ceme-
tery out of its dividends, could not save
him.
1t was at this supreme moment that
the woman of the house came forth and
honored her sex (this is matter of his
tory. and the facts and photographs are
in the hands of DR. Hilliard, Asheville,
N. c..
Carefully removing the contents and
preface of the stomach, consisting of
chestnuts and Rhode Island greetings,
she cleaned the cut, and then taking
the catgut "E'' string Of the violin she
softened it, and with needle sewed up
the stomach, returned it to the vast
watch pocket and then sewed that up
carefully also
Of course she did not embroider a
bunch of goldenrod over the wound,
but yet the job was on the hole tidy
one. A physician from Asheville came
the next day. looked at the patient, took
his temperature and smoking tobacco,
said. "pooht" and went away.
But the man stubbornly lived on and
Oh, and today surgeon thinks no more
of pryinS into a man S true inwardness
than he would Of pulling a tooth.
This was the pioneer operation for
grating tie catgut on the human being.
What the result may be in future genera
tions if we continue TO do this of course
even science cannot foretell The scien
tist cannot even tell us what ones fe-
lines may be under such circumstances
(Scotch plaid joke).
They can only go on crocheting peo-
pie together here, and assisted by the
most glorious maximum temperature
perhaps that ever laid out of doors death
is deprived of his stinger and 1.-The lun-
ger" possesses the land.
But should we not learn valuable
lesson from this? think SO!
Should We not recognize the fact that
q woman walked first into this untrod
den field Of science? OF, touIse Moud
not adyise wcsnam to ,sise en- xiasse md
march into abdominal surgery or go
about disabling whole orchestras for the
purpose Of sewing up and bachstitchirg
or buttonholing or herring boning the
yawning chasms of humanity, but let
them have an equal pull at the great in
tellectual food supply. so that useful
knowledge may not be solely IN the
hands or heads of one sex.
Let us remember that the world never
suffered so cruelty as at the time when
the clergy turned the key ON education.
Let no class, nation, denomination or
sex undertake 10 say who shall control
the knowledge supply. Those who at
first undertook ii are year by year sing
ing lower and lower.
4 friend and fellow student who was
expelled from Harvard at the same time
that was and for the same cauSe--vlz.
catching crab in the middle of race
and who has for years held out stoutly
against co education, wrote me last week
a long, heated letter, III which he spelled
diseases ''dezzes.
He prints paper which l subscribe
Tor, together with another man, on ac-
count CT its style. No one who aims to
be literary should be without it
He wrote up picnic in July and re-
ferred TO the gorgeous supply of victuals
brought by the picnickers ''for the pur-
pose of sustaining hunger.
Such man is either q humorist or
plumb fool A committee ought 70 so
and examine him. Receiving transpor-
tazioa last month for an excursion. he
ladies ont the following neat encomium
IL his paper:
''This was well enjoyed by the many