The Minneapolis journal., 1901-09-13
Copyright, 1891, by A. S. Richardson.

Copyright, 1901, by A. S. Richardson.
1t was the big doctor VINO found her. mis-
shapen and suffering, in her fathers gloomy
preferred the shop to the tiny backroom, be-
cause the customers spoke kindly to her and
made her forget the ache in her back. When
they gave her candy enough to start make
oeheye shop on the narrow window ledge
she sold 1t for pins to the children in the
ulngy court, just because she loved to watch
these straight-limbed, bright-eyed children
caper about as she knew she never could
When the big doctor brought her to the
hospital, he said to Nurse Powell:
IL leave jimmy under your special care
MISS Powell. l am greatly interested in. her
case. The expense is being met by one per-
Ie2tly able to do it, and she is to want for
nothing
And thus were the gates of an earthly
paradise opened to jimmy of Borden's court
FIRST there was the cunning little room. all
her own, with pictures ON the wall and the
wh1test OF iron beds with shiny knobs on
each corner and bright RED wrapper, woody
and soft, with knit slippers to match. Then
came the pretty young ladies of the flower
mission with their nodding blossoms and oc-
casional glasses of quivering Jelly. Some
times the big Doctors nieces brought their
NSAAS, aL0 Sp0uI al uOur at jimmy e bedside
and happy jimmy was permitted to hold as
long as she liked the marvellous Florette who
could walk and talk like&a real baby and
whose dresses really and truly came from
Paris.
But in Jinny's mind all these things faded
into insignificance when compared with the
big doctor and Nurse Powell. These two
formed joint divinity before which Jimmy
burned the sweet incense Of childish devo-
ny n
sician's generous instructions to the letter
at first from sense of duty, and later be-
cause she learned to love the patient little
sufferer.
And the big doctor? Even Nurse Powell,
who knew his deep interest in his work.
wondered at the attention he lavished on this
denizen of the slums. Often when his rounds
In the hospital were over, and he had time
to spare, he would come back to Jinny's
room for chat. And Jimmy, her great black
eyes set in face OF ivory whiteness, would
smile happily from one to the other, the big
doctor who ordered medicine that eased the
pain in her back and the nurse whose gentle
hand could sooth away wrinkles in her fore
head when the pain was at it's worst
Sometimes when they sat thus, Jimmy was
vaguely conscious that the big doctor was
| talking to her, but looking at Nurse Powell.
But jimmy did not know how years before
school, had been house physician in the city
hospital, he had met sweet-faced "probe, -
doing her first night duty in his ward The
head nurse had looked scornfully at the sIen-
der figure and the trembling hands. but
the young house physician had said: 'Give
her time. She'll get Ler bearings after a
bit"
Nurse Powell had been grateful for his
cheerful encouragement and the many kind
nesses which lightened her burden during
! that first awful year in the big wards but
| when he asked for something more than
gratitude, she could not give it. Now, head
of the unrses staff at a sanatorum, she
| sometimes grew a-weary and wished she had
learned to love the big doctor whose brown
| eyes seemed still to follow her at her duties
| Then her heart would say NO. no! His
work would always come first and I would
| be second. Besides 1 wonder If he has a
| heart! When 1 see him undertaking those
| horrible operations without the quiver of an
| eye-lash, think he has no feeling"
! And so this nurse who could unfinchingIy
assist at the same operations waited. in
| consistently, for love to come into her life
love that would be all tenderness and
| thoughtfulness, thing apart from the scenes
Of suffering in which she moved.
1t was ono afternoon when jimmy had been
/ almost a year at the hospital. In the morn
| ing, the big doctor had said: 1--WE changed
the medicine again, Miss Powell. I don't like
| that rise IN temperature. If you note tend
ency toward coma during the afternoon, send
for me at once