Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1902-12-15
JIMMY:
By LESLIE JAMES
CopWight, 1901, by A. s. Richardson

1t was the big doctor who found her,
misshapen and suffering, in her ia
Tiers gloomy shop. In spite of its
noise and dust, jimmy preferred the
shop to the tiny back room, because
the customers spoke kindly to her and
made her forget the ache in her back.
When they gave her candy enough to
start a make believe shop on the mar
row window ledge, she sold it for pins
to the children in the dingy court, just
because she loved to watch these
straight lmbed, 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:
TN leave jimmy under your special
care, Miss Powell. l am greatly inter
ested in her case. The expense is be-
ing met by one perfectly able to do it,
and she is to want for nothing"
And thus were the gates of an earth
ly paradise opened to jimmy of Borden's
court. First there was the cunning lit
tie room, all her own, with pictures on
the wall, and the whltest of iron beds
with shiny knobs on each corner, and
a bright red wrapper, woolly and soft,
with knit slippers to match. Then
came the pretty young ladies of the
Flower mission with their nodding
blossoms and occasional glasses Of
quivering jelly. Sometimes the big doc
tors nieces brought their dolls and
spent an hour at Jinny's bedside, and
happy jimmy was permitted to hold as
long as she liked the marvellous Flor
ette, 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 COM
pared with the big doctor and Nurse
Powell. These two formed joint di-
vinity before which jimmy burned the
sweet incense of childish devotion.
Nurse Powell had obeyed the physi-
clans generous instructions to the let
ter-at first from a sense Of duty and
later because she learned to love the
patient little sufferer.
And the big doctor? Even Nurse Pow
ell, who knew his deep interest in his
work, wondered at the attention he law
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Ten "heh MS ROUNDS III the hospltal
were over and he had time to spare he
would come back to Jinny's room for a
chat and jimmy, her great black eyes
set in a face of ivory whteness, would
silile h'pPil9 iioili oiie " the other' .he
pis uoctor VINO oruereu iieulcihe tnat
easeu the pam III her DUCK anu tne
hurst "hose sen'ie haliu couiu slhooth
away "riilNles IN her ioreheau "heh
the pam was at lts worst
ooiiie'iiieS wien they sat tnus ollihy
was 'asueIS Conscious 'lla' ,ne pls uoc-
tor was talkElg TO ner' Dut looking ut
NURSE ro"eii. but jimmy uiu hot kho"
now, years peIore' "heh lhe Dig doctor,
iiesn iroiii 'ie ile'iicai schooi' hau Deen
,iou'e pi9 elcl"ii III lhe CITY hospltai he
i'au met sweet laceu prope uoIns
ner iirst iiisht uuty III Ills waru' Inc
ie'u hul sc iiu looheu ecoi uii9 Ut 'ne
siehuer nSure ana the trembling hands,
ou' 'ho 9ouhS houSe Pnsslclah hau
s'u "iNe nei tiiiie' one II get her
ai'er pit'
NURSE oMeh nau peeh srateIul lor
lis cheerlul ehcourasenieht anu the
,ii'',y Ai,i.ii'es "nicn iisnleheu her
nuiuen uurlnS thal hrst a"lui year Ill
the ols "arus' Out when ne ASKED Ior
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