Omaha daily bee., 1902-07-13

he had killed.
The physician in attendance thought him
delirious. But when they Investigated the
fellows past record more than one was in
clined to set aside the theory OF delirium.
Franks of Cupid.
While the average female trained nurse
looks upon her profession with a most
businesslike eye, cupid sometimes enters
into her computations. A pretty girl often
finds the hospital ward but a vestibule to
matrimony. Some FIVE years ago a de-
cidedly pretty young woman took q course
of training at a private sanitarium, and In
due time developed into a fairly efficient
but not particularly gifted nurse. To this
hospital was brought the son of a wealthy
family to be operated upon for appendicitis.
The operation was pronounced successful,
and his convalescence was auspiciously in
augurated. In a few days he began to
view with favor the pretty young woman
who ministered to his needs. In ten days
his convalescence and his Irritation vera
both progressing finely, when. without any
warning, unfavorable symptoms set in and
he died within a few hours.
His pretty nurse was completely de-
moralized and had to be sent on a vaca-
ton. Her agitation was attributed to at
lection for the young man, for the entire
stan had marked the progress Of the love
affair. But on her return she developed
horror OF the institution and handed in
her resignation. Before finally leaving.
she asked for an interview with its head.
and confessed the cause Of her patients
death. He had begged so pitifully for re-
lief from the liquid diet enforced by the
| physicians that her common sense had
yielded to her desire to please him and
she had surreptitiously given him . piece
OF strawberry shortcake.
In the interests OF the hospital. the mat
ter naturally was never made public ever
among the nurses. Nothing more was heard
Of the girl until the Spanish war broke
out. when she was among the FIRST to ofieI
her services. Later came word that
through her very devotion to her worl
she had contracted typhoid-malaria and
died. Today, at her old hospital post, the
new nurses whisper Of the young girl with
the red cross/on her arm who comes bach
in the stiffness OF the night to bend owe
a certain cot, whether It be empty or oc'
cupIed, as If begging forgiveness Of It'll
occupant.
Haunted Ambulance.
Brooklyn can boast Of q unique adjunct 3
| It's nO6plldl eeTN4Ce-b nhuulcu amDulhuCe
About a year ago the ambulance surgeoI
was called upon to attend q man found nea
one Of the entrances to Prospect parl
With cheerful alacrity he pronounced tn
man in a state Of alcoholic coma, an
throwing him playfully into the ambulane
trotted of to the hospital with III o
reaching their destination he discovere
that the patient had inconsiderately die
~enroute, and the autopsy revealed q frae
tured skull.
The ambulance surgeon has long sine
completed his hospital service and Ia build
ing up a private practice. To q few init
mate friends he once divulged the fact tha
to the end Of his noyitiate he was not ser
out to answer a call after 10 p. m. that n
man, whose injuries he had misunderstoo
and neglected. did not ride by his side. An
the chief. refusing to recognise any such 81
perstition. had steadfastly declined to =.
lisve him from duty TIL his term expired.