The central record. (Lancaster, Ky.) 18??-current, 1902-04-03

L she held, on the occasion of which |
speak, the undivided attention of some
twenty young gentlemen and even of a
couple of older gentlemen of scientific aims.
She was not so very important young per
son, either, being a charity patient at
famous hospital where little ones of deformed
limbs are treated. Yet, perhaps, she was
not 50 very poor little girl, because there
were two red ribbons tying up her brown
hair, and quite wide frl of lace about the
neck of her plaid dress.
Her mother carried her into the lecture
room and placed her upon high table, and
then left her to dangle her little bare legs
until the lecturer should be ready to use her
as an Illustration. The young person gazed
thoughtfully about the room, at the odd in
strumentS behind her and the students in
front. Neither proved of sufficient interest
to retain her gaze and she presently devoted
her attention to her mother, the nurses and
few other pitful little ones in an adjoining
room, who were playing unconcernedIy amid
surroundings which might have Saddened
them, had they been older. The lecture was
wildly interesting and the students looked
at the little maid as they had, perhaps,
looked ut numerous other little maids with
red bows and big brown eyes, as merely
convenient deformitvWhO made the lecturers
words easier to understand. They were not
particularly pleasant looking lot of young
men. Their clothes fitted very badly, and
was obvious that their paths had been
rural and their brnging-up uncaretul. Our
little girl, although she certainly could not
have told why, was not approving OF them.
She looked them over, as an older person
looks at a monOtonouS landscape, with an
eye open for possible beauty.
You see, gentlemen" the lecturer went
on, the exactly opposite set of conditions
occur in these two cases. In the boys there
is MAbfs Qayn, that is, the foot curves in
ward; in the girl, 1.-THE child looked gravely
down upon him as he took her little leg
gently in his hand and moved it upWariS,-
there is taltifs ralgnS, the foot curves cut
ward" The class bent forward. " In this,
however, an abnormal development Of"
1t was a highly important Illustration. The
medical journals had noted the case at
length. Only one man in the room was
looking elsewhere than at the plteouSly
twisted limb in the doctors hand. There
was look about the child'S little mouth
which reminded him of some one whom he
should see within a couple of hours. They
would dine together. This was her birth
day. He would give her the honhonS he
had chosen with such care ana which he had
now in his pocket. He could see her delight
over the unexpected revelations in the box.
1t certainly would be the first time she had
been presented with her own initials on each
sweet. Then the tongS with tiny golf
drivers for claws. and the tlllgree paper per-
tumed with Wooi-VioIet, ana the crSs-croSs-
ing of violet baby-ribbon over the mauve
and white candies. The bonbonntre was of
silver with pretty lid. 1t was a love of a
box and he felt Justly proud of it. He was
in hurry to see her eyes when she opened
1t. The lecture was good, of course, but he
should be glad when it was over.
A bored sigh from the little maid echoed
his wish. She was looking duly about the
room again and, presently, her big brown