The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1903-10-28

uuiTersfg jelly Sometimes the big doc
tors nieees brought their dolls and
spent an hoGr at Jinny's bedside, and
I happy jimmy Was. permitted to hold as
4 long as she liked the marvellous Flor
cite. who could walk and talk Ike
real BABY and whose dresses really and
fruIF carne from Paris.
But In Jlnny,s mind all hese things
faded inte mssgnificance when COM.
spared with the big doctor and Nurse.
Powell These two formed a joint di-.
ginity before which jimmy burned the
sweet incense OF childish devotion.
Nurse Powell had obeyed the physi-
clans generous instructions to the let
ster-at drst from a sense of duty and
4 later because she learned to love the
patient little sufferer.
And the big doctors Even Nurse Pow
Ell, who knew his deep interest in his
work, wondered at the attention he Law
ished on this denfzen Of the slums. Of
fen when his rounds in the hospital
were over and ne had time to spare he
would come back to Jinny's room for q
chat, and jimmy, her great black eyes
set IN d face Of ivory Whiteness, would
emile 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 smooth
away wrinkles in her forehead when
the pair was at its worst.
Sometimes when they sat thus jimmy
was vaguely conscious that the big doc
tpr was talking to her, but looking at
Nurse Powell. But jimmy did not know
how, years before, when the big doctor,
fresh from the medical school, had been
house physician in the city hospital he
had met a sweet faced probe" doing
her nrss night dur in his ward The
head nurse had looked scornfuily at the
slender figure and the trembling hands,
but the young house physician had
said: Give her time. She'll get her
bearings after a bit"
Nurse Powell had been grateful for
+ his cheerful encouragement and the
many kindnesses which Hghtened her
s burden during that first awful year in
the big wards, but when ne asked for
something more than gratitude she
could not give it Now head Of the
nurses staff at sanitarium, she some
times grew a-weary and wished she
had learned to love the big doctor whose
brown eyes seemed still to follow her at
Z her duties. Then her heart would say:
no, no! Els work would always come
first, and would be second. Besides,
q wonder IL he has 4 heart. When ]
see him undertaking those horrible cp-
erations without the culver of an eye
lash, think he has no feeling"
And so this nurse who could unfinch-
ingiy assist at the same operations
waited inconsistently for love to come
into her life, love that would be all
tenderness and thoughfulness, thing
apart from the scenes of suffering in
which she moved
1t was one afternoon when jimmy had
: been almost year at the hospital. In
the morning the big doctor had said:
I've changed the medicine again. Miss
Powell. don't like that rise in temper
atwe If you note tendency toward
cnma during the afternoon, send for me
at once" :.
But Nurse Powell did not have to
send fos him. He came of his own ac-
1brd, Just as the afternoon drew to a
elese jimmy had been sleeping rest
sessly, ard when she opened her eyes
with an expression of WEAKNESS that
Z had not been there since she came to
The hospital the big doctor and Nurse
: Powell were sitting on either side Of
her little bed. At the foot lay gayly
illustrated copy Of Mother Goose's
rhymes, which Nurse Powell had been
reading'aloud before kindly sleep came
TO the small sufferer. Now jimmy
pointed to it with wan smile.
sI've had the funniest dream! l
went to Mother Goose's land, way, way
OF, an she was such funny ole wom-
an. an she was right glad to see me!
An she says, Little girl, would you
.ike to stay with me awhile? An
says, Pm obliged to you, ma'am, but
can't stay long AM then she brings
out the purtiest dress, purifier than my
red wrapper, an she says, Little girl
would you like to wear that? An
when ]. see the little stick all tied with
ribbons knew it were little Bopeep's
dress, an I put it on an chased them
sheep all roun' the field, an it never
hurt my back bit. An ! tried on lots
nv clothes, Little Miss Mufett's ruf1ed
,,onnet. an Mary, Mary Quite Con.
frarvs big hat. an the Queen OF
Heartt.s bug train, an Mother Goose
SO savs Ain't you havin good time