The daily silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1903-1907, 1904-04-13
POINTS ON
HOSPITALS
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livery uOrlluS 4 tonle III W
on a train and every morning l pass
a box In the station on which Is O
notice. Drop your papers for patients
In the hospitals" | passed this box
often without paying any attention to
It, bur one day | was obliged to go to
a hospital myself to undergo an opera
ton. ard after being discharged the
nrst time I passed the box | put III
my paper. l had written on the mar
gin:
Good morning, patient. | trust you are
feeii,ig much improved this morning and
that the time will soon come when you
will be discharged, as l was a few days
ago. God keep you.
I gave my own name and address,
but did not think it likely would ever
hear from the message since it was ad.
dressed to no one in particular. Sill
there Is sufficient romance In every
mans nature to fancy that some fail
girl. etc.
1 did receive a reply. and my first act
was to glance at the signature. con-
fess l was disappointed when saw
a mans name. The note read:
You nave no idea what a pleasure your
CHEEKY note gave. On opening the paper
my eye fell at once on your note on the
nrst page. / am sure that a man with as
much kindliness as you have displayed
In this matter must be a good fellow to
know, and / would Ike to know you.
FREDERICK HUDSON.
I studied this letter carefully to ind
sone trace of a woman in 1t. but there
was none. No woman would have
used the expression. "a good fellow to
know" besides there were no feminine
peculiarities about it. No, my suspicion
that a woman had written 1t and put
q mans name TO 1t was not borne out
by any sign. | wrote a simple reply
that when Mr.. Hudson left the bospi-
tai | would like to see him at my Office,
as / had resolved to take an interest
In hospitals and would be pleased to
talk over with him the best method
Of procedure.
To this l received a reply that the
writer had Tery little hope of being dis
charged, having been in hospital five
years. He said. however. that this
long continued residence would enable
him to give me many points connected
with these homes for the sick, and
some time when he felt like receiving
a visitor he would let rae know and !
could use my own pleasure In calling.
| replied that | would be happy to
call and thought no more about the
matter for some months. when I re-
ceived another note from Mr.. Hudson.
as follows:
am recovering from a case of diph-
iberia caught from a patient at this hos
pitai. AS soon as | am perfectly restored
/ will keep my promise to send for you
and give you the points With reference
to the management of hospitals.
l replied t o this note that there must
certainly be room for improvement in
the institution where lie vas since a
patient had been exposed to a con-
tagious disease. | felt a good deal OF
sympathy for him in this additional
misfortune. which l expressed as well
as | knew how. though l fancied the
effort was rather lame. However. In
this case ! must have succeeded pretty
well. for my note brought the follow
Ing reply:
You must be a brick. Not one man In
q hCLdred would take the trouble to ex-
pr,,H sympathy for a stranger as you
have done. l am feeling all right now.
though a little shaky on my pins. C~me
round here tomorrow evening at s o'clock
and III put you In a way to do good
work In the hospital line.
If I had any lingering doubt that my
correspondent was a Ia this note
dispelled 1t. was In no hurry for
his points ON hospitals. but concluded
to keep my appointment. dropping In
to see him on my way to an engage
ment half an hour later. I was ush-
cred into n private parlor at the far
end Of which sat a trained nurse about
twenty-five years of age. She looked
Ike a convalescent. but her cheeks took
on a very rosy hue the moment l en-
tered. Indeed she was blushing like
a schoolgirl. Holding a paper before
her eyes. she began to read.
My experience In hospitals both as stu
den and graduate has called to my no
tice-
Zone moment" I interrupted. "Are
you Frederick HudsonY'
"Yes: but l usually spell my first
name with an "a 1t Is Frederick.
The "a must have been left off,"
"How the mischief did you contrive
to write those manlike letters?"
II didn't l got a man to write
them"
"And make up all there was In
them?'
Their contents arc true"
1.-THE diphtheriaT
II volunteered for that service"
IL have been disappointed"
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