The Cairo bulletin., 1906-11-18
BERSAMO
Story Of One Small Hospital Patient
By GRACE LOIS RuARC

! SA2ed on us with eyes o! suspicion,
She was only four years old and
alone among strangers, so she felt
that She must be on the defensive.
! Her great black eyes peered out from
beneath tangled mop of hair and She
threatened to burst into tears The
visiting nurse departed and Rersamo
stood alone with her banana.
Her costume was striking, If not
beautiful In her dress her Syrian
mother had expressed her love for
color. The body of it was of dark
blue velvet. with a strip of scarlet
down the front The collar was Of
yellow, finished with pink lace. The
ward nurse started TO remove this
gorgeous creation, whereupon a
stream of foreign inyectiye burst from
those baby lips We started in aston
ishment.
II took two nurses to undress her
and put her in her little crib. There
she sat bolt upright veritable thun-
dercloud, Her screams could be heard
all over the hospital The instant the
nurses back was turned out she
would climb. agile as monkey and
start for the door Her sole idea
seemed TO be to get out-anywhere
away from the ward
For two days she kept it up every
waking moment Then she suddenly
became as silent as she had been
noisy. She still sat mp in bed, per
fectly mute, Sowing at every one,
her eyes constantly shifting, watching
every movement made in the room,
She looked like a Gagged animal. l
wonder what she made of it all and
what revenge her infantile mind was
planning, for she had the most malig
nant expression imaginable,
Having an affection of the mouth
she was pat on LIQUID diet and how
she hated it, Disgust was written on
her face every time her food was
brought in, One day she smelled
coffee In an instant she was on the
alert, and for the first time in several
days she started to climb out Of bed.
The nurse hurried over to her.
What is it. Bersamo?' she asked.
Coffee" she exclaimed, eXcitedly.
Overioyed at hearing her speak
after her long silence. the nurse went
10 get her some She filed a cup with
hot milk and put in Just enough cot
fee TO color it Bersamo looked at It
a moment It was too much for her
outraged dignity
BAH she screamed. Then. with !
a quick sweep Of her hand cup and |
coffee went crashing to the floor.
After she had been with us a week |
her mother brought her brothers and |
sisters to see her Aud solomon in all !
his glory was not arrayed as one Of
these
First came a boy about seven
waddling in just as Bersamo had done |
with his bright black eyes rowing |
everywhere He had on a pair Of /
scarlet trousers reaching halfway be. |
tween his knees and shoe tops, a pink /
silk shirt and pale blue tie Follow /
ing him was a little girl older than .
Bersamo. in a pink dress draped with /
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