The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1907-09-18
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Mrs. Weber TO be patient, Marine
learned a lesson of self control which
she found very useful in after life
on more than one occasion. How
ever. not all of the children were
fretfuI. No word of complaint ever
passed Bertha Bakers lips during
the entire term of her illness. She
was slow in recovering, although she
did get we'll finally, after having
been given up several times by DR..
Graves and the nurses.
At first it was terrible to Marine
to see the suffering all about her.
Some of the convalescents were so
pale and thin and unlike themselves
in their normal condition that Mar
ME did not know them. Others
there were who did not know her,
or any one else for that matter in
the delirium of this fever. But
in time Marine got accustomed to
her surroundings, and although her
heart still went out to those who
suffered, she learned to look upon 1t
all with a degree of calmness.
There was general rejoicing
among those who were not too i'll to
rejoice, when Marine was first adj
mitted. Dear, patient Bertha Baker
followed Marine about with her
eyes all day and when the worst of
it was over and Marine had time
to "breate spell" as one of the
nurses put it, she would tell stories
quietly in the corner beside Bertha s
bed, while the few children who were
well enough to sit UP were propped
In chairs among pillows where they
could all share in listening.
After she had told and retold all
the small store of fairy tales that
she had read, until not only she, but
her audience was heartily sick of
them, Marine wove fanciful tales out
of her own imagination. No wonder
the children grew very fond of her
and she of them.
The nurse gave good accounts to
Mrs. Weber and DR.. Grves of Mar
MES usefulness. This was very
sweet to Marine, too.
Marines bed was a little cot in a
corner of a room adjoining the hos
pital. She must have been asleep
about two hours on one memorable
night, when suddenly she was broad
awake. She would not have realized
that she had slept at all, but for the
striking Of the hour from nearby
clock-tower.
It was midnight.
This is the time that DR.. Graves
said the crisis in Lizzie Jones fever
would come, thought Marine.
will just slip out and see how she is
) getting on.
Marine put a little shawl about
her shoulders, for the air was chill
and went to the door of the room II
which Lizzie, the sickest of the pa
TENTS, had a solitary bed.
Her condition had been so seri
Gus that the physician had ordered
her removed from the ward wher,
the other children lay, and the nigh
nurse had been appointed to keel
special watch beside her.
"At midnight the change will
come" DR.. Graves had said. ''Whel
this crisis is reached, give her thre'
drops of the brown medicine am
: watch the result. If the fever leave
: her, give her a powder from one 0
e those pink papers. If it does not
9 three more drops of the brown
medicine may be administered. Tn
powder must be given the momen
her temperature goes down. If Their
e is still no change after the secon'
dose of drops, telephone for me-"
: 1t was as clear to Marine a
n though DR.. Graves had but just re
a peated the instructions.
81 could do it as well as the nurse
3 If she were not there" though
d Marine. but she trembled a nttl
4 when on entering Lizzie's room, sh
: found the latter deserted by all saw
: the patient
Y Marine had stood by so often a
s the critical stage Of these fever pa
= tents illness and had watched ther
so narrowly, that she at once recog
nized that the crisis had bee
reached in Lizzies case. There wa
d no time now to search out the al
e sent nurse. The situation demande
q immediate action. The loss Of
moment might cost Lizzie her life.
: Marines heart beat high with e1
element, but her hand was as stead
and her head as cool as though III