The Washington herald., 1907-06-09

anu NAT enough 10 MT and II ! didn't hold
my neck reasonably stiff the pillow would
snap IT, When l was in Vermont slept
On leather bed. just pumped into il
and IL Dlllowed mp all around me and
| ntted into my peripheral irregularities
, and for the first time I'm my life / could
| relax every muscle There wasn't
Joint Of me that wasn't supported. There
wasn't any crack about my shoulders.
and felt as If l didn't weigh anything
at all Whenever ] thought OF my home
comfort, 1 remembered a line out Of
| LScksley Hall:
Co1nfortf Comfort. scorned Of devils.
And, saying II over the wav did fe,,
as pleased as If I'd cussed nv hvgienf.
mattress at home. Maybe a feather bed
| isn't healthful, but its comfortable and
| personally I'd just as soon die at dftv
atter lifetime Of comfort as to live 10
De seven hundred and go 10 my grave
cahoused by a hard mattress"
The Blanks have moved out OF tra
apartment house in our block and have
/ bought house somewhere in the suburbs
My small friend Louise was telling mi,
about it yesterday. The new house u
seems, Is built in accordance with mod
ern ideas. and has one architectural fas-
ture naturally foreign 10 a child fat
dweller.
That Lucy Blank" saws Louise "is
the stuck-uppest thing over living IN a
| mouse. and she's a story teller. too. she
| told me It was brand-new house. ard
right away afterward she said fl had n
four-year hall"
''MaVbn Ia4-f.
wouldn't have happened" SAYS a vorr,
man l know: but how was I 70 qr,sss
what a woman's ideas are? We ius+ nan
pened-h1ppened. mind you-to speak -
some STOCK l own, and 1 happened N
mention that keep it In a safety dcnosf.
bo1-it Just about fills the box too fo~
who am TO own a chest al the ba-l,o
day or so afterward she asked me ~
would mind keeping little heirloom
locked UP for her while she went away
for the summer. I thought il was a min
lature' or a diamond pin, or something
OF that size. OF course. uttered Tho
ready yes. She said she'd send II 10 me
and she did. I'm paving storage now on
silver water pitcher, and 1 hope she'll
never know its not locked I'D in nv
safety deposit by. 1 have room IN that
for % cents worth Of stamps and latch
key, but that's all"
An acquaintance Of mine. recently come
from the west 10 live here, has taken a
house near one Of the HOSPITALS. and d-~-
ing the six weeks Of her residence therein
sne has been unable 10 secure a cook
the place and most OF them have sol
emnly promised % take il. but not ore
Of them has Joined the family. Last wee,
very superior CUlored woman came IN
see about il. and In desperation the Iadv
OF the house offered a third more wages
'Han Sh1 had been expecting 10 give
You can sleep al home. too. she said.
Several winters in the South having
taught her that This concession Is often
an inducement
II l comes I sleeps here. or I don't
come, said the applicant firmly. Don't
catch me going home after dark IN this
we're part OF town"
Why, isn't Il a nice part Of town.
asked the lady Of the house in alarm.
For white folks. said the applicant
Its safe for white folks but its too
near the hospital for colored folks.
Ihey's night doctors row just the same
as they used 20 be They don't -a-l
white folks. but II they catches me out
after dark, they's certainly going IN
chase me. and If they catches me tpav.e
going 70 hang me up and put a plaster
over my mouth. and bleed me In the
feet. and cut me up. No, ma'am. I GER
talnly amt going 10 run no risks near
any hospital after dark I STAYS here
nights II I comes"
She's staying now, but Just how long f.
VIII be till somebody crosses her belatsd
path after dark and scares her away no
body can guess.
It's curiously persistent belief by the
way. that fear Of night doctors. and IL
obtains not only among the most ignorant
negroes. but among some OF the fairly
well informed. I have met with Il I'm a
woman who was educated ar Hampton.
and she gave up an excellent position
with a New York family 10 come back
tc Washington because hospitals are
fewer here. You can scare a colored
urchin with q whisper Of night doctor
when you couldn't make him bat an eve
with loaded gun. and I haven't a doubt
In the world that an ambulance and an
lnterne or two could break up a mixed
ale rent rag disturbance in an alley
quicker than a dozen policemen. Maybe
surgeons don't drive about Of nights seek
ing whom they may disseCt. bur You'll
find Colored folk in every city in the cour-
Try who stin believe they do.
Talking about dissecting ps7ple-z-d
I'm so down in the mouth over a ponges
suit l bought six weeks ago, and the
weather hasn't let me wear. that dlssec-
ton seems 70 me a cheerful thing 10 talk
about-I met a Western surgeon during
the MAY convention here. and he had a
beautifully grewsOme story TO tell.
When l was a medical student in Chi
cag0.' he said there was no such pro-
vision as there Is now for the benefit of
the medical schools. We didn't get the
unclaimed pauper dead from the hospi-
tails. We hao to get-well. it's pleasauter
not 20 say how we got our subjects.
There was a cemetery in what Is now
Lincoln Park then. and a good many
people rested there temporarily. only The
gentlemen who removed them weren't
always very particular as to what grave
they opened. either. and. inasmuCh as We
couldn't learn our anatomy without some
thing to disseCt we shut our eyes 10
good many things. l recall one subject
that was brought in chum Of mine
and l had some not especially pleasant
1etails forced upon us. and we found
about that subjects neck a little gold
,hain with loCket attached. Inside the
ocket was the picture of a child. and a
name and date were engraved on the
over The name didn't mean anything
20 US and IL il had meant ANYTHING we
in a position TO return the trinke.
% anybody. Well, my chum kept the
ocket That happened a long time ago.
md guess his wife doesn't know about
[ yet You see. her name was on the