The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-07-11
DALTON IS BETTER.
Ex-Bandit Can't Get. Accustomed to
Women Nurses at Hospital.

- Emmett Dalton, who was operated on
at Bethesda hospital Wednesday morn
ing by DR.. John Outland, rested well
Yron, nt tgn ea ana todayi He reeoveaed
the accompanying sickness which often
follows and this morning was feeling
Well, though still suffering considerabl
from the incisions made In his arm.
''Well. how are you feeling now that
it is all over?" was asked ''Cut up
some" replied Dalton, but mighty
good when 1 think thatI am through
with the operation and that my arm
is in as good shape as the doctors seem
to think that it u.s. am Convinced
that had the operation been postponed
a few months longer that 1 would have
lost my arm and now. 1 am hopeful that
will be about again within a few
weeks and that / will eventually regain
the use of my arm.
Il am in favor of this latter day sur
gerry, for after I had taken a few
breaths of the ether it was all off with
me and 1 seemed to leave the earth
for a journey through space, and as 1
remember the trip itAwas a long one
and through a country filled with
some things that 1 would. not repeat in
the presence of my nurse; but / was
having troubles that would have made
deacon swear about that time.
This is all SO new to me that
am not able to accommodate myself to
the surroundings and 1 am not used to
women nurses and there must be a
hundred of them about this institution,
and they are all bosses as far as I am
concerned. They brought me in my
dinner today and told me to eat it, 1
told the little girl that I was not
hungry, but she said that had bet
ter eat something, but 1 didn't feel
hungry and told her so. She came back
a few minutes later and told me to
eat my dinner as it was necessary for
me to do so, and it wasn't so much,
what she said as the way she said it
that convinced me that I was in the
wrong, and I ate as she directed.
81 wouldn't be surprised at any mo-
ment for one of the nurses to come in
and tell me to jump out of that win
dow and while 1 don't have any idea
how far it is to the ground 1 would
obey if it broke my neck. 1 took a
look at the incisions the doctors made
in my arm, this morning and l am not
surprised at the pain 1 have suffered
ence of the anesthetic.
II find that I can use my fingers and
thumb little and think that in time
will be all right again SO that I can
/ first went to the hospital. I have had
a number of letters from friends from
various parts of the state and Chalk
Beeson of Dodge City, wrote that he
next few days to visit me.
when a fellow is in the shape that
1 am 1t does him lots of good to re-
ceive letters from such men as Beeson,
and one realizes thats things might be
worse even though they seem as bad as
they can be. 1 received a letter from
my mother yesterdaylin which she said
that she would see Inei some time today
and every time I, hear the door bell
ring I imagine that It Is She.
''She has been so faithful to me in
my troubles, and 1 want to see her now
that 1 am all fixed up and tell her how
nicely I have been treated by every
one for it will make her feel so good.
/ was out in the country Monday with
Dr. Outland in his automobile, out
among the fields of ripening grain and
growing vegetation and through the
deep woods, and the feeling of freedom
which came over me was such as
never remember of experiencing. 1t
brought back memories of my boyhood
days when 1 attended a country school
and a longing for the freedom which
was then mine. But who knows but
what there is something yet in life for
me. and at any rate there is something
comforting in hope and guess that we
all hope even though we sometimes feel
that it is in vain