The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-02-14

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WIN De showed at him friskily-
And finds the long end of the odds
m n ms, as you can see-to one
VINO lodges arrows. as he plods
| iheres not much scare in three to one
For three years he can live in peace,
win maid nor widow daring to
suggest his burdens he increase;
FOR one, say he's not caring to.
INDIANAPOLIS News.
The Troubles of a Mother Bird.
In Harper's for February. Jennie
Brooks writes her observations of the
description of the first day when the
young birds left the nest and the
afarm of the parent birds is par
ticuarly interesting:
The male distorts himself and
prags' OF his wounds directly in front
loo strong-it cannot brook suppress
sion; she daintily picks an insect
mere and there from among the
grasses at the nests edge Aha.
young birds are about somewhere!
lfor though she does not feed nlm
she does capture the food and shakes
II apart or tears 1t up for him, or
scratches it out of the ground). and
gladness succeeds despair Putting
out my hand to help myself rise, 10
lay 1t almost on a small brown OBJ
Ject lying fatty on the ground. Fancy
my delight One Of the young kill
deer! Hardly out of the shell and
warmly feathered. Near by is the sec
ond bird-baby. and both, though
apart, are exactly ten inches from the
nest. Perfectly inert they lie-two
notified brown splotches scarcely lar
ger than a silver dollar, and on one
side protrudes a funny little brown
q he ilrc r. h. \
of turtle.
In wonder I lift first one, then
another, and lay 1t in the palm Of my
hand. The bright black eyes are wide
open-so different from tree-born
babies! Scarcely out of the shell. and
said; for as 1 put down the first one
he staggered UP on a very drunken
pair of legs, and tottered, like a
palsied old man, off among the weeds.
Taking the remaining morseI OF bird
in my hand, held it out to the
mother. who with much talking. had
come and stood almost within my
reach. said: I have there it is,
see? Your little bird-see?' Though
not Hnguist, think she knew kind
ness when she saw 1t, and she also
knew me, for she 'bobbed and curt
sled and circled about me, though she
kept out Of reach, in evident maternal
congratulating the other on the sue
cessful issue of her nursery affairs!
Then the faint calls of the baby who
had lost himself in the weeds sent the
mother running, though her backward
glances showed a divided heart, fear
ing to leave me wholly alone with the
one, and to lose the other in the tan
gleweed!
Back to the nest struggled the
yentureSome one, an anxious mother
jerking along behind him. When I
laid down the one I held she hastily
stepped abroad and brooded them.
But the world was too new and in
teresting to be so soon forsaken. An
fnquisitive head pushed itself out
from her feathers and stayed out de-
spite her evident disappointment.
Twas her only chance to cuddle them,
for such eanny younsters would soon
be independent Of their parentsi''
Fresh Air for Pneumonia.
We treat pneumonia differently now
than they did as little as ten years ago.
Now, very largely, we let the patient
fight his own battle, and the most eff
fective weapon we give him is fresh
air, real fresh air. and lots of it.
The fact that pneumonia might be
called simply a shutting off Of oxygen
sh ows how important this is to give the
patient plenty of air. In one large
New York hospital, says the February
Delineator. sufferers from the disease
are carried to the roof and kept there
day and night. When your child
grows Ill move it to the largest and
sunniest room in the house, and open
the windows. If it is too cold for that,
have another room near by into which
the patient may be moved at least
three times a day. to permit a thorough
ventilation of the sick room. All un-
necessary furniture and all pictures,
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should be taken out of both rooms.
An attack Of pneumonia begins in a
manner which suggests a very bad
cold. The patient has chill and a
fever and suffers from pains in the
side. cough soon appears, and the
breath becomes short and quick. The
valiant battle of the overworked heart
is indicated by quick pulse and flush
ed cheeks. Soon there are. signs of
great exhaustion, with headache, Sleep
Iessness and (sometimes) delirium.
During all of this period the blood
is waging a tremendous war upon the
invading germs. If it Is destined to
lose, the exhaustion will grow more
and more marked and the patient will
die. But If it is destined to win there
will come a time-it will be between
the fifth and the tenth day-when the
patient will suddenly seem brighter.
The temperature Will fall, the breath-
ing will be more regular. and the vio-
lent jumping of the pulse will cease.
When this happens it is assign that the
battle is won.
The Greatest Secret Of the Times
Two American inventors, the Wright
Brothers, are negotiating with the gov
eminent for the sale of an aerial war
ship. In an article, 1.-THE Men Who
Learned to Fly" In the February Nc
Cures. George Kibbe Turner tells the
history Of the experiments which have
resulted in this remarkable flying ma
chine. The inventors say for them
selves:
I'VE feel that It is absolutely essen
tial for us to keep our method Of con-
troll a secret. We could patent many
noints in the machine. and 1t is posi-
BE that we could make success OF
the invention commercially. We have
heen approached by many promoters
on the matter. But we believe that our