Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1911-08-25


- head nurse and to two or
IT the cadet nurses in the hos
about the operation they were
:, IN nerform upon him that very
10 nurses in their neat little uni
Is of blue and white stripes, the
nurse in her spotless au-white,
resident doctor in his shining
o trousers and jacket, the plainly
sad women who visited the hos
and to whom, in spite of their
Ia attire and manners, everybody
ned to pay such respect and at
ion and the superintendent of
hospitaI himself, who had come
n see Bill three or four times the
before, while Bill was resting
for the operation, were all so
and kind to him that he almost
lot it. and probably would have
Sotten it altogether were it not
q the fact that he missed his regu-
breakfast.
yer at the old homestead IN Con-
ticut Bill had always imagined that
ospital in the big city was dark
1.. dismal den in which a man was
g in a wet blanket on the floor
let stay there until he
from hunger True, Bill was
- nineteen and still had the world
&. bre him; and the experience you
z# likely to get in nineteen years Of
S ne and Care-free life on Connec-
homestead farm is scarcely the
of thing that makes you i'm
Fious to the strong impressions
stream in upon you when you
he to the city and plunge into the
.@icate mazes of an ultra-modern
lizatiOn.
sut the most wonderful thing about
this business was the electro-mag-
ic personality of Cringer.
Sringer was a surgeon for whom
S sorts of hideous long words, con-
hing in the perfectly inscrutable
85ths Of their Greek derivations the
st awful things imaginable. were
81 food of his body and the breath
8 bis soul.
o know Cringer intimately and
~ was to be convinced that your
5 was incomplete and a failure had
not been internally mutilated-
preferably by the hand of Cringer
self. And when Bill came to see
that time about that little trouble
bis left upper jaw, Cringer had SO
Roughly hypnotized him that Bill
BIT to the hospital in the same state
mind with which he was wont to
& forward to a Fourth of July cele-
ton.
Et's a pity, tool" the head nurse
81 to Cringer. He's such a hand
be dear boy, and so simple and
sting. And he's so big for his
!"
he was pinning towel about
nger's head as a precaution against
sible infection of the patient while
niger would be over him at the
ration
What do you mean?" grunted the
fgeon severely.
Why, it'll disfigure him wretchedly,
mt it?"
FDisigure him? l should say mott"
TBut you can hardly remove a
Nson's upper jaw without disfguring
person, can your
Ah-hai" drawled Cringer, as IL he
= been suddenly enlightened. L
how it Is with you! You have
yer heard of such a thing as sill
1 jaw!-Never mind, now! Don't
p try to lei on anything to the doc
8! A silver jaw is one Of the little
zcks of the trade that you happened
miss in the course of your wonder
experience. Don't you know that
Just fit them out with a silver
n in the place of the old one, and
Rt they're just as good as ever?
IS, better than ever. believe that
sooner have a good silver Jaw
Rn the one I've got. And as for this
Section that I'm going to do-why,
8 nothing; nothing at all. I've done
ten times. No more to 1t than
ere is to drinking a cup Of coffee
Gore you get up out Of bed in the
9rning. Are they ready? Then
ing him up"
As they brought Bill up he could
Pr Cringer laughing with one of his
SlStants-laughing and chatting as
InoSpitals and other gloomy things
&the kind had no existence whatever.
Cringer's strong hypnotic inf1u-
.ee was not quite sufficient to pre-
FnE Bill from feeling a little nervous
'ney gave him an eighth Of grain
morphine and placed a pneumatic
#loW under his head to let him rest
|lItue before the anesthesia. And
f was never so surprised in the
|lFe nineteen years of his life as
was when Cringer lifted him up to
SltCng posture and asked him how
felt.
p as it over already? He knew they
Il been doing something villainous
ms face, and he was woefully drunk
EM tRe mixture of ether and chloro-
II they had used in putting him to
Fe2. But he certainly thought IL