New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1911-09-17

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Germany, than those Of my own country.
Germany is easier to reach from Turkey
Money. then, was somehow found for DR..
Eddy's cherished work, hut money was
not the only dif1culty. One reason con-
sumption Is so prevalent In Turkey Is that
Turkey is a COUNTRY of closed windows.
Until very lately all the windows In the
barracks were nailed shut. lest the soldiers
escape. There was a great TODD once be-
cause a newly enlisted man, Christian,
broke open window in his mad desire for
| air. Now Dr. Eddy's has been campaign
for fresh air. She sends out hundreds OF
leaflets extoling the virtues Of fresh air.
| She has her patients sleep outdoors as
much as possible. In tents. huts, or on WIDE
| verandas. In this work she has 20 en-
counter not only prejudice but two natural
| enemes-wolves and the sirocco olasts
from the desert. When these blasts blow
the patients must be brought in quickly
and all the doors and windows closed 10
keep out the burning heat. AS for the
wolves, OF which there are many IN Dr'
Eddy's part Of Mount Lebanon, heavy wire
screens everywhere and constant watch
fulness are required 10 guard against
them.
Nothing, however, has given DIR. Eddy
so much trouble as the peoples horror OF
tuberculosis II has made the servant
question a very present problem at Mount
Lebanon More than once DR.. EDDY ana
her head nurse. Miss tombstone nave
turned the crank Of the washing machine
themselves, because there was no one else
TO turn It, over and over again, When
promising young men or women nave Deeh
induced to come, and their training as
helpers begun. their parents have come ana
spirited them away.
only by having the cook house some as
lance from the hospital have we been able |
10 keep a cook" Dr. Eddy said. Then, |
too our cook is sixtyseven years Old ana
he thinks he hasn't much longer TO live
anyhow. Our young helpers are, generally |
those who come there Ill and were nursed /
back to health, and staid on to do what
they could. One of these is Syrian girl
who went to Egypt as a nun, and got con-
sumption by having to sleep in cell WIN
another nun who had the disease.
"The people see how consumption goes
from one person to another: they don't
understand; so their fear is boundless.
Why. the road that runs in front of the
unused. passersby preferring to use the
longer way around When Miss tombstone
goes TO Beirut she has a whole compart-
ment Of the train to herself; every one
shuns her Me they don't seem to fear.
They fancy l carry something around with
me that protects them from danger from
me-"
OF many grades and classes are DIT.
Fddy's patients. One was little Circas-
sian slave GIRL who liked Christian ways
so much that while she was convalescing
she never could see DR.. Eddy without
begging her, BUY me, please buy me-!
Some were rescued from solitary places
where they had been left to die some are
well-to-do people. The latter pay some
thing; but they are no more welcome than
the Others
They are all pathetically grateful DR..
Eddy said, II remember one young Greek
who had been put out of every hotei IN
Beirut. one after another, because or
his disease l wish you could have seen
the look on his face when he found HIM
self In one Of our comfortable beds. lie
had a quaint expression-'May your work
20 10 the top Instead OF saying Good
when / went into the room he :
always said. May your work prosper!
He died: but many get we'll and II Is so
nice TO see them getting fat and strong.
"One who recovered was little girl
sent from a school in Beirut. and she was
sent with pennies contributed by the chill
dren OF that school. Wasn't that fne?"
Patients come from so many different
countries that Mount Lebanon Hospital Is
a VERT Ia bla Tower of Babel but DR.. Eddy |
can talk to them in their own tongues.
Many of them are lonely and strange"
she says, "and one wouldn't want TO make
them feel stranger by speaking TO them in
a strange language"
The building down on the shore Is for
advanced cases. Those who are too Ill TO
be taken the long journey go to the other
building up in the mountains. Mrs John
Hay, widow OF the former Secretary OF |
State, gave the first 81 900 for this. and 1t |
is named Hamlin Hospital, in honor Of her
pastor. DR.. Eddy commented with salts !
faction on the fact that Turkey Will send |
two delegates to the International Confer |
ence on Hygiene. at Rome-the first time |
Turkey has done sch thing. Turkey is
waking up" she said. why, the woman's
club movement is making great strides
there Clubs for travel study appeal espe-
cially 10 the Turkish women. but there are
art clubs and various others, all OF which
they like. DR.. Emily Grey Gregory has
left the American College for Girls in order
to devote herself to fostering the club
movement among those women and be-
lieve they will make great advances In the
next few years"