The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1915-10-15
Vienna. Has Thriving unIver:.
Sly For tho Manned.
new COURAGE IS INSPIRED,
Pupils Taught How to Use Artificial
Limbs and 10 Ply Old Vacations.
Working Rooms of Institution Con-
tain Faculties For Thirty three Diff
farant Occunations.


soldiers come from all over the central
empire to study, no matter what their
race or profession. In the laboratories
they are equipped with the finest arti-
fetal limbs, in the gymnasium they
learn to use them, in the sun rooms
and baths the more sensitive wounds
are nursed, in the workshops the men
are taught, IL possible, to continue their
old professions, and In the classrooms
they listen to lectures upon that sub
ject SO important to them-the science
of living full life with depleted
equipment
From everywhere they come, friend
and enemy, poor and rich. The chief
surgeon, kindly army doctor of fifty.
examines personally each new arrival
as the master sculptor examines his
blocks and marble. He considers what
he can make Of each man aud writes
his report. Then the repair work be-
gins.
New Hope Comes to Him.
Fancy the metamorphosis which
brought in upon stretcher. He Is in
clined to curse the bullet which. in
stead Of killing, condemned him to mis-
cradle existence. But vaguely he be-
gins to feel consolation In the precise.
confident remarks Of the doctor. He
is carried to the laboratory to be meas
ured for a new leg. He sees his fel-
low soldiers who have suffered similar
misfortunes and who are already cheer
full. Every one is energetic and opti-
mistic. The next morning he sees his
leg being made. He watches the doc
tor carefully finishing off every rough
spot with file. The fit must be exact
up to the fraction of millimeter. He
sees the gymnasiums near by filed
with cripples learning to use their arti-
tcial arms and legs. He listens to a
lecture on the art of walking with
wooden leg, the various dangers and
the various cautions to be observed.
New hope comes to his heart.
He must learn to walk just as child
learns. First he receives plain wood
en- stump, upon which he hobbies slow
ly and painfully. As he becomes more
skillful he is equipped with an arti-
fcial leg, which follows the form of
the human leg in every detail. II the
leg has been amputated above the knee
there Is an artificial knee joint which
he bends by means of string attached
until he learns to bend 1t automatical-
~ as lie walks. In week he Is hob
bling about quite well, to the inspira-
ton Of those who are not yet out of
bed. His gloomy thoughts have turned
to ambition to resume his work. And
gradually he becomes confident even
Of doing this. No one despairs, for the
doctors and teachers have proved how
the one legged truckman can still drive
his truck. how the one armed joiner
can handle the saw and hammer, how
the one legged farmer can run the
plow. how the one armed engineer can
draw and design, and, in short how
every one of them can accomplish GER
tain definite work for which the world
is willing to pay.
Many Occupations Represented.
The working rooms contain facilities
for thirty three different occupations.
Every one learns or relearns q trade.
glance into the carpentry room
shows throng Of soldiers planning,
hammering, saving and fling, to all
intents and purposes in a perfectly
normal manner. Only upon close in
spection are the defects visible. The
man. for instance, planning the board
has only one arm. With a carefully
constructed hook attached to the am
putated stump he manages to hold the
board in position as firmly as ever he
could before. Another man, with his
right hand amputated just above the
wrist, is actually saving with his right
arm. He wears a nicely formed artt-
fetal hand, which buckles tightly upon
the saw handle. He declares it is con-
venient because he does not have to
bother about aching fingers and q
weakening grip. At the next table
stands Croat reservist. Early In the
winter he helped stave OF a Russian
attack, in the course Of which q bayo-
net cut through bis right hand. sever<
ing nearly all the tendons. After tht
wound healed he was able to move
only his middle finger. He now wears
special glove with the fingers linked
together, so that when he moves the
middle finger the others move with It
automatically. 1t was painful at first.
but he is gradually becoming Injured.
the middle finger is growing stronger
and the other fingers are being grad
ually trained to move by themselves.
There are scores Of similarly ingenious
contrivances which speak much for the.
inventive ability of the doctors
Selects Best Husband at Fifty.
A woman can't pick a husband until
she IS ffty is the belief Of 4 Pennsyl-
vania spinster, who at dfty-nine haa
married Z man Of seventy-two.