New Britain herald., 1916-05-04
On A Vacation.
Indianapolis News.)

When they picked the old lady up they found several broken bones and a body sadly bruised. Sire attempt ed to cross the street became con- fused and stepped in the path of great machine which came to jarring stop ten feet from where it had brushed her aside. They car
 ried her into her own home, a few
 yards away. The doctor looked at
 her and said nothing. The neigh
 bors frightened and excited. crowded
 into the room stepred on each
 others toes and split water while the
 doctor told them to go home.
 The old lady couldn't possibly live,
 they thought. She was old and weak,
 and the shock alone was enough to
 kill her. The doctor ordered her
 taken to the hospital, and they said
 she would never come back alive.
 They missed her greatly from her
 home, where she was always sweep
 ing, or rubbing, or en 5agrd in other
 of the numerous duties that fall tO
 the working head of a large house.
 hold. She was Trojan for work,
 they said, and ac accordingly popular in
 a neighborhood where hard work
 had not fallen into disrepute.
 At the hospital they save her three
 hours to live. She lived the three hours, then three days, ard was able to sit up at the end of three weeks
 The neighbors came to offer their condolences and to help her while away the long hospital hours. They
 expected to find her broken in spirit
 as we'll as bruised of body. Instead
 she was very cheerful, as nearly gay as her staid and quiet spirit permit ted She was lying in a yard because the slenderncss of her resources for bade the use of a private room, and every day or so came new patients with depressing ills A woman who occupied a nearby cot dto7 during the night. All about her were suf- fering and sorrow. The little group of loyal neigh hbors who mace regular visits marveled at her chcerfulness and wondered how she >ould possibly grow better in the sombc.' atmOs- phere of the hospital.
 She improved rapidly. The nurse, to gladden. nec, told her. one day, that she could 40 home at the end of the week. Shc appeared depressed and said little during the rest of the day. When the nurse, asked if she W lsn't glad to be able to leave the hospital she gave 1 an evasiVe answer. That night she 1 told the doctor she felt worse and | asked if she couldn't stay just one 1 week longer after the day set for her | departure. He said she was so much 1 improved that there was really no l reason why she should not leave inn | mediately. She pleaded to be all | lowed to stay, and he pressed her for ! a reason. She told him in her quaint, l broken English Almost fifty years | have I been married I have five | grown boys. I have no girls. AL i ways it is work, always I must wait i on them. I make the breakfast in ! the morning, fix the lunches, make | the dinner, make the supper in the 1 evening. ] sew on the buttons, pick l up the clothes they throw down, find | the things they are all the time losing Here it is different. They wait on me. The nurse brings my everything. I wait on mo- body. It is fine. It is my vacation. I would like to stay one more week. Then I go back home" The doctor muttered something about tho tn houghtlessness of male kind and lec | her stay.