Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1919-05-04

| "Benny's" wonderfully patient smile.
| Benny" never complains. He sub
mits patiently to the severe regimen
| Of his cure. He takes joy in every
! thing around him. The first robin
| and the first finch that come to his
/ tent in spring, the first flowers, all
are messengers of JOY and good tidings
| to him The hours that he must lie
! in bed with no one to keep him COM
pany he wiles away by watching the
outside world
lie has had attendants place his
mirror so that from his bed he can
watch every automobile approaching
SunmOunt. He has become a keen
observer and nothing escapes his at
tention. Recently, when Miss Spald-
ing's water color exhibit was at Sun
mount it was hung in Miss Wizards
room. He was permitted to enjoy
the exhibit. He was carried into the
room and laid on the bed. His fine
appreciation of every picture. his in
telligent comments. his undisguised
Joy in the works of art should shame
every ono who goes by Santa FEES art
gallery day after day without ever
refreshing mind and spirit by an in
telligent study Of the great pictures
always to be seen there,
Thus Benny lives from day to
day, ever hopeful, ever cheerful, al
ways Joyous and as sunshiny az the
rays that are healing that terrible
wound in his hip-bone. The suns
rays are concentrated for a definite
time upon the wound each snnshiny
day. He must live lust So but
nothing ever seems iTksome to him.
Only yesterday a Santa Fe woman re-
ceived the dearest sort of a letter
from him, an acknowledgment of
some spring flowers sent him. He
tells how the flowers were separated
into two boquets, one for the sweet
smelling blossoms, the other for the
more cOlorful and SNOWY flowers, and
how each gave him particular kind
of joy.
Any preacher of course, could
moralize for hours over Benny and
his attitude toward-life. Any doctor
would tell his story in quite differ
Ont way, using long Latin names in
comprehensive technical terms, and
drawing the most cautious sort of
conclusions so that the ordinary dub
wouldn't grasp the significance Of the
miracle that is happening at Sun
mount at present. Drs. Brown and
Miera, with gun in hand, may be
looking 70 Tthe writer after they see
this in print. for it may be "unethi-
cal" to be telling "Bennv's" story this
way. But Benny" has done big
thing for Santa Fe. for all humanity
and if some day, with all your bless
ings, you feel like complaining, or
are grouchy a sure cure will be a
visit to Benny" at Sunmount, who
will make Santa Fe famous in places
that know it not today, and will start
streams of gold flowing toward New
Mexico that at present are flowing to
Switzerland, to the Adirondacks and
to other places which cannot cure this
dreadful disease in double the time,
if they cure it at all.
Soon, very soon, Benny" will be
permitted TO walk for the first time;
will be going about on crutches for
the time being and then will he per-
mitted to play like other boys. You
should hear Benny" with shining
eyes tell of that day now looming so
near. If it doesn't bring tears into
your own eyes you're not worth saw
ing. Should you speak in pity to him,
because of the long time he has been
strapped to a board. he will say smil-
ngly: "Oh, it was only eighteen
months" Surely. you will then take
d new grip on yourself and will be
quite sure that
Gods in His heaven
AIS right with the World.