The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-07-06
IUs And GrOuches Not Popular

l TIT is amazing when you come to think l about it. what perfect equanimity we = maintain in regarding the ills and
 grouches of other people!
 Usually our attitude is one of complete
 indifference, but wait just let the worn turn" put the shoe on the other foot
 and To and behold, what change there lis:
 As small thing as running a needle
 or pin into ones own finger is just cause for us to tell the world about it. ana | just the minute we can corner friend l or even an acquaintance we tell every lit- 1 tie detail from the moment we pick the pin or needle up, even unto the moment
 we run it through the finger and pull il
 out.
 If your bosom friend would dare to tel ] you of such catastrophe that had hap pened to herself when your mind was
 engrossed on new bonhets, new gowns a
 golf match or a bridge game, you'd fly 1 up like a sl<yrocket and banish the topic
 of conversation to oblivion by promptly changing the subject.
 l Had your table of contents removed l mean your appendix" we exclaim af some friend begins about when l was | in the hospital"
 Well, of course, that is just as simple, We observe, "as falling off a log. It's really not considered much worse now by physicians than having a tooth pulled, or making a visit to the ehiropodist. The best of surgeons expect their appendicitis i patients to be up and going within ten days after an operation, and hale and hearty in twenty days.
 Now, if you had had to undergo an op- eration like poor, dear Sedgwick," we ! @Ff ff be like poor, dear Anne. we'd be gone and couldn't have the pleasure of telling it because the dear creature passed gently into the great beyond within the hour after being removed from the operating table yet the physicians pronounced the operation a signal success. Then along comes Ruth and tells us in the course of conversation that to- morrow she will hie unto the hospital and have Her tonsiis removed. It's so painful, you knowl You can't eat anything for days,' she relates. 'e'Tonsils taken outn exclaims the friend Why, that is a mere bagatelle.
 People have tonsis removed every day, and as for eating, they devour hearty meal within forty eight hours as if noth- inc-ha happened. You are going to have yours taken out Tuesday,? Yes, replied the friend hopelessly. "'Then come to my bridge party on Friday is the prompt request. ".How can you treat such serious subject so lightly?' says the victim, wht is to be operated on, People have died from such an operation,' and then she proceeds to look like she would really like to die, just to prove that such thing can result from so simple a cause. "T have never heard of anything so foolish,' says the unsympathetic friend
 There is grave danger of hemorrhaec' persists the victim.
 Not these days when things are done so we'll we answer and change the con
 versation to the play or new books.
 However, if we were going to have our own tonsils removed the next day it would be very different point of view,
 but we refuse to consider anybody else as of any particular importance.
 "A woman who is member of very large family and who was recently oper- ated on was both shocked and pained to hear that o0e of her relatives regarded the event that she was about to undergo as sort of a pleasureahle affair, sort of an excitement, something to talk about, and discuss whether in the event ''any- thing happened she would look well in black
 Two days after the operation, while the patient was still feeling ill and faint, she