The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1921-08-23

month. Hut nobody answers
questions OF that sort at Stella.
ocom. Everything. II seems. Is
done 20 keep facts. even such
simple facts AS that from pa.
tents.
WAkE<S To FIND SELF
IN HOSPITAL DORMiTORN
Two or three days later !
awoke one morning IN hospital
dormltory. I was lying fiat on
my back. As l looked up at the
ceiling. | realized my sight and
hearing had returned. turned
my head. Horrors, was look
ing straight into the face OF fiu
patient
The face was but a few inches
away from my own. | looked
about. There were i6 or is beds
in the dormitory. damned close
together. l asked someone what
hoanltai this was. No body
answered. l concluded u must be
the King county hospital. ! had
no idea. even then, II Was
Stellacoom.
Nv watching the sun and the
shadows II cast. | was able 10
determine which direction was
East. North. West and South.
An attendant came in with a
tray and set Il down on my bed
An much tho manner one would
throw meat to a dog.
got hold Of the tray and pulled
1, towards me, tried 10 eat. AZ
the first mouthful. realised new
and intense pain.
INSIDE or MOUTH
TIT AND INFECTED
Between the time they put me In
he strait Jacket and the time
came to- there In the hospital dor
mltory. they had done something 70
my mouth. think they had
rammed spoon into my mouth Win
such force that they had cut me.
The inside OF my mouth had become
infected and was terribly swollen
and sore.
ON my tray were potatoes with the
Jackets on. unseasoned; an egg
boiled hard: some broth that was
nothing but siop. and some milk OF
the bluess kind have ever seen.
/ couldn't open my mouth TO bite
snythlnr. peeled my egs ana po-
.ato and crushed pieces and pushed
them into my mouth with the TIPS OF
my injured fingers IL was al !
could do to swallow.
Inmates take carr Of their own
dornitoric~- There wns one
woman who had bcen there nino
year~. There was no rvAscu on
earth why she shouldn't have
had her freedom. She came and
went over me, told me her story.
and said, you'll never get out.
Once YOU'RE In here. you never
d."
An attendant came In. ! seemed 10
her wanted TO find out
whers my husband was. and what
nad happened Most Of all. wanted
NY husband
NURSE sNUBS HER:
ANOTHER WELLS At HER
you're the nurse that was at the
bath tub. aren't your asked
She snubbed me. didn't answer
Her manner was as II she had said.
oh. you're just another IDIOT Why
should I talk 10 your"
The head attendant came. She
relied my name and ordered me Into
the bath. She gave me a push thru
the door into a bathroom with
lot OF other women inmates that
were nothing but skin and bones
Somehow ! washed myself. was
given dirty gown and told to put
4 on.
..whcre is my husband7- biurted
,ut.
Il don't know anything about your
husband and don't care anything
lbout him." the head attendant fold
me.
All this time my husband had been
10 ask about me every day
and on a Sunday he and my brother
had been there. but were told they
r0ufQn sec NV ibr u'@s't tet1
hem I had an liberated tooth"
This was strange. my husband told
hem. because I had been 90 adentist
Just before I left home.
An inmate told me. They'll
be putting you to. work"
work? In nospitai7 !
couldn't comprehend. But one
morning I was ordered 70 take
my breakfast at the table.
was given some old clothes.
SCRAPS FROM TABLES
or THE HIGHERUPS
went out 10 the dining room
and sat down with lot of other
women In similar garb. On that
table was the worst looking food
have ever seen act before
humans. II was simply tho
scraps from the tables OF the
higher-ups.
There were bits OF egg. broken
pieces of toast. parts OF pan
cakes, all jumbled together on
the name dish. Sometimes. az
a variation. have seen warmed
over. sloppy oatmeal. partly
peeled vegetables. and bits of