The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-07-27
Go on WITH THE STORY
By Gilmore Meherin

"You like it just as we'll" Thls
very tiraidly from Jennie.
"Oh-it's wonderful-You see so
rnuch-I can only stay g. little
while And she sat down and ate
with them and talked with blithest
gayety. But finally, because her
heart was full of 1t, she told OF Mrs.
Quinn and she cried showing them
the little brass pin.
Not all for Mrs. Quinn were the
tears.
She said: Jennie, ole love, I've
come out to teach you how to make
a bed"
And she made Jennie follow her
into her room. She put the two
chairs together and, pretending to
teach, began to practice again and
again
Jennie was frightened. do you
mean to make such fuss as that
over every little thing, Chickie
dear?"
"Ah-that's the science of it,
mother darling. You don't sleep
right till you crawl between sheets
so cornered!'
And, finally, she could have made
the bed with her eyes closed.
Jonathan insisted on driving her
back to the hospital. Are you hap
Ply In this work, Chickie girl?"
"Yes-but If should fail"
"Shucksl A bright girl like you!
You've worked before and were a
shining light, weren't your"
This is different. I'm awfully
stupid. Don't tell it to Jennie-but
I ann"
Jonathan laughed. Don't you be-
heve that, Chickie girl! Just up
with your chin, now"
"Oh, my, yes!" She pulled her
Others head down and kissed him.
~ ran through the gate, giving
Der name to the keeper. She said
20 herself, Historically: 81 may be
tunning out again, pretty quick!"
She slept fitfu1ly-awakened to
hear Myrtle complain lazily: "Quit
making beds, will you! You give
me the nightmare. Quit jabbering
about itP'
She made the bed a thousand
times that night-she rubbed backs;
she touched twisted blue veins in
Mrs. Quinn's legs, saying softly:
You're better-I care-Someone
does"
From to that next morning
she was in the ward. For the first
time 1t seemed a long journey to her
from bed to bed with the trays.
And this morning when one petulant
woman called her half dozen times
10 say: Nurse, the pain is going
from my knee to my hip. I wish
you'd give me some medicine"
Chickie could have screamed. She
thought: II can't help it What can
I do about it!'
Because she was SO filled with ap-
prehension for her own fate. The
class with Miss Alberta came in the
morning. Chickie had made friends
with the two girls she had met first
coming from the showers. She liked
them. She walked into the class
with them, a sense Of support in
their comradeship. She half ex-
pected to be ordered out.
At the end of the lecture, Miss AL
berta said: There is a notice on the
bulletin board. You are all to read
It."
The notices said: THE following
preliminaries are to report at II
o'clock for second instruction in
bed making"
There were but two names
Chickie's and Myrtleis.
But every girl read the notice and
they were all crowded together, max.
ing comments. Chickie felt sick
with the shame.
And she knew that her efforts to
laugh it off, to say, magnificently
"Ho-bring on the FOOLS cap for us!''
was a sorry failure.
At II o'clock she was there in the
ward room. Miss Alberta said: "If
you can control your temper today
Miss Bryce She said this before
Myrtle-"perhaps you'll be able to
learn"
Chicl1ie gave no answer. She
stripped and made the bed. She did
it perfectly.
But she was marked out in the