Evening star., 1941-01-19
Student Sculptor Following Footsteps of His Father and Grandfather
Just
| Between
Yourselves
BY PHILIP H. LOVE
.runior Star Editor.

4 little girl came to The Junior
Star Office the other day to have
her picture taken. While waiting
for the photographer, she took of
her coat and hat and began to
tidy up her hair.
'Take that bobbypin out Of your
mouth" her mother commanded
will YOU never learn that it's dan
gerous to put things in your mouth?'
The child looked annoyed, but
she removed the bobbypin from
her mouth and laid it on my desk
your mothers right" 1 butted
h. "If you swallowed one OF those
things, 1t might kill you"
But I wouldn't swallow it," the
girl argued. I'm always careful
when I have something like that
In my mouth"
"She's always putting things in
her mouth" said her mother. I'm
always after her about it, too, but
1t doesn't seem to do any good. She
keeps right on putting things in her
mouth: all kinds of thingS-pins,
erasers, paper clips, anything at all"
X
A lesson for that child-and for
anv others who have the same dam
eerouS habits contained IN let
ter I received recently from a 10
year-old girl living in Prince George
County, Md.
While visiting a cousin in Prince
Frederick, Md, last summer, my
correspondent swallowed a paper
clip. Here is how she describes the
incident:
I'VE played all kinds of games,
30 one day we decided TO make gifts.
I was putting some paper together
And had clip in my mouth, and
when I laughed, it slipped down my
throat"
The girl was frightened at first,
but when no ill-effects followed I'M
mediately, she forgot the clip.
"It did not bother me until Sep
tember,' she continues, and then
Il was thought that l had pneu-
monia. but I was only sick a few
davs. Again in October I was Ill
with the same trouble. This began
to worry the doctors. and about De-
cember 10 I was taken very Ill again.
The doctor sent me to a hospital
for an X-ray, which showed the clip
was in nv right lung. Having for
gotten all about the clip, had never
said anything about it to my mother
81 had pneumonia and a high
temperature," the letter goes on,
"but l was rushed to Philadelphia to
have the clip removed. The doctor IN
Philadelphia had machine that
he had invented, and he was very
famous for such cases. made the
trim all right and was rushed to a
hospital, where more X-rays were
taken, and the next day the clip
was removed"
The operation put the child on the
road to recovery, and she was we'll
enough to return home on Christ
mas Eve. Her letter concludes, how
ever:
81 am still in bed. but the doctors
say I will be we'll in about two
months"
X X X X
I hope the girl of the bobbypln-
and any other children who have the
risky habit of putting things in their
mouth-Will profit by my cor
respondents unhappy experience.
She was rather lucky at that; she
could have died. incidentally, the
physician referred to in her letter IS
DR.. Chevalier Jackson, famous as
the inventor of the broncoScope, the
device used to remove the clip from
the girls lung.
A reader who signs himselt-or
mavbe it's herself-as "An Oldtimer"
offers an interesting correction to
Betty Bruffys recent article on
Anacostia High Schools new Girls
Military Auxiliary. Betty, one OF
The Junior Stars correspondents at
Anacostia, described the G.. M. A
as "Washington's first high school
girls military organization.' Says
the Oldtimer:
During the school year 1894-5
both Eastern and Business High
Schools had girls uniformed mill
tary companies. Mrs. Irene Dies
Stewart (now of Paterson, N. Jo was
captain of the Eastern company, anc
Mrs. Daisy Hodgson Talbert OF the
Business company"
Thanks. Mr.-or Is 1t Miss OF
Mrs. ?-Oldtimer!