Show MUSTEK TAILORIXG i A Clever Young Woman UTio Earn j I si Fine Income Fitting PlaMtec ol Inris Jackets New York Feb 3Wihat ai good thing it is that the Lord has giveni men brains to cure the diseases which the devils vices bring upon us was the thought constantly in my mind as stood the other day in the New York Hospital for the Ruptured and Crippled Crip-pled Sufferers come to the hospital i where the deftfingered physician I straightens treats and bandages them i It is very interesting to sec ai PIasteLt of Paris jacket put on the task beIng be-ing accomplished by the physician in j charge and Miss Uizzie Connor who J i is the most skilled nurse in this department de-partment in the city The first thing on the programme is to strip the patient pa-tient to the waist and sponge the < body off carefuLly when a gauza un < dervest is put on and drawn smooth i Then the head is fixed into aJ sort ot basket of leather straps and buckles which hangs from a pulley lestened to the ceiling By means of this the crooked spine is relieved of the weight of the head and brains which Is considerable con-siderable averaging from two to three pounds and the spinal column is Straightened as nearly as may toe Next pieces of doublefaced canton flannel are out in various shapes and sizes and laid as pads over the pro < truding bones hips back and ribs at any place where there might be rubbing rub-bing and consequent soreness > If there is already a sore or an abscess a circular cir-cular piece with ai hole cut to fit the sore is carefully laid around it The neat rolls one sees in a box near bare b-are made of strips of cheese cloth sis yards long varying In width from four to eight inches thickly dusted over with dry plaster of Paris then carefully care-fully rolled ready for use While nurse and surgeon have been busy preparing the patient several of these have been soaking an I water Now all is ready The surgeon seizes one of these rolls gives it a squeeze to remove superfluous water unrolls a piece lays it across the hips of the patient and begins to wind it around and around carefully smoothing smooth-Ing all wrinkles and creases ias he goes If any fold has to be made it is made where as pad is that the crease may not mark the flesh The nurse stands on one side the surgeon on thei other and the roll of bandage is quickly passed hack and forth They begin at l VI IFL ir Tki 1if I ro jj jJ j r 1 cI 1j 44 1 I it I J 0 1 mss JIZ7 IE CO > fOR 1J the hips making the jacket thick and nrni After a layer has been put on alt over the body they put the bandage I band-age back and forth across the back and shoulders where double strength is required then another layer around and around This is continued until for a grown person seven or eight rolls have been used For a child It takes but three If the patient should from weariness or nervousness materially change position po-sition and the crease appear in consequence I conse-quence all the work is undone and anew I a-new jacket has to be begun It dries almost immediately so nurse and surgeon sur-geon have to be quick and deft and that is why Miss Connor is so valuable an assistant After two or three years wearing of these jackets which cannot can-not be removed the patient is promoted promot-ed to wearing one which hooks together to-gether down to front and can be taken off Thus giving a chance for bathing and rest J I had a curious sense of being fin a 1 I sculptors studio as I stepped behind I the screen where tifO suiyreon in along a-long grey linen smock such as sculptors J I sculp-tors wear was busy smoothing and 1 I I i modeling at the poor subject standing i In much the position and exactly the I drapery of Venus and Milo It is a S I nobler art to restore a poor distorted i frame to its divine uprightness than to loose from its marble prison the I I fairest form that fany ever dreamed 1 ISABEL D KEE 1j 1 < j |