Show I Q in o 1 a s Patients Patie r rin ts By JAMES J MONTAGUE A Washington doctor has all his lIis hospital hoS ial treat their patients by singing to them ELINDA was a gentle nurse who wore a frock of blue BELINDA 1 And labored long and lovingly to pull her patients through But some were peevish and perverse and though she tried and tried To heal them just to spite their nurse nur se the ingrates went and died 11 And so she we brooded night and day upon her grievous wrongs Until she he heard a doctor say Why dont you cure with songs soul then knew content conten t she jettisoned her woe D And everywhere Belinda went a song was sure aure to go Beside the bed where parting life apparently was laid She warbled softly Get Gel a Wife I and an d trembling and afraid The patient suddenly and picking up his grip Departed through the window wind w at a L Lusitania clip 1 l I ELiNDA next tried timidly the II Merry Me Widow waltz BELINDA I Upon a man whose bones were full of fissures flaws and faults a 1 Resulting Res hing from a fracas with an elevated train x From which a badly broken man ma they th ey pulled him forth again f s When first the languorous I notes n otes he heard he wore a puzzle d air Then blinked then into fury stirred he went away from there th ere r 1 BELINDA ELINDA has one patient now the others fled away As fast as she could get et to the m and soothe them with wilh her lay To him she croons My Teddy Bear School Days andI and Love You And he lies quite contented there the tuneful hours through I sung him all the latest hits and that is going some But he appears to like them all for he is deaf and dumb I |