Salt Lake Tribune | 1905-02-20 | Page 1 | Bathes His Feet in a Dreamland Stream

Bathes His hd in a Dreamland Stream When Ho Awoke His Extremities Were Frozen, and Amputation Will Be Necessary. CHICAGO. Ill-, Feb. 19. Dreaming sweet dreams of tho summer time. In which he wandered by purling brooklets and laved his fevered feeet In their rippling vators, John Kapler, 9190 South Chicago avenue, hung his feet over tho sill of his bedroom window. Jack Frost, all unmindful un-mindful of his wnnderlngs, nipped them and now John's feet may havo to come off. Had No Fear of Microbes. John, had a theory till last night but that theory has been shuken. He had been told that In order to got tho fullest amount of ventilation for his bedroom ho should lcavo IiIb window opon several Inches. John believed It, and lived up to It strictly through long years. Every night John's window wns raised, and when ho lay him down to sleep ho pulled the coverlets over his head, confident that no microbes would Intrude upon his slumbers. slum-bers. Laid Feet in Mythical Brook. Kapler, In his dream, felt his face fanned by the warm breezes of a summer day. Rising from his bed he walked to the open window, which In his dream he thought to bo tho bank of a stream. Pulling Pull-ing a chair up to tho window he sat down In It, poked his feet through the opening Into what ho thought was tho cool water, wa-ter, and Bnt there till daylight. Tho milkman and tho baker saw John's feet as they swung In the zero weather, hut they wero hurrying on their rounds, nnd thoy hsul no time to Inquire. When John found himself his feet were frozen stiff. Will Have to Use Knife. An ambulance took tho victim to tho South Chlcugo hospital. It was declared his feet might havo to be amputnted to savo his Ufa Kapler is 10 years old, single, sin-gle, and a workman In the steel mills.