Show t BOY CRIPPLED SEVEN YEA YEARS S IS Injured Injure in Babyhood od Seven Su Surgical Operations in rn Five Months Prove Successful INDIANAPOLIS April 20 Charles o. Charles walked a few days dars ago Ho stood nearly erect cred his head in t the tho e air I Ho He whooped and shouted and hugged tu cd I his mother It was ras the biggest est and best day daj of his life Most frost persons walk without thinking much mach about it its but they haven haven't t lain helpless for years rears like The lad is only 11 years years old For Por s seven of those years Jears he be could not walk he could not Dot raise ra so his body his his' head was dra drawn wn down until his his chin rested on his ch chest st st. He Ire has been taken falten from Irom the Methodist hospital to the homo of his bis mother Mrs Scrilda Serilda 1403 Boone street not quite well but wonderfully happy haplY Ij ll feel grand he be exclaimed t Ilove 1 I love lo my nurse I r lov niti my my doctor o tor an and andoh andoh oh ob how I Jove ova Mrs Mrs T L L. W W. Ellinwood is president Q of o the tho Mothers Mothers' Aid society which was 15 int r in in Charles I feel like a new Dew boy I w want nt to liY live live I 13 ant to run ruu runaround around ro like liko the other boys bos eve everything thing is grand to mo ma now I I am ani going OlD to Sund Sundry Sunday y school in the morning and I f am going goin to thank the Master l Geol I fc feel l great And they're going to straighten In my head and thon then I can read reada 1 a a. lot Jot I love loc to read I four feet two inches tall now no I sold old th the Star in inthe inthe the tho hospital and belp helped l to pa pay for the now braces The Tho happy mother who haS washed and sw swept qt dusted and ironed for years sears for a a h living ving jn shed tears of joy T r cannot tell you how haw grateful tl I Iam Iam Iam am she said Words cannot tell teU the hanks of a 3 mothers mother's mothers mother's heart They The took my boy away and brou ht hh him 1 back with nan new limbs limba and aud a desire to f live When n Charles was IS 18 months m old he fell front from h b in 5 swing became crippled as a result of spinal trouble and for seven stood his feet F Five Fc years calS never nenor upon c mo months a ago the Rev Rc George c S. S Tennin ner er Hast pastor or of the Edwin Ray Ra M. M E. E church Laurel street and nd Woodlawn avenue t tool ol an in the case casc Tic Ire enli enlisted ted the tIle Mothers Mothers' Aid society society- an and it engaged Dr John H. H Oliver Olivcr to supervise the case cage In five fhe months seven Reven operations were performed |