Show THE OGDEN STANDARD EXAJDNER— SUNDAY MORNING MARCH 11 1934 gun 4A 1 V 3L TT vrr -- i ft wee KB 7-- rrn 71 'Zv n G EM A V yv:'- 11 ' LED ?i 'if-'- -- ' 4 iitll! r 1PII1 r r ' L Cft :UI W 71 j si f I J Uun 7 )S4 jr-U- AT -- 'Jit ? X i u Patricia Maguire years J Never has her mother ceased to ' merely a medical enigma without sickroom precedent" But to that smaller universe of friends and neighbors it jis the inspiration of one of the most poignant mother love dramas of modern - those who have watched Mrs Peter F Miley battle jthe living shadows engulfing her winsome daughter the struggle now in progress is! a colossal contest which raises To n 28-year-o- ld the question Is the oldest force in the world — mother love-- i — about to succeed where science has confessed failure? More than a year ago science admitted itself beaten It was unable it said to deliver the pretty Chicago secretary from the dungeon of dreams where she had been cast one February day in 1932 by the dragon of sleeping sickness But her mother did not surrender Spurred on by faith ind hope Mrs Miley continued the complicated regimen of nasal feedings inaugurated by the doctors She continued the massages and muscle exercises they recommended the sun and lamp treatments even the facials and manicures and shampoos which she had introduced V the sleeping girl the most elaborate care Every day she ts 1ed maasaSed stsonsed I O " Q ultra-violtreated with an lamfi : She also gets a daily "'facial' ana and a jorimgntiy hair-trishampoo give O ihe world of science the strange case of Patricia Maguire Chicago' Miss Rip Van Winkle may be times n last-phot- By Elizabeth Walker ' 4 :: ::::iV:- et m npHE girl actually looks healthy If one did not know her story it would be hard to believe that she has been desperately ill for such a j long time "Pat I Pat I Open your eyes' Mrs urged Miley gently when the writer of this article saw her Almost immediately thereafter Pat's head a mop of touseled brown curls began to move on its white pillow and her exquisitely ipianicured hands started jiumDling with the bedclothes beneath which one could see her 'tgs stretching Then her pretty face twisted into a yawn and through the sickroom there echoed a succession of drowsy gutturals At last her long brown lashes fluttered and her gray-blu- e eyes slowly opened "That's a sweet girl" encouraged Mrs Miley "Now smile at mother" Sleepily Pat scanned the blur of faces bent over her immaculate bed until her eyes encountered her mother's face when the corners of her rosebud lips lifted into a 'tiny smile — rshy but somehow friendly' 'This is Y reporter" Mrs Miley continued speaking in an ordinary conversational voice pt !" tary working in the Chicago office of Liberty Magazine and the chie topic of conversation wherever she went was the forthcoming Massie trial in Hawaii t is almost forgotten the Massie trial Today while Pat has become an object of scientific interest the world over j Despite what has beenl written the mysterious malady responsible for this attention did not For! attack her unawares To the contrary more than a month before it officially struck she had been compiaining to her family of increasing drowsiness "What is happening to me?" 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Maguire from the record-breakin- g sleep into which she fell two years ago it will be a triumph for one of the greatest examples 6t maternal devotion in modern history TVTOR did she cease this handsome silver- haired mother with the brave blue eyes and untiring white hands" her bedside "chats" with her slumbering daughter Daily she told her all the intimate all the humorous epochal things going around her: The number of fan letters ness1 do you?" the postman left that morn"You com down with remark The ing cunning skeping sickness?" echoed her small niece made at a' her mother "That luncheon Who was to be joke" And her step-- " president father her older sister1 is it & Mrs Gladys Hanson the Maybe only mother's hopej but ever latterfs husband and small :since Pat retreated behind daughter and Mrs J Kj her mystic veil Mrs Miley Lyne an aunt chimed in has clung to the belief that the laugh that followed she is subconsciously aware Laughable indeed was? of what is taking place in the mere suggestion that! this world of reality Pat a veritable outdoors n-Mrs Miley believes girl who excelled at golf too that the reason her and tennis and "simply ' is is not dead that daughter adored" to skate and hike! If ' S1U ' she is personally battling — " -should succumb to such a r Uii-:i wvJi r ' to get well And that is lethargic disease ' ' f ! v perhaps as good a reason ' ' t ft as any why Chicago's THHEN Pat told her -- fe i v it sleeping b e a u t y is still family how coming i alive ' home rfrom work on an According to all the Oak Park "L" a few eve- rules of encephalitis lethar-gic- a nings before — the evening The home in Oak Park III: where the has been cared for (which is the scien of January 19 to be exact by her mother fort two years tific name of sleeping sick—-shad fallen asleep Patricia Maguire ness) and slept past her station should be dead or at least "You're tired that's wasted away Yet she is neither She weighs "a newspaper reporter who wants to write a all" her mother reassured her "Tired and more today than when she dozed oft overworked I don't think you're entirely over i story about you Do you mind?" ' And persons admitted to the little yellow Pat's drowsy gaze seemed to follow the your flu yet" stucco house at 523 South Clarence avenue direction of her mother's words and at the ques"Perhaps you're right' Pat agreed and in the Chicago! suburb of Oak Park where she tion her head appeared to move in acquiescence observed how this sensation of drowsiness was lies asleep see an unusually attractive Then slumber again possessed her unknown to her until the recent holidays when young woman who Appears to be in the throes of When the girl fell asleep two years ago she had suffered a mild attack of "flu" awakening she was a relatively unknown young secre- "What if you should be sick?" said Mrs? f (Copyright 1934 by EveryWeek Magazine) r ill J ! IS T2m I $ im 1 sqh-swe- m 15 the Chicago girt Ttho has slept for more than two the taken before she became ill I V Miley "You know your family would see you through Don't worry" Pat rose from her chair a tall slender brunet with smiling Irish eyes and a lovely' natural color in her cheeks walked around the table and as she sof often did sat down on her mother' lap "If my fat little Mummy tells me not to worry" she laughed "1 won't" She flung hei arms around her mother's' v ' neck During the weeks that ensued how- - i ever Mrs Miley found herself unable Patricia Maguire as she looked when a baby to obey the advice she had given her I daughter Fearfully she perceived that I Pat was growing increasingly hard to arouse of mornings and that she had practically CPURNING surrender Mrs Miley set her- bed instead self a routine of slavish devotion that will quit going out preferring to go to What was still more disturbing was that her go down in history as an inspiring example of meticulous about her so the superb heights to which mother love can daughter usually indifferent her clothes had grown suddenly to reach And she is still following it and was becoming Pat is fed every few hours through tubes increasingly appearance in her nose — liquid foods such as fruit juices forgetful milk eggnog and meat broths After each climax came on the Monday after meal her teeth are brushed and once a month a dentist examines them Twice a day she is birthday when Pat at the insistence of her family consulted a doctor Recalling sponged rubbed with alcohol massaged and j THE the events of that day Mrs Miley said: "Hardly had Pat gotten home from his office than she complained of double vision 'I can see two of you' she told me as she lay n bed 'and I can't make out which end of the bed you're at' " For the next nine days she slumbered fitfully awakening usually at mealtimes when she would feed herself But on Feb 24 just one week before the Lindbergh baby was snatched from its cradle she lapsed into a death-lik- e ' ' coma ' Hardly had her eyes tightly closed than medical science set out to pry them apart World scientists examined her She was given blood transfusions Serums compounded of her own blood as well as that of sleeping sicknejs victims who had recovered were injected Still she slumbered on a mystifying puzzle for which medical science could not find the key So a year ago last November the doctors said they could do no more Straightway all treatments all medicines and serums were discontinued Everything was sus' pended everything but the love of the valiant silver-tresre- d mother for her pretty daughter It didn't quit - J i treated to ultra-violrays In addition she receives her daily "facial her manicure and her fortnightly hair-triSo exquisite are these and shampoo extra-lovin- g attentions that were she to awaken tonight she could return to her office tomorrow without having to apologize for her appearance During the day Pat's care is shared by her older sister Mrs Hanson whose unselfish devotion is second only to that of her mother But Mrs when evening comes Mfley carries on ' alone So intent is she upon achieving her epic goal that she even sleeps in the same bed with her daughter She fears otherwise that Pat might awaken at night and finding herself momentarily alone become frightened and retreat forever into those living shadows J Mrs Miley sincerely believes that Patricia will arouse some day no worse for her record-- ' breaking slumber If Pat were not destined to ' live what power sustained her through the severe case of lobar pneumonia which she suffered a year ago? 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