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Show WONDERFUL NERVE. A. Man Who looked on Calmly While th Surgeons Cut Off His Foot. Thomas E. Byrnes, a rnolder, had . a portion of his right foot crushed by being be-ing run ovct by a Lake Roland car yesterday yes-terday morning, which necessitated the amputation of about one-half of the foot. During tho amputation Byrnes gavo one of tho most stolid exhibitions of nerve and impassiveness to pain ever witnessed. witness-ed. Drs. R. F. Blake and Geer made preparations to put their patient under the influence of chloroform for this purpose, pur-pose, but when Byrnes was informed of what they were about to do he amazed them by tailing them to go ahead with the cutting, but that ho didn't want a narcotic. The physicians feared hi couldn't stand it, robust as he is, and plainly told hiru so, but Byrnes was firm and said he would get through it all right Then the surgeons proceeded as gently gen-tly as possible. The pain must have been terrible. Just imagine taking a knife and sinking it down into the flesh, severing sever-ing bones and joints! "It's enough to make one shudder, " said a bystander, a surgeon, too, accultomed to thaiorrors cf a surgical hospital. ppt,TIsr Vv'r ever, vvinced" foMed arm back of thS. ments of f no rolling absolutely JL pain except the'pfi',Jf'tii?w,,pf operation over, Byrnes thanked the surgeons, sur-geons, who seemed to be far moVe concerned con-cerned and anxious that tho job come to an end than the heroic patient Ba. Omora Amurjcau. A tfaso of Necessity. Gothamite I hear you have a Vassar graduate for a cook. Isn't it rather expensive? ex-pensive? Harlemite Not very. She works for her board and clothes. Gothamite 'Why, how does she come to do that? Harlemite Got to. She's my wife. Harlem Life. The Women's Co-oporative Guild or England may well stimulate American women favoring co operation to like effort. ef-fort. The organization has been in existence exist-ence only a few years, but has accomplished accom-plished a wonderful work. At its recent annual meeting over 800 delegates were in attendance. Its branches number 70; its members, 7, 511. It has secured shorter short-er hours for employees at Bristol, providing pro-viding 97 courses of nursing, health, cookery, etc., besides singing and physical phys-ical exercises, classes'fclothing clubs and excursions. Tho laws relating to industries in-dustries are discussed at their meetings. They aro in fraternal relations with tho Woman's Trade Union association, tha woman suffrage societies and other educational edu-cational and reform movements. |