Show TO GET OU OUT 17 ALIVE la IM ft a chinese hospital HT have cuttle chance to booter Bc oTer arom the london mall mail it if ever the we ro conducive to in ill fi eidth or a prolongation of disease those of a chinese hospital are am ceray meant to be productive of 0 con tinned nd revenue to the owner be ft t knoon the chinese hospital Is a s sivate sri rate institution run mn by the under oker he is always on the safe side aide mr the patient keeps alive he gets money for caring tor for him it his bis friends tire of paying for his keep he be to placed in the chamber of tranquillity after he dies the undertaker that pooh bah who ho has three offices only buries him and makes mon money ey out of hm h to the last imagine EL a room ten feet wide and twelve feet long filled with the odds and ends of ft junk shop let this room beso be so dark that it takes two candles to make a light and 0 so filled with the malodorous smells that are usually met with fn an chinatown dens dems that a a strong man hesitates before he enters and gasps lor for breath after he gets inside place a 6 halt dozen bunks round the walls tad ad a cauldron cauldren caul dron in which some witches itoch is bolling boiling in the corner let the vails be so full of rat holes that the C free cats which make themselves ft t home on the bunks with wilh the sick r hl nen namen are insufficient to watch em bm all imagine all this and you ilay aay have F some ome slight concept conception lon of what the interior of a chinese hos bos cital looks like it if your imagination 1 very vivid and you have seen chinese opium dens you may get pretty close to the real thing otherwise pt la is beyond imagination but the front room mom above described is elysium I 1 n comparison with the one at the jack ack there are grades of darkness he scientists tell us and these grades liay may be found in a chinese hospital acme darkness can be seen some can be felt that in the track back room can I 1 e felt palpably in fact it is present ito to all human senses at once it can be tasted it can be heard it can be abeen seen it cm cin be felt that it can be smelled wnm without saying you I 1 stand just jus within the opening which whick I 1 tay Y courtesy is called a door and you bhear hear breathing as if someone were exhausted after a long run you are pot mistaken it is a wan man brea breathing heavily in his race with death he is astill still alive and you wonder why i groping your way you reach some t I 1 stationary object and light a match it just gives enough light to enable you to see a candle on a bench and you light alight that then you fel feel 1 that an elec i i trie are arc light would scarcely be su sum fal dent to enable you to pierce that i stygian darkness it is well perhaps I 1 I 1 that you have an obscured vision it t Is possible that if you could see all that Is in the room at onca you too I 1 would be a sick man it is a noisome den where vermin abound nd where rats m make oie their home where the living and the clad dead hurn humanity amity lie side by side aide the one waiting for its coffin and I 1 the other for the cessation of the for breath |