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Show PATIENTS AIDED BY RADIO Helped to Forget Their Shattered Nerves and Takes the Place of Sedatives. Combating the drug habit waa not among the uses to which it was believed be-lieved that the radio could be put, even by lta most optimistic promoters, Tet it has been discovered that patients pa-tients In hospitals equipped with radio sets which can pass along afternoon and evening concert programs, art helped to forget their sufferings and are less in need of narcotics to quiet their shattered nerves. The radio goes far toward carrying into the wards the gayety and cheer that have been hitherto only for the healthy world outside. Inasmuch as all doctor doc-tor agree that many drug addicts acquire ac-quire the addiction during convalescence convales-cence ln hospitals, this achievement becomes one of the most Important that has thus far been set down to the credit of the radio. The radio may remain a toy or a Jest for the healthy and cynical. It ' has already established estab-lished Itself as a heaven-sent blessing for shut-ins. New York Tribune. The Bright 8ld. "Any luck on your fishing trip this morning?" "No. Didn't get a bite." "That's too bad." , "Not at all. It's Just as well. If Td caught enough fish for dinner the wife would have made me clean them and I hate that Job." |
