Show I 1 j KELLIE ELLIE bevell VELL says bays ay s AME and fortune are things bilings that FAME enot not everyone can have but to havo a friend even though lie he be only a four legged one compensates for a lot of things in the public ward of the 1110 hospital SPItal in which I 1 once dwelt there lay a human derel derelict lct lie ile had no visitors he had no money but lie he did have one friend day and night nigh t tor for eleven weeks it yellow creature of the type commonly referred to as pup kl ki woodlo or cur gave a marvelous exhibition of loyalty while pawing out a living from the garbage cans at the rear of the hospital where his owner was confined pete for that I 1 understand was the dogs na menever left the elile walk from the day lie arrived lit in the wake of the patrol wagon in which his friend was brought once he eluded the doorman gained admittance to the hospital and found ills way to a cot there ho he heard ills hla masters voice whatever understanding they lint had between them scented to satisfy pete for lie he went out and resumed his vigil at the door every box office treasurer heats hears of defective vision and hearing so often lie he thinks an eye and ear hospital should adjoin every theater A prospective spec tive patron mumbled something about cant see very well and a little leaf deaf to charles thomas in the box office at the century theater in new nevy york last week at the moment thomas homas 17 was toying with a bank pin which lio lie ue accidentally flicked out of his hand to the public side aide of the window the patron a courteous middle agea woman immediately stooped with alacrity picked up the pin from the floor and restored it to thomaa through the window the treasurer could not resist a smile adlle at the thought of the alleged defective vision the woman got wise also im taking my grandmother she he laid its she who cant see very well and its my hearing bad the alibi was good for two down front someone Is always inquiring how benr my trouble started and how bow did it happen meaning when did I 1 first notice I 1 tied had been shell shocked in the battle of life that question Is about as easy to answer as how high Is UPI up it 11 Is as impossible to determine when it started as it Is when it will end and the contributing causes were wera as numerous na as the treatments it came slowly and gradually the doctor said it would leave the same way 1 I know now he be was right about the slowly but I 1 have found out what hope la Is its the thing that when you are playing solitaire and find yourself stuck without a move makes you run through the deck once more trusting find a way out hope whatever illusion I 1 may have had that I 1 was good copy was dissipated recently by my nurse nuree in taking me out of bed she always lifts my feet first before attempting to hoist me up the other day she swung me around and reaching under my shoulders stood roe me on my feet I 1 landed right in the waste basket that wa was s standing near the bed which makes me wonder if she Is as ignorant of newspaper customs as she pretends to be if it really was accidental or if she tins has a news sense On ething Is certain that if slie site dumps roe me tn in the wastebasket I 1 will escape the composing om posing room and will not be left in the overset 4 some time when you yon aro are bored to tears suffering from ennui or delving for a new thrill just try bringing not sending r ti few boxes of candy to the lall of some hospital or a few cartons of cigarettes to the mens hall be sure to include matches or a few baskets of fruit to the hall ask the person in charge to lot let you see her distribute it end if you dont say you have had the thrill of your life it la Is time for you to leave this planet and seek a new universe for there a thrill left in you t do you think im happy as the late lamented joe welch used to say eny in opening ills hla monologue I 1 was for far from it it I 1 was not having half the fun in the hospital that my mental nip filp flops might have led others to be aleve those who know mo me can hardly imagine me convulsed with joy fit at having to lie on my hack back all done up like joao joan of arc staring at the cell ing of a sunless room for four years the only outside views of life I 1 lifted were through a window which overlooked some factories and wholesale tl houses ous but there was one other thing to be been through tile the window nod and whenever I 1 felt myself yielding to an attack of self pity I 1 looked lit at it the ong lag atop the fourteenth street armory the sight ut it made me think of 0 tense boys who got their wounds doing some real good for the world uno nn tire lire still in cast casts and braces and on hospital cots for far front from home and friends when I 1 compared my lot with theirs it made roc me linte tny my impatience and wish visit I 1 could divide sonic some of my luxuries and comfort witt with them it treason but it twined seemed to me lint the theatrical folk were taking better enre care of their wounded than tile the was by t th Alo Naught inc |