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I G LLIE I c S CZ dS d'S L lIE first day I was able to walk nik T Tafter J- J after four j ears years Imprisonment in a plaster cast upon a hospital fracture fracture- board I decided to call up a few friends and tell them the good news Accordingly Accord Accord- I made nl my way wa down the hospital hospital hos lios- pital corridor to to the telephone telephone an Instrument instrument In in- strument I had not used for long j years ears I was happy After 43 48 months I was once more to have ha the blessed privilege privilege privilege lege of getting setting wrong numbers and the busy signal s nal I didn't mind a bit getting getting get get- ting n Buttercup 14 1414 when I wanted Buttercup 1412 Finally I got the number I had bad asked I for tor expecting to hear hem m my friend at atthe atthe atthe the other end of the wire give three cheers and do a Scottish fling when she heard my voice oce actually at nt the phone Instead she cried and T i was disgusted I tried another woman who had bucked me up many ninny a time She cried too and I T hun hung up Then I called up my mr editor and he swore under his breath and ordered me back hack to bed at once giving ln as nn an excuse that he Was as afraid Id I'd overdo O It If all I was going to get for my trouble was tears and cusswords I decided it wasn't worth even a nickel a n shot to talk to my friends over O the telephone I must have been talking out of my turn 0 Do you theatrIcal people pray was the question put to me while I Iwas Iwas Iwas was In In Inthe the hospital recently by one of the most sophisticated nurses I I ever met She was not a student nurse and was far from an uneducated girl On the contrary she had graduated from the nursing course and had charge of ot ofa a n hall ball filled with patients I Inquired if she were asking the thc question seri seii- She said that she was and repeated repeated repeated re re- re- re the query I told her yes jes es but that flint most of us book direct and that I could find as much religion and humanity hu Im ml- ml inanity manity behind an any drop curtain In the world as ns in hn any religious Institution in the world I su suggested that she I drop Into St. St church on East Cast Fort third Forty str street et New York any Sunday Sunday Sun Sun- r da day at eleven o'clock or attend servIces services services ices at the l theater any Wednesday Wednesday Wednesday Wed Wed- noon or Sunday morning Itis It ItIs Itis Is appalling how many still believe that theatrical people are all all' Chinee as Bret Harte had It ft I Y I Pain Is n a great leveler leeler of oC ran rank Ie In Tn Ina a hospital hospital and and I know whereof I speak for I spent four years ears In one one one- there Is no such thing as the colonels colonel's lady and Jud Judy OGrady Of kindred afflictions we are all aU brothers and sisI sisters sis sisters sis sis- I In sorrow whether In public wards or private rooms Those of us more fortunate than others assume a n abig l big sisterly attitude toward the friendless friendless friendless friend friend- less and lonesome and sha O with them our looks books flowers magazines and goodies I question If there Is any formal sorority or fraternity that brings brines s Its members as close to together ether in the bonds Of s sympathy as tint that of the patients of the same doctor in the same hos hos- pital This Is particularly true of orthopedic orthopedic or or- bone case cases for the reason that they are the longest lon confined and aUlI andIn andin In consequence become acquainted with each others other's ailments aliments Medical and surgical ur cases rases are of comparatively comparative comparative- l ly short duration the overage average of hospital treatment being about three weeks but orthopedics remain retrain nn anywhere anywhere any any- where from six months to two or ur three years jears ears or even en longer loner Through the thc doctor In charge the and the nurses es one olle patient lu hems hem's ars about another and becomes as much Interested in others others' f fights for foI health as ns In his own o When the senior nurse makes her rOl rounds In In the morning morn n Jug ing taking temperatures generally the tho first fust question asked d of her lieI is ll v Is number So-and-So So this morning And AndIn In this wn any ay Is what frequently proves pro a fast and lasting friendship One of the closest friends I have was us wasa a n fellow patient ji a Ind lady Italy who came from Te Texas ns to be treated after years rs of suffering suf feting fering from Infantile p paralysis s 's s. s She now sends me pictures of herself at dances 0 It was vas was was' fish day and ond Peggy Peg ONeil O'Neil placed her order with the water waiter and find then waited She waited some sonic snore more and then lien some soini more and finally called the waiter to herSay herSa herSay her Sa Say she sho you OU dont don't seem to seem to be 10 be having ha g much mouth luck halt are you ou using 4 0 Atlantic Cit City was the last lust place that I visited before I took tool the count five nn years ears a ago o and II it was the first place that lint I headed tar lor when 1 I was able to be put on nn a railroad train and aud andas andas audas as 1 I sit st looking at ut the thc oc ocean ocean ulI 1 I cannot help but compare tills this summer with the former when I 1 lu lay luv In a u abare hare bore hospital rooms room from which I 1 couldn't even en see bee the sun bun and I breathe a u prayer of uI Everyone C tins bab bean the Story son about the proprietor who was as out outto to lunch when the lie irate customer wanted d to UI complain to him Nat Nut Vincent Vin nn cent the sons song vii wilter tet thou thought ht lie he had caught the lie story in ie real l life the tile other uther morning when he lie discovered lo di Jim amid anc Jack u owners of the New uw York restaurant restaurant rant runt of that name Maine at breakfast at ut the St St. t. t Inquiry oiled n a good story 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