Show idolly polly sees it through ur or loves labor gained by helen S burton chapter 12 AUNT KATE GOES ON A A JOURNEY V polly and Arri amancia amanca ands fitch were walking home together from the glendale Glend dle high school where the red cross cour course se in home hygiene and care of the sick was nearing its final lesson miss law rence the red cross nurse instruct instructor t had bad opened the eyes of her ber puo pupils by citing a number of cases which had been investigated by the red cross public health nurse who proved so valuable during the threatened outbreak of typhoid that the town had voted to retain her services indefinitely thank heaven fleaven 1 ejaculated the little school teacher this his craze of 0 some of my youngsters for headache medicine has abated since the public health nurse has begun making inspections of the school child children ten reported to the doctors suspected victims of eye strain adenoid growths diseased tonsils ton sils malnutrition and other causes of headaches did you know about that bates boy who lives near the peter sons queried polly baxter first noticed the child when he be was attending frederick petersons typhoid and induced him to let him make an examination last night our docton docili brother reported that the ver very Y definite lopsidedness lop sidedness which is almost crippling the little fellow is due to nearsightedness near sightedness in one eye for years the poor lad has been hunched up that way because he could scarcely see with one eye I 1 understand der stand that he be has already been fitted out wi with th glasses and that the public health nurse is giving him corrective exercises why polly that must be the tragic little white faced kiddie the school children with thoughtless cruelty have nicknamed I 1 shall certainly renew my efforts to make them discontinue that name declared amanda grimly as they reached the spacious grounds of the richardson home oh amandas amanda coaxed polly do come in and stay to dinner you have not been co t 0 see us this week urn let me see maids night out john at the aub club and you cant cook to suit your very particular doc tor brother teased amanda but dont worry ill stay provided I 1 may cook the dinner wash the dish es and put that pi decious baby janet to bed you may inay find me taking you at your kohr word was pollys hollys serious reply baxter is taking aunt kate up to chicago for an operation he expects to leave on the 1030 train tonight im anticipating anything 9 but an easy victory over aunt kate hate we told her yet as it seemed kinder to wait until everything was positively settled rather than have her go through the mental tortures of worrying about it for days before hand like most old people she has a horror of hospitals do you think asked amanda syn sympathetically pathetically that at aunt kates age there is anything to be gained by an operation I 1 mean is it not probable that she will come to the end 0 of f life long before the cancer develops to the point where it will be ccase a case of an operation or death that is just what baxter wants to find out express the true situation when I 1 said he was taking her to chicago for an operation what he be is really going to do is to take her to a specialist to see if possibly xray X ray treatment may not arrest its further development but he has charged me so repeatedly never to attempt to quote him on the subject that I 1 suppose I 1 did sound ambiguous 1 I understand was amandas reply be told me much the same thing the other day that though cancer is undoubtedly on the increase its cause is not yet known but it comforting to be told that all the evidence goes to show that it is neither communicable nor hereditary it seems to me polly she added earnestly that if everyone would act upon the advice our red cross course is constantly emphasizing and go to our family physician periodically for a thorough examination as to our physical condition cond ton most of the ills that flesh is heir he ir to could be nipped in the bud take cancer and tuberculosis for example I 1 early biag diagnosis almost invariably means positive cure f here we are interrupted polly as they r reached ached the front door the reins of the richardson household are in your hands I 1 must get alint kate ready for her journey to be continued vz g M am w make this an electrical xmas R 1 1 1 I I 1 we have a complete line of beautiful and useful 0 electrical appliances ALSO radio pets ets sporting orting G goods seagrave electric electro 0 C supply cos co cedar city utah f M S ests f sS y tS w mavs aw |