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Show MUCH LIKE CURIOSITY SHOP Doctor's Collection of Gifts Included All Kinds and Varieties of Queer Things. In an alcove off the doctor's office was his curiosity shop. "Contributions for my poor patients those things are," he said. "Every doctor who is known to have a large charity pratice Is the recipient of many glita which he Is requested to dlstrl- bute among needy patients. Some folks find that the easiest and most satisfactory way to dispense charity is through a doctor. No other agent they could employ knows so well what Is needed and who needs it. Better results could be obtained, however, If the givers would only consult me before be-fore sending In their donations. "All the junk In this room is of little or no use. Maybe I can dispose of it some time, but so far I haven't been able to. Funny and pathetic little stories are attached to some of the gifts. Here is a wooden leg. It Is the gift of a man who died about six months ago. It was his wish that some ether legless man should wear his leg. Plenty of men coming out of hospitals need new legs, but unfortunately unfor-tunately that man possessed such extreme ex-treme length of limb from the knee doi.-n that I have not yet found anybody any-body with a leg long enough to match It." |