Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, July 17, 1919, Page 2

P . . | i PAGE TWO MAKING OVER MAIMED YANKS Splendid Work of Aids in Occu- pational Therapy. TEACH THE LIGHTER CRAFTS . Change Morale of Hospital From That of Discouragement and Homesicke ness to That of Cheerful Actlvity, Which Exerclsed Not Only Stiffiened Joints and Muscles, but Thelr Minds as Well. By ELEANOR R. WEMBRIDGE. (In “Carry On.") It 1s no longer necessary for the Jivision of physical reconstruction to state what is to be the future work of the alds In occupational therapy in the wards of military hospitals. It {s now able to speak in terms of ac- tomplishment and say what the aids have already done and what they are doing both In the United States and 1 Europe. | There are now over 1,200 women in this service, Seventy-four of these are on duty in France, and nearly two lundred more were urnder drders and ready to sail for France, but. re- celved thefr transfer to demestic duty when the armistice was signed. ot the surgeons, who has just return- s ) Il 1) This photograph shows somé of Rinington’s school at Parkgate, Chester, England. During the i B 3 3 ) 3 wur Licutenan Perhaps the personal story of one | Rinington broke in horses for the government and he now traing huntersnnn( ! polo ponies. ed from France, will give more of am | #déa of the work of théss women thatt aiiy other deéseription could do. He déséribes miost vividly his surprite morning in the midst of an ff- pection of hundreds of arm and leg cases In a base hospital, when four women presented themselves in unl- | forms and announced that they were | “Raeconstruction Aids in Occupations | at Thetapy.” =40 atlondl therapy, HatP ssld thé major. (©4ywé Wil show you,” sald the girls. | Morale Quickly Changed. And with no material at all, (their box of supplies had disippeared en route and has never been seen since) théy began thelr work. Before their arrival the problem of keeping the goldlers contented had been_very- dif- ficult. There they lay, by dozens, (fifteen in a row, with cumpound fracturés' of the femur) having told all the stories that they knew, hav- fng réad all the books that. they could get, and having been reduced to shoot- fng craps from one bed to another to pass the time. The ald3 Degged old scraps of gauze left from bandages, dyes from the chemical Taboratories, | burlap that had come wrapped atound’ the hospital beds; and, on wooden frames, which they madé themselves, the boys were soon occupled hooking rugs. So great was the popularity of the rugs that they could not make, them fast enough, and they were usu- ally sold, provided the boys would consent to part with them, befurel they had hardly been started. From making rugs, the boys passed on to! wood-carving, basket-making, and the other crafts, as soon as mutnrlul[ could be devised. 'fhe morale of the wards was changed from that of dls-; eouragement and hotnesickness to rhat | * of cheerful activity. which exercised not only their stitfened joints an muscles, but their minds as well, | Thus the major concluded. “Wheui 1 saw “hose aids for the first time, I did not kuow what they were for,’ but now I know I never iutend te have a hospital without them,” Scope of Work Extended. From_teaching the lighter crafte “enltable for bed patlents, the alds have been requested to direct porch work, shop work, the teaching of academic subjects preparatory for civil service, the teaching of English to foreigners and illiterates, the teach- tng of the commercial subjects, book- keeping, stenography, and account ing, und even in a few cases the tenching of gardening, poultry rais ing, and photography. As one enthusiastic patient said,' wPhe education which T got in this’ hospital is worth the leg I left be | h'na.” There is still u demand for aids provided that they apply at once and ' are ready for immediate service in any hospital in the United States,: Since the work will not continue in- definitely, their services are needed without delay. Here is the chnncef for skilled crafts wowen, and for women with acadewic 2nd profession- al tralning to pay their final debt to the boys in the hospitals, who were &o ready to sacrifice their all, when they turned from civilians into splen- did soldiers. 'They must now face the harder task of changing again from soldlers and from hospital patients into healthy, <fficlent civiliaus. wha BRIV IV NN NVNVAY HER IDEAL By HELEN E. IVERS. YHVVVNANVAAIA (Copyright, McClure Newspaper Syndicate.) After a long and boring evening, Roy G—— finally said “Good night,” re- ceiving a very chilly answer on Joy N—"s part. Mrs. N ‘s “Good night,” was said-in a pitying, apolo- getic tone. After the door closed, she turned to Joy. “You don't know when you're well off, Joy,” she cried. “Here you have ! the seventh heaven. e cMMmce W farry 4 §oUng inan with good prospects and who loves you. Yet you spurn him. I had to come in her¢ tonight, for fear Roy | would go to sleep, your conversatiod | gy of bis visit: Finally he took-his was so Interesting.” It was a fine bit of sarcasm, but Joy did not mind. “He i3 not my ideal, | mother,” she sald. “The man I marry 'a | must be better looking than he is, and | was. 1 don’t want him to have good pros- | pects ; he must be eformotsty rich.” Mrs. N—= sighed. It wa# certainly | no use to talk to Joy. i Two weeks later, Joy went to New Hampshire for her usual autumn va- cation with her grandmother. She ex- pected to have a better time than ever this year, because her grandmother had written to tell her that there was a house-party about half a mile away. The party was chiefly made up of young people. They were a Jolly crowd and she en- joyed herself immensely, but all were glad to rest for dinner. While Joy was dressing, Christina James, one of Jher young hostesses, came into the roomn. “You.look. fine, Joy,” she sald after. sutrveying her guest. “1 want you to look your best tonight, because & man has just come, whom we want you-to: meet. He's the catch of the season, dear, and as he doesn't care especially about any of us, we want you to see wkat you can do.” At dinner, therefore, Joy was Intro- duced to King W——, the aforesaid Prince Charming. Her heart throbbed, suddenly, on seeing him. Where had ghe ever seen such n man before? e was tall and lght, with sympathetic dark-brown eyes, a wonderful smile, and an engaging personality. On the other hand, Joy, herself was bewitching little creature. She had uantities of wavy, chestnut hair, vio- let cyes, and a clear, transparent com- plexion. King W——, who admired pretty faces exceedingly, imwmedlately attached himself to her and rarely left her side during the evening, while the | other guests nodded their heads and smiled knowingly. For the next few days, she was in Lvery place that she went. she was nccompanied by Kinz. who proved to he wonderfully congenial. It -may be udded here that Ne was always thus with every girl he kn it was this way that endeared him to all the feminine sex. It developed that he had a wonder fully mellow voice and nobody but Joy could play his accompaniments suit- ably. Two days before she was to go homne Joy went back to her grandmother’s to stay there for the remaining time. King was a constant visitor, and she beeame more and more enraptured. At the end of her vacation Joy came kome. her head completely enveloped in clouds. She did not notice Roy’s ab- sence ur:itl her mother, who had wait- ed for her to ask where he was, volub- teercd the information that he was awny on business. One day after her return King call- ed. e decorously acknowledged Joy's Introduction to her mother, and after the latter left he talked pleasantly for 10 or 15 minutes. “I came to tell you something,” Miss Joy.” he said. . Joy's heart fluttered. She felt that she could guess what he wanted to say. He went on, “You know,” he sald, “it has been in- evitable that 1 marry some day, and my mother promised that she would help me in the search for a sultahle wife, T may tell you now that she has succeeded.” Joy gasped as he took 8 plcture out of his pocket and showed it to her. “You see, mother i1s ah— rather particular and her judgment ir finally picking this girl shows her ex- cellent laste. The gir) Ig a dream, i8 she not, Miss Joy? Of course, It goes without saying that she is rich. Mother would never allow me to marry a poor girl. Why, Miss Yoy, are you faint? Your lovely color has completely dis appeared.” “Qh, I'm ay tizht” Joy managed Lni o the éxpert lady r of Lleutendn: answer. Although her eyes Weére frrev- ocgbly opened to the kind of creature her former idol was, she pulled herself ogether and remained calm until the leave and courteously bade Mrs. N — farewell. g Neanwhile Roy hastened upstulrs and burst into the room where Joy To his surprise she was.lying face downward on the sofa. He ap- proached and kneeling beside her gent- Iy’ tifted her 'Hedd. - She started at seeing him, But ft was a Rappy curprisé. tof Joy had found that ideals aren't | “qll they're. cracked up to be.” At suppertime she camé down with a solitafte gleaming ou hér finger.” Her mother looked at it andsniiled rucful- ty. “Which one, Joy?” she asked. “Have you found your Ideal in Mr. W—1" “Pooh!” Joy answered, smiling ra- diantly. “Whom do you suppose? At| present I am engaged to a poor but deserving young man with good pros- pects, and some thne in the near future he and 1 are ‘to be married. @' Mr. W-—-, well, he was & fieeting delusion. Jhat's all” T0-AVOID. MOTTLED BUTTER Defact Is One of Workmanship and Can Be Prevented by Application of Proper Methods. * (Frepsred by the United States Depart- ment of Agriculture.) Mottled butter is frequently found on the market at this time of. the year, and, even though it may be of very good flavor, it is strongly dis- criminated agalnst by the purchaser. As this defect is one of workmanship, it can be evercome by the application of proper methods on the part of the buttermaker. Mottles are caused primarily by an uneven distribution of sdit in the but- ter. This may be produced by insuf- ficient working of the butter or by churning, washing, and working it at a very low temperature, or by washing or working it at a temperature several | degrees higher or lower than the churning temperature. } ‘When the quan‘ty of butter made in [ one churning is much less than usual, it is necessary to work it a greater number of revolutions of the churn than usual in crder to produce the! same results on the butter. { Extremely low temperatures of, churning, washing, and working should§ be avoided, because they produce so| firm a butter that it is only with| gredt difficulty that the salt can be worked uniformly into it. High tem- peratires of churning, washing, and working mast also be avoided to pre vent an abnormui loss of fat in the buttermilk and also the making of a greasy, leaky butter, Great variations in temperature duriig the manufacturing process should always be avoided. Under nor- mal conditions the temperature of the wash water shonld be the sime as, or within 2 degrees of, that of the buttermilk. i Rival of the X-Ray. ] A physiclan has contrived a simple camera that seems to rival the X-ray fn & limited field. Into a light-proof | box, containing the member to be ex- | amined, he admits light from a tung- sten lamp, tiltered to pass only red rays. Passing through the hand ot foot the red light strikes, at the bot- : tom of the box, a photographic plate liighly sensitized with an eosim solu- | tion. An exposure of one-half second makes the shadow plcl\lre.——Popului Méchanics Magazin THURSDAY EVENING, JULY 17, 1919 e Unchanged by Centuries. The Turkish and other Mohazamedan villagers from the Thracian plains are pétracing the steps of thelr ancestors of five centurles ago and leaving Bu- rope to réturn to Asta. And the welrd part of it Is that in costume, convey- ances and manner of life there has been practically no change in these H00 years. The wheels of their long. nar- row carts have spokes in them~ now whereas they used to be solid wheels, and perhaps the rush matting that protects thé family from the wenther may be a little better woven. But the oxen or buffaloes tllmt leisurely drug tho frousehold along, and the barefoot- ed wite of the sandaled husbund with the goad who pulls these lambering anfmals by a string, and the primitive ritode of life on thefr plodding journey, | all belong to n bygone aye. STAHL-JACOBS Furniture Reénovators All work guaranteed. Work called for and de- livered. ¢ Géneral Repair Shop "311 6th St. Phone 488 FEWER OLD MAIDS Bright, sparkling eyes and a isweet breath are dependent on ‘a healthy condition of the stomach and bowels. Rouge ‘and other cosmetics fool no 'one, and are dangerous to health. Hollister’'s Rocky Mountain Tea drives out im- purities, pimples, blackheads, makes health-giving red blood |and that means a clear skin with rosy cheeks, bright eyes, and steady nerves. 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