Bemidji Daily Pioneer Newspaper, August 29, 1919, Page 6

DOGTORS: REMAKE WOUNDED MEN Red Cross Worker Tells of Mar- vels of Reconstruction " Surgery. EASY T0 GIEWAN NEW FACE &oldiers Brought to Hospital in Erance ~ With Coungenances, Merely Blurs 1 """ gent Away With Nor- . New York.—Miss Fva Hammond of e American Red Cross, who réturned. gecently; from: Elurope after nearly five xS, service, with the. allled armles, m Vho ‘wekrs decorations of the Brit- #h and French goveriménts, told of the wonderful results achieved in re- _qonstructive surgery by thie: surgeons ‘af the American and allied armies. ‘¥iss Hammond, whose home {8 in Saj Praneisco, was attached. to the staf af the American Red Cross hospital o Neullly, France. T . “It is_snrpriging how many' things gan be dong to.a man by a shell and. Seave him stlll;Tiving,” Miss Ha ;ld. “And the things that can he me to make it worth while for him % go on living are even more surpris- 8 Tl ,,"Denhl»snrgery is one profession #at has gone shead from the im- of the war in-leaps and bounds, e marvels that the doctors of den- gistry performed were not entirely up- xogqi, ore_the, war, but they, were o' ¢hdnce to, put these theorles’into ctice; except In: widely isolated The war proved that those b e were sound and practicable; & afforded them a means of develop- n There is nothing impossible in dental surgery now.” Make New Faces. ¢ “f have seen men come into that hos- )tal of ours with bloody blurs where their faces had been. Fed through 4hes and kept alive, I have seen their aining bits of skin stretched over he raw places, which filled with new fesh under careful treatment, and lly they have gone out into the world with new faces. “There was one mdn, I remember, who came In to us with his entire face gone—nothing left but one eye. We fed Mm through a tube, built-him a metal w, fitted with teeth, and made him k lilke a human being agaln, ex- t that he had no nqsé—thy two 1s. We found him a false nose d a pair of spectacles attached, hid- the scarred flesh around’his miss- eye, and-making:him look so much another man that one would not ve glanced at him a second time note his. deformify. e £ ‘Another man came to us with the geater part of his face. iptact, but th no nose. Tt Had bgen' shot. off pletely, leaving his flesh flat from n to forehead. ‘We ‘madeé fiim & to it him. From the place where Ms nose had jolnux to his forehead re hung a little v(}s:i'ols’kln’.""l‘filfi s pulled down, st;etched every day, d kept dry and héalthy by an”anti- | tic powder. Flm§]y it grew. to the | gprrect length for a4 nose.” Then we | ened his wrist and grafted a plece ‘ bone to the place where his nose ghould have been, bindlng arm nnq i {ce together untll the operation was l spmpleted. Then we adjusted the skin, i ich filled out with healthy flesh, and ' ere was a new nose!" ' Easy to Give Man New Face. A man whose face had been hang- down from below his eyes, Miss mmond says, was # simple case. Hi8 wp was sewn back in plage. - met him on the street in’Paris,” says; “Just two days before I sail- and his face looked"jii a8’ usual, gcept for a slight scar which ran g under his eyes and across, b . In time it will’almost dlsap- r. A man who had been the victim a freak shell whith had ripped out very one of his tecth, leaving “him erwise unharmed, was supplied new gums and a complete set of r and lower false teeth. I have eyen seen a man with his brain bulg- down over his eye from a jagged in his skull. The brain has been &irefully. pressed back in- place, and *he.head fitted- with a metal plate. ‘operation leaves the pafient per- m’mmhol gr&%n his ?I’!flfl‘ con is concerned. He is, however, ble to go about much in the ho; i ap; strong; heat a| . him,. and, u’ffié’?fin'fiufiz frritates § " fifim Miss Hammond -sald, & ent would be brought into the hos- every effort was made tp save e, and in a short time the smashed es would take,a positi It, § to grow to&eaxer, W] ggq:fi bits would gradually work, f out 'Ot the Teg through thé' "o ; d\dopt No:Hat Gustem. Jondon.- | spreading. Lady Rhotd MeArthur and other famous wom- speaking on public platforms. Petrified Man! t rse, It's an awful ‘hard beginhing-4o a %flm career to 1 wouldn’t lose mine | brain was qufet. ST i & haried ampata: | —Among English women th I af going without hats %l" rapid- | MY, JIMMY’S BOSS By GLADYS PLUMMER. Jimmy Murphy’s freckled forehead assumed perplexed lines as he opened his blue eyes and beheld a long room bordered by numerous small white beds, similar to the one he occupied, but’ was immediately smoothed by re- meémbrance as a sharp pain shot through hls left leg, ¥ ‘A hospital,” came from the thin, ex- pressive lips. s “Yes, dear, a hospital.” Jimmy’s-head: turned: quickly. to. the. pretty nurse sitting at his. bedside. “You ran {n'front of an automiobile and yourleft 1ég: {5”broken. Keep up good courage, and in a few weeks you will be about ag;n‘ 1 will tell the house /doctor “you “are. coniclous,” she, con- tinued, “and. he will'sénd word to your Iell hage, . fab o O 1, 1 guess,” sald the boy, then, g spddenly: “1 the. evenit R e passed b g the, narse, 8 (OF, bed e, fignrs of. eali the. a'f’;p‘r “th co';;ifi)lllow,, ang: g always hanging 'round the cor Ms'dyq;wpg He talks, {%nr' mused. 7 Y £ “Better today, Jimmy?” asked Miss Ashby next morning, as she placed the thermbmeter, in: his mouth.’ A “T'm. not going to whine; nurse,” but his,_ slight movement caused. a barely perceptible twitching of the mouth. The nurse bent over him, her cool hands bringing a wonderful peace. “Say, nurse, you've got hair that looks like gold in the -sunlight, too, haven't you?” Jimmy's eyes glistened with the rec- ollections of the man’s description of the girl in his stories. “And eyes that look like violets gmwing In the fields,” he continued. “Oh, Jimmy, I do hope you are not getting worse.” The boy became serious at once. “Sure not,” he said reassuringly. “I'm | lots better, 1 was :3: thinking about | a girl somebody told me about once. I'm thinking about something else, too, Miss Ashby." "It I dpn'€ get to work by Monday I l6se job. The boss he—he sent word d it's Saturday now.” ‘ “That's ridiculous, Jimmy. worry about that.” “But_you kpow, o Don't lose._your job. “ “You' cannot possibly go to work by that time,” Jimmy.”" ‘What Is his ad- dress? I will go and see him my- Self.” L “Jimmy’s_eyes brightened. “It's the Cumberiand building, room 24. He's alone about four o'clock in the after- noon, and that's the time I always ask favors.” ) “All right, Jimmy ; don’t worry about it any more. Good-by, and I will tell you_all about It tomorrow.” His blue eyes never left the grace- ful figure as she left the ward. “She’s just sunshine and violets,” he said to himself, and his contented The next morning as Miss Ashby was_making Jimmy's; bed he thought the violets shone brighter than ever in her eyes. b “It'sall right, dear,” she sald. “The hoss says you may stay until you are absolutely well. ‘And, Jimmy—" she wds 16t looklng at the boy now—*“you did not tell me his name, but I found that—that I knew him very well. He did not understand about your fear of losing your place. What did you mean, dear?” Jimmy hesitated a moment, then sald: “I wanted to do something for him, nurse. You see, he used to tell me a story every day when he came to bring me things, and every story had a girl in it. And one day I said to him :*“That's just ‘like Miss "Ashby.' “"What do you kaow about Miss Ash- by? he asked; and then I told him yon was my morning nurse, “ used to see her real often once, Jimmy,” he sald to me after « while, | e N “‘Not now? 1 said, ‘If yon'd her, 9%%9, 1 shouldn't think iq%:q‘ '.%i': KILE" be sald; ‘she, mank. spe “And then, Miss Ashby, I lled to you. H told 'd 1 it n‘etntrhcré‘ I;):dq, os; oo 811 lie had dons’ i bhave joined the "fic-hat brigade | B2W.. C ht, 1919, the McClure Newspa- (Copyright, ”r?’ndmu., 'spa- Not on the Casualty List. Father=Well, son, I see.you're back from the front and not a-scratch. “Son—No, I quit scratchin® as soon 58 ket ook of e CrEsohet. 3] i’tlon the story. at.-all, express: skepti- £, | ble.orlgin_for such tal Intelligent. eyes, watched FRIDAY EVENING, AUGUST 29; 1919 MONKEY CHAIN CALLED MYTH.| Recent Travelers in South America . Explain Probable Origin of Story Once Implicitly Believed. An interesting article by Prof. F. W. Gudger, In a recent issue of Natural History, deals ‘with the time-honored story on which most of "us were No Differenco in Degree. Dorothy, was very much. i o in watching twin boys who sat acfoss /rom her in the strdet car.” They were peculiar-looking children, but Efi much allke in feature, At dinner night she sald, “Daddy, yon ought to haye seen those boys on the car today, Q&q looked just exactly as bad as the - other,” Net, Wool and Beads. A new kind of trimmning is coarse net i run with' strands, of white wool and | with rows of beads. sewed on as an ledge. This. fabric is sold at the trim- iming counters all ready to incorporate (in a frock, but it is also possible to | make it at home. i | This trimming is used in banding |outdoor. clothes. Of, course, when it 18 finished the net does not show, and [ therefore the bands are heavy enough )QQ use on-white serge, jersey and other | \summer sport fabrics. g ] All restrictions on the importation : into Indla of any American manufac- . tures or products, with the exception : of gold and silver coln or bullion and i cocaine, have been removed. Impor- tation of cocalne and allled drugs is | forbldden at all times except under | a license granted by the chief cus- i toms officer’ at the places of import. brought up that South American mon- | The fmportation of gold and sitver | keys are in the habit of crossing alliga- | coin and bulllon Is restricted in that | tor-infested streains by lnking thelr | the government of India reserves. the tails and legs to form a living bridge. |' right to purchase all importations of Pictures of this. feat once figured ex- | game, : Some. Colgn of Vantage. _From the Metropolitan tower, New, . York, on & clear day. can_be. seen. the | tensively In the school “geographies, |i P R E. i ITHE PIONEER WANT ADS| homes. of one-sixteenth, of the estire | and Professor Gudger reproduced;such f Subscribe for The Ploneer, } BRING RESULTS population, o?; the United States. & ‘picture from'a Fourth reader pub- | \islied as late as 1807. The story was |, | first told; so far as known, by:the. Jes- | ult priest Padre:Jose Acosta In. | work published in 1589. Sé¥eral. later | writers. have repeated the tale. The. | firsg’ person: to dispute its.veracity was i Baron Humboldt.- Recentlyi:explor- iers: of'South America, whert they men- m!é&viceablé Schoel School begins Tuesday and: hundreds. of Be- midji boys will again hurry at the sound of the gong to their lessons. - These boys will need warm, comfortable and serviceable clothing, and with the idea of meeting their every need, our store has made every, effort to secure a large stock of clothing from which they. will get. the. best of service. As the result of the careful selection of stock each year, and the. efforts. we. have made to give Bemidji boys the hest possi " ble service, we have bui icism. TFinally, Messrs, Leo: E: Miller {and George: K. Cherrie: of:the; Ameri: ican Museum of Natural History, who 'have done so much traveling; and col- !lecting. in: South, America, have, sug:- | gested to; Professor Gudger, a_plausi- 8, They think |that the story of the “monkey. bridge’ has come about through' observation iof a procession of monkeys crossing .a rayine or stream on a m?cqg Iggpa. |~Selentifie” American. = * “up an exceptionally large trade and the list of customers-is growing each year. - : y 5 Qur line in suits, overcoats, sweaters, caps, footwear and anything the boy may need, is complete. Our prices are rgggpqa};lg a,nii;“)':qg are assured of satisfaction in anything you may buy here. ' 0. J. LAQUA THE CLOTHIER 206 Third Street Bemidji, Minn. 'mel |known cases’like that. There were itwo sisters I knew when I was a boy. [They * were wonderfully alike, 1like {that portrait’s like you, and yet one of them was a8 beautiful as a poet’s dream, and the other was dreadful— Ithat'fs, I mean, she wasn’t at all—or, rather, she was lacking in that—that attractive quality, you know, that con- stitutes—what a lovely frame this por- trait has, eh?"—Edinburgh Scotsman. SUBSCRIBE FOR THE DAILY PIONEER Everybody knows the conveniences and safety of electric light. Everybody wants it. » Everybody knows the convenience and practical utility of electric ihousehold appliances. Everybody wants them. All Right!’ Here is our Plan; | We will wire that house of yours at absolute cost while the present campaign is on. We will send a crew of “Dirtless Work- men” who will do it without muss or fuss. And after it is done you may pay for it on easy terms. That’s fair, isn’t it? 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