The evening world. Newspaper, December 4, 1912, Page 15

BOY GETS SPEECH BY FALL THAT CUT TONGUE LIGAMENT, Little Robert Ecke Playing Soldier Tumbled and Drove Tube Into Mouth, |d Robert Ecke, son lawyer and captain of Company A, Forty-seventh Regiment, Mving-at No. 182 Lincoln avenue, Brook- lyn, fell with a piece of brass piping tn hig mouth, he met with an acetdent which hag resulted in enabling him to apeak. Before that he was dumb. Mr. and Mrs, Ecke are’ now teaching the ttle fellow to speak the words he could not utter before he was “hurt.” ‘The Hoke child’s affliction was a soures of keen sorrow to his parents. ‘The little chap had undergone a slignt operation for a facial blemish, and his mother was greatly opposed to his going under the knife again. Still, the wisdom of an operation was often dis- cussed by the parents, They had made every effort to teach the boy to talk. He seemed to understand what they sald and to realize the meaning of the words his brother Albert read to him from a primer, but no echoips word came from Robert. Recently the two boys were taken to a review of their father's regiment. It was the first time the smaller boy had seen #0 warlike a spectacle, and he was deeply Impressed. On Tnanksgiving eve he invaded the kitchen of his home, in- tent on emulating his soldier-father. He foraged around till he found an agate- ware pot, which he put on his hea ‘Then he got the cover of a tin boiler, shoved iis arm through the handle and made a shield. TUBE CUT LIGAMENT AND GAVE HIM SPEECH. But the equipment was not complete. At the drill the bugler had ca ttention, and Robert searched to mething that would do for the strument that had made al} the fine noise. He found a t low brass curtain pc mouth. At that moment something frightened him and he dashed forward, He struck a door head first. The sharp edge of the make-belleve bugle was forced into his mouth. His screams brought his mother and father, After he had been quieted ft was found that the sub-lingual ligament h deen severed a8 though with a surgeon's | knife. Since that night the boy has been able to talk like . After an eight years’ wait, Mrs, Will. fam Thompson Monday heard her frolicking eight-year-old Pearl, ‘her shaven head still bandaged as a result of an operation that had loosened the dammed up flow of speech, say the word her mother-heart had been 0 long de- | nied. This operation, as told in The! Evening World yesterday, was _per-| formed by Dr. Willlam Chapman of the | Swedish Hospital, who removed a plece | of the skull which pressed upon the speech centre and paralyzed it. And to-day Mra, Thompson and Mrs. Michael J, Devitt of No. 419 St. Marks | avenue, whose elght-year-old Terence |s convalescing from an Identical operation, patiently are giving their little ones the talking lessons that for years had) proved futile, ELECTRICITY MAKES WEIGHT. PARIS, Dec. originator of thi dng the hu trical curren the Acader t a remmrkable serles of experimen: which seem fully to confirm his claims, | A patient who Was a physical wreck, owing to inability to assimilate foc and weighed only Pounds, was au fected to a serics of forty-minute ap- plications of a high frequen He now weighs more than 138 poun. and 1s of normal strength, although he eats much less than before the treat- —Prof. Berg theory of now of ele ated to its of Recovers Strength clartin Armbrust, of Belme Ark. ‘Iwas taken rick with Acute inal lieetion ‘and heart trouble. | had alump in my stomach that nearly distressed me to death. I took all kinds of medicine and was discouraged when my daughter begged me to try Dutfy’s Pure Malt Whiskey You would not believe how much good it hus done me. I haven't taken any other medicine in two years~ only Duffy's Pure Malt Whiskey, and T never will be without it. 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