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UNION RECORDER. MILLEDGEVILLE, GA„ AUGUST 23. ,926
Interesting Lettr from Mrs.
Nelle Womack Hines
Atlanta, Ga.
piedmont Hospital
Aug. 20th, 1928.
Pfur Home Folks:
Honest-to-poodness, when 1 c ““;
,J VO u good people in m> last
i ."r about taking care of the Old
Town while I was away, I
imagined there was any real
m ^ nafe to the safty of the place. I
T'l,,'-, tiream that you would lot the
; jn . ji.. r cnd and waoh away part of
.that had already been
' r that you would let the
: take off
is for the
ri- e an d mighty nei
ihe white way lights, and
j-j tv eater question—where do we
.' now? I guess all the Council
Yrifl start from “taw” (and I haven’t
ij,,. ylichtest idea now to spell it
i,„t that’s the line all the boys “toe”
Tvh'-n they play marbles I think)
any vay it seems that we are going to
to build us u sky-scraper to put
ouc pump in—so we will all have tc
v"rk together now to get straighten
ed out.
I’ve been looking out to see ir
dome of the papers if there wouldn’t
be a story about Mr. Eberhart—Mr
Lnfferty—Mr. Henry Wootten. Mr
Pete Bivins, Mr. Carpenter and the
"Judge”—catching fresh water trout
on Hancock Street. Its -a poor flood
htiit isn’t >oirpast by one good fish
♦ale. I hope by now you have eno
water to drink—its to bad to be
prived of the very last thing.
All of you who have written
and sent me car.ds—I am taking this
way of answering you—for I would
n ver be able to write to you all. I
am still getting on fine—there has
l*>en a slight change in my weekly
program—the last two operations
have been postponed for another
week or two—for good reasons. I’ve
pit to learn to "wiggle” that first
t«e before the doctor will go after
the next one. Now—that seems a
• mall thing to do—but if you have
had one toe taken out—turned
around and planted upside down and
then kept in a cast three weeks—just
let me nee you wiggle it! But its
n»mir.g on fine—I saw it move today
and I felt like I had accomplished
winders.
Hid you see in the paper where
we had a "near fire” at the nurse’s
home just next door? I didn’t pay
any attention to it—heard the fire
vneid-s coming out—knew they were
near—could smell the smoke—but I
wasn’t worried. Thought Atlanta
couF.I take care of her fires—which
she did. Rut there was something
funny connected with it—just a lit-
tei while after the fire engines left
the neighborhood, I rang for the
night .urse. when she came in I
noticed she looked kinder funny—
but it didn’t dawn upon me until the
next morning (after I heard where
the fi r( . W a R ) that she thought I was
scared and rang about the fire. But
the cause of my ring was a mt. He
was making more fus« than the fire
engine* did—and keeping me nwake
—which they did not. You can’t hunt
rats with a twenty-five pound cn.ot
nn *arh foot. We didn’t find him—
was evidently in the wall and
moved his headquarters the next
niirht- I haven’t heard him again.
They
get
sed
■nything and I guess thnt’s true. They
uwd to say that a woman could do
anything with a hnir-pin but
they became scarce—I’ve tried the
fly-swatter. I got me n real pretty
one all bound in blue to match
°n* of my bed jackets—and man—I
enn jus 1 do almost anything with
'^a* «watter! My bed in one corner
1 can’t reach everywhere—but with
*b'• fly-swatter I turn on an off my
■b-.-fric fan which sits In the window!
I r: oped on the hurenu those several
c-':hts that the rat was sawing wood
(to scare him awav)! I can turn
; ' l “ handle and reach my bath rag
' the wash hand stand—T can
h for things beyond my finger*
v 'I coax them near enough to »
a nd one dav I shut the do
' orne of those tricks on yi
lift .. f| v svvatter a 1 home. You :
I i t bate to ring for those nur
time I want such a little thing
1 almost went to a weeding one
I got near enough to have a
bier corsage and i dozen roses
me right after one—bv Miss
Jenkins of 0. S. C. W. She
r a bride’s mnid .V the wedding
f brother one night last week
■ "ught them by to me aft**r-
ar,! ' * to !d one of the nurses the
^ xt ai<, rning that I jumped out of
° window and went to a wedding
-and here way the proof—on the
She started out to, go get
feather and sweetheart roses and
•shiny stuff in the middle.
I’ve started my hospital scrap
book and it is doing wonders to
help me pass away a few hours each
day most pleasantly. Believe me it
is going to be quite a work of art.
I have had lota of nice company,
always glad to see them—but—some
how when they come and don’t find
me lying back with a wet cloth over
my eyes—they maybe feel that I
have no business in a hospital. I
thep hurridly explain that it is my
feet that are effected. Thank good
ness—the trouble hasn’t gone to my
head yet. It is real amusing to gc‘
some of the letters from friends
who are wonderinir what in the world
I am going to a hospital "sixty
days” for. I gu«-s it is mystifying
—one friend wrote:
"You didn’t state your troubles
but to read between lines.
Sixty days—so they say—is what the
Judge usually fines:
But den’t get discouraged, some in
worse shr.pe than you
Has served their sentence and been
released good as new."
I have been fortunate enough to
hnv? beautiful flowers in my room
all the time. As I write there are
two vases sitting on the bureau—one
a big tall one holding the most beauti
ful lilies—several different kind that
pmell like vou imagine n lovely lily
should. With them is a lavender
that blooms out the stem and
ends in a little green curlicu—I
couldn’t pronounce the name when I
knew it and can’t spell it—so you
will have to guess. The other vase
is a basket of lavender and purple
astres, yellow zineas and pink
—now don’t you know they
pretty?
Well the next time I write T guess:
it will he all over so far as my
four operations are concerned. The
last time I wrote I was about to have
♦ho second one—and Oh hoy—well—,
I didn’t "get down” in two days that
time—and the floating proposition
isn’t what it?' cracked
hone nr' runrdinn elfs will bo on the
job next time.
Tf I sfr.v un here much lone
will nrobal K' find a great
a few other relatives snmwherc
nmund. I found another G. S. f\ W.
•rirl in the office—found Dr. M.
Hines Rnheris on the staff of
nhvsicinns—and one of the ordilies
on th? floor who mons un and waxes
mv flon;* ovorv morning i« a Milledge-
ville boy and hi‘> father has been on
the G. S. C. W. “working
vard" faculty as long as I have work- j
ing on the piano. Wo discus
ledgeville affairs every dav i
seems nuite home like. One of my
nurses is a Covington girl—and that
is one of my old home towns
I hope you will .all bp
ful of my Home Town—it
could at least move the bridge out
of the way next time
flood coming.
Don’t tyrget the trains arc running
out of Mlledgeville one way at least
and my address is
My best to you all.
NELLE WOMACK HINES.
P. S. Jere wrote and said send a
other letter—and I felt compli
mented. I’ve just begun to wonder
maybe he was "out of soap."
INTERNATIONAL SUNDAY friendly men were placed for special
SCHOOL LESSON FOR AUG. 261 in '>« <"»« p™°". and that
- { hey migrt not escape in any possible
PAL! IN A ROMAN PRISON mln:u,r their fa u ' n >'' i >»-
Act-. 16:16-40 tVO b "‘ ,r,is Rfnoved enouah
j to . o d tluir ankles.
Long since they had learned that
trouble-tinu- should invariably be
prayer-time and one can always have
access direct to the Throne of Grace.
In their pr;:y t -r they rested their case
with ‘he Almighty. He has promised
to be our Burden-Bearer ns well oh
Our Sin-Bearer. It was P.-tcr who
learned the truth: “Casting all your
anxiety upon Him. because He
carcth for you,” I Peter 5:7. Mar
tin Luther said: “When your troubles
become too great for prayer, then be-
gan to sing.” Paul and Silas broke
forth in singing because they were
assured that their prayers w?re heard
and would be answered in God’s time
and way.
"Suddenly there was a great earth
quake” und all the incarcerated
as Paul and Silas, found t
Rev. '‘emuel D. P»We, D. D., Associate
General Secretary of The World’s
Sunday School /Association
Trouble followed success at
Philippi. As Paul went daily to his
place for teaching, a girl, indwelt
with an evil spirit, was met The de
mon within cried out against Paul as
he passed by. A general stu^y of
the Bible, both in the Old and New
Testament, indicates that the evil
spirits are always especially aggres
sive when they find their sway in
the lives of men is assailed as believ
ers r.re added to the Kingdom. There
is the outcry of conscious inferiority
and knowledge of eventual complete
overthrow, "For he must reign, till
he hath put all his enemies under his
fee,” I Corinthians 15:25. The out
cry was against Paul’s Lord rather
than against His mer • messenger. In
His Name Paul commanded the evli
spirit to come out of the girl and
there was instant obedience.
But this girl thereby ceaned to be
of use to the syndicat? that owned
her, for they made gain through the
devilment of the evil spirit that had
possessed her. In some way her out
cries had been used in a species of
divination akin to modern fortune
telling. These men, who cared noth
ing for humanity but only for per
sonal monetary interests--, laid forci
ble hands on Puul and Barnabas and
dragged them bc'orj the
who were influenced, probably with a
bribe, to agree with the complainants
who demanded that these stranger?
:1 because they had stop,
ped their questionable income.
Hour? oi misery began with the
cruel beating*, after which these
selves free as walls fell apart and
permitted them to go at pleasure. The
jailer was also awakened and was the
most frightened man there. He drew
his sword to kill himself before an
other could do it to him, for his life
would be the forfeit if even one pris
oner escaped. Paul, the always
thoughtful, cried out that no one had
run away. Then the keeper way sti.l
more nVraid and used all courtesy as
he brought these men forth. Mean-
bile he recalled at least something
of their teachings, which had become
common report. Ho realized that
their instructions must be truth and
asked for himself: "Sirs, what must
I do to be saved?” Paul at once gave
answer, which is still the only
reply to make to any inquirer after
erlasting life: "Believe on the
Lord Jesus, and thou shnlt be saved.”
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