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UNION RECORDER, MILLEDCEVILLE, CA., OCTOBER It, I tit
Feet F ree Mrs. Hines
Starts O. O. O. Club
r rEl FREE- MRS. HINES
FE STARTS O. O. O. CLUB
,, .VED FROM LAST WEEK)
^ piedmont Hospital
Atlanta, Ga
October 8th, 1928
. Folks:
hut it, feels Rood to he
one more time—for both
myn
!
Which shall it be? which shall it be?
I looked at Dr. Hoke—Dr. Hoke he
looked at me,
“You see Dr. Hoke—all my life I
have been meek,
And so, at last, I’ve come to you for
to seek—
Instead of pair No. 10—double E—
feet—
Don’t you think a No. 4—Single A is
it night without having sweet.
light to m which foot 1 loked ot Dr ’ H ° kc nBd 0r - Hoke he
' looked at me—
And I waited and I waited till my
heart rose up to G—
He thought and he thought and he
slowly shook his head.
This way—that way—and no word
yet has said.
Go—which shall it be—ch which shall
it be?
And that’s wbat I’m waiting up here
for to see.
If I could say “backward turn
backward oh tune in your flight”—
the lady come, to maasage both *? the whc " * w ‘ ! ”“ rri<!d » nd m >’
■n'eteryday: nearly .11 the awell. drc **'* tr *" d thr ™ , " ch '» in thr
and I’m iu.ot waiting no. d “ rt ~ 1 could * Ct mUl U >"'
Mtar the word “go'—.0 I can Jllu * tio, '- b “ t , n0,hmi: d°'"R.ETAO
so I guess 111 stay at home. But
while I’m on the subject of shoes I
will have to deal a blow to the hopes
of my many friends by telling them
that Dr. Hoke have had to be a
miracle to grant my request. So—
have split the difference and com.
promised on a No. 8 D. I imagine my
first shoes will look a little like the
Judge's hunting and fishing boots.
Somebody page Johnny Spencer—
and this is no joke. I just learned
yesterday that another patient of Dr.
Hoke’s here was coming
because her name was “Pickle”—
and the nurses have been laughing
over the matter quite a bit—so when
she came today I introduced myself
to her aw the “58th Variety" and told
her that I guessed she must be just
the ohl reliable “Sweet Pickle" of the
Heinz out put. She is a teacher
—and hails from Tennessee.
There is a matter that I would
like some advice about
ing this opportunity to put the ques
tion before you. Just how long af
ter I get home
Judge to wait on me? Never having
had an operation before I do not
know the ropes and I would be glad
for some information. I judge if|
my operations were majors—I should I
be sick longer and require more |
And having * had four—that would!
make it four times the amount de- [
j cided upon. Do you think a month!
for each operation would be too
| much? Please some friend write and
•■■ust be wiggled so many
me- every hour. So you see why
■y day* are full.
I am fast learning the correc. way
v °f operations—some dear
.-ter will tell me of this “m ijor”
•eratji.n -he had—and the first thing
know she’» out and gone home—
>d I am still here. I don’t yet
’ ow "hether mine were major or
m°r. hut I do know I could have
• a 'l my liver and lights taken out—
first There are no
»nd lefts when they are both
‘ j u p—specially in the dark. The
ju iev hv >ent me my crutches, and
v stand in the corner of my xoom
me to look at The boiling water
w - a icl) both feet have to stay thirty
nut « twice daily—has about tak-
0 ff the “crust” that had formed
0 wr both feet—(no joke—if you
didn't believe it—shut one foot up in
ist four weeks and see for your-
i. 1 can wiggle every toe beauti-
•; the lady comes to massage both
every day: nearly all the swell*
is gone and I’m just waiting now
hear the word “go”—so I can
the first step—but—I don’t ex-
t that so very soon. I’m paying
Lady Patience fifty cents an hour
;it on the foot of my bed day and
:t—and sometimes she sneaks out
ad kaves me in the suds. You shall
f that “first step”—I shall tele-
raph the Mayor and it will appear
the plate glass windows of every
drug store in town. The Georgia—
game won’t be in it. Sc
ratch out.
1 got the dandiest post card shower
le day last week—forty card#—
om the Scotsboro school. Every
iddie there wrote his or her name
id if tn^y couldn’t write (in the
■?t grade) they printed. The older
' wrote messages—and my! but
was fine to get them. I sent them
“poem(?)” at once—the only rea-
n I didn’t—write an ode was be-
u-e I didn’t know how.
Letters and cards still arrive from
'U dear friends and keep me able to
:.ck a smile. Each day comes some,
irg funny to go into that “Smile I
I have plenty to do—Dr. Hoke
o that—and I still stick to my
of counting—out now—instead
' the piano pupil—it is for the j
I catch myself stopping in the 1
of •« most engaging conversa- ;
'•!>' under my breath—“1 2
t 8”—“Oh yes—I think so j
Hi 11 12 13 14 15 1C)
don't say so”—(17 18 19 20) J
M * f* rth and so on—because— 1
I comtcmplate organizing a new
club when I get home—the “O. 0.
O.”—standing for the “Order Of
Operations”—so all of you who are
elligble send me your name. We
could start the ball to roiling by hav
ing an oyster supper and dating of
ficers. Be thinking about a g»d mot.
lo and whether a butcher knife or a
saw would make the best emblem to
use as a pin. We might be able to
help the Kiwanis with their work—
d as they have “We Build” as a
•tto—ours might be “We Talk.”
u never saw any enterprise begun
all you life that they didn't have
star: with a lot of talking—so
at’s the, matter with that? The
talking hus to come before the build
ing. But first we have to think—so
be thinking.
If I don’t stop this now’—Jere
probably will—provided he is capable
of reading it—“under the circum
stances.” So—more next time.
Your* for the O. O. O.
WELLE WOMACK HINES.
P. S. I am also thinking of writing
book to be called—“Fourteen weeks
i a hospital or—How to be happy
tho broke. “If I could “invent
recipi
Excitement all about—
For Mrs. Hines of Milledgeville
Was that day “stepping out”
A pair of army shoey she wore
A nine on triple E—
Of color—A bright yellow—and
That you a mile could sec.
On crutches she is ’bout to lean—
Do watch her—can she stand?
The nurses and the doctors crowd
Around “Oh ain’t it grand—
Now come along we’re anxious all
That first step soon to see.
And when you take it oh t’will make
U< happy ms can be.”
The deed is done! More stcys I take
Just up and down the hall—
And back and forth not minding those
Who stand against the wall.
And Oh those shoe;-! The first
In the street I chance to stop
The crowd will have to be moved on
By the city traffic cop.
With army shoes and crutches and
A cross of honor to add—
Given by hospital because three
Months I stayed without getting
mad—
The American Legion I'll ask to join,
Some flappers are
,o dumb
they
think holdup men arc
swimming in-
structors.—The Stormy Petrel.
Frosh to roommate:
Say, if
1 im
studying when you co
me hack,
wake
me up.—The Mercer
Cluster.
A young man was lying on an op
erating table ready for an examina
tion.
Doctor (to attendant): “Bring in
ethyl chloride.”
Young man (jumping up): “No,
doctor; please don’t bring a woman
in here!”—The Blue Stocking.
•I would no longer be broke, j For eligible I will be—
• These three things should get i
bership
It seems that way to r
Piedmont Hospital
Atlanta, Ga.
October 13th, 1928.
THE FIRST STEP
I walk and walk and walk and walk
And walk and and walk—
And that is all I’ll say this
I know my friends will shout
With joy to join me in my glee—
“Mrs. Hines is stepping
| advise me because I want to do the j
j correct thing. If you don’t mind
you need not mention this to the
Judge as it is such as it is such n
I deiicate matter he might think I
shouldn't have written of it. But I
( need help.
j Well—if I stay here much longer
they will be calling me grandma
j Hines—but I'm used to that. They
j tell me you can get used to anything.
> ! “"R ^rapod-^y'h^rt^ewed”^ ' "T* T' ° Wh * n ‘
«■ ■" i~ * 1 t h,vc to t much
••3 I have already been hare and ! ‘" VCnt !0n " "“ S ' t0 ^ ' hei
ill can't walk a step. Su
please write and tell r
riff Terry came rolling down
«’hair to sec me one day last
looking so spry I didn’t hardly
know—I think you
home folks ought to feel proud
la * the two representatives you have
• at this hospital had sense enugh
’ their truble just .a s far from
." :i ^end as it was physically possi-
Th,. Sheriff and I both decided
‘ •■'•uld use a wooden peg if neces-
• r >—hiit we just drew the line at
• '"'den head, and strange to say
14 °f my near neighbors wrote
* _ Wf ‘ both have been “off our
; ' -but not “out of our head”—
-ire being very “Pollyanna—
’■ "Wr this fact. I bet the Sheriff
1 ' t'le home yet—but that might
' r than being brought home
j unless it was just a friend-
I hear the tinkle of wed-
in the air—and that brings
the awful doubt as to wheth-
■' ,I1 : -’°ing to be able to “take in”
' event. Dr. Hoke’s opera
te lovely—but the chons he
Patients to wear at first would
take a prize in a shoe shop
11 ■ —they are not made
* w 'th an evening dress—and
summer will be over and I won’t
a winter dress (I guess the word
1 would have been better there)
0 doubt gets bigger and black-
k® Ve in my “Smile Book" a
th ®t I call Dr. Hoke’s page. All
tho edges I dmw pictures of
an d slipper*—from the highest
1 ev «ning ones to a regular bro-
In the middle I
is hi:
That’s the only thing my fly
swatter won’t do—as I can reach
everything else without trouble. They
might offer me a job teaching the
other patients how to wait on them
selves with a fly swatter—and if I
ever find out—I might teach a course
in how to distinguish a major from
a minor for then I’ll certainly
“know my operations.”
The only other place in this world j
that J know of that is as busy as
this . ospiial is G. S. C. W. The main
—and the hospital “takes out of,”
difference is—the college “puts into”
and both make people happier for
life. You needn’t think because I
have been in a hospital that I sleep
until nine, breakfast at ten, dine at
two, nap until four, supper at seven
and bed at nine. No—sir-ree—that
“Big Ben” of mine hadn’t alarmed at
six o’clock every morning for eleven
months—September to July 21st—•
for me to lose the habit. So at eight
I am ready for breakfast—powdered
and curled—and my door is opened
at eight-forty-five so I can smile
at the doctors as they pass by. I
know them all now—and their special
ties, so I will know whom to call for
whenever I have to have another
operation.
Yesterday (Sunday) morning
about nine-thirty the zeppelin which
“passed thru” Atlanta came right on
over the hospital and strange to say
appeared in the small space which is j
framed by my window, and by learn
ing on my bed table I got a good look :
at It. That’, what I call pure luck.” j
It was a beautiful sight. j
Thank all of you who write me that
you enjoy'fhese letter*—“a little t
nonsense now and then—” and you
know the re*.
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