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About The Gate city journal. (Nyssa, Or.) 1910-1937 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 2, 1925)
T H E G A T E C IT Y J O U R N A L “ I don't know je t,” answered t * » lady superintendent evasively “ 1 sup- ■ pose Doctor Lancaster will Jecido | that later after he has laid the matter before ttie board at their next meet ing and looked over your record. Any about your dignity. You shouldn't way. Miss Wentworth, you muy us R ea l Stories A b o u t Real G irls have taken up a nurse's vocation. You well take a holiday for a week or so women don't know what you cun do until you hear from us.” By MRS. H A R L A N D H. A L L E N and what you can't till you find your She turned back to her books while selves in a post of responsibility, und Joan, after looking at her for a mo (<£>. M U . W u u r n N tw ip ty n r U iiW i.) then you fall down. What made you ment in silence, turned and went into take up nursing, anyway Thought the corridor. She made her way GROWING CATS FOR CASH our style of caps becoming, I suppose.” toward the hospital entrance. And the ’T v e done my best to qualify. I've great wooden arch, through which she 'T 'H O S E aristocrats of catdoin, tne never been blamed before." had passed hundreds of times without Persian. Angora and Siumeae cats, “ Well, you’ve made a big mistake,” noticing it, suddenly bucame vivid said Lancaster. “ That's all. A— very with detail; the hospital, which had are good means for making money. A natural love for the dumb beau —big—mistake," he added, emphasiz been a part of her unconscious life, ties, a willingness to treat them sa If ing each word with a nod. “ And my looked strange und new to ber. they had bruins and feelings; and Just work and patients' lives are too im a little capital with which to buy a portant to allow mistakes to happen. C ha p ter I I lady puss— those are the only require You’re too pretty to be a nurse, any ments any girl needs for a fair start way," he added in a lower tone. Joan had a room in a nurses* board in the business of raising them. “ You don’t need to tell me that. Doc ing house a few minutes’ walk away. “The cat raiser’s main considera tor Lancaster!" cried Joan furiously. She walked mechanically homeward, He made u gesture of mock despair. hardly even yet realizing the magni tions,” says a girl who specializes in “That's right; get on your high tude of the blow which had befallen the breeding of the Siamese variety, “ ore care as to selection of founda horse again I" he said. “ Just remem her. Avonmouth lay almost deserted tion stock, which must be free and ber that I ’m at the head of the South In the noontide glare. The shuttered healthy, care as to cleanliness and ern hospital, and what I say goes, houses, gay with striped awnings, care as to feeding. that’s all." looked down on the white, dusty “ I give my animals fresh raw beei He swung upon his heel and went streets. The little park that contained twice a day, with the heaviest feed out of the room, leaving her gripping the Confederate monument was bright In the morning. I see that they have the table fiercely in her humiliation. with geraniums, hut the grass was access to plenty of water at all times. The dark-haired girl, who had been parched and withered, and the feeble I give a patent cat-food every other fussing in a corner, came up to her. efforts of an automatic sprinkler I day, and milk not more than three "He's a beast I” she exclaimed pas seemed almost instantly absorbed by ! times a week. And I see that both sionately. “ He hates women—decent the thirsty ground. cats and kittens have plenty of sun women. M y ! If he’d dared to speak Joan made her way toward an over- | light and exercise.” that way to me I ’d have told him what hanging tree brushed away a prickly Every queen (the kennel term for I thought of him. right in the middle caterpillar from a seat beneuth it. and female) deserves a good comfortable of the operation. I don't care for any sat down. She was trying to estimate bed, where she can stretch out com body when my temper's up. I could the magnitude of tlie catastrophe that fortably, and can lie down when nurs tell you a few things I've heard about had happened to her, to free herself ing her kittens. Catnip, to he eaten him if I were minded to. Do you from the stupefied wonder and pas or rolled In at will, is a nice luxury know he went on a five years' spree sionate resentment that held her. Two in the cat world. I f there are more once?” hours before life had seemed reason than one queen, they should he fed “ I don't care what he d id!“ cried ably bright ; now its entire course was separately, or the ones whicn eat Joun passionately. changed. For she did not doubt that most slowly will lose out on the food, “ Well, I guess you could make It the lady superintendent had been try and their offspring may suffer. If the your business to know,” answered the ing to soften the news of her dis grower can afford to own her own other. "A girl's got to fight her way, missal. male cat, she will not be troubled by the same as a man, He threw up his Her mind ran back to the beginning rats or strange cats. Job and Just went nwny for five years, There will be at least eight kittens of all things for her—her father’s drinking and living with tramps, and death. That had happened ten years a year from each female. When a then had the nerve to come buck as before, and the mortgage on the cat’s babies num’.^cr only four, she if nothing hail happened. I got it from estate, ruined after the war. had can rear them herself. But when a girl that used to he friendly with grown like a spreading sore, eating there are six, the grower will have to him. He’s— ” awuy field after field, until It swal search her neighborhood for a com She broke off abruptly as the or lowed everything except nine hundred mon cat, whose kittens are the same derly appeared witli his rubber broom dollars. After the enforced sale, Mrs. age as her own cat’s babies. and bucket. The Siamese or “ Royal Cat of Wentworth and hpr daughter had gone “ What are you going to do about it?" to Avonmouth for the sole reason that Siam” is probably most difficult of all inquired the girl In u low voice. “ I the mother remembered a wealthy to get, and most expensive. But it is godmother there, distantly related, both beautiful and intelligent, and a whose activities she hoped to enlist on Siamese mother cat with her kittens behalf of her daughter. It was char will attract attention anywhere. At acteristic of her that she should not birth, the kittens are pure white and have known the woman had died six look like baby cats of lowly birth; but after a time, their faces, ears, years previously. Still, Avonmouth was the nearest legs, feet and pads and tall become large town in which a girl, flung on dark chocolate, the body always re the world untrained, might hope to maining white. When the kittens are a cute age, support two people. Joan had long before wanted to be a nurse. She de« the best advertisement they can have will be exhibition with their mother elded to attempt to enter a hospital ; in the home-town drug store windows, hut now her mother’s slow, mortal and the druggist will be benefited by illness kept her nursing her at home. the trade-attracting novelty. The Six months after their arrival Mrs. grower may dispose of her pets to Wentworth died. What remained of pet stock stores, as well as to private their nine hundred dollars after1 the individuals. Both playful kits and doctor’s and funeral expenses had proud queens practically sell them been paid would suffice for Joan’s selves. merest needs until she had graduated The TRUANT SOUL by Victor Rousseau * C op yrigh t by W. G. Q i*pn uu» “ HE’S A BEAST“ S Y N OP SI S. — Nurses In the Southern hos pital at Av on m ou th are an g er ed by the Insolent t rea tm ent accorded them by Dr. John Lancaster, head o f the In stitution. and ther e Is a ge ne r al fe e li n g o f unrest. Into which Joan W e n t w o r t h , prob atio na ry nurse, is drawn. D o c to r L a n c a s ter is p e r fo r m i n g a difficult o p e r ation, f o r w hi ch he has won fame. Joan, w i th ot he r nurses, is in attendance. CHAPTER I— Continued — £ — •That scalpel—q iWk !" he crle<l. Joan started and stretched out her hands toward the truy, which gleamed afar off, eluslvely through a black cloud. "The one I handed you. Don’t «tare at me like a fo o l!“ Joun bent over the truy, putting out one hand to the table to support her self. She was conscious that every thing was suspended and that every one was watching her. In the inter minable intervul she heard the pu- tient’s gasping sighs, as if he was breathing the Inst wisps of life away. She lingered the instruments in the truy feebly und nervelessly, and her hands seemed numbed and useless. Her fingers closed on something and brought it out. Then Lancaster's hand closed over hers, tore it away, and flung it hack witli a splash. Joan's hand dropped to her side, paralyzed by the painful pressure. The next in stant Lancaster had the scalpel and whirled swiftly back toward the table, upsetting the bichloride, which lapped over the patient's feet. Tile moments went by like hours. At last Joan became aware, througli the sudden unraveling of the suspense, that the crux of the operation was over. Her head grew clear again. She saw the assistant surgeons unfasten ing the artery damps. The head nurse rose to tier feet, not looking at the patient. Joan realized that she was crying, and her strong, epicene face looked grotesque in grief. The orderly came up. and together they placed the patient on the stretcher. And suddenly Joan knew that the man was dead. As the stretcher was wheeled out of the theater Lancaster turned toward his visitors. “ A very successful piece of work,” he -aid. “ It's a pity the poor fellow wif. never know how much I have done for him.” Joan felt the visiting surgeons' dis gust at the execrable jest. Lancaster seemed to sense It, too. “ Unfortunately,” he continued, “ the best of surgeons is not proof against the stupidity o f a nurse.” And he turned upon Joan fiercely. “ What is your name?" he demanded. “ bliss Wentworth, Doctor Lancas ter. ' "'V eil, you’re no use here. You’re wasting your time. You’ve killed a man this morning,” he bellowed. " I f I can't hnvs women about me with rational heads on their shoulders I ’ll get a gang o f Chinese chop suey men. (let out and earn your living as a ste nographer or saleslady. That’s all your talents are tit for. Miss Went worth I” Joan looked at him In amazement. At ils first words, at his tone, she had felt the shock of anger in her heart gat! er Itself and leap to meet his own. But Ills rage frightened her, her head ach'd, and she was sick from the fumps which still penetrated the the- ntei. She tried to answer him, but eou d not utter a word and broke Into teais Instead, sobbing in complete ner. ous abandonment. Ltneaster turned from her with a wry face. “ Well, gentlemen,” he said, with an affectation of Jovlnlness, "bet ter luck next time. I ’m sorry the ope ation was not successful, but. a ft«r all, the patient’s life is not the prlrclpal thing. The method wns cor rect , you see, but I did not reckon on an Hcompetent assistant.” “ l: 9t the blame on the anesthetic, Doct ir Lancaster," said a white- beari^d surgeon, with chivalrous in tent. "W ith a nephritis history opera- tlop'i useless. Better let them die pea- ‘fully." “1 did not quite grasp the technical innovation you spoke of. Doctor I-a il eus I er.” said another. "T o my mind It vas the original Leonnrd operation, except that— ” “ Why did you divide the arterial coats below the site of the aneurism?" querhd a third. Lancaster led them from the the ater, expostulating and explaining. The daik-hnlred girl lingered with the sponges. Tile assistant surgeons had already »one hurriedly out. Joan put her tray iwa.v. She still was unable to < »nt ml her sobs. S ddenlj Lancaster reappeared, fu- rlo i i aftei the cross-examination to whi -h he had been subjected. He catr i straigst toward Joan with a face o f nalice. Unconscious of her pitiful aspi ct as n child might have been, «be raised her streaming face and look rd at hln. ” 1 on had «o right to speak to me like that, wh itever I did." she said. "t Tiatever you did? Whatever yon fallid to dot What do you think you ■re lere fo rT’ he stormed. H i glared at her. turned away, hes itated, and then came bark. *j hat’s Just the way with you w vi» *n." t » cried. “Yon lost that rase fa < te. And new you are thinking from the Southern hospital. But the physician who nttended Mrs. Went worth in her last illness had secured the girl a position as a probationer, and Joan was as happy as she could expect to be. Since that dote he had moved away, and Joan was altogether alone. At home they had known hardly anyone, for the whole region was in that condition of resettlement that be She Made Her Way Toward the Hos gan In the seventies and Is still pro ceeding. Their friends had scattered pital Entrance. to the north and west ; their letters reckon you don’t want to forfeit your had long since ceased. Prosperity, diploma any more than the rest of us. stalking through the nation, had left a Listen! You go and see him.” little ridge of poverty between the “ N ever!” said Joan. swaths of Its progress through the “ Don’t he n fool, Miss Wentworth! foothills of the buck country. In Avon- You go and see him at his house. It’s mouth Mrs. Wentworth’s illness, and what anyone would do in your place. afterward, the hospital work, had kept Fool him by making him think he can the girl both from making friends and do what lie likes with you; play with from the realization of her need »f him and hold him off by hook or crook them. Her whole mind was set up«>n until you’re graduated, and then obtaining that diploma which would laugh at him. I ’d do It if I had to. mean an assured living, and before M y ! If you heard some of the stories her eyes was ever the spectacle of that are going round— ” such poverty as she hud known at The head nurse beckoned at the home among others and had seen ap door. “ The lady superintendent proaching her mother. After she wants to see you al once. Miss Went graduated, perhaps, life might begin worth,” she said. “ Y’ ou’re to go right to unfold before her eyes. But even this she realized only vaguely; she inti, her office.” She looked at Joan resentfully. Her lived altogether in the moment. face *as quite composed again, hut her eyes were reddened. She knew It’s plain that Joan is a nice that Lancaster had been at fault, but girl, but Dr. Lancaster seems she had seen Joan's blunder, too. to be no good, either as surgeon Miss Symons was one of those women or man. who can acquire the faculty of a man's strength without losing their own sex. She was a tower of strength toward (T O B E CONTINUED.) weakness, but she l ad no pity for a lapse of duty. Joan walked the dreary length of C u ck oo Superstitions the corridor to the lad> superintend There are numerous superstitions ent’s room. The white-haired woman associated with the hearing of the was seated at her desk, pretending to cuckoo’s first call. In the maritime he making up her accounts nn l com highlands and Hebrides if tlie cuckoo posing herself for the interview is first heard by one who has not “ Miss Wentworth!” she began, turn broken his fast some misfortune Is ex ing round in her chair as Joan ap pected. Indeed, besides the danger. It peared at the door. “ You have trade is considered a reproach to one to Doctor Lancaster very angry. Fie said have beard the cuckoo while hungry, you are totally inefficient. What was says the Detroit News. It that happened this morr.lng?” In rranee to hear the euckoo for “ The ether made me faint and I the first time fasting is to make the couldn’t see the Instruments for a mo hearer “ an idle do-nothing for the re*A ment. and Doctor Lancaster happened of the year” or “ to numb his IIm b f to want a scalpel quickly,” answered for the same period. There Is a simi Joan. lar belief in certain parts of the *eat “ Well, it’s a great pity,” said the of England. In Northumberland one other, “ because It was yonr first day la told. If walking on a hard road when and we had to get somebody to take the cuckoo first calls, that the ensuing Miaa Martin’s and I selected you j season will be full of calamity. To he because I relied on you particularly. I on soft ground !e a lucky omen. Anyway, you are suspended.” Joan looked at her stupefied. * You There i r » Ofi different kinds of hm » mean— that— I am to leave the hospi sels sprouts. 120 kinds of lettacn sad tal and lose my diploma?* she asked. 1M »sristies of cairota. MAKING GOOD IN A SMALL TOWN THE COOK CASHES IN everybody likes to eat. M OST "And." says a girl who has cap italized her knowledge of that fnrt, “ the woman who's a ’ftp-top cook' can always be Independent. “ That natural womanly ability to transfer raw ‘groceries’ into luscious edibles can he used to captivate cash,’’ she declares. “ I Inclined pie-ward at the start, and I am still known ss the •pie lady.’ But there Is no reason why one nuldn't branch out if one cared to." All the “ tiptop” cook needs In or der to succeed In this 'homely' line Is: her own kitchen ss a workshop; probably a few more utensils than she Is accustomed to using, and snf ficlent Ingredients, prefernbly pur chased at wholesale. for the concoc tlons she has In mind. Add one small boy to make deliveries, and she l i prepared to fill many orders. Jellies and preserved fruits are one popular choice of the commercial cook. The woman who decides on them as her forte might refer to her home workshop. In advertising, as a “ Jelly Kitchen.” Marmalades and candied fruits make good accompani ments for the Jellies and preserves. Crullers, cookies, doughnuts and cakes are other “best sellers,’* and make good specialties, either together or separately. Tbe cake-concentrator Is found quite often, hnt she should take care not to let mediocrity claim her cakes, for the Inclination of th* cake-maker Is sometimes to let orig inality go hv the hoard. She should try the “ filled” rakes or “ Washington pies." almost always a success with something toothsome between the Inv- ers. L eaf cake should he rich enough to keep for dav, " lien rnemstod In Icing. Fruit cake is salable, hut ,mrk cake, eggless, is economical and Ir more palatable than a dry hatter and egg fruit cake Fancy cakes, plain ,-akes with fancy floatings, for ho’il- days. birthdays and. above all. wed dings, will keep the cake-lady httsv A bit more ont of the ordinary than Jellies, cakes, pies, candles, cookies, doughnuts, and the like, are hot ta males— hnt they’re an excellent spe clslty, easy to make and easy to sell The pet “ trick of fhe trade" for rhe rook to pracM.-e Is keeping the preparation cf her concoctions down to relatively small quantities. 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