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. Prep
■ ration in huge quantities will ins,
the products that mnch-scrlslmed
“ home taste" S'lrtl phrases ss “per
sonally cooked" “ home cooked” and
-like mother oaed te make" will spell
ra r-T — for tbe tip to p
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