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+The Project Gutenberg eBook of What luck!, by Abbie Farwell Brown
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+Title: What luck!
+       A study in opposites
+
+Author: Abbie Farwell Brown
+
+Release Date: December 13, 2022 [eBook #69532]
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+Language: English
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+*** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK WHAT LUCK! ***
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+Transcriber’s Note
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+Italic text displayed as: _italic_
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+                             WHAT LUCK!
+
+[Illustration: Kids with nurses]
+
+
+
+
+                             WHAT LUCK!
+
+                        A STUDY IN OPPOSITES
+
+                                 BY
+                         ABBIE FARWELL BROWN
+
+
+                  MASSACHUSETTS CHARITABLE EYE AND
+                            EAR INFIRMARY
+                               BOSTON
+
+
+              ISSUED _for private distribution only by
+                  the_ MASSACHUSETTS CHARITABLE EYE
+                 AND EAR INFIRMARY _and presented to
+                their friends with their compliments_
+
+                              1827-1920
+
+
+
+
+                             WHAT LUCK!
+
+
+Side by side on the crowded waiting bench of the Infirmary sat two
+women, each with a child at her elbow, who had been eyeing one
+another furtively. They were silently criticizing in different
+languages.
+
+“Her mourning must have cost much money!” thought Mrs. Rogazrovitch,
+enviously, looking down at her own painful saffron coat.
+
+“Cielo! What a terrible hat!” mused the other woman, considering the
+purple velvet creation that crowned the frowzy locks of her neighbor.
+“She can have no care to hold the love of her husband!” And she wiped
+a tear with her black-bordered handkerchief.
+
+The eyes of little Stephanie, who stood at the knee of Mrs.
+Rogazrovitch, were red and swollen; but not with weeping. Even the
+subdued light of the waiting-room made her squint horribly, and she
+kept her eyes turned from the window. This brought in direct line
+her neighbor, the pale, emaciated little boy at the other woman’s
+side. Stephanie was five; the boy seemed older. He hung his head and
+never looked up. Stephanie was ready to make friends, for she had
+grown tired of the long wait, but Paolo’s mother was in the way. She
+was continually bending over the boy, smoothing his hair or kissing
+his forehead, in what seemed to Stephanie a very silly fashion.
+Stephanie’s mother never kissed her at all.
+
+Gradually Stephanie edged nearer. “Hello!” she said in a stage
+whisper suited to the solemn occasion. “Is your eyes sick, too?”
+
+The boy stared, gave a blinking glance from big, brown eyes, and
+nodded.
+
+“They look red, like mine,—only worse,” commented Stephanie, after
+this revealing look. “But they will fix them all right, if we’re
+lucky. The lady said so.” Again the boy glanced at her pitifully, but
+said nothing.
+
+“Do you go to Kindergarten?” asked Stephanie. The boy shook his head.
+“I don’t go nowhere,” he said.
+
+“I guess you are too big for Kindergarten. Oh, it’s the grandest
+place!” went on Stephanie ecstatically. “But I had to stop when my
+eyes got sick.—What makes your mother wear those black clothes? I
+hate black clothes.”
+
+“My father died,” said Paolo solemnly.
+
+“My father ran off,” volunteered Stephanie. “I think he went to be a
+soldier. Mrs. Raftery says it was because—”
+
+“Stephanie! You shut up!” Mrs. Rogazrovitch jerked her by the arm.
+The attendant was saying something.
+
+“Eighty-six!” he repeated. It was the number on the red ticket that
+Mrs. Rogazrovitch clutched in not over-clean fingers.
+
+“Come on, you Stephanie!” snapped the mother. And the slatternly
+woman with the curly-haired child stepped forward to the table.
+
+Yes; there was no doubt about it. Stephanie was a case of that
+tubercular eye trouble which affects so many children of the poor;
+a trouble caused by constitutional weakness, lack of care and of
+wholesome food. Unless properly treated Stephanie would become
+partially or wholly blind some day. And the pretty blue eyes would
+never play their part in a world where all the eyes are needed. But
+Stephanie was in one respect luckier than Paolo, who still waited,
+encircled by his affectionate mother’s arm. Strange negative “luck”
+that consisted in not being _too-much_ loved by any one!
+
+“You’d better leave her here,” said the Doctor, after he had examined
+the poor little eyes.
+
+The woman blinked. “How long must she to stay?” she asked cautiously.
+
+“Well, maybe three weeks; it’s an average case, I should say. We’ll
+take the best care of her,” he added kindly. But Mrs. Rogazrovitch
+was not worrying as he surmised.
+
+“I don’ care. But will she grow well forever?” she asked. “She not be
+blind, eh?”
+
+“She can be cured if you keep up the treatment as we tell you, after
+she goes home. You must bring her back for examination; give her milk
+and wholesome food, well cooked,—no doughnuts and candy; and,”—the
+doctor referred to Stephanie’s card,—“clean up your house and keep it
+in better condition. We shall keep an eye on Stephanie. And if you
+can’t do all this, we must find a better home for her.”
+
+The woman looked sulky. “How much it costs to keep in the Hospital?”
+she asked. She was told that the usual charge was seventeen dollars
+and a half for a week, but that if she could not afford so much, the
+Superintendent would probably arrange to let her pay what she could.
+
+“I can’t to pay anything for sick child!” exclaimed the woman. “I can
+just to pay rent and get some food. Two years ago my man goes off. I
+don’ know. Maybe he’s fighting; but I don’ get nothing.”
+
+“That’s all right,” said the Doctor. “You go see the Superintendent.
+We’ll look after Stephanie anyway.—By the way, will you sign this
+paper giving us permission to fix her adenoids and tonsils while she
+is here? I daresay you don’t care?”
+
+“No; _I_ don’ care,” said the woman casually, with the air of one
+conferring a favor.
+
+Of course she did not realize how great a privilege Stephanie was
+getting. Few citizens know that the Massachusetts Eye and Ear
+Infirmary is the only Hospital in the city where a child with a
+trouble like Stephanie’s would be so taken in and cared for. All such
+cases are referred to the Infirmary. How should Mrs. Rogazrovitch
+guess that the kind hands which were to care for the child and the
+kind faces surrounding her belonged to the best specialists and the
+best nurses anywhere to be found? She only knew that for the time
+being a burden was lifted. And this was Stephanie’s advantage over
+Paolo, whose mother loved him too fatuously to give him his only
+chance.
+
+“Eighty-seven!” called the attendant, after Stephanie and her mother
+had passed on. It was Paolo’s turn.
+
+“She says,—she could not spare me; she loves me too much. And
+besides, my father would not let her,” the boy answered a question in
+a hollow voice. “He was very sick, and last week he died. He would
+not let me be in a Hospital.” Helplessly he raised to the doctor eyes
+which should have been very beautiful; the eyes of a poet or painter.
+
+“But why then did not your mother bring you back for treatment, as I
+told her?” asked the doctor again. The woman began to weep. “She says
+she could not leave my father,” interpreted the boy. “She loved him
+very much. Once she did try to come here with me, after the Visitor
+called. But she could not find the way. She says her head is sick.
+And she lost her ring. That made her very sad indeed.”
+
+“Did she give you the medicine regularly?”
+
+The boy hesitated. “Sometimes,” he said; “when the Visitor came. I
+think my mother forgot; she was so sad about my father. She sat in a
+chair and rocked all day. She is very kind and loving. She held me on
+her lap and cried, and cried.”
+
+The Doctor frowned. “Is there any one here who can speak Italian?”
+he called out to the waiting crowd. A man stepped forward, while the
+Doctor sent Paolo aside. “Tell her, please, that unless she brings
+Paolo here regularly, and gives him the medicine every day, I will
+not answer for the consequences.—Do you see that boy over there?” The
+Doctor indicated a tiny fellow with fine Greek features, whose mother
+was crying over him in the corner. “Well; that woman would not leave
+him in our care, because she was too obstinate. And although she
+lives close by, she would not take the time and trouble to bring him
+in for treatment. So now he will lose the sight of one eye at least.
+Tell Mrs. Valentino that Paolo’s eyes are very bad, and he will fare
+worse than that boy, unless she does as I say.”
+
+The woman burst into hysterical grief, and clasped Paolo
+passionately, mumbling endearing syllables in her musical tongue. The
+boy’s brown eyes filled too, and he tried to comfort her. Pitying
+herself for her many troubles, the mother led Paolo away.
+
+“She will not come back,” thought the Doctor. “I see it in her face.
+The Social Service Department will have to get busy.”
+
+The Social Service Department of the Infirmary did get busy, as in
+all such cases. When Paolo did not reappear, they went to look him
+up. The Visitor coaxed and re-urged the dazed, inefficient mother.
+But it was hopeless. Finally the case was reported to the proper
+authorities. But already Paolo’s mother had loved him to death.
+Stephanie was not to see her little neighbor again.
+
+Meanwhile, for Stephanie herself there had begun what was—apart from
+a little discomfort at the beginning—the happiest three weeks she
+had ever known. To begin with, her poor ragged clothes were taken
+away, and she had a lovely warm bath in a tub; in itself a novel
+experience. With her yellow curls nicely brushed, sweet and clean
+from top to toe, she was then tucked away in a little white cot all
+by herself,—this also was an unheard-of luxury!—in a sunny, airy room
+where other clean children were playing about like a happy family.
+At first poor little Stephanie was too miserable to do more than
+snuggle into the soft, sweet pillow, and allow herself sulkily to
+be fed with easily swallowed things. A kind Voice, associated with
+strong and gentle hands, attended to her wants. But Stephanie slept
+most of the time; dreaming of happy faces, merry laughter, and feet
+running about a Kindergarten.
+
+After two days of existing as a mere little mollusc, one morning
+Stephanie sat up and began to take notice. A beautiful white-clad
+Being put her into a neat cotton frock and pinafore. Only Stephanie’s
+scarred shoes were left to remind her of the home that seemed
+mercifully far away. They tied a shade over her eyes, to help the
+squint, and for the first time she looked around with interest at the
+nursery.
+
+What a pleasant place it was! Stephanie had never seen anything
+nearly so beautiful; except the Kindergarten. Poor little Stephanie!
+It had been hard luck to give up the Kindergarten, just when she was
+growing so happy there. The school nurse had seen that she must stop.
+But—there was a rose on the table here, too! A red rose! And children
+playing games, just like a real kindergarten! But these children were
+not all of Stephanie’s age. Some were bigger; some much littler. Why,
+in the very next cot to her lay a wee baby, sucking a bottle. Nurse
+said its mother was sick in another room. Stephanie thought this baby
+would be nicer than a doll to play with. And oh, _oh_! Over there
+was a little black live doll, with eyes that rolled and blinked, and
+real hair standing up all over her head; and a big red bow! Stephanie
+grinned at the doll; and oh, _oh_! The doll grinned back! Stephanie
+waved her arms up and down. And the funny doll stretched her mouth
+in white-toothed glee, and did just what Stephanie did. This was
+better even than Kindergarten!
+
+What else was there in the lovely room? Stephanie looked around.
+There were nine little beds against the walls, and as many more in
+the next ward, as she soon learned when she began to investigate.
+Most of the beds were empty in the daytime. Across the room from
+Stephanie a big boy sat up among pillows, reading. He laughed when
+Nurse told him a funny story, but could only whisper in reply,
+holding on to his throat. Stephanie understood perfectly, and was
+very sorry for poor Tom. She was sorrier still when dinner-time came;
+when she and the other dressed children gathered about little low
+tables, with bibs on. Soup was all that poor Tom could swallow. But
+Stephanie could eat fish, and potato; and there was a nice pudding,
+too! Poor Tom! Stephanie ate ravenously, after her two days’ fast.
+No puddings ever happened in the home she had left.
+
+The twenty little children were too busy eating to talk. “More bread
+and butter? More milk? Yes, indeed. All you want.” Just think;
+Stephanie could have all the milk she wanted! That had never happened
+before in her life. She thought she must be in Heaven. The children
+were of all shades and manners,—perhaps that was like Heaven, too;
+who knows? Most of them wore curious foreign names, but they all
+spoke English, after a fashion. Some of them were just learning the
+ways of good Americans at the table and elsewhere. Frank, who sat
+next Stephanie, was a little pig. He made faces, spilled his milk
+and scattered his crumbs, so that She,—the Angel in white,—scolded
+him, and made him sit by himself at another table, till he should be
+more careful.
+
+But Stephanie liked John, with the big grey eyes, who was a little
+gentleman; though he wore such a funny thing like a bonnet on his
+head,—and he a big boy of eight! Stephanie loved at first sight
+Dottie Dimple with the pink cheeks and one lovely blue eye. She cried
+when John explained that one day Dottie had poked a pair of scissors
+into the other eye, so that it would never see any more.
+
+Then there was Sammy, with the funny face and big nose, who looked
+like a little old man in a baby’s dress. Sammy could not hear when
+you spoke to him.—But mostly the children forgot all about eyes and
+ears between dressing-times, they had so much to make them happy.
+
+After dinner the children put back their chairs nicely, and then the
+victrola played lovely music. It was pleasant to see all the little
+children stand at salute when they heard the Star-Spangled Banner.
+Even the deaf ones did as they saw the others do.
+
+On sunny days they played out on the balcony of the ward below. It
+was a pity that they had no balcony of their own, leading from the
+nursery. Greatly it is needed. But it will come, no doubt, with a
+great many other needed things, when more people know about the
+Infirmary on Charles Street, and the good luck it brings to little
+children and big; when more parents, reading the story of Paolo,
+Stephanie, and these others, will understand that what helps such
+children protects the health of the whole community, including their
+own little ones.
+
+The ounce of prevention has gone up in the scale of modern values. It
+is worth not pounds but _tons_ of possible cure. Every child kept out
+of an asylum is a civic asset. Every penny spent in the prevention
+of blindness or deafness is an investment placed on interest a
+thousandfold.
+
+Those were wonderful days for babies like Stephanie who had seen too
+little luck in their lives. Breakfast at half past six; a luncheon of
+fruit and milk at nine; dinner at eleven, and supper at four. All the
+bread and butter a child could eat; all the milk she wished to drink.
+And most of the children drank a quart of milk every day. No wonder
+Stephanie began to be less pale and thin before the nurse’s eyes.
+No wonder her eyes began to be better almost directly. Soon she was
+running and racing about the nursery among the liveliest of them all.
+
+One day a visitor came to talk for a minute with the nurse. She had
+been to the clinic, and after that they had given her this extra
+privilege. To Stephanie this Person seemed a beautiful grown-up
+lady. But Mamie was really only a nice girl of sixteen, with happy,
+sunburned face and shining brown eyes. Stephanie squirmed with
+delight when Mamie took her up on her lap while she talked with Nurse.
+
+“She has eyes like mine were,” said Mamie in an aside to the nurse.
+But Stephanie heard, and hoped. Would her grey-blue eyes ever get big
+and brown like this nice Person’s, she wondered?
+
+“Oh, sure! I’m all right now,” said the visitor, in answer to a
+question. “They pronounced me O. K. Just look how fat and brown I
+am. Say, it don’t seem possible. Why, I was sicker than Stephanie
+here when I came, wasn’t I?” The nurse assented. “I’ll never forget
+how I felt, working in the store: my eyes all swollen and weepy. I
+was down and out, all right. For, of course, I haven’t a relation on
+God’s earth. And with my salary,—how could I go to a specialist?
+Then a lady gave me a hunch about this Infirmary. So here I came; and
+everybody was mighty good to me. You know, don’t you, Dearie?” She
+caught Stephanie up close.
+
+“Yes!” affirmed Stephanie, snuggling.
+
+“I came here all in,” Mamie went on. “But what a difference when I
+left! Just to think of going to the country for a rest, instead of
+right back to the store. And nothing to pay for it all, either. Some
+dream!”
+
+“Did you have a good time in the country?” asked the nurse
+sympathetically.
+
+“I’ll say so!” cried Mamie. “I just lived out doors four solid weeks,
+sitting on the piazza or walking in the garden, like a lady. They
+made me lie down to rest after dinner. Rest! Well; the chief thing
+I had to do to tire me was _eat_! And such eats! Um! Eggs and milk
+between meals, too. Say, the girls at the store will sure think I’m
+kidding when I tell them about it.”
+
+“You’ll be sure to come back here, as the Doctor said?” charged the
+nurse. “You know, you will have to be careful still.”
+
+“You bet I’ll be careful!” said Mamie earnestly. “I am not going to
+take any chances. The Doctor made it plain enough what I’ve got to
+do. I’ll keep my eyes, thanks, now I’ve got ’em back.”
+
+The trouble that Stephanie and Paolo and Mamie had cannot certainly
+be cured, once for all. It is likely to recur, if care is relaxed;
+and each time it makes a worse scar on the eye, with increased
+handicaps. The hardest part of the follow-up work of the Infirmary is
+to make the parents understand this, and to watch patiently.
+
+Three weeks in a country home, at a cost of five dollars a week,
+following three weeks’ treatment at the Eye and Ear Infirmary, had
+stood between Mamie and blindness. The Infirmary has an emergency
+fund, all too inadequate, for such cases.
+
+“What is the Country?” asked Stephanie, when Mamie had gone. “Is it
+My Country-Tiz?” She had an idea that it might have something to
+do with a relative of the Star Spangled Banner. “Shall I have to
+_salute_ it?”
+
+“Bless you!” cried the nurse. “I guess you will want to salute it,
+when you see it for the first time!”
+
+On the last Sunday of her stay Stephanie had a surprise. The Doctor
+had pronounced her eyes so much better that she could leave the
+following week. Plump, and rosy, and bright-eyed, Stephanie was as
+pretty a little girl as one could wish to see. To be sure there was a
+fly in her ointment. The Doctor had not succeeded in turning her eyes
+into big brown ones like Mamie’s, as Stephanie had suggested. But
+nurse assured her that blue eyes would probably wear better in the
+long run.
+
+Stephanie was playing peacefully by herself, while the other children
+visited with their parents, during the one hour allowed for this
+every Sunday.
+
+“Here’s a visitor to see you, Stephanie,” said the nurse. And in
+walked Mrs. Rogazrovitch, saffron coat, purple hat, and all. She was
+a little cleaner than usual; there was more black upon her boots than
+upon her hands. But she was still a striking contrast to Hospital
+standards. Stephanie greeted her without enthusiasm. Indeed, when she
+spied the familiar face, she shrank back to the skirts of Nurse, with
+a little gasp that told more than words. The mother flushed. Other
+mothers were watching.
+
+“Well, Stephanie!” she cried in astonishment mingled with pride. “You
+do look good! Ain’t ye glad to see me, eh?” Still Stephanie held
+back. “Your eyes get well, Stephanie? You’ll be coming home soon,
+yes?” But Stephanie pouted and kicked the floor with her toe. Mrs.
+Rogazrovitch turned to the nurse. The latter shook her head dubiously.
+
+“Have you fixed up your house as the Doctor said? You know she will
+have to be kept clean, and sleep in an airy room. And you’ll have to
+feed her right and bring her here often for examination.”
+
+The mother twisted uneasily. “I’ll fix the house up yet,” she
+promised. “I ain’t had time, but I will.” Two weeks alone in the
+childless tenement had put a new value on Stephanie. And the pretty,
+bright-eyed child seemed no longer a mere burden. “I’ll come back for
+you next week,” she finished, touching Stephanie’s curls with the
+first real tenderness she had ever shown. “Good bye, Stephanie.”
+
+But at the end of her three weeks Stephanie did not go home, though
+her eyes no longer needed Hospital care. When Mrs. Rogazrovitch
+appeared, ready to reclaim her child, she was staggered with the
+counter-suggestion that Stephanie should go to the sea-shore for a
+month.
+
+“Stephanie needs a vacation,” was the report. “You must not deprive
+her of the chance. It may keep her from having a relapse. Every
+relapse is dangerous. And the month will give you time to fix up your
+house and get it ready for such a nice little girl to live in.”
+
+The desired result came not without argument. For now Mrs.
+Rogazrovitch was set upon having her pretty child back again. But
+luckily she was not deaf to reason, as Mrs. Valentino had been. And
+the assurance that Stephanie would receive four weeks’ board in
+the country free had some weight in the matter. Reluctantly she
+consented that Stephanie should go. So the very week that ushered
+poor little Paolo into a still further country, from which there
+is no return, saw Stephanie saluting the wonders of green fields,
+flowers, and ocean shore.
+
+Her mother returned with a slow step to the empty tenement. Mrs.
+Raftery, next door, was consumed with curiosity, when with her head
+out of window she spied the saffron coat and purple hat entering
+dejectedly the door below, unaccompanied.
+
+“Why, where’s Stephanie?” she cried. “I thought you was afther goin’
+to fetch home the child.”
+
+The purple hat rose to the occasion with a jerk. “Stephanie is going
+for a vacation to the sea-shore,” said Mrs. Rogazrovitch with dignity.
+
+“Glory be!” ejaculated Mrs. Raftery, pulling in her head and sinking
+into a chair. The news, swiftly imparted, raised considerably the
+standing of Mrs. Rogazrovitch in that neighborhood.
+
+Presently Stephanie’s luck began to take another turn for the better;
+for as soon as she was well out of reach on the Island, Stephanie’s
+mother began to repent that she had let her go so easily. Others
+might covet the now precious possession. She began to suspect a
+conspiracy to keep Stephanie permanently exiled. There had been
+conditions set upon her return. For the first time Mrs. Rogazrovitch
+began to consider seriously the instructions she had received about
+hygiene and sanitation.
+
+One morning the neighbors were surprised by an unwonted activity in
+the fourth floor back. Clouds of dust, followed by the smell of soap,
+issued from the long unopened windows. Dingy articles were banged
+viciously and hung out to imbibe the unaccustomed sun. That week was
+a perpetual wash-day. Mrs. Raftery had her theory. At last she could
+stand the suspense no longer, but put her theory squarely to the
+test, with a question.
+
+“I’m making ready for Stephanie’s home-coming,” answered Mrs.
+Rogazrovitch tartly. “What do you suppose, anyhow?”
+
+“Blessed Saints!” ejaculated Mrs. Raftery. “I thought you was goin’
+to take one lodger at least, the way you’re makin’ everything so
+grand an’ tidy. La sakes! An’ it’s only for Stephanie!”
+
+But it was her neighbor’s next remark that smote Mrs. Raftery nearly
+dumb. It was made with some hesitation. “Will you—tell me—about
+making—soup?—I want to learn to cook.”
+
+When she could recover Mrs. Raftery gasped, “Cookin’, is it? Hivenly
+powers! Why, I’ll show ye meself. I’ve been a cook all my life, till
+this lameness took me. And sure, there’s a diet kitchen around the
+corner, I’m told, where they’ll give ye points.”
+
+It was this repeated conversation that made the neighborhood
+hysterical. Mrs. Rogazrovitch cleaning house! Mrs. Rogazrovitch
+learning to cook!
+
+“It’s a changed craytur she is entirely!” exclaimed Mrs. Raftery,
+to her gossip. “An’ it’s a changed home into which Stephanie will
+be comin’ from her vacation at the sea-shore. It’s small blame to
+her man that he ran away from that home two years ago, I’m thinkin’.
+But the woman will have no trouble at all gettin’ a lodger these
+days, the way her rooms be lookin’ so nice and dacint. Say, she’s
+been afther tellin’ me that my childher ought to have more fresh
+air o’ nights! And doughnuts, she says, is not healthy for infants.
+The knowingness of her! Sure, they’ll soon be afther makin’ Mrs.
+Rogazrovitch the Prisidint of the Improvemint Society, the way she’s
+gettin’ intelligint an’ forthcomin’. An’ she with a child visitin’ at
+the sea-shore!”
+
+So when Corporal Rogazrovitch, newly discharged, returned to take a
+secret reconnaissance of the home which he had deserted for the sake
+of his Country,—and for his own peace of mind,—he heard and saw such
+changes as made him decide not to re-enlist. This was another bit of
+luck for Stephanie; if you look at it from the right angle.
+
+And then,—there was the Kindergarten, too, for to-morrow!
+
+There was to be no anti-climax after all in Stephanie’s home-coming.
+
+
+
+
+  Transcriber’s Notes
+
+  pg 20 Added hyphen to: heard the Star Spangled
+
+*** END OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK WHAT LUCK! ***
+
+Updated editions will replace the previous one--the old editions will
+be renamed.
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+<p style='display:block; margin-top:1em; margin-bottom:0; margin-left:2em; text-indent:-2em'>Title: What luck!</p>
+<p style='display:block; margin-left:2em; text-indent:0; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:1em;'>A study in opposites</p>
+<p style='display:block; margin-top:1em; margin-bottom:0; margin-left:2em; text-indent:-2em'>Author: Abbie Farwell Brown</p>
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+<h1 class="nobreak" id="WHAT_LUCK">WHAT LUCK!</h1>
+</div>
+<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop">
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+<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop">
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+<div class="chapter">
+<p class="center fs150">WHAT LUCK!</p>
+</div>
+<p class="center fs120">A STUDY IN OPPOSITES<br>
+<br></p>
+<p class="center fs80">BY</p>
+<p class="center fs120">ABBIE FARWELL BROWN</p>
+<br>
+<br>
+<p class="center">MASSACHUSETTS CHARITABLE EYE AND<br>
+EAR INFIRMARY<br>
+BOSTON<br>
+</p>
+<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop">
+
+<p><span style="margin-left: 5em;"><span class="smcap">Issued</span> <em>for private distribution only by</em></span><br>
+<span style="margin-left: 7em;"><em>the</em> <span class="smcap">Massachusetts Charitable Eye</span></span><br>
+<span style="margin-left: 7em;"><span class="smcap">and Ear Infirmary</span> <em>and presented to</em></span><br>
+<span style="margin-left: 7em;"><em>their friends with their compliments</em></span></p>
+<p class="center">1827-1920</p>
+
+
+<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop">
+
+<div class="chapter">
+<h2 class="nobreak" id="WHAT_LUCK3">WHAT LUCK!</h2>
+</div>
+<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop">
+
+<p class="drop-cap">Side by side on the crowded waiting
+bench of the Infirmary sat two
+women, each with a child at her
+elbow, who had been eyeing one another
+furtively. They were silently criticizing
+in different languages.</p>
+
+<p>“Her mourning must have cost much
+money!” thought Mrs. Rogazrovitch, enviously,
+looking down at her own painful
+saffron coat.</p>
+
+<p>“Cielo! What a terrible hat!” mused
+the other woman, considering the purple
+velvet creation that crowned the frowzy
+locks of her neighbor. “She can have no
+care to hold the love of her husband!”
+And she wiped a tear with her black-bordered
+handkerchief.</p>
+
+<p>The eyes of little Stephanie, who stood
+at the knee of Mrs. Rogazrovitch, were red
+and swollen; but not with weeping. Even
+the subdued light of the waiting-room
+made her squint horribly, and she kept
+her eyes turned from the window. This
+brought in direct line her neighbor, the
+pale, emaciated little boy at the other
+woman’s side. Stephanie was five; the
+boy seemed older. He hung his head and
+never looked up. Stephanie was ready to
+make friends, for she had grown tired
+of the long wait, but Paolo’s mother was
+in the way. She was continually bending
+over the boy, smoothing his hair or
+kissing his forehead, in what seemed to
+Stephanie a very silly fashion. Stephanie’s
+mother never kissed her at all.</p>
+
+<p>Gradually Stephanie edged nearer.
+“Hello!” she said in a stage whisper
+suited to the solemn occasion. “Is your
+eyes sick, too?”</p>
+
+<p>The boy stared, gave a blinking glance
+from big, brown eyes, and nodded.</p>
+
+<p>“They look red, like mine,—only
+worse,” commented Stephanie, after this
+revealing look. “But they will fix them
+all right, if we’re lucky. The lady said
+so.” Again the boy glanced at her pitifully,
+but said nothing.</p>
+
+<p>“Do you go to Kindergarten?” asked
+Stephanie. The boy shook his head. “I
+don’t go nowhere,” he said.</p>
+
+<p>“I guess you are too big for Kindergarten.
+Oh, it’s the grandest place!”
+went on Stephanie ecstatically. “But I
+had to stop when my eyes got sick.—What
+makes your mother wear those black
+clothes? I hate black clothes.”</p>
+
+<p>“My father died,” said Paolo solemnly.</p>
+
+<p>“My father ran off,” volunteered
+Stephanie. “I think he went to be a soldier.
+Mrs. Raftery says it was because—”</p>
+
+<p>“Stephanie! You shut up!” Mrs.
+Rogazrovitch jerked her by the arm. The
+attendant was saying something.</p>
+
+<p>“Eighty-six!” he repeated. It was the
+number on the red ticket that Mrs.
+Rogazrovitch clutched in not over-clean
+fingers.</p>
+
+<p>“Come on, you Stephanie!” snapped the
+mother. And the slatternly woman with
+the curly-haired child stepped forward to
+the table.</p>
+
+<p>Yes; there was no doubt about it.
+Stephanie was a case of that tubercular eye
+trouble which affects so many children of
+the poor; a trouble caused by constitutional
+weakness, lack of care and of wholesome
+food. Unless properly treated
+Stephanie would become partially or
+wholly blind some day. And the pretty
+blue eyes would never play their part in a
+world where all the eyes are needed. But
+Stephanie was in one respect luckier than
+Paolo, who still waited, encircled by his
+affectionate mother’s arm. Strange negative
+“luck” that consisted in not being
+<em>too-much</em> loved by any one!</p>
+
+<p>“You’d better leave her here,” said the
+Doctor, after he had examined the poor
+little eyes.</p>
+
+<p>The woman blinked. “How long must
+she to stay?” she asked cautiously.</p>
+
+<p>“Well, maybe three weeks; it’s an average
+case, I should say. We’ll take the
+best care of her,” he added kindly. But
+Mrs. Rogazrovitch was not worrying as
+he surmised.</p>
+
+<p>“I don’ care. But will she grow well
+forever?” she asked. “She not be blind,
+eh?”</p>
+
+<p>“She can be cured if you keep up the
+treatment as we tell you, after she goes
+home. You must bring her back for examination;
+give her milk and wholesome
+food, well cooked,—no doughnuts and
+candy; and,”—the doctor referred to
+Stephanie’s card,—“clean up your house
+and keep it in better condition. We shall
+keep an eye on Stephanie. And if you
+can’t do all this, we must find a better
+home for her.”</p>
+
+<p>The woman looked sulky. “How much
+it costs to keep in the Hospital?” she
+asked. She was told that the usual
+charge was seventeen dollars and a half for
+a week, but that if she could not afford so
+much, the Superintendent would probably
+arrange to let her pay what she could.</p>
+
+<p>“I can’t to pay anything for sick
+child!” exclaimed the woman. “I can
+just to pay rent and get some food. Two
+years ago my man goes off. I don’ know.
+Maybe he’s fighting; but I don’ get nothing.”</p>
+
+<p>“That’s all right,” said the Doctor.
+“You go see the Superintendent. We’ll
+look after Stephanie anyway.—By the
+way, will you sign this paper giving us
+permission to fix her adenoids and tonsils
+while she is here? I daresay you don’t
+care?”</p>
+
+<p>“No; <em>I</em> don’ care,” said the woman
+casually, with the air of one conferring a
+favor.</p>
+
+<p>Of course she did not realize how great
+a privilege Stephanie was getting. Few
+citizens know that the Massachusetts Eye
+and Ear Infirmary is the only Hospital in
+the city where a child with a trouble like
+Stephanie’s would be so taken in and
+cared for. All such cases are referred to
+the Infirmary. How should Mrs. Rogazrovitch
+guess that the kind hands which
+were to care for the child and the kind
+faces surrounding her belonged to the best
+specialists and the best nurses anywhere
+to be found? She only knew that for the
+time being a burden was lifted. And this
+was Stephanie’s advantage over Paolo,
+whose mother loved him too fatuously to
+give him his only chance.</p>
+
+<p>“Eighty-seven!” called the attendant,
+after Stephanie and her mother had
+passed on. It was Paolo’s turn.</p>
+
+<p>“She says,—she could not spare me; she
+loves me too much. And besides, my
+father would not let her,” the boy answered
+a question in a hollow voice. “He
+was very sick, and last week he died. He
+would not let me be in a Hospital.”
+Helplessly he raised to the doctor eyes
+which should have been very beautiful;
+the eyes of a poet or painter.</p>
+
+<p>“But why then did not your mother
+bring you back for treatment, as I told
+her?” asked the doctor again. The
+woman began to weep. “She says she
+could not leave my father,” interpreted
+the boy. “She loved him very much.
+Once she did try to come here with me,
+after the Visitor called. But she could
+not find the way. She says her head is
+sick. And she lost her ring. That made
+her very sad indeed.”</p>
+
+<p>“Did she give you the medicine regularly?”</p>
+
+<p>The boy hesitated. “Sometimes,” he
+said; “when the Visitor came. I think
+my mother forgot; she was so sad about my
+father. She sat in a chair and rocked all
+day. She is very kind and loving. She
+held me on her lap and cried, and cried.”</p>
+
+<p>The Doctor frowned. “Is there any
+one here who can speak Italian?” he called
+out to the waiting crowd. A man stepped
+forward, while the Doctor sent Paolo
+aside. “Tell her, please, that unless she
+brings Paolo here regularly, and gives him
+the medicine every day, I will not answer
+for the consequences.—Do you see that
+boy over there?” The Doctor indicated
+a tiny fellow with fine Greek features,
+whose mother was crying over him in the
+corner. “Well; that woman would not
+leave him in our care, because she was too
+obstinate. And although she lives close
+by, she would not take the time and
+trouble to bring him in for treatment. So
+now he will lose the sight of one eye at
+least. Tell Mrs. Valentino that Paolo’s
+eyes are very bad, and he will fare worse
+than that boy, unless she does as I say.”</p>
+
+<p>The woman burst into hysterical grief,
+and clasped Paolo passionately, mumbling
+endearing syllables in her musical tongue.
+The boy’s brown eyes filled too, and he
+tried to comfort her. Pitying herself for
+her many troubles, the mother led Paolo
+away.</p>
+
+<p>“She will not come back,” thought the
+Doctor. “I see it in her face. The Social
+Service Department will have to get
+busy.”</p>
+
+<p>The Social Service Department of the
+Infirmary did get busy, as in all such cases.
+When Paolo did not reappear, they went
+to look him up. The Visitor coaxed and
+re-urged the dazed, inefficient mother.
+But it was hopeless. Finally the case
+was reported to the proper authorities.
+But already Paolo’s mother had loved him
+to death. Stephanie was not to see her
+little neighbor again.</p>
+
+<p>Meanwhile, for Stephanie herself there
+had begun what was—apart from a little
+discomfort at the beginning—the happiest
+three weeks she had ever known. To
+begin with, her poor ragged clothes were
+taken away, and she had a lovely warm
+bath in a tub; in itself a novel experience.
+With her yellow curls nicely brushed,
+sweet and clean from top to toe, she was
+then tucked away in a little white cot all
+by herself,—this also was an unheard-of
+luxury!—in a sunny, airy room where
+other clean children were playing about
+like a happy family. At first poor little
+Stephanie was too miserable to do more
+than snuggle into the soft, sweet pillow,
+and allow herself sulkily to be fed with
+easily swallowed things. A kind Voice,
+associated with strong and gentle hands,
+attended to her wants. But Stephanie
+slept most of the time; dreaming of happy
+faces, merry laughter, and feet running
+about a Kindergarten.</p>
+
+<p>After two days of existing as a mere little
+mollusc, one morning Stephanie sat
+up and began to take notice. A beautiful
+white-clad Being put her into a neat cotton
+frock and pinafore. Only Stephanie’s
+scarred shoes were left to remind her
+of the home that seemed mercifully far
+away. They tied a shade over her eyes,
+to help the squint, and for the first time
+she looked around with interest at the nursery.</p>
+
+<p>What a pleasant place it was! Stephanie
+had never seen anything nearly so
+beautiful; except the Kindergarten. Poor
+little Stephanie! It had been hard luck
+to give up the Kindergarten, just when
+she was growing so happy there. The
+school nurse had seen that she must stop.
+But—there was a rose on the table here,
+too! A red rose! And children playing
+games, just like a real kindergarten! But
+these children were not all of Stephanie’s
+age. Some were bigger; some much littler.
+Why, in the very next cot to her lay
+a wee baby, sucking a bottle. Nurse said
+its mother was sick in another room.
+Stephanie thought this baby would be nicer
+than a doll to play with. And oh, <em>oh</em>!
+Over there was a little black live doll, with
+eyes that rolled and blinked, and real hair
+standing up all over her head; and a big
+red bow! Stephanie grinned at the doll;
+and oh, <em>oh</em>! The doll grinned back!
+Stephanie waved her arms up and down.
+And the funny doll stretched her mouth in
+white-toothed glee, and did just what
+Stephanie did. This was better even than
+Kindergarten!</p>
+
+<p>What else was there in the lovely room?
+Stephanie looked around. There were
+nine little beds against the walls, and as
+many more in the next ward, as she soon
+learned when she began to investigate.
+Most of the beds were empty in the daytime.
+Across the room from Stephanie a
+big boy sat up among pillows, reading.
+He laughed when Nurse told him a funny
+story, but could only whisper in reply,
+holding on to his throat. Stephanie understood
+perfectly, and was very sorry for
+poor Tom. She was sorrier still when dinner-time
+came; when she and the other
+dressed children gathered about little low
+tables, with bibs on. Soup was all that
+poor Tom could swallow. But Stephanie
+could eat fish, and potato; and there was
+a nice pudding, too! Poor Tom! Stephanie
+ate ravenously, after her two days’
+fast. No puddings ever happened in the
+home she had left.</p>
+
+<p>The twenty little children were too busy
+eating to talk. “More bread and butter?
+More milk? Yes, indeed. All you
+want.” Just think; Stephanie could have
+all the milk she wanted! That had never
+happened before in her life. She thought
+she must be in Heaven. The children were
+of all shades and manners,—perhaps that
+was like Heaven, too; who knows?
+Most of them wore curious foreign names,
+but they all spoke English, after a fashion.
+Some of them were just learning the ways
+of good Americans at the table and elsewhere.
+Frank, who sat next Stephanie,
+was a little pig. He made faces, spilled
+his milk and scattered his crumbs, so that
+She,—the Angel in white,—scolded him,
+and made him sit by himself at another
+table, till he should be more careful.</p>
+
+<p>But Stephanie liked John, with the big
+grey eyes, who was a little gentleman;
+though he wore such a funny thing like a
+bonnet on his head,—and he a big boy of
+eight! Stephanie loved at first sight Dottie
+Dimple with the pink cheeks and one
+lovely blue eye. She cried when John explained
+that one day Dottie had poked a
+pair of scissors into the other eye, so that it
+would never see any more.</p>
+
+<p>Then there was Sammy, with the funny
+face and big nose, who looked like a little
+old man in a baby’s dress. Sammy could
+not hear when you spoke to him.—But
+mostly the children forgot all about eyes
+and ears between dressing-times, they had
+so much to make them happy.</p>
+
+<p>After dinner the children put back their
+chairs nicely, and then the victrola played
+lovely music. It was pleasant to see all
+the little children stand at salute when
+they heard the Star-Spangled Banner.
+Even the deaf ones did as they saw the
+others do.</p>
+
+<p>On sunny days they played out on the
+balcony of the ward below. It was a
+pity that they had no balcony of their
+own, leading from the nursery. Greatly
+it is needed. But it will come, no doubt,
+with a great many other needed things,
+when more people know about the Infirmary
+on Charles Street, and the good luck
+it brings to little children and big; when
+more parents, reading the story of Paolo,
+Stephanie, and these others, will understand
+that what helps such children protects
+the health of the whole community,
+including their own little ones.</p>
+
+<p>The ounce of prevention has gone up
+in the scale of modern values. It is worth
+not pounds but <em>tons</em> of possible cure.
+Every child kept out of an asylum is a
+civic asset. Every penny spent in the
+prevention of blindness or deafness is
+an investment placed on interest a thousandfold.</p>
+
+<p>Those were wonderful days for babies
+like Stephanie who had seen too little luck
+in their lives. Breakfast at half past six;
+a luncheon of fruit and milk at nine; dinner
+at eleven, and supper at four. All the
+bread and butter a child could eat; all the
+milk she wished to drink. And most of
+the children drank a quart of milk every
+day. No wonder Stephanie began to be
+less pale and thin before the nurse’s eyes.
+No wonder her eyes began to be better almost
+directly. Soon she was running and
+racing about the nursery among the liveliest
+of them all.</p>
+
+<p>One day a visitor came to talk for a
+minute with the nurse. She had been to
+the clinic, and after that they had given
+her this extra privilege. To Stephanie
+this Person seemed a beautiful grown-up
+lady. But Mamie was really only a nice
+girl of sixteen, with happy, sunburned face
+and shining brown eyes. Stephanie
+squirmed with delight when Mamie took
+her up on her lap while she talked with
+Nurse.</p>
+
+<p>“She has eyes like mine were,” said
+Mamie in an aside to the nurse. But Stephanie
+heard, and hoped. Would her
+grey-blue eyes ever get big and brown like
+this nice Person’s, she wondered?</p>
+
+<p>“Oh, sure! I’m all right now,” said
+the visitor, in answer to a question.
+“They pronounced me O. K. Just look
+how fat and brown I am. Say, it don’t
+seem possible. Why, I was sicker than
+Stephanie here when I came, wasn’t I?”
+The nurse assented. “I’ll never forget
+how I felt, working in the store: my eyes
+all swollen and weepy. I was down and
+out, all right. For, of course, I haven’t a
+relation on God’s earth. And with my
+salary,—how could I go to a specialist?
+Then a lady gave me a hunch about this
+Infirmary. So here I came; and everybody
+was mighty good to me. You know,
+don’t you, Dearie?” She caught Stephanie
+up close.</p>
+
+<p>“Yes!” affirmed Stephanie, snuggling.</p>
+
+<p>“I came here all in,” Mamie went on.
+“But what a difference when I left! Just
+to think of going to the country for a rest,
+instead of right back to the store. And
+nothing to pay for it all, either. Some
+dream!”</p>
+
+<p>“Did you have a good time in the country?”
+asked the nurse sympathetically.</p>
+
+<p>“I’ll say so!” cried Mamie. “I just
+lived out doors four solid weeks, sitting on
+the piazza or walking in the garden, like a
+lady. They made me lie down to rest
+after dinner. Rest! Well; the chief
+thing I had to do to tire me was <em>eat</em>!
+And such eats! Um! Eggs and milk
+between meals, too. Say, the girls at the
+store will sure think I’m kidding when I
+tell them about it.”</p>
+
+<p>“You’ll be sure to come back here, as the
+Doctor said?” charged the nurse. “You
+know, you will have to be careful still.”</p>
+
+<p>“You bet I’ll be careful!” said Mamie
+earnestly. “I am not going to take any
+chances. The Doctor made it plain
+enough what I’ve got to do. I’ll keep my
+eyes, thanks, now I’ve got ’em back.”</p>
+
+<p>The trouble that Stephanie and Paolo
+and Mamie had cannot certainly be cured,
+once for all. It is likely to recur, if care
+is relaxed; and each time it makes a worse
+scar on the eye, with increased handicaps.
+The hardest part of the follow-up work of
+the Infirmary is to make the parents understand
+this, and to watch patiently.</p>
+
+<p>Three weeks in a country home, at a cost
+of five dollars a week, following three
+weeks’ treatment at the Eye and Ear Infirmary,
+had stood between Mamie and
+blindness. The Infirmary has an emergency
+fund, all too inadequate, for such
+cases.</p>
+
+<p>“What is the Country?” asked Stephanie,
+when Mamie had gone. “Is it
+My Country-Tiz?” She had an idea that
+it might have something to do with a relative
+of the Star Spangled Banner. “Shall
+I have to <em>salute</em> it?”</p>
+
+<p>“Bless you!” cried the nurse. “I guess
+you will want to salute it, when you see it
+for the first time!”</p>
+
+<p>On the last Sunday of her stay Stephanie
+had a surprise. The Doctor had
+pronounced her eyes so much better that
+she could leave the following week.
+Plump, and rosy, and bright-eyed, Stephanie
+was as pretty a little girl as one
+could wish to see. To be sure there was a
+fly in her ointment. The Doctor had not
+succeeded in turning her eyes into big
+brown ones like Mamie’s, as Stephanie had
+suggested. But nurse assured her that
+blue eyes would probably wear better in
+the long run.</p>
+
+<p>Stephanie was playing peacefully by
+herself, while the other children visited
+with their parents, during the one hour
+allowed for this every Sunday.</p>
+
+<p>“Here’s a visitor to see you, Stephanie,”
+said the nurse. And in walked Mrs. Rogazrovitch,
+saffron coat, purple hat, and
+all. She was a little cleaner than usual;
+there was more black upon her boots than
+upon her hands. But she was still a striking
+contrast to Hospital standards. Stephanie
+greeted her without enthusiasm.
+Indeed, when she spied the familiar face,
+she shrank back to the skirts of Nurse, with
+a little gasp that told more than words.
+The mother flushed. Other mothers were
+watching.</p>
+
+<p>“Well, Stephanie!” she cried in astonishment
+mingled with pride. “You do
+look good! Ain’t ye glad to see me, eh?”
+Still Stephanie held back. “Your eyes
+get well, Stephanie? You’ll be coming
+home soon, yes?” But Stephanie pouted
+and kicked the floor with her toe. Mrs.
+Rogazrovitch turned to the nurse. The
+latter shook her head dubiously.</p>
+
+<p>“Have you fixed up your house as the
+Doctor said? You know she will have to
+be kept clean, and sleep in an airy room.
+And you’ll have to feed her right and bring
+her here often for examination.”</p>
+
+<p>The mother twisted uneasily. “I’ll fix
+the house up yet,” she promised. “I ain’t
+had time, but I will.” Two weeks alone
+in the childless tenement had put a new
+value on Stephanie. And the pretty,
+bright-eyed child seemed no longer a mere
+burden. “I’ll come back for you next
+week,” she finished, touching Stephanie’s
+curls with the first real tenderness she had
+ever shown. “Good bye, Stephanie.”</p>
+
+<p>But at the end of her three weeks Stephanie
+did not go home, though her eyes
+no longer needed Hospital care. When
+Mrs. Rogazrovitch appeared, ready to reclaim
+her child, she was staggered with the
+counter-suggestion that Stephanie should
+go to the sea-shore for a month.</p>
+
+<p>“Stephanie needs a vacation,” was the
+report. “You must not deprive her of the
+chance. It may keep her from having a
+relapse. Every relapse is dangerous.
+And the month will give you time to fix up
+your house and get it ready for such a nice
+little girl to live in.”</p>
+
+<p>The desired result came not without
+argument. For now Mrs. Rogazrovitch
+was set upon having her pretty child back
+again. But luckily she was not deaf to
+reason, as Mrs. Valentino had been. And
+the assurance that Stephanie would receive
+four weeks’ board in the country free had
+some weight in the matter. Reluctantly
+she consented that Stephanie should go.
+So the very week that ushered poor little
+Paolo into a still further country, from
+which there is no return, saw Stephanie saluting
+the wonders of green fields, flowers,
+and ocean shore.</p>
+
+<p>Her mother returned with a slow step to
+the empty tenement. Mrs. Raftery, next
+door, was consumed with curiosity, when
+with her head out of window she spied the
+saffron coat and purple hat entering dejectedly
+the door below, unaccompanied.</p>
+
+<p>“Why, where’s Stephanie?” she cried.
+“I thought you was afther goin’ to fetch
+home the child.”</p>
+
+<p>The purple hat rose to the occasion with
+a jerk. “Stephanie is going for a vacation
+to the sea-shore,” said Mrs. Rogazrovitch
+with dignity.</p>
+
+<p>“Glory be!” ejaculated Mrs. Raftery,
+pulling in her head and sinking into a
+chair. The news, swiftly imparted, raised
+considerably the standing of Mrs. Rogazrovitch
+in that neighborhood.</p>
+
+<p>Presently Stephanie’s luck began to take
+another turn for the better; for as soon as
+she was well out of reach on the Island,
+Stephanie’s mother began to repent that
+she had let her go so easily. Others might
+covet the now precious possession. She
+began to suspect a conspiracy to keep Stephanie
+permanently exiled. There had
+been conditions set upon her return. For
+the first time Mrs. Rogazrovitch began to
+consider seriously the instructions she had
+received about hygiene and sanitation.</p>
+
+<p>One morning the neighbors were surprised
+by an unwonted activity in the
+fourth floor back. Clouds of dust, followed
+by the smell of soap, issued from the
+long unopened windows. Dingy articles
+were banged viciously and hung out to imbibe
+the unaccustomed sun. That week
+was a perpetual wash-day. Mrs. Raftery
+had her theory. At last she could stand
+the suspense no longer, but put her theory
+squarely to the test, with a question.</p>
+
+<p>“I’m making ready for Stephanie’s
+home-coming,” answered Mrs. Rogazrovitch
+tartly. “What do you suppose,
+anyhow?”</p>
+
+<p>“Blessed Saints!” ejaculated Mrs. Raftery.
+“I thought you was goin’ to take
+one lodger at least, the way you’re makin’
+everything so grand an’ tidy. La sakes!
+An’ it’s only for Stephanie!”</p>
+
+<p>But it was her neighbor’s next remark
+that smote Mrs. Raftery nearly dumb.
+It was made with some hesitation. “Will
+you—tell me—about making—soup?—I
+want to learn to cook.”</p>
+
+<p>When she could recover Mrs. Raftery
+gasped, “Cookin’, is it? Hivenly powers!
+Why, I’ll show ye meself. I’ve
+been a cook all my life, till this lameness
+took me. And sure, there’s a diet kitchen
+around the corner, I’m told, where they’ll
+give ye points.”</p>
+
+<p>It was this repeated conversation that
+made the neighborhood hysterical. Mrs.
+Rogazrovitch cleaning house! Mrs. Rogazrovitch
+learning to cook!</p>
+
+<p>“It’s a changed craytur she is entirely!”
+exclaimed Mrs. Raftery, to her gossip.
+“An’ it’s a changed home into which Stephanie
+will be comin’ from her vacation at
+the sea-shore. It’s small blame to her
+man that he ran away from that home two
+years ago, I’m thinkin’. But the woman
+will have no trouble at all gettin’ a lodger
+these days, the way her rooms be lookin’
+so nice and dacint. Say, she’s been afther
+tellin’ me that my childher ought to have
+more fresh air o’ nights! And doughnuts,
+she says, is not healthy for infants. The
+knowingness of her! Sure, they’ll soon
+be afther makin’ Mrs. Rogazrovitch the
+Prisidint of the Improvemint Society, the
+way she’s gettin’ intelligint an’ forthcomin’.
+An’ she with a child visitin’ at
+the sea-shore!”</p>
+
+<p>So when Corporal Rogazrovitch, newly
+discharged, returned to take a secret reconnaissance
+of the home which he had deserted
+for the sake of his Country,—and
+for his own peace of mind,—he heard and
+saw such changes as made him decide not
+to re-enlist. This was another bit of luck
+for Stephanie; if you look at it from the
+right angle.</p>
+
+<p>And then,—there was the Kindergarten,
+too, for to-morrow!</p>
+
+<p>There was to be no anti-climax after all
+in Stephanie’s home-coming.</p>
+
+
+
+
+<div class="transnote">
+<h2>Transcriber’s Notes</h2>
+
+<span style="margin-left: 1em;">pg 20 Added hyphen to: heard the Star Spangled</span><br>
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