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If you -are not located in the United States, you will have to check the laws of the -country where you are located before using this eBook. -</div> - -<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> -<p style='display:block; text-indent:0; margin:1em 0'>Release Date: December 13, 2022 [eBook #69532]</p> -<p style='display:block; text-indent:0; margin:1em 0'>Language: English</p> - <p style='display:block; margin-top:1em; margin-bottom:0; margin-left:2em; text-indent:-2em; text-align:left'>Produced by: Bob Taylor and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive)</p> -<div style='margin-top:2em; margin-bottom:4em'>*** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK WHAT LUCK! ***</div> - -<div class="figcenter" style="width: 35%"> -<img src="images/cover.jpg" alt="Cover"> -</div> - - -<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop"> - -<div class="chapter"> -<h1 class="nobreak" id="WHAT_LUCK">WHAT LUCK!</h1> -</div> -<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop"> - -<div class="figcenter illowp100" id="i002" style="max-width: 87em;"> - <img class="w100" src="images/i002.jpg" alt=""> - <div class="caption"></div> -</div> -<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop"> - -<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. 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