Life — March 31, 1898 — page 15: what you’re looking at

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WE WERE,” SAID THE INEER. E TWELVE COACHES FILLED WITH PASRENGERS. AN AWFUL MOMENT.”? The Boy: Wny vipx'r you BACK-PEDAL? inside, I've been worried about it ever since. After this I was pinched from head to foot and subjected to all sorts of indignities, built up again, and thrown back into bed. There is one thing to consoie me, 1 must come of good stock. No ordinary constitution could staud this sort of thing. Wednesday—This morning I was given my first bath, No language can fitly de- scribe the horror of this, It’s bad enough to be dipped and scrubbed with a cotton lish-net, but to be wiped off afterwards by a total stranger, with no feelings, is some thing uo ordinary mind can conceive of. This afternoon the cook came in and said that either she or the trained nurse would have to I hope the cook will stay. Thursday—This morning my fatber came in, glanced at me fartively, kissed my mother, stammered something, and ab- ruptly left the room. I am beginning to have a growing respect for that man, Ile is the only one who has sense enough to leave me alone, Later, the doctor came 1d ordered more steam, Te might make a good attendant in a Turkish bath, but as u physician for infants he is no phenome- non, A few more days like this and my nervous system will be gone, Friday—To-day I managed to develop acase of colic. If these people can make a human being suffer so when there is noth- ing particular the matter with him, just think of how their sphere is enlarged when real symptoms are apparent. I was ham- ONE RESOURCE. “WE WERE GOIN THE LOCOMOTIVE WAS RUSHID mered on the back, as the nurse expressed it, “to relieve me,” and then they gave me lukewarm water and peppermint every few minutes. Prussic acid was what I wanted. They have spent the last four days in wearing ie out, and now, when nature revolts, they fill me up with stuff that I don't need. The worst of it is, Lam beginning to lose my nerve. Saturday—I've had enough of this world. To- day the relatives came. In thirty minutes eighteen different systems of bringing me up were explained, all equally horrible. It's bud enough at present, but any of these would be certain death, For two mortal hours 1 was handled and jounced. This was the last straw, Utterly exhausted, with a broken spirit, | await the future with all hope gone. Tit Maan, Yale Is Interested. T is remarked, with a degree of} detail that admits of no contradiction that is not au. thoritative and expert, that New Haven has no defenses, and that the preventives to the entrance of hostile warships into Long Island Sound from its western end are inadequate. In- asmuch as the location of the Winchester Arms Company at New Haven would make that town a point of interest to a visiting fleet, it is within the range of possibility that, if we have war, the material part of Yale University may be exposed to very serious peril. In view of this chance, {t seems only a reasonable precaution that the Yale football team should go at once into active training, and that Yale diplomacy. schooled and tried on a field of perennial dix pute, should lend the administration all the aid it can in bringing curreat complications to an amicable issue. AT LEAST FIFTY MILES AN HOUR. IN FRONT WAS THE BURNIN 3 TOWARD DESTRUCTION AT A PRIOHTFUL PAC’ INCORRIGIBLE, BRIDGE AND IT was