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PRIVATE ROOM IN WISE MEMORIAL liOSPITAL. Photo by a Staff Artist.
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lflEHE orco tho older aristocracy
of Omaha met at smart functions
or sat at great dinners, thoso "by
human 111a distressed" now spend
the hours of their recuperation
and know no greater feasting than the
broths and dainties of Invalid's fare. A
broad green lawn, tree-studded and with a
fountain In Its center, that once served for
fetes and lantern parties now has the
gentler mission of providing for weary
eyes a view restful and cheering. The
house that was the J. J. Drown residence Is
now the Wise Memorial hospital.
In exterior appearance the great brick
building, numbered 2225 Sherman avenue,
la unchanged except for an enlargement
on the north, but In Its Interior ar
rangements such alterations have been
made as were necessary to mako wards of
bed chambers and parlors and the winding
staircase has been sacrificed for one up
which the helpless may be borne with
greater ease and safety.
When the hospital corps, moving from
3208 Sherman avenue, took possession lam
month a little band of valiant women were
among those who rejoiced, for they felt
thRt it was in a measure a crowning of Mesdames S. Arnstein, J. Lobman, M. Spies- bearers may ascend without Inconvenience but the sponsors of the institution continue
their own lonit and patient efforts. Three bertter and F. Frank. to the patient. Electric lights and new to laDor mat tne suDscnpuon nsi may grow
years ago these women, Mrs. J. L. Rran- The hospital takes its name from tho plumbing were installed. Paint was ap-
dels, Mrs. J. Sonnenberg, Mrs. C. Schlunk eminent Rabbi Wise whose death occurred plied. The private rooms and the wards,
and Mrs. J. Rosenstein, began their cum- some two yeors ago, but It is distinctly a each with a capacity of seven were equlp-
palgn for the nucleus of a hospital fund, charitable institution and non-sectariau. ped with the immaculate white hospital
They secured half the proceeds of a benefit The poor are admitted regardless of church beds. And to tho north was bullded as an
at the Orpheum theater; they conducted a affiliation and given the benefit of the best annex to the main building a large apart
and 400 names Is now a much desired
and apparently near attainment. Further
more, there has been undertaken for the
night of Thursday, December 11, a charity
ball that is to be a more than ordinary
event. The Metropolitan club on West
booth at the atreet fair; they annexed a tho institution affords. There are, of ment now fully equipped with all that Harney Is to be used and will be elaborately
day's proceeds of a soda fountain and they course, private rooms for those who prefer modern surgery requires in the accom- decorated. A superior orchestra has been
collected $2 BOO in donations. and who are able to contribute to the plishmcnt of its difficult and marvelous secured and the women interested in the
Incidentally they Interested other women maintenance of the hospital, but of the 200 mendings, and a sterilizing department and hospital have etarted to canvass the smart
and some prominent business men. and patients who have been cared for since the robing room for the surgeons' use. Miss set and the smaller social sets with the
when, early In November. 1001. they lncor- institution first opened In the old quarters. Wheeler has been provided with a very one determination that 600 couples shall be
porated they had back of them about 175 November 18 of last year, fifty have been cozy apartment and every effort made to on the list.
supportera pledged to give a specified charity charges. Two of the twenty-two create a homelike appearance so far as "These women," said one of the staff of
amount from month to month that the in- now being cared for are of the same class, possible. The premises have been leased physicians, "are working wisely and well
stltutlon mlfht be assured of Income other The capacity in the new quarters Is forty from Mrs. J. J. Drown for but three years, in a very good cause. When they leased
than spasmodic donations. Dut the tamo and to attend their wants are eight nurses but nothing in the present equipment la the new premisee I thought the surround-
women remained at the front and are no under Miss Jennie M. Wheeler. On the staff suggestive of temporary makeshift. lngs Ideal and the building Inviting and
less active now than when their undertak- of physicians and surgeons are Dra. Hoff- Indeed the sponsors of the Wise Memorial cozy, but I feared the trains down under
Ing was In Its swaddling clothes. Mrs. man, Davis, Summers. Jonas, Allison, hospital have no other thought than that the bluffs to the east might disturb the
Brandeis Is president aud Mrs. Sonnenberg Drldges, Rosewuter, Wearne. Goetz, Lud- It shall prove one of the enduring and patients. I have since discovered that they
Is vice president. Mrs It. Levy Is financial lngton and Owen. It was under their dlrec- thriving institutions of Omaha and the do not disturb even the most fretful and
secretary. Mr. Isaac Kahn is corresponding tlon that the alterations in the Interior work in that behalf is more energetic now, my last and only objection is removed. Out
secretary and Mr. A. Brown Is' treasurer, arrangement were made. The old stair- perhaps, than ever. A donation of J500 cf nothing there has been builded without
Associated with these on the board of di- case was found inconvenient because of was received in September from A. Slim- the aid of endowment or annuity a splendid
rectors are Messrs. J. L. Brandeis, J. Son- its spiral course and was promptly re- mcr of Waverly. Ia., and many Omaha institution where a splendid work is being
nenberg, C. Schlank, Isldor Ziegler and rlaced by a straight one, up which litter capitalists have given considerable amounts done In a splendid way.
Gleanings From the Story Tellers' Pack
1 IENERAL "Phil" Sheridan was at
w one time asked at what little
Incident did he luugh the most.
JC5 "Well," he said, "I do not
know, but I alwayB laugh when 1
think of the Irishman and the army mule.
I was riding down the line one day, when
I saw an Irishman mouuted on a mule which
was kicking Its legs rather freely. The
mule finally got Its hoof caught in tho stir
rup, when, in the excitement, the Irishman
remarked: 'Well, begorrah. If you're goln'
to get on, I'll get off.' "
In his lecture, "Love, Courtship and Mar
riage," delivered in tho Lebanon Valley
college chapel a few years ago, relates the
Topeka Herald, Rev. John Dewitt Miller of
Philadelphia said that men should kiss their
wives as they did when they were a year or
two married. When the lecture was over
an old man went home, put his arm around
hit wife's neck and kissed her.
Meeting the lecturer some time after, he
said. "It's no go."
"What Un'tT" said the lecturer
"Vel," said the man, "ven I kissed my
vife she said, 'Vat's gone wrong mit you, ye
oult fool, ye?" "
As an Instance of clever repartee, this
which we find In the Boston Pilot Is hard
to beat. A distinguished lawyer and poli
tician was traveling on a train when an
Irishwoman came Into the car with a
basket, bundle, etc. She paid her fare, but
the conductor passed by the lawyer with
out collecting anything. The good woman
thereupon said to the lawyer: "An' faith
an' why is It that the conductor takes the
money of a poor woman an' don't ask ye,
who seem to be a rich man, for anything?"
The lawyer, who had a pass, replied: "My
dear madam. I'm traveling on my beauty."
The woman looked at him for a moment
and then quickly answered: "An' is that
so? Then ye must be very near yer Jour
ney's end."
There Is a well known attorney In New
York whose wife, to whom he is devotedly
attached, Is almost an invalid. On one oc
casion the wife was suffering intensely from
a nervous headache and thinking perhaps
his voice might soothe her to sleep she
asked him to read aloud to her, which he
did as the colored maid went back and
forth about the room, setting things in
order for the night.
Presently the maid quietly withdrew to
the kitchen below, where the old cook,
Aunt Phyllis, was making ready to lock up
and depart.
"Mr. Alex sho' Is a good man," said the
maid, beginning. "He settln' up dar readln'
de Bible to Miss Alice, an' she sick."
"(Jo on, chile," answered Aunt Phyllis.
"Don" you know Mr. Alex ain't readin' no
Bible? He's a lawyer."
William Barbour, who was defeated for
congress in the Sixth New Jersey district,
reports the New York Times, ran counter
to a strong feeling of state pride in his
canvass because of his residence in New
York.
The other day in Paterson he met a
stanch Jersey man, who said: "Sorry. I
couldn't vote for you, Colonel, but I thought
we ought to elect a Jereeymau."
"Well, you must admit I am an Amer
ican, at any rate," said Mr. Barbour, after
explaining how he felt that his Jersey in
terests identified him with the state.
"America may be good enough for you,"
said the Paterson man, "but I prefer Jer
sey." A delightful funny story comes across the
water from Paris concerning a well known
public man, who was recently presented by
a Soudanese potentate with the Labaksl
Tapo Order of Merit. The recipient anxious
to display the decoration at the earliest
opportunity, applied at once to the ministry
for permission to wear it. While readily
granting the permission, the minister in
quired, with the ghost of a smile:
"Do you know what the order is like?"
"Certainly," replied the delighted appli
cant, "It is a beautiful gold ring and hang
ing from It a small red enamel pipe of
peace. I should like to wear It."
"Of course, you may wear it, but accrd-
ing to law you have to wear It as it Is worn
by the natives In Africa." .
"And how might that be?"
"Why, with the ring through the nose."
The new knight of the Labaksi-Tapo or
der has not been heard of since.
"Why," said a lady, reproachfully, to her
husband, "you know when I say Denmark I
always mean Holland!" Perhaps the city
girl in the following story, told by the
Philadelphia Telegraph, allowed herself a
similar latitude of expression:
She was sitting on the porch, lazily rock
ing to and fro, und watching the fireflies
flitting about her companions and said, in a
musing tone:
' I wonder If it is true that fireflies do
pel Into the haymows sometimes and set
them afire?"
Everybody laughed at what was appar- t?
ently a pleasantry, but the young lady ""v
looked surprised. '
"Why," said she, "it was only yesterday
that I saw In the paper an article headed,
'Work of Firebugs!' It said they had set a
barn on fire. Really."
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