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HOME AND FLOWERS 



The Railroads Arc Coming to It Also 



It is reported that the Pennsylvania Eailroad' 

 Company is about to erect a series of hot- 

 houses and conservatories for the growth and 

 nursing of shrubbery, trees, plants, flowers and 

 exotics, to be used principally in the gardens 

 at stations along the New York and Pittsburg 

 division, as well as orchids and expensive flow- 

 ers for the ofiices and for special occasions. 

 One hundred thousand dollars is the sum to be 

 expended, says the report. Home and Flowers 

 hopes to publish a full account of this enter- 

 prise at an early date. 



"Encourage life in the open air, not for phys- 

 ical more than for mental and moral health. 

 Let the schools smell of the ground as often as 

 possible; it will help them to keep sane and 

 resist the doctrinaire. Stand by field sports, 

 even those which involve hurts. Our young peo- 

 ple do not have to struggle any too much or 

 assume any too many risks. There is more 

 training for the real demands of American cit- 

 izenship through the rush line of a 'varsity 

 football team on one cool October afternoon 

 than in some 'varsity class rooms in a whole 

 semester." — Andrew S. Draper. 



Dr. Lorenz, Straightener of Children 



A most important contribution to a more 

 beautiful American life has recently been made 

 by a foreigner. Seldom has there been as 

 striking a human demonstration of the power 

 for healing possible in the "laying on of hands" 

 as that made by the big-hearted Austrian sur- 

 geon, Dr. Adolf Lorenz, the "soft, strong- 

 handed straightener of children." The news- 

 papers and magazines have told in detail about 

 his famous operation for congenital hip dis- 

 ease, how, by kneading and tearing the mus- 

 cles of the hip and thigh till they are almost 

 stripped from the bone, he sets the joint in its 

 proper position and then binds the limb in 

 plaster till all the parts have firmly reset in 

 their proper relations. His six-weeks' trip to 

 this country brought the famous surgeon over 

 $100,000, and yet, so great was his modesty 

 and so completely did his humanitarian work 

 among the poor overshadow the few highly-paid 

 cases among the rich that his profits are justly 

 forgotten, and the profits to the many poor, 

 afflicted, but now happy little ones of America 

 are all that is remembered of Dr. Lorenz. A 

 typical scene at one of the clinics presided over 

 by this "healer" is described by John Swain 

 (in McClure's Magazine). It was at the Mercy 

 Hospital in Chicago : 



"The big amphitheater was crowded with 

 medical students and doctors, and with others 

 who had been able to obtain admission. Some 

 of the best known surgeons of the country were 



gathered on the front benches, watching with 

 absorbing interest the v/ork of the master. One 

 by one the tiny children— some only two or 

 three years old— were brought in and held in 

 the arms of the surgeon, while he examined 

 the joint and showed to the audience what 

 the defect was. Tenderly he handled the little 

 ones. He quieted their fears and sent them 

 back to be given the anaesthetic. Then, as they 

 were brought back to him and placed on the 

 operating table, he would lay his enormous 

 hands on the affected thigh, and, with a run- 

 ning explanation, interspersed \\-ith unexpected 

 humor, and a comparison of the case in hand 

 with others, he would knead and pull and twist, 

 until it seemed as if the little one would be 

 dismembered. There was no suffering, for the 

 anaesthetic prevented that. And the work was 

 done so skillfully and so swiftly that the enor- 

 mous strength was often lost sight of. But 

 when, with a final tug, he pulled the thigh 

 down, having literally rubbed the bone free, 

 and then, turning it out at a sharp angle, held 

 it in position for the administering of the 

 plaster cast, there was always a round of 

 clapping, even of cheers, that showed the ad- 

 miration of the doctors for his work. This 

 pleased Lorenz. He would laugh like a boy 

 and pat the child again tenderly. He was 

 proud of his work, and he was proud to have it 

 recognized, and he often looked up to tell the 

 crowd so." 



Heaven's reward is not to him who counts 

 the cost of service, but to him who serves, 

 whatever the cost. 



An Outdoor Art Club 



The Outdoor Art Club, of Brooklyn, New 

 York, has been organized in the interests of 

 "the yard beautiful." It is sending out a very 

 pretty little illustrated booklet, entitled "Dec- 

 orate Your Yard," setting forth the commercial 

 value of "beautiful real estate," and outlining 

 a plan of non-resident membership, for a nom- 

 inal sum, which will spread all over the country 

 the helpful information and suggestions which 

 the club experts are constantly preparing. 



Lessons from an English City 



By all odds the most radical accomplishments 

 in the way of municipal improvement are being 

 brought about in Europe, especially in Eng- 

 land. A very interesting instance is that of 

 Manchester. Mr. Seebohm Eowntree's recent 

 book entitled "Poverty," which gives an account 

 of a singularly effective betterment campaign 

 in the city of York, shows that, in 1899, ten 

 per cent of the population of that city were so 

 poverty-stricken that, supposing them to spend 



An Old Nurse For Children 



Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup for children 

 teething should always be used for children 

 while teething. It soothes the child, softens 

 the gums, allays all pain, cures wind coHc and 

 is the best remedy for diarrhoea. 



