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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. - -Title: What luck! - A study in opposites - -Author: Abbie Farwell Brown - -Release Date: December 13, 2022 [eBook #69532] - -Language: English - -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) - -*** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK WHAT LUCK! *** - - - - - -Transcriber’s Note - -Italic text displayed as: _italic_ - - - - - 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. - -Creating the works from print editions not protected by U.S. copyright -law means that no one owns a United States copyright in these works, -so the Foundation (and you!) can copy and distribute it in the -United States without permission and without paying copyright -royalties. Special rules, set forth in the General Terms of Use part -of this license, apply to copying and distributing Project -Gutenberg-tm electronic works to protect the PROJECT GUTENBERG-tm -concept and trademark. 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