DyinG Acrobat

Horowhenua Chronicle, 7 June 1910, Page 4

DyinG Acrobat

SHE CHEERS THE OTHER PA 1/ ENTS. I lie pathetic condition i f Aug-u-i:a I 1 a.ssie, an eightcen-yeiir-oltl who is lying in the city hospital at Cincinnati. Ohio, with a broken neck, is cxciiting the sympathy and the adniinrti.'n id' the thniisiiiids who ale daily wa'-cliiug the. nbbing of her life. Fire weeks ago Mks who was a ineiiiber of a laiiiilv cf ".">•()- bat-: pi'.i'.loi'iiiMig in a theatre in Cincinnati, toll li.oii th: l t p i !■ a lnuiiau pyramid fourteen fedt to the ytao -, and when she \\ is picked iv> it w ■; t'oiiud ithal iier lie "k w .■< ' lircken. 1 She wis taken to the hospital, I where the physicians d",':!e:! that she conid not live. I _ She feels no pain, !• :- L her 'i'i i is cdrtain, and it hong !i she realises her pliLcht, she is cheerl'iil, and, indeed, her influence upon the other 1 pahents i.s wonderful-. ' \vho has a cultivated ' voice, sings bits I rom Italian cikhtis, ) and obey i\s the other patients who i lie abriii,t her in st.he .same ward. ( I'eliisi'.s to despair, and declares that as kng as she i.s alive she pro- . to cliei-i; lnl and happy. I She laughs, talks, and sings, and eyervbody eon.iK'OfV.:! with the liosl>ital i.s iiitiiizt :1 at lut vitnlitv ligli t-hea rtedness under eondilt ions whii'i must prove fatal. The doc- [ tors ;viy .sh'e will not die from the ( broken m-ek, but that d-altli will result from the |ii isaiiing of the hodv caused by the failure of Itlie vital to act as they should. I lie L r irl has been on tlic staov since .she was live- years old. Her mother, who is henrt-broken. sit-s by her side d„y after ('.ay, and tintable by .her bed is filled with flowers sent by hundreds of admirers in tilt 1 C')t\ t() H IIOJH lif'l" CiLSt 1 IIJI.S Hppeal.ed.