South Highland Infirmary School of Nursing - Nightingale Yearbook (Birmingham, AL)

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Crazy Corner lContinuedJ Love-A feeling that you feel like you are going to have a feeling' Say, girlsg did you know one of our doctors was arrested t that will surely make you feel like you never felt before. for exceeding the Speed limit? Al ' ' ' - - No ha. he a ne ' 'utfmcmlef Dr. Torrenee was heard to mutter this to himself as he left the ope- H ' S ll d J i rating room: 1 O nog he did an appendietorey in two hours :infl a half, HHOVV can hearts be true to eyes of blue 'Tis better to have loved a short man When they look into eyes of brown 3 Than never to have loved :t-tall, ll Wil DYSPEPSIS. CWitli apologies to Bryant? So eat that when the invitation comes To join the host of irlle rich, which moves ' Toward those emlnlazened restaurants where each Shall play the gourmancl in a tawclry place of show: Then go not like the simple man of toil, Weary and hungry, but, sure of the family doctors skill. Approach the gorgeous spread like one who feels That the true measure of aristocracy is but The capacity for over-eating. 60