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Highland Park News (1874), 12 Nov 1897, p. 8

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It II llere shown That Abnolnte Quiet Bring: lie-lint Rent. A doctor writing on the subject of the suppression of useless noises in cities, which the claims will hasten toâ€" ward convuleseenee many :1 patient whose nerves are now Int) racked by perpetual rzu-ket to give the system a vhunee of recuperating; says he remem» hers one delightful ward in h‘mt’x'dlniflg school, wherein the “sistrr” used to in< sist on a “silent. hour,"frntn 2:1)‘0t03230 daily. It was the only ward in. the hos- pital which enforced this growl-n rule. alike beneficialto the nurses fortunate enough to be drafted there uml the patients therein, who flourished and \hlnsmmed forth into “maxing eon- \*uleseenee under the silenee system and the gond nursing “'hlt‘ll zu-eumwmied it. For the “sister“ was :t lmrn nurse, an she had the real sympathy and ,\w_5§mniiuess which caused her to upâ€" L preeiute the balm and healing of that Kr“ quiet hour in the day. says the ’ittshurgh Dispatch. It was a male surgical ward, and the )ntients‘ (in first admission. used to (-h‘nfe somewhat at “sister‘s" dietum~i ugitium whh-h there wzm- nu uppenl~~ ut' “rm (-rmquttiuu or newspaper read- ing: (luriz';r the huur." llut gradually with path“: came to npprc-t-inte the summing: lt!‘l in the liusy hum of the “uni. 11ml “s'ster” :lltll her stnfl‘ usedm % zoommm: ma n3; ngmmg 3m @ QQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQQ SUDTHING SILENCE. We Don’t Have to Go Abroad to Find High Climbing. There are 110 mountains in Colorado whose peaks are over 12,000 feet above the ocean level. Forty of these are higher than H.000 feet, and more than half of that number fire so remote and rugged that n0'one has yet dared to attempt to climb them. They are as unique as those of Switzerland, and as fearful us the Alps in the warning they ofl‘er to the men or women who are so hardy us to defy them by startâ€" ing upon their ascent. Some of them are massed with snow. others have glaciers over their approaches, and others are merely masses of jagged rocks. .0 Not even Coloradoans have sought as yet to surmount them. and the profes- sion of “guide" is still open to whoâ€" (‘\'(\I' may vurv to (Inter it. Railroads wntvh with satisfnvtion hnw patient {their patient fell grnduuny umh-r the b" 'mrific quiet of the time. and went at? into (wmfnrtable slwp, which fre- qm-ntly fasted long: uftor tlw prescribed Pixnit. The good humor of the ward \\'(I\’ must oxveptimml. 'l"lu- svnior surgeon of the ‘hospital “as never tirm] of saying: "The pa- iit'nYS vhvre, sister. get on usif by magic. \Vhat Fpt‘HSOf witnhvrnft (To you weave to heal them so quickly?" THE HIGHLAND PARK NEWS hOME MOUNTAINS. as a place of pleasure and adventure might. be widely advertised, and Coloâ€" rado thus be .pushed forward to the place it must, eventually occupy as the American substitute for Switzerland â€"â€"Denver Times. man. rem-h within close enough range to prmide hotel facilities, but otherwise the mountain” climbing of Colorado is yet awaiting its pioneers. Did the (‘oloradouns or the people of other states fully realize theintoxicants as well as the healthâ€"giving powers of mountain climbing, Rocky mountain climbing would be‘one of the most popular recreations of America. m mange it. is a punidhable offense for anyone to *give infants under one year any form of solid- foods unless such be ordered‘ by writ-fem prescription signed by a. legally qualified medical \Vhen the bicycle was" first int-ro- duced in India it was not at all an unâ€" common thing for natives to fall down and worship it. Calcutta clan probabiy claim more women oyoh’sfs than any other city in India. Only one mountain-climbing club is known to -exist in Colorado. There is room for a dozen more. There should be 0110 in every city. By the evidences such 01an might offer of their thrill- ing experiences and of their unexam- pled pastimes, the fame of the Rockies

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