| Summary: | Newsletter of the North Dakota School for the Deaf. THE NORTH DAKOTA BANNER 3 Sandie and Lion. Siuidie is a a pet crane that belongs to a farmer named Thurlow, who lives in North Dakota. The farmer got Sandie before lie was old enough to fly, and after a brisk chase, for the bird was already agile and quick on his leg's. handle's wings are clipped, and so he permitted to wander at will about the farmyard, lie finds his favorite food in a slough down in the pasture, and, when frogs and snails are scarce, lie keeps the garden free of toads. But as small chickens are not safe in his vicinity, Sandie is kept shut up during tiie hatching season. In the winter he feeds on meat scraps, and mice about in the barn and sheds. Sandie is quite a vaudeville performer in his way for lie can swallow nails, spools of thread, bits of tin, marbles and such indigestible material, which lie afterwards regurgitates when they begin to trouble him. So whenever the family has company, Sandie must lie brought for sword swallowing performance. lie is the terror of stray dogs, and thereby hangs a tale. One afternoon a man drove into the farmyard with a big dog—a cross between a mastiff and a Newfoundland—sitting proudly beside him in the car. Sandie. in his favorite pose, was standing on one foot, apparent ly fast asleep. “Gr-r-r-r-r r-r!" growled the dog, and he sprang from the automobile, bristling with pugnacity. ••Better call off your dog. Mr. Johnson!” cried Ray, the young son of the family. ••Sandie'll mill him if he gets too near.” ‘•Hull!” scoffed Mr. Johnson. "Belter call off your bird. Ray. Lion will make a mouthful of him.” "Don't, you believe it!” persisted Ray. "I've seen him make loo many dogs run.” Lion sprang forward with a bound and a growl. Sandie partially opened one eye but did not move a feather excel)' to settle his doubly curved neck a little more firmly on his shoulders. But when the dog was within a foot of him, without dropping his uplifted leg or flirting a folded wing Sandie made his counter-attack. His long neck uncurved and shot forward like a javelin, and his sharp beak buried itself in the dog’s nose. The ferocious Lion doubled up like a measuring worm, and with his tail between his legs and all four feet coming down together he bounded out of the yard and oil' down the road, yelping with pain at every step: whereupon Sandie closed his one eye and went back to sleep again. Lion's memory of that one stab is ever fresh, and whenever Mr. Johnson turns into the Thurlow barnyard Lion leaps from the automobile and slinks off into the fields, where lie remains until his master comes out of the yard again.— 11 n: )'mi//>'x Companion. A Hero of Peace. The X-ray. which Rontgen twenty years ago introduced to the world, has become familiar ihrough actual experience to many persons who have watched the doctor use it in searching their anatomy up and down for a hidden cause of ail men t. With its aid the physician nowadays frequently traces rheumatism to the teeth and indigestion to the appendix, and as a matter of course he uses it to make sure that he has set a broken bone correctly. Latest discovery of all: the X-rav now seems to reveal a certain healing property that renders unnecessary some of the most serious surgical operations. Evidently we have still a great deal to learn about it. The layman who sees a tremendous force such as the X-iny harnessed foi service marvels at the ingenuity of man but ho seldom realizes the danger that attends its use. He knows that he himself is protected; but his imagination does not lake in the tremendous risks to which everyone who experiments inevitably exposes himself. In the early days of the X-ray no one guessed its destructive effect on human lissuq if the Rontgenologists of to-day are able to practice their profession in safety, it is because their predecessors risked and sometimes lost their lives. One of the most distinguished of the X-ray pioneers was Walter James Dodd, who was photographer at the Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston when, in 1895, Rontgen gave to the world his discovery of the X-ray and of its probable diagnostic value in connection with the human body. With characteristic zest Dr. Dodd threw himself into the work of using and experimenting with the new agent. A year later he had to be treated for burns: in another year his wounds had suffered a cancerous change that made necessary an operation. From that time until his recent death he submitted to ether more than fifty times: he. lost most of his fingers, suffered terrible pain, and died at the age of forty-seven, long after he and others like him had discovered how to render the rays harmless. His pluck and complete devotion to his work were beyond praise; in 1915. as soon as he was from his latest operation, he went abroad and rendered splendid X-ray service in the British field hospital. His cheeriness, humor and tenderness won him the love of everyone who knew him. To the well he was an inspiration: to the sick and unfortunate he was a ministering angel. Peace hath her victories no less renowned than war.— Ilf Youth'■« Companion. A Possibility. “Medical men. who said that mail order houses were the greatest disseminators of disease, could have gone farther and said that they were the great disseminators of infantile paralysis.” He mentioned instances in our state, where in isolated communities little children had died last fall of the dread disease. How did the disease ever enter these country districts! In the south some negro women, wanting underclothing for their children, sent to a catalogue house. The underwear wasn't what she wanted, so she sent it back. An Indian on the reservation wanted some so she sent to the same place. She got the same returned from the south, and being likewise dissatisfied, returned it. The underclothing finally went into another home and that home wondered where they got disease. "I would as soon introduce a rattlesnake into the cradle as to buy clothing from a mail order house for my children.” —Dr. Karr, .lamentown. X. I). Teachers’ Meeting. Teachers' meeting, Feb. 9, 1917, was held in the library. The minutes of the last meeting were read and approved. The meeting was then given over to Miss Smith and Miss Harwood for the discussion of the Course of Study. The subject of Language for the first five grades was discussed by Miss Smith. The subject was taken by grades and all took part in the discussion, comparison being made of the outlines of several different courses of study. Owing to lack of time the discussion of the upper grade work was omitted. Meeting was adjourned at 5 o'clock. Viola Hahwood, Secretary.
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