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Show 24 6 Ellis had expected to be back in Salt Lake for her 71st birthday on January 20, 1918 but, hearing of an opening in Emery County, went there in the hope of earning something. She is effusively grateful for their letters which have followed her from Kanab and mentions the "cruel war" (World War I) as one reason for this separation. In the class she is organizing, there are eight attending from one ward, and she has offered the other wards a bargain: if they send more than one, they can come for half price. Already she has had two obstetric cases, coming back from one just in time to be out all night with another. There will probably be more before the class is over, as she is the nearest doctor. She has a room-a lighted, heated parlor and her bread and milk-with some nice people-for $5 a month, which she deems a bargain. It surely is, for we recall that amount is what she paid for a third-floor room without food while a student in Philadelphia 42 years earlier. We now get a fix on Bard's location. He is in Emery County. Ellis, in making her rounds, stops there and spends a few hours with him and his folks. After all of his tribulations, his mother is very impressed with how well he is doing and how comfortably fixed he is. Apparently recovered from his injuries of four months earlier, he has quite a few cases, and Grace and Nellie (daughters?) are taking turns helping him. The local people, Ellis says, think there "never was a better doctor." She thinks that if her eldest son's good fortune can continue, |
