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MRS. HERMAN 4. HIRSCH. 663

told him in my visits that my doctor had advised me to give up all
charitable work snd to go into the hospital, that I was in a very
serious condition and was nearing the verge of @ nervous break-
down, and that I must give up this kind of work, which he sug-
gested that I do, and I said I couldn’t on secount of being in on
this automobile, it hadn’t been raffled yet.

I went again to his office to see him about allowing a banner to
float across the street. On that day I was so ill in his office that
he suggested that I take a taxicab to go home, I was so weak. He
asked me how soon I waa going to the hospital and I said as soon
as I could dispose of the Red Cross, He said, “Will you let me
hear from you? I can't call you up because everyone will know it,”
and I promised him I would, and I never did. I went home and
went to bed and ‘was in bed for three weeks before I went to the
hospital. Two weeks after I went to bed Mrs, Atkinson and Mr,
Cook disposed of the automobile by rafile in the Ansley lobby.

I went to the hospital, was in St, Joseph’s for six weeks, I was
then carried to Davis-Fischer, was there three weeks before I was
operated on, They were building up my constitation at St. Joseph's
and at Davis-Fischer in anticipation of this operation. I was ablo
to go around a great deal of the time, I had my clothes on and was
sitting about in the yard at St. Joseph’s, just, in fact, taking what
is called a rest cure. Mr. Cook called to see me almost every day
when his mother couldn’t come; he came by himself when his
sister couldn’t come with him. He came there with Mr, Hirsch
once or twice and several times he came there either when Mr.
Hirseh was there or Mr. Hirsch would come in when he was there,

About a week after I had gone to bed Billy Sunday’s campaign
-was on and I was very much interested and read all of his sermons
in the papers and was very much worried because I wouldn't get
to hear Billy Sunday, because they told me I would have to stay
in the hospital at least three month, Mra, Cook, the mother of
Mr. Cook, was talking to me over the phone at St, Joseph's one
day and she said, “Mrs, Hirsch, will you ask Will”—as she called
her son—“to go and hear Billy Sunday. We can't get him to go,
bat you have had such good influence over him that I wish you
would ask him to go.”

During the automobile raffle Mr, Cook had told me that he was
what he called “a rounder” in his life and that he had lived a very,
very bad life. One day at the Ansley Hotel, in waiting on a com-
mittee meeting, Mr. Cook and I were sitting up in what they call
the mezzanine. He told me @ great deal about his life, how he had
railroaded and how rough he had been and that he had been con-
sidered to be and that he had gambled and he had drank whisky
and was very, very bad, I told Mr. Cook that F thought that was
a very horrible way for a man to live; that there was nothing in
life to live like that, and why couldn’t he, instead of gambling aud
drinking and doing all those kind of things, tum his attention to
better work. He was very much interested in this Red Croes work
At the time and his mother was very much delighted that he had in-

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