She said her nurse told her that there was danger of hernia unless the abdomen was well bandaged.

I told her that the only object of a bandage was to protect the navel, for a few days, until it was healed, and for that purpose all that was necessary was a piece of linen four inches square, well oiled, folded four times double, with a hole in the center, laid over it.

I remembered, next day, that I forgot to tell them to give the child water, and so I telegraphed them, "Give the baby water six times a day." I heard of that baby afterward.

It lived and flourished, and the parents knew how to administer to the wants of the next one.

The father was a telegraph operator and had many friends--knights of the key--throughout Iowa.