"You're just storing
up ideas and information to startle the Oklahoman natives with."
"The 'natives' in Oklahoma are all too young to be startled," laughed
Edward, "but of course I'm stowing away everything new I hear about
methods of treatment and operations and so on to tell Dr. Billings when
I get back. Now let me hear what you've been doing. How are these
kiddies at Rose House?"
"I want you to look them over and talk with the mothers. Dr. Hancock
comes over when we send for him, but all these people are so delicate
that I feel that they ought to have a physician's eye on them all the
time."
"They have you pretty often, don't they?"
"I go over every day either in the morning or the afternoon, and I give
them advice about the babies, and teach them and Moya how to prepare
their food, but they do such strange things that you can't forestall
because you never had the wildest idea that any woman in her senses
would treat a baby so."
Edward laughed.
"Russian and Bulgarian peasant customs, I suppose. I never shall
forget the first time I saw a two-day old negro baby sucking a bit of
fat bacon.
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