ss |
|which had overtaken him and she called Dr. J. N. |
|Pait. The physician made an examination of the boy, |
|but found nothing to account for his condition. |
| |
|Then he rubbed his hand over his head. The telltale |
|blood revealed the fact that the boy had been |
|injured. With the little brother holding on to his |
|coat the boy walked bravely to an automobile and was|
|taken to the Kenosha hospital, where the X-ray |
|machine revealed his secret. |
| |
| =All Functions Remain Normal= |
| |
|This afternoon at the hospital it was declared that |
|the boy showed no sign of fever and that his pulse |
|was normal. |
| |
|"The case is a most remarkable one," declared Dr. |
|Pait. "The boy is cheerful and every organ of the |
|body is performing its functions, but at that there |
|is the bullet in his brain. We expect sudden |
|collapse in the case, but a boy as brave as he is |
|should live." The little fellow made no complaint |
|and when the smaller brother was brought to the |
|hospital their greeting was of a most tender nature.|
| |
|"That big machine gave it away," was the way the |
|injured boy broke the story of his seeming |
|faithlessness to his trust.[50] |

[50] _Chicago Tribune_, March 3, 1915.

=284. Feature Story Writers.=--Feature stories in the Sunday supplement
are written generally by a regular staff of writers. Some of the staff
are office men on the pay-roll of the papers. Others are regular
contributors who fill certain amounts of space each week or month. Still
others, specialists in their lines, write only occasionally, but deal in
a scholarly, exhaustive way with their subjects. The feature stories in
the news columns are written generally by the stronger men on the
regular staff of reporters. Some papers have regular feature men on whom
they rely for human interest stories. And any newspaper man who can
handle such stories well may be sure of a place at an adva