The operation brought to light the heroic act on the part of Miss Wobetta that should entitle her to a Carnegie medal. Some time ago fire broke out in the Landsberg home. The upper part of the house was soon in flames and during all the excitement—it was early in the morning—no one seemed to think of the three children of Landsberg except this young domestic, who fought her way through the stifling smoke and flames until she reached the nursery. There, altho her own clothing was aflame and she was almost stifled by the smoke, she rescued the three small children and helped carry them to a place of safety.
She was frightfully burned on the arms, breast, side and back, and it was not thought for a long time that she could survive. For several weeks she lingered and the surgeons agreed that all that could save her life would be the grafting of new skin on the burned places that would not heal.
(1293)
See [Investment Return]; [Rescue;] [Unselfishness].
GRATITUDE, UNCALCULATING
Henry Van Dyke, in The Outlook, expresses the spontaneous nature of true gratitude:
Do you give thanks for this, or that? No, God be thanked,
I am not grateful
In that cold calculating way, with blessings ranked
As one, two, three, and four—that would be hateful!