I WANT TO KNOW which one of you assholes got all sentimental and bid out from under me this awesome photo of Mrs. E. J. Karst operating on a little tweet at her homemade bird hospital in Atlanta. Who was it, hmmmm?
The last paragraph of the caption on the back apparently (I’ll never know for sure) says:
What a fine thing it is that some humans take such interest in helping dumb creatures. Why shouldn’t they when the Master once said that not even a sparrow falls to the ground without the Father knowing it.
Nowadays, bird hospitals are a dime a dozen, but back in the ’30s, practicing amateur avian veterinary in your basement made you a media darling.
The only further information I can find on Mrs. E. J. Karst’s venture is this little article from the February 1937 Popular Science in a section of the magazine that seems to highlight freakish and amazing things to happen in these United States:
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