Cooper's Clarksburg register. [volume] (Clarksburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1851-1861, 1852-03-03
THE MECHANICS HOME.
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One evening, in the early part of the
winter, the door bell rang with energy,
and the servant, announced man who
wished to see me. A man is one thing
with servant, u gentleman another, and
person something different from either.
The man stood in the hall, but | wonder
ed why he had not been called gentle
man. l was puzzled where to place him
myself. His dress was very neat, but
plain and rather coarse His linen, that
badge of refinement, was white, in perfect
order, and almost elegant. But nothing
gave clue to his position in life. In all
outward seeming he was simply man.
When he spoke to me his address was
simple, clear, direct, and with a certain
air of self-reliance, the furtherest possible
from vulgar bluster.
Doctor said he, wish you to come
and see my child. We fear he is threat
ened with the Group
put on my hat and departed to ac-
company him, for if the case was as he
supposed, there was no time to lose. In
this disease single hour may make
life's difference.
In moment we were walking up one
of our broad avenues. The child, he
said, had been playing out of doors, had
eaten heartily at supper, gone to sleep,
and wakcned up short time since very
hoarse, with croaking cough. The case
was pretty clear one, and hurried my
walk still more, and in n few moments we
were at the door. We went up, up, up,
to the fourth story. The last flight of
stairs was carpctcd, and small lamp at
the top lighted us up. An excellent and
very durable kind of mat lay at the door.
You will see in time why give these lit
tie particulars.
l entered the open door, and was well
coined by rather pretty and remarkable
tidy woman, who could have been nobody
in the world but the wife of the man who
had summoned me.
Lam glad you have come so soon,'
she said, in soft accent. Little Will
liam is so distressed that he can hardly
breathe
And the next moment as we passed
through narrow passage where he lay,
l heard the unmistakable Group sound,
that carries such terror to the parents
heart.
is it the croop. doctor p asked the
father with voice of emotion, as l bent
over the child-a fine boy three years of
age.
1T is certainly the Group, and pretty
violent attack, said 1. How long is it
since you thought him sick p
Not above half an hour was the
calm reply. 1t was made calm by firm
self-control looked at the mother. She
was very pale, but did not trust herself
to speak.
'irhen there is probably little danger,
| said, but we have something to do.
Have you the water here 2
The husband went to what seemed a
closet. opened two doors. and disclosed a
neat pine bathing tub, supplied with the
Croton. This was beyond my hopes, but
| had no time to wonder. The little fell
low was in high fever, and laboring for
every breath. Taking him from his lit
tie crib, where he lay upon nice hair
mattrass, fit for prince to sleep on, l
took off his clean clothes, stood him in a
bathing tub, and made his father pour
full upon his neck and chest three pals
of cold water, while ! rubbed them brisk.
ly with my hand. He was then wiped
dry, and rubbed until his whole body was
glowing like a flame. Then l wrung a
large towel out of cold water, and put it
around his throat, aud then wrapped him
up in blankets. The brave little fellow
had borne it all without II complaint, as
If he understood that under his father's
eve no harm could come to him. In tif-
teen minutes after he was wrapped in
blankets he was in profuse Perspiration
in a sound slumber, and breathing Freely
The danger was oyerEso rapid Is TINS
disease and 50 easily cured