Sioux City register. [volume] (Sioux City, Iowa) 1858-1871, 1860-09-22
LoyE1S DOCTORS CFFEcE.
BY MARION D. CHESTER.

UARRY WARRlNER, NJ D., was known
and universally liked, not only in Ashva!e
but in the surrounding towns. His fame
had extended to the little city Of Chester
field, some twenty miles distant, and he
owned there many friends who would tain
have lured him from the dead and alive
village of Ashvale, to mingle in the more
brisk current Of city life, out to their
great vexation, he persisted in occupying
his little Office in the dull village, and at
tending faithfully his country patients.
DR.. Warrinner certainly had more than
a fair share oc the popularity to be gained
BY anv moderately skiltul and agreeable
physician. How much of this was due to
his handsome face and figure, and pleas.
ant, syrnpa,hizing manners, and lastly, to
the fact that, possessing wealth, position
and good nature, the doctor of thirty FIVE
was still unmarried, We leave the reader
to Judge.
That this state Of the doctors affairs
was a very wrong and unsatlstying one to
his friends generally, may be proved BY
the assiduity with which the single ladies
of the village, maid and widow, sought to
persuade him into matrmony. The pa
tience with which they endeavored to dis
cover the obstacle in the way otthelr suc'
cess was truly commendable, and the per
severance exercised in efforts TO surmount
them, scarcely less so.
Widow Lane WAS convinced, after no
body knows how much study and re.
search, that bashfulness alone prevented
him from asking husbands share in her
it must be coniessed-rather aged heart
including also the right to extend ia
ther's protecting care over her six grown
boys and girls.
Truly the widow was afflicted. Scarce
ly a day from New Years till Christmas
in which illness and the widow did not
stand on the threshold Of her cottage to
call in the doctor as he went his rounds
But everybody united in calling the wild
ow's pretensons perfectly ridiculous, and
we must really give her credit for large
courage and hopefulness, or she would
have despaiIed, in view Of the score or two
of widows, younger. prettier and without
incumbrance, who besieged the doctor s
Office all hours.
Ills little table bloomed with the sweet.
est Of flowers from May till December, and
often to keep them company came some
delicate piece of needle work, or bit oi
tempting pastry, as hint that to obtain a
permanent claim to the services Of the
fair donor, would be wisdom.
Then the village spirstsrs, there were
plenty who "set caps diligently, and
with the greatest possible care and skill
These last laughed scornfuily at what
they termed the unblushing efforts Of the
widows to ensnare the doctors hand
"Pshaw! Was it likely that he who could
take his pick where he pleased, would
choose one of that pale faced, black -veiled
sisterhood p Having worried one man
into the grave. they need not be in such a
hurry to begin operations on another,
tc.,-not very amiable speeches, to be
sure, but with such prize at stake, it
was natural the rivals should feel some
bitterness towards each other; and then
the remarks were not made before folks
o, no; only whispered as the fair speak
ers stood before the mirror, giving last
touch to the jaunty hat, or adjusting some
stray curl 1t was wei! to haze these
things all right, you know, in case they
should meet the doctor.
But it was in vain Miss Amarantha q
Sophroisba jones Whose parents had died
some thirty years before, leaving her in
the booom of her twentieth summer)
bongnt vMet 0ttire;oHore the bright.