The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1870-07-14


different there as it is to listen to the
advice of dentist grubbing away al
your teeth, who entreats his patient not
| to mind it.
Mr.. Noddy attended to his wife's
wants and to others, and among these
Mr.. Noddy used to call in the Doctor
on the most ridiculous pretexts. IfSis-
sy had the headache Tom felt certain
she would take the chils and fever, or
had the dyspepsia, aud would write a
note to the Doctor to come and see Mrs.
Noddy. The family physician, who
was very nice man, Dr. Cantharides
by name, would come in before Noddy
went to breakfast, and passing the ser
want with the breakfast tray, on which
were the debris ofeggs and toast, would
walk into the such a smile on his coun-
tenance as was sufficient of itSelft to make
patient well, and ask, "How do we do
this morning? We look pretty well,
at any rate; how are wei" "Pretty
well, l am obliged to you" "Now
don't tell fibs to the Doctor" (Mrs.
Noddy had complained to the Doctor
of her hands being warm.) "Our pulse
is very well, our hands are little warm,
but don't think there is anything par
ticularly the. matter Will you allow
me to see your tongue Laughter I
Our tongue is not bad Did we take
any exercise yesterday, madaml Per-
haps it would be better for the present
if we were very careful about our diet
in particular. For breakfast, for exam
pie, we should not take anything heav-
ier than soft boiled eggs and a bit of
toast"-he had seen that on the tray.
Laughter "That is what l had this
morning" answered Sissy. "Indeed!"
said the Doctor; every judicious; we
shall get along famouSly. shall write
a prescription for mixture, of which
you will take teaspoonful morning and
evening" So saying, the Doctor wrote
the following:
Liq. Ammonia, l2 dropsi
Aqua Pure. l3 drops;
and handed it to the servant, to be TAX
en- the druggists to be made up with
all possible celebrity, as if there was
much danger that the future happiness
ofthe Noddys depended upon that pre-
scription. ''We had BETTER" said the
Doctor, ''have it made up at one of our
first class druggists, if possible, [laugh-
ter, where we can depend on the ngre-
dents being fresh and good" Laugh
ter. Fancy the importance of twelve
drops of Hartshorn and one ounce of
hydrant water being fresh and good!
laughter When the Doctor return
ed home, he made a memorandum,
charging two dollars for visit to a lady
who was in the enjoyment OF perfect
health, and to whom he had ordered
hydrant water and hartshorn! Laugh
ter.
Within a month of the momentous
event which forms the subject of this
evenings entertainment, Mrs. Kadug.
gin brought various trunks and band
boxes to the house, and installed herself
in the strangers room in the third story,
as base OF operations, from which she
kept up one constant skirmlshing be-
tween her daughters apartment and
that room. Mrs, Kaduggin was always
finding fault, and the life she led Mr.
Noddy was indescribable. "Thomas,"
she would say to him, pettishly-not
Mr.. Noddy, for that she considered too
distant, and Tom was thought to be too
familiar a name--he used to call her
mother in Difference to his wife's feelings
-laughter-"Thomas," she used to say :,
"you must have little care for Sissy's
health to come home as late as you have
been coming from the bank" Or
again: "Thomas you shatter her
nerves by walking over the floor with
those creaking boots, when Dr. Camilla
rides said she must be kept calm and
quiet" Or again: "ThOmas, don't
wish to make any disturbance in the
house in which | am regarded only as
visitor or an intruder, and goodness
knows, am only here for dear Sissy's
welfare, but l cannot put up with that
girl, Mary Ann" "Why, thought
Mary Ann was good, civil servant"
answered Mr., Noddy. "Of course you
thought SO; l am well aware she is
more considered by some persons in
this house than ami but either that
girl or myself must quit this house. 1t
is not for myself that speak, but her
impudence is dangerous"
"About this time, use pet phrase
of the historian when he don't know
exactly the time he is talking about-a
seamstress, Mrs Twitt by name, occu-
pied room on the third floor daily, be-
tween eight A. M. and six P. NJ, who
was rated hourly by Mrs Kaduggin,
who found fault with everything she
did and everything she left undone.
The seamstress hated her cordially; but
she must have merited great deal o
the scolding she received, for what staiC
seamstress would have lost time in max.
ing cambric undergarments that,
pledge my word, were scarcely six inch
es long! Naughter) What but in
stinct would induce a woman Of mature
years to prepare a basket lined will
lace and satin cushions, and fitted VI
with pockets and other receptacles
Why should Mrs Kaduggin sit thu
whole day long with this same baske
in her hands, sticking pins in such
way into the satin cushion that they
spelled the words, "Weleome, Littl,