The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1874-12-31

Il,
ndged advisable to withdraw him en- I
irely from the rooms. l contrived
miniature table for him at home, i
yhero we play with counterfeit naapo.
cons, He is under the delusion that ,
ne is always losing money, and had
often talked of going to consult doc,
tor on the subject, but had promised not
to do this without telling me.
81 have now told You our story,
which Will, perhaps, help to guide YOU
in treating your patient, You VIII,
know, pardon me If l have we@r'0'
you. "
The foregoing narrative had so i'm
,,,aesoa ,oe, tAeb tho uuiJ "vlN9 ""
dressed to DR.. Fichte, as he re-entered
the room, were "Aud the sequel, doc
tor? What befell this treasure OF
woman?' =,
81 was naturally anxious sad my
friend "that the Martyrs should leave
TIomburg without delay, their solourn
here being as bad for the husband
condition as it was painful to the VIE
But there were difficulties attending |
this step Mrs.. Martyr, though she |
would have braved most things ON the
moor fellows behalf, seemed to shrink
most seusitvely from the idea OF meet
ING their relations in England. lie was
in good bodily health, she was greatly
comforted by the society OF some KIND
friends, IND they we're able to 1--we mere
more economically than they could nave
done in England so that 1T was DECIDED
that they should pass, Mt all events, the
ensuing winter in tIomburg. we saw
GOOD deal of them duling those months.
NIortvn was quiet and tractable; ana
his wife would brighten up MS she saw
him romping with their chlld, or eager
ly excited over II game of backgammon
witb INV wife. 1t seemed, indeed, as
though her life might not be the pIahk
it had threatened to be, filled up as IL
now was by care for her husband, ana
affection for her child. The hope, too,
was ever present with her that the great
trouble might pass away, and that tins
| WAS to be but sad chapter IN the storS
| of their lives. But with the spring
! came more sorrow April has been uh
D nspollv cold. when q short summer o
t great heat set in for week. one aaN
0 Mls. Martyu called to ask my advice
T. respecting her little girl, who had cauygh
n a cold, and was otherwise alling, iron
n having sat out too late in the gardens
II 7 ,cturned with her to Dorotheenstrassse
and found the child struggling, 10
d breath, and showing all the symptom
l. of a severe attack of diphtherla. Oap'
[ Martyp was committed to the charge G
k some friends, but his wifo, ! need scarce
0 ly tell YOU, could not be persuaded,
Is leave her childs side. The next da
" fine little sufferer WAS worse, and gaV
O. such manifest signs OF sinking, that
is seemed unnecessary to prepare III
ut mother for the end. For three dal
er she had been by her childs side. glyh
to it ammonia every second hour, tumlG
IS ting the room, and changing the line
m She would do everything herself, lro
d. a feeling, as she told me, that no ol
er would so faithfully carry out my lnl un
ny tions. On the fourth day, when l. kli'
8 that the crisis must come, the child
to can to mend, and, in few hours, "
Jay able to gladden. the mother by tell
IDS her that nil immediate danger was oV
nd I urged upon her the advlsablllty
i've now leaving the patient to professor
me care as the fear Of contagion stli!
got isted. But she would not move fr'
N the house; and as the child slowly
)ss yanced toward recovery, so she beg
d : to sicken from the same deadly dlsea
I'll, In three days all was over, her pow
do of resisting the complaint being
to hausted by her previous labors.
op, lowed her to the grave where she n
of lies, and have taught her husband
,ss- child to take pride in adorning IT,
is happily saved from the real g
I'd, sciousness of his loss. We see mucE
was the misery and vice here, but also soi
my thing of the beauty of goodness L h
done"
;as, our pipes had long since gone G
red while | listened to this sud story.
had could not trust myself to revisit
'tes cemetery.
ick, I was at Hombwg in the follow
rled wear, and soon found myself at
The grave which had so fascinated me
ses- previous year. Another cross, exG
lng- similar to the old one, stood ut the