Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1876-03-23

precious, my own its nasty, bitter stuff,
but its good for Nelly-good for mother s
precious darling and it will make her
well. There, there, there, put the little tie
head on mammals breast and 60 to sleep,
and pretty SOON: Oh, l know she can t
live till morning Mortimer, table.
spoonful every half hour will-Oh, the
child needs belladonna, too! know
she does--and aconite. Get them Morti.
mer. Now do let me have my way. You
know nothing about these things"
We now wen: to bed, placing the crib
close to my wife's pillow. All this tur'
moil had worn upon me, and within two
minutes was something more than hall
asleep. Mrs. McWilliams reused me
Darling. is that register turned on %
II thought as much. Please turn il
on at once. This room is so cold.''
turned it on, and presently fell ASLEEP
again. I was aroused once more.
"Dearie, would you mind moving tho
crib to your side Of the bed? It is near,
or the register"
moved it, but had collision with the
rug, and woke up the child. dozed of
once more, while my wife Quoted the
sufferer. But in little while these
words came murmuring remotely through
tho toy of my drowsiness:
''Mortimer, if We only had some goose
grease-will you ring =
climbed directly out, and stepped on
. cat, which responded with q protest,
and would have got convincing kick fol
it, il chair had not got it instead.
snow, Mortimer, Why do you want to
turn up the gas and wake up the child
again p
because 1 want to see how much am
hurt, Caroline
"Well, look at the chair too Il have
no doubt it is ruined. Poor; cat suppose
you had
SHOW, am not going to suppose
anything about the cat. It never
would have occurred if Maria had
been allowed to remain here and
attend to these duties, which are in her
line, and are not in NINE"
"Now, Mortimer, / should think you
would be ashamed to make . remark
like that. It is pity you cannot do the
few little things that ask of you at such
IN awfu! time as this, when our
"There, there, will do anything you
want. But I can't raise anybody with
this bell. They're all gone to bed.
Where is the goose grcase!''
ION the mantlepiece in tho nursery.
II you'll step in there and speak to
fetched the goose grease and went "a
sleep again. Once more was called.
mortimer, I so hate to disturb you,
but the room is too cold for me to try
to apply this stuff. Would you
mind lighting the fire! 1t is all ready
to touch Z match to-"
I dragged myself out and lit the fire,
and then sat down disconsolate.
"Mortimer, don't sit there and catch
your death Of cold. Come to bed.''
AS I was stepping in, she said: "But
wait moment. Please give the child
some Of the medicine"
Which did. 1t was a medicine
which made child more or less lively
so my wife made use Of its waking inter.
val to strip it and grease it all over with
the goose oil. I WAS soon asleep once
more, but once more l had to get up.
'Mortimer, l feel draft, feel it dis
tinctly. There is nothing so bad for
this disease rs draft. Please move thu
crib in front Of the fire.
Ibid it, and collided with the rug
again, which threw into the fire. Mrs
McWilliams sprang out of bed and res
cued it, and we had some words. I hae
another trlfing interval of sleep, ant
then got up, by request, and constructed
f1axseed poultice. This was placed up
on the childs breast, and left there to d,
its healing work.
| A wood FIRE is not permanent thing.
got up every twenty minutes and renewe,
ours. and this gave Mrs. McWilliams al
opportunity to shorten the times of Civ
ing the medicines by ten minutes, whicl
was great satisfaction to her. Now an.
then, between times, l reorganized tn
faxseed poultices, and applied sinapism
child and said she was not dying. hi
was joy unspeakable to me, but it mad
my wife as mad as If he had offered her
personal affront. Then he said the child
cough was only caused by some triflin.
irritation or other in the throat. A
this thought my wife had mind t,
show him the door. Now the docto
said he would make the child cough hard
er and dlslodge the trouble. So he CAV
her something that set her into a spasu
Of coughing, and presently up came
little splinter of wood or SO.
"This child has no mcmbranous Group.
said he. She has been chewing q bit
pine wood or something of the kind, an
got some little slivers in her throa,
they won't do her any hurt"
NO." said I. II can we'll believe thai
1ndced the turpentine that is in them
very good for certain diseases that ar
peculiar to children. Ny wife will tel
you So"
But she did not. She turned away i
disdain and left the room; and since tina
time there is one episode in our life whicl
We never refer to. Hence the tide of on
days flows by in deep and untroubled Sc
renity.
CHILBLAINS AND FROST BITES.
These are two of perhaps the common
est ills incident to farming humanity, and
next to toothache, probably the mos