Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1876-04-14
From the Washington %. c. Cbroni,ts
Slck-R9Om Studies.

Nlck-R9Om Studies.
BYF.N W
HAl >-il sickness was only misfortune
>l- the doctor, to be sure; ; pray, wba,
s'ld become OF his pocket-book? Lying
It d-HiiousIy lazy, counting the hours
i.c weeks which run reiselessiv nv NC =,
..ue % think II was not the doctors ma.
,eet. We're We a croaker croak we sbopij
-.-h,!e>S, sick OF well being rather of a
-f-sal4tl'e turn of mind we find the sick
m quietly suggestive. albeit sometimes
i -Athcr woeiul bliss. Life here, If anv-
taut b'SOnu stupor OF pain, is like look
l-- Though blue-tinted glass far awsv
i- pale, ialnty defined. delicate. poetica !
-'lu oi ideal meanings. To be iueHt An
ilat j. u 20 down into the everyday prose
trar-tiions Of 1t, too often to find IT coarse
-tle., clamorous lt l. to be forever Climb
4p climbing wave,' t. chase will-o'-
..,-"l>p~, 10 pluck roses and see both bean
''l fragrance slip through unwilling
gers, 10 iOld close a darling ioy and find
sting ike scorpion. WIN. then should
aa atom complain that it is now and then
-tt taiei irom tue whirling lite current
-ftd l'r repairs? Surely, if it look uD
.T' ~-i.l smiles down the sh ininR blue
u.a't. lace, while far away the great cur
iI- ilAe some tragic puppet-shOw moves
-H.it 90. How still, how silent il all il
bore hat delicious time to ask ones
t.a--aud answer them What excellent
ulAny you find 4 ertain person whom
t,a-A You had never much chance to know
.rt"lc -a.e perhaps as the mirror reflect
u OIL uuiheahinE, seml-ldlOtic face, asking
'a-uely AS To proper adjustments of back
aiiT- puus, *. Thank Heaven, in the sick
ROOM there are none such or in Paradise
10 a 81 -.
mpeusatiUns.
lntre are times when We think we know
Ea't tod means by the elect" and are
-i-i siai when life runs down TO Deaths
-,or 10 meet them. We look up at the doc
l.. and wonder he brightens to say we ARE
better. Why Is 1t good fortune TO be
brought back Death Is no CHASTITY skee-
ilH that we need lear him more than lie
We looked .nto hIs face. and as 1t noared us
IAlta with celestial brightness
To de to slscp-
t. L'.t- SID, hy sleep, 10 say We end
llr hcart-Ache ana The thousand natural shocks
-ll uesh Is heir 10. 'tis . consummation
letaut.y To b5 wished"
n4mlet's sigh for restful peace sent our
thoughts s,rayIns back to the beautifcl
Young "MocarIa' OF Euripides, who vol
-nialIy oilers her spotless lite a sacrifice to
lppea~e the gods-so leng ago rose this
passionate desire that the grave should end
a-
cob that there I1ay be nothing Ifa-a'n
BEYOND the grave We wake once more to pain
N4tt hope wlll there remain to US, To die
D. fi A.t .-ts I e surest remedy"
Something OF this old Greek longing
.reer- into cur own heart between it, fever
beats. on ior rest After llfs's ftful
fever 10 sleep well, rather rgpose than
Paradise
TINS old imua~~ioned conception Of the
Greeks of the >eli-immOlatiun of the purest
runs down through all the centuries, TILL
she, THE blessed one. sat at the foot of
the cro>s, her heart pierced with many
wounds, and with upiited eyes she saw in
her adorable s1n It's final explanation and
euu~ummat.0n. God Himself became Ills
Hwu victim thus were conscience and the
emotions ut humanity at last reconclled
>tlt-immolstion tor the good Of others in
others words, lore, unselhsh, pure, seems to
run at the root Of all religions, of all a.
piratIon. To love purely !-ah that Is the
lie, the un4uvinE merely breathe. Duties
are loves disguised. and the way l. clear by
which We mount, If we can first put the foot
on the arraut coward SELF who lures Us with
has pathetic Voice.
We ask ot the kind face that had 50
many long years locked into sick and dy-
/
had learned ot life and death The reply
came s.uWly, Greater trust in goodness
and IN God. less faith in merely nominal
Diety greater surety that beyond the
scientists and their human confines Of law,
there extends shoFees- Infinite. unknown
and uukn0Wa5.e l' SAID be, A thoughtful
physician who goes down to the very gates
Ji death with his patients. less than others
can say he iH0rs OF the Beyond he turns
10 lace mystery He. more than other.
knows the effect of the Imagination upon
the dying before him surface convention |
aItIe- crumble away. and all shams are /
thrown aside; he comes very near the nak-
"a soul IN It's IT'S Supreme hour, and unto I
um is a gospel preached not Of the theOlog 1
.aa. schools
Oae must lie sick to appreciate doctors. /
Il us tAey had IN some indefnable way been 4
always T. suggestive Of bread pills and !
humhuEaery We were homeopathic 4
because we liked our powdered sugar and I
dough 10 small quantities. We imagined /
them a occasionally interested perhaps IN |
some curious phase OF disease, or on the /
alert TO experiment.as TO the effect OF certain /
Irugs on eats and mOrtais and opened our |
eyes In a lazy surprise when a grand royal I.
l.d face looked in upon Us questioning (
slowly. The Doctor We glanced iurtiYe-
Eve, were searching aud kind that looked |
quietly back into ours. We wished the |
fever would 20 away that We mighty study |
tile iacr-sIck or we'll we like to study such |
faces. Certain heads and faces bear such |
impress OF power they make you comfort
ably sure of Immortality. They enter room,
yuu are conscious Of grand presence; are
impressed as with some emanatlOn OF purity, /
-rGth OF beauty. Others may enter, crowd,
t . room. and You know you are alone /
-.iI. What is it. this thrill OF kinshlp |
NItl immlrtal>2 Doctors, we take It, must
-s very good 81 very bad, and can not Ike
tue clergy. vaciIlAte between an orthodox I
head and an ind iffsrcnt OF heterOdOx heart. I
IlIuk v hat lie work to minister to sui /
.srng-ouy t. suffering, TO become the |
cluhIant of sad secrets, to know sickness
10 soul that no medicine can touch, 10 bear /
around with You the burden Of others pain, /
% know TO time your own, sleeping or 1
waking 70 be called forever to sustain, t1 .
abstain. 20 minister unto What labor OF .
Ilycl And fiat the last God pronounces /
well done good and faithful servant. what I
riches of reward We are glad of this for /
abe sake Of the kind, wise face, with its CIR I
Gle of gray hair, and the bit of sadness hid 4
deu away back Of the eyes. We know tins /
man Will drop down some day IN the bar
ness De VIII never Will rust DIt- -AA4DA I
bA.fa century of busy work he will leave I
no fortune behind hin, but in thousand /
hearts tender thrill Of love shall Waken /.
with his name, and the memory OF his face |
with its rugged lines of patient sympathy |
and quiet endurance shall be to many lives I.
a perpetual sermon. Behold how much /
better than riches Is such an immortality
Tie Banner Of Light tyouches for the truth .
ui a story that It prints about the abnormal
condition of Young woman in Williams
bargh der name Is not given because "she /
and her friends are adverse to pubncity
In lodj. according to the narrative, when |
fifteen wears old. She feil from a street car /.
and was dragged several blocks. Her head |
and body were badly injured, spasms racked f.
her terribly. and the powers OF sight, hear
ing and speech deserted her. During nine
wears thereafter she lay helpless in bed, |
never opening her eyes: her legs became
twisted rigidly ont Of their natural shape, F..
aud her right arm was doubled under her
head Her left hand only was capable OF
movement. No food could be given to her,
aud physicians abandoned her to starvation,
as was supposed yet she lived on. n lo'5
She began TO regain her faculties OF hearing ana
speech and very recently that OF signt, out
is still helpless. Some of the time she has
been in clairyoyant state, able 10 read
sealed letters, TO discern her friends unuttered
thoughts, and to know things that were
happening at distance. The spirituallstlc
theory Is that she was fed by attendant
spirits. Latterly she has greatly improved
and although she remembers things prior To
her sickness. the years afterward are blank
to her.
\ local wit Of Lafayette, Ark, undertook
to fool Dr. Westbrook, one dusky evening
last week, into the belief that plug OF
twist tobacco that he pointed at the doctors
head was pistol. He succeeded admirably
and was shot dead before he could explain