The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1876-03-03

FcueIOpeb Dict-AubiCc thut
should have Bccn Hccdcd-A
Restless Night for Poor McWii-
Iinms-Thc Doctors Discovery.
ny MARX TWAIN.
Well, to 90 back to where | was before
Idigrcssed to explain to you how that
irightiul and incurable disease, membra.
nous Group, was ravaging the town and
driving all mothers mad with terror, |
called Mrs. McWilliams' attention TO lit
Ne Penelope, and said: Darling, |
wouldn't let that child be chewing that
pine stick, II l were you"
"Precious, where is the harm in it,?
said she, but at the same time preparing
10 take away the stick-fOr women can.
not receive even the most palpabIy judi.
cious suggestion without arguing it; that
is married women.
"Love, it Is notorious that pine is the
least nutritious wood that child can
elt.n i.
Nv wife's hand paused in the act Of
taking the stick, and returned itself to
her lap. She bridled perceptibly and
said: @Hubby, you know better1hAn that.
You know you do. Doctors all say that
turpentine In pine wood Is good for weak
back and the kidneys"
"Ah! | was under Misrepresentation.
| did not know that the childs kidneys
and spine were affected, and that the
family physician had recommended"-
"Who said that the child's kidneys and
spine were affected !?
'"My love, you intimated it."
"The ideal / never intimated anything
Of the kind" 49,
@Why, my dear, it hasn't been two
minutes since you said"-
"Bother what l saidl don't caro-
what did say. There isn't any harm in
the child's chewing q bit OF pine stick II
she wants to, and you know it perfectly
we'll, and she shall chew II, too! So there
nowp
GSay no more, my dear. l now see the
force Of your reasoning, and ! will go and
order two or three cords OF the best pine
wood to-day. No child OF mine shall
want while p
"Oh, please go along to your Office, and
let me have some peace. A body can
never make the simplest remark but you
must take it up and so to arguing, and
arguing, and arguing, till you don't know
what you are talking about, aud you
never do"
avery well, it shall be as you say. But
there is want Of logic in your last re-
n,rk whichn-
However, she was gone with flourish
before could finish, and had taken the
child with her.
That night, at dinner, she confronted
me with a face rs white us sheet.
"Oh, Mortimer, there's another! Lit
tie George GOrdon's taken"
"Membranous croupp
"Membranous Group"
ia there any hope for hinP
"None in the wide world. Oh, what is
to become OF usP
By and by our nurse brought in OUT
Penelope TO say good night and offer the
customary prayer at the mother knee
In the midst OF "Now lay me down 70
Sleep" she gave a slight cough. My wifi
fell back like one stricken with death
But the next moment she was up and run
ming away with the activeness which ter
tOr inspires.
She commanded that the child's crib b,
removed from the nursery TO our bed
room; and she won't along to see the or
der executed. She took me with her, O
course. We got matters arranged VIII
speed. A cot bed was put up in my wife,
dressing room for the nurse. But nov
Mrs. McWiiliams said we were too ia
away from the other baby, and what
he were to have the symptoms in thu
hight?-and sho bIanChed again, pool
thing.
Wethen restored the crib and the hurst
to the nursery, and put up bed for our
selves in room adjoining.
Presently, however, Mrs. McWilliam
said: Suppose the baby should catct
it from Penelope?r This thought strucl
anew panic to her heart, and the tribe o
useould not get the crib out Of the nnr
Sery again fast enough TO satisfy my wife
though she assisted in her own person
and we'll nigh pulled the crib to pieces II
her frantic hurry.
We moved down stairs, but there wa
no place to stow the nurse, and Mrs. Nc
Williams said the nurses experience
would be an inestimablO help. So We re
turned, bag and baggage, to our own bed
rooms once more, and felt n great glad
ness, like storm.buffeted birds that hay
iound their nest again.
Mrs. McWilliams sped to the nurSer,
70 zee how things were going on there
she vas back In moment with a ne'
dread, She said;
"What can make the baby sleep SO ?
! said: "Why, my darling, bah
always sleeps like q craven image"