The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1876-03-29

the mcWf1Iiams F'amiIy-Little
PeneIope's Dfet-Advace that
Should Have Been Needed a
Restless Night for Poor ATeEVll-
liams-Fhe Doctors Discovery.
49, By MARK TwAIN.rr
Well. to 90 back where I was be-
fore I digressed TO explain to you
how that frightfnl and incurabIe dis
ease, meDbranous Group. was ravag-
ing the town and driving alI mothers
mad with tefroF. ! called Mrs. viii.
Hafn's attention to little Penelope,
and said Darling. wouldn't let
that child be chewing that pine stick,
II were you.'
Precious where is the harm In
it % said she, bat at the same time
preparing TO take away the stick
for women can not receive even the
most palpably judicious suggestion
without arguing it that is. married
women.
Love. IL Is notorious that pine is
the least nutritious wood that q
child can eat ''r G5 .z,ss ~
Ny wife's hand paused ia the act
Of taking the stick. and returned it.
self 10 her lap. She bridled percep-
tibIy. and said sHubby. you know
better than that. You know you do.
Doctors all say that turpentine in
pine wood is good for weak back
and the kidneys"
'Ah was under . misapprehen-,
sion. did mot know that the
clIild's kidneys and spine were af.
feefed. a3d that the family physician
had recommended''-
"Who said that the child's spine
and kidneys were afected?"
.'AIy love, you intimafed il.
sEThe ideal / never intimated
anything of the kind"
why, my dear. it hasn't been
two minutes since you said"-
"Bother what I.said- 1 dou't care
what / did say. There isn't any
harm in the child's chewing q bit of
pine stick if she wants to. and you
know it perfectly well. and she shall
chew it, too! So there, now!''
Say no more. my dear. now
see the force Of your reasoning. and
| will 60 aud order two or three
cords Of the best pine wood to-day.
No child Of mine shall want while
r. -
"Oh. piease go along to your Of
fee, and let me have some peace.
A body can never make the simplest
remark but you must take il up and
go TO arguing. and arguing. and arr
guing. till you don't know what you
are talking about, and you never do"
Very we'll, Il shall be as you say.
But there is want Of logic in your
last remark. which,
However. she was gone with a
flourish before I could finish, and
had taken the child with her.
That night. at dinner. she con-
fronted me with fsce as WI4i:e as
a sheet.
''Oh. Mortimer, there's another.
Little George .Gordon's taken 80
Membranons Group = d
"AIembranous Group"
"Ts there any hope for himr're
Z "Nonc in the wide world. Ola,
what is to become of us?'
BY and by our nurse brought In
our Penelope to say, good night and
offer the customary prayer mt the
T1ether's knee. la the midst of
Now lay me. down to Sleep" she
gave a slight cough. My wife, fell
hack like one stricken with death.
But the next moment she was up
and running away with the active
ness which terror inspires. 1'a- --
She commanded that the child's
crib be removed from the nursery to
.our bedroom !; add she went Asong
to see che order executed, She
took me with her, of course. We
got matters arranged with speed.
A cot he'd was put up in my wife's
dressing room for the nurse. = But
now MIRA. Mc Williams said We we're
too far away from the other baby,
and what if he were to have the
symptoms in the night?-and she
blanched again, poor thing.
We then restored the crib and the
nurse to the nursery. and put up
he'd for ourselves in q room Adjoin.
ing tF
Presently, however. Mrs Mcwii-
Hams said: Suppose the baby
ahould catch it from Penelope p
This thought struck q new panic to
her heart. and the tribe of us could
not get the crib out OF the nursery
again fast enough to satisfy my
wife, though she assisted In her own
person. and we'll nigh pulled the
crib 20 pieces in her frantic hurry. q
We moved down stairs, but there
was no place TO stow the nurse, and
Mrs. McWilliams said the nurses
experience wonld be an inestimable
help. So we returned, bag and bag
gage. to our own bedroom once
more, and felt q great gladness. like
storm. buffeted birds that have found
their nest again. agr-e t-.-r
Mrs. BfcWilliams sped to the uur-a
sery to see how. things were going
on there. She was back i'm q mo.
ment with q new dread. She said ::
What can make the baby sleep
so ra-7+-, -st1f.-t -<
said !: why. darling. baby al
ways sleeps like craven image
"I know. / know; but there's
something peculiar about this sleep
now. He seems to-he seems TO
breathe SO regularly. Oh, this Is
dreadful 7" sleI
"But. my dear, he always breathes