The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1878-03-14

him such. Come in. The air inside is
not particularly wholesome, but there
is a brisk breeze blowing up, and you
must not sit out in it..
What has become of the pleasant side
of this profession, if it brought people
of necessity into contact with such life
as this? That was what Robert thought
as he followed DIR. Everett into the one
ill-smelling, bare, homeless, comfort
less room, where Il sick man tossed
among the dirty bed-furnishings, and a
woman with torn dress and hair un-
combed. hung over him, and two chill
drcn quarrcled and cried in the corner
Good morning. said the doctor,
cordially. Il am DIR. Everett. Mrs.
Sanders wished me to call here. What
is the trouble, my friend?" And he
placed his cool. skilled fingers to the
throbbing pulse. Then he issued his
orders:
Parks drop the windows, please,
from the top. six inches. Madam, take
two of these quilts of, please. Now
bring me Il dish of cool water, and can
YOU find place for the children to
play, away from this room; the noise is
very bad for your husband?"
''Therc is no place for them. sir.
Sometimes it seems to me that there is
no place for them in the world And
the woman took up corner of her
dirty apron and wiped her eyes.
''It is Gods world,' said the doctor,
land He made your little children; you
may be sure He has place for them"
Meantime he was christening the
gold-buttoned cuffs and laying them
aside. Robert, the fastidious young
man, watched with kind Of fascinated
horror, and saw him produce and snake
out Il large, fine cambria handkerchief,
and deliberately dipping it in the basin
of water that had been brought him he
proceeded to battle the sick man burn
ing face. The wife was Mortified, too,
though from different cause.
Are You putting water on him?'
she exclaimed. Why, Jimmy said
he mustn't have i drop of water to
touch him; and he said that the window
must be kept tight shut, and the fire
was to burn
And who is Timmy?' the doctor
asked. going on with the cool. steady
passes of the cambria handkerchief
why, he's good friend that has
Staid of nights and took care Of my
John. faithful. and helped us all. He's
Il good nurse, too, Jimmy is; and he
said we mustn't wash his face with cold
water. and we mustn't open the window
at ALL
"Well. now" said DIR. Everett. in u
soothing tone, ''you see he isn't a doc
tor. and we doctors have all sorts of
queer notions, one of them being that
people must have air to breathe"
AT this point the sick man murmured
something in Il weak and feeble tone.
The doctor bent over him.
Water he said cheerily. "Of
course you can have water, as much as
you want. Get him good drink. will
YOU: it will refresh him.
The wife stood aghast.
"What will Jimmy say?' she eiacu-
lated. :" He said it would be death to
him to drink water, and he has been
moaning for it all night and all the
morning. and didn't dare to give it to
him.
9 Then let lis have it as quick rs you
can. 1t is another notion that belongs
to the doctors; and everybody has to
obey the doctors. You know"
So saying he supported the head of
the sick man on his shoulder while he
took long draughts of the water, and
then lay back again with sigh, and
an expression very like rest stealing
over his face.
Now said the doctor, "wc have
him feeling little more comfortable.
Don't put those quilts on again, you
make him too warm, and mind you
keep the window dropped rs it is now;
and YOU needn't make up any more
fire, keep just blaze: and let him have
4 drink of water every ten minutes if
he wants it. | will send you down a
lump of ice to put in it. And then you
may give him a powder every hour,
and by tomorrow, if these directions
are followed, you will find him q good
deal better. Is your friend Jimmy
Nolan? Yes, so thought. Well, you
tell him that DIR. Everett said you must
do these things, and you will find that
it will be all right. Now about these
little ones. Your husband needs quiet.
Al tOu Will lCI CIlcIu Ithc q Iluo Will
ME l will take them around to the in
FAINT room of the asylum, where they
can have good time and make all the
noise they please, and I'll return them
to you tonight when come this way"
This plan was rapidly carried into
effect, and Robert Parks, looking on in
dismay, not to say disgust, found him.
self presently seated again in the doc
tors handsome carriage, with two little
bundles of rags at his feet.
AREN'T there people whose business
it is to do these things?'' he asked, his
delicate nose curled and his whole
manner expressing disapprobation.
"Of course there are," the doctor
answered, land am one of them. |
have my commission directly from
headquarters. l can show it to you, if
you are interested"
But, mean, is it really your duty
to descend among the dregs in that sort
of way, washing sick peoples faces and
looking after mussy children? should
think your tastes and talents lay in an
other direction"
Rather in the line of houses such
stS We III 81 StOppcV Wis CH
Well, l shouldn't agree with you.
read long ago a sentence that has had
much to do with keeping me from fas.
tidiousness in my profession. There is
no respect of persons with God. That
is the wording, and when you take il
in, it is tremendous thought. Il
God, from his infinite height, car
look down upon all the world, having
the same wonderful, persistent, over
towering love for all mankind, surely
may try to show Il little love and lit
tie care for the poor and lowly. The
truth Is, Young man, IL seems to me
very small thing to do; and when re
member the infinite height above III
that the Lord occupies, it seems to me
As il there were no very great street.-the.
Of difference, in humanity, after all
| TO all this Robert Parks had no an