The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1881-02-26
SELECT STORY.
"DR. GILLYFLOWER'S PILL

Ever since l began studying medicii
r with DR.. Oleander Sawens | have bee
, planning house Not an abstract hous,
, but the house hoped some day to bull
ard live in. used to make sketches ,
doors, windows, and verandas on IT,
margins of my Anatomy; and the oil
Doctor, who was very short sighted
, thought | was developing remarkabl
talent for drawing bones. | recollec
making what l thought was very fin
picture of Corinthian column, which
hoped would one day support my bac
,toop, when the Doctor, coming up be
hind me. slapped me on the back an
cried: "Well done, my boy: well done
| never saw the semur better represents
in my life
had plenty of time for my planning
When | was young, physic was not tn
profitable profession it now is. Nerve
were better strung and stomachs were
deal tougher. Scammony, gamboge
mercury and opium, with the lancet ane
the blister, either killed Or cured the pa
tient quickly and the pay was small.
At the age Of twenty-five | married
Phila Ann Butterfoss, only child of Ezra
| Butterfoss, NJ. d.. deceased We set III
housekeeping in the Butterfoss mansion
and moved my specimens, my pills
and my powders into my dead father-in.
laws office, which stood quite by itself
among the elms in the spacious yard.
Although | was now provided with a
home, my desire to plan and build house
increased, rather than diminished. The
| Butterfoss mansion was over fifty years
| old. 4 wide hall ran through the center
of it, the rooms were large and high, and
there was plenty of them: but the whole
place lacked picturesqueness and what is
called, in colloquial slang, style. BY the
provisions of my father-in-law' will, the
house could be sold only by my wife,
and as Phila Ann fatty refused to part
with it and WAS impervious to argument
or persuasion, | soon gave up all thoughts
of building my ideal house until should
he able to save the money necessary for
the work out Of my own earnings But
three years after my marriage il great
change occurred in my fortunes.
l had always great regard for the honor
of my profession. Patents taken out for
happy combinations of drugs | had al
ways despised. But was called to treat
a peculiar case of wind collie, and tried
almost everything in the pharmacopmie.
without success. The patient grew rest
less, and, as he was one Of my best pa
tients (so,ne of his family being sick all
the whitley did not relax my efforts. but
kept on mixing pills and powders for
him, until | hit upon pill that seemed
really the result Of inspiration. So won-
derful was its effect, | tried it upon all
my patients. not even excepting old ,Jabez
Sprat, who was laid up with a broken
leg. The result was happy in every case:
for, though it did not always benefit it
never injured anybody, which is saying
great deal for one pill.
struggled with my prejudices and my
pride for some time: but at last applied
for patent and soon my pill-"Dr. Giliy-
flowers Favorite Pill packed in neat
tin boxes, graced every drug store in the
country.
In six months made fifteen thousand
dollars out of my pill, and then began
talking about new house in earnest. |
discussed the merits of 4 square lot and
a deep lot, and exposures north, south
east and west, and had the refusal of all
the unoccupied land in the corporation.
My friends sent me books on the domes
tic architecture of all countries, Pataoo-
mia not excepted, and every other day
MIR. Plummet invited me into his Office to
see a plan. After much deliberation. |
purchased corner lot that faced two of
the finest streets in our town.
My tastes are cosmopolitan Can Ameri |
cans should be- and | decided to unite
in my house the simplicity of a Greek |
temple and the elegance of an Italian
villa. Plummet seized my idea and |
worked it up into something that looked |
upon paper very recherche. indeed. Tie
main part Of the house was as purely
Greek as Girard College. The wing was
in the most tiorid Italian style. and a,
the extreme end of it was a square tower.
capped with one of thos. peaked roofs
which have the general effect of half
shut umbrella. 1t was. as Joe. the black
smith, said of London. Every archtec-
teralooral."
1t was trying time for ME while the
plans were discussed l am somewhat
absent minded, and such phrases as
g hard finish butter not oiled" APP
peared in my prescriptions, and | told |
the Rev. Paul Pumpkin, who was suffer
ing from poor appetite, induced by a dis
in love, that l thought a
vcranda in the Japanese style and Vene-
tian blinds would cure him.
The internal arrangements of the house
left entirely to PIummet Mrs. Gillv-
Hover demonstrated. and declared that |
At least the plan Of the kitchen and pan
try must be submitted to her; but | COM
manded her to be silent and attend to |
her sphere, as thought it probable that |
Plummet knew better than she did what |
was convenient and suitable for kitchen.
AS soon as the walls were up. the wa.s
about town called the house "Gilly-
lowers Pill, \ name in which | have
since seen sad significance. About his
time the agents for wall paper houses
began to visit me. Dado Il Co. sent a
nan with large wagon load of books
'ull of samples, and for two whole DAYS
he fellow eXpatiated on the beauties of
Zach particular pattern, and we grew SO
ired and confused | agreed to allow the
irm a certain amount of money and let
them fix the rooms to suit themselves.
We moved into our new quarters in
October, and before we were settled
seemed to be entirely salts
factory. But very soon Mrs. Gillytlower
me that there was no china
,loset off the dining room, and no room
n the pantry for anything save little
in. | found her complaint just, on ex-
and the pantry was not only
'ery small, but entirely dark, so that the