The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1881-07-28
to himself. my mothers house, even,


does not look half so feminine.
But if the canny Mrs Putnam had ex-
pected that her pretty and professional
daughter would establish herself in another
vocation when she sent her on missionary
visit among the Franklin hills, hers was a
hope deferred. For it was year after this
before the correspondence, of which speci-
men is appended, enriched the departments
HE TO HER.
g $50 Ihave been offered the profess
sorship of the classics at $500 college. Will
you come, too? would not ask you while
my lines were fixed at Franklin, wanting to
leave you free to live your own life of
books and thought and work, which there
you could not do. At the society is
delightful, and think you would be happy.
If it is your wish still to practice your pro
fession, have no more right, as trust I
have no more wish, to object. than you
would have concerning mine. And, indeed,
hold that there is no nobler work in the
world than yours Personally, it would i'll
become me to limit your benefcence. For
know, Doctor Allis, that have not had
vestige of sick headache in six months. I
said would give third of my life to save
the other two from it's ravages ..t.
Take. o Doctor, thrice the fee: +..s. Is
Take give it eagerly: sE
For, invisible to thee, ass -ras.-- , .a XII
Devils blue have gone from me. F
Does this not sound like love letter? If I
do not say that I adore you with all my heart,
and soul, and mind, and strength, it is be-
cause you found it out as you found out
everything else about me, by witchcraft, I
believe, months or months ago. And if I
seem too jolly for the attitude of prayer I
assume, it is because the hope of having you
always has gone to my brain (weakened as
who knows better than you, by intervals of
agonizing pain from my birth), and intoxi-
Gated me, as with the mead of the gods.
Would not Doctor Larkin, serve every end
as we'll as Doctor Putnam? Brutus will
start spirit as soon as Cesar
II use this form of entreaty rather than
another more familiar to poets and lovers be-
cause you assured me that, before all things,
you were professional. My little darling, I
am hedged about with danger. At - the
other day was even offered and pressed
upon with-P1E! If I have housekeeper,
l doubt not that poisonous compound will
be daily on the table, and presently, in an
unvigilant moment, perhaps when I am lost
in reflection on doubtful icta.s, I shall
fall! My life, or at least my digestion, which
in your view is more than life, I lay at your
feet. We are rich for country folk, little
Allis. have bought charming house at
anu Tue reception rooms seem to me
peculiarly eligible as an Office. You shall
have it on the most favorable terms, and
permanently, by addressing at once, "Your
devoted, n. L."
SHE TO HIM. ...
Dear Sir:-My diagnosis is favorable.
Your summary Of symptoms find satisfac-
tory. No headache in six months Good.
capacity to laugh over serious issues, and
make the best of things, such as would have
been quite impossible to you year or SO
ago. Better. A hopeful, because gradually
developed, sense of the necessity Of obedi-
ence to your medical adviser in all things.
Best. What you say of the advantages of
the Office you offer me has received my at
tentiOn. consider myself we'll placed. with
rapidly growing practice. But as my
greatest success has been in the relief of
maladies of the nerves and digestion, and as
college town is a settlement Of dyspeptics,
martyrs to sick headache, the temptation to
enlarge knowledge in my speciality is over
mastering. I will therefore take the Office
on the terms proposed reserving to myself
the right to use it for boudoir, reception
room, study, or private growlery for the
professor Of Greek and Latin at - Col
lege, should it seem to me advisable. will
trouble you to have the key ready whenever
l demand it.: and remain, with recommends
ton to follow treatment as previously adj
vised. Truly yours, APP.
p. Sit was the belief of the ancients
that the liver was the seat of the affections.
This was some time paradox, but now the
time gives it proof" ..