Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1881-07-02
SICK HEADACHE.
A HyGienic Love Story
(HaPpersa RazAr

Cocks had crowed and hens had cackled for
fun hour at least This was world OF
scratching, they said to themselves, and eggs
were not built In day. Early to bed and
early to rise make fowls healthy and lively and
wise. The robins in the apple trees, the swal-
held town-meetings In the meadow, had been
piping and trill1ng that 1t was day, day, day,
TIL they half expected TO hear The noon Dell
ringing; The shy quail In the hedge-row had
called their warning OF hot and dry, hot and
Dry" over and over, to any ears that would
listen. The spiders had long since hung ou5
their glittering webs a-drying on the wlid-rose
bushes. The bells OF the morning glory. blue
and pink and purple, had swung for hours
outside the Duttery window, before the delln-
quent Aunt LsTkin lifted the latch ana entered,
Lot as her won't was. quickly, as with desire
but on leaden feet OF dull resolve. and looking
white as her own linen.
There stood the row Of milk-pail5 waiting to
&c emptied. TO be washed, to be spread In the
sun, already fierce and hot outsida. There was
the long array OF pans manLl1ng with yellow
cream. There. III the corner, waited the ex-
acting churD, the dasher leaning toward her
hand With What seemed d malevolent readiness.
As she took up the skinner the kitchen CLOCK
struck six.
ION DEAR" sighed Aunt Larkln. ".mornin'
lost, eyeniu Crossed"
But when, with conscientious care, she hal
Stripped the third pan OF Its rtcn abundance.
she laii down her weapons, so 20 speak. aud
capitulated to the one toe able TO conquer that
resolved soul.
''Thanny,' she called, at the foot Of the
stairs
'.Yer, mother answered a Cheerful voice
from among the lilac bushes and brown
curly head, set on The slender shoulders Ct
young manhood. showed itself In the doorway.
hat, another or the evil brood! Go straight
10 te1 mother. I'll go right over for % adams
Sarah. And Ill make you some tea, and man
age my OWL breakfast Don't you worry about
must have girl. Shall help you up stairs?'
mo Gear. You just see to yourself. The
coreeS ready, and the breads In the stone pot
aod there's plenty OF doughnuts, and currant
pie, aud dried beef, and cheese In the but
terry; and II you want to fry yourself slice OF
meat, there's the fat IN the red Jar, and the
veal'5 out In the spring house.
But Though the mOther-inStnct Insisted on
thus making the way easy for its young, human
natule snnddered at this catalogue, aud poor
Aunt Laikin staggered TO her bed too horribly
Ill TO speak again for bOur5. Sight and sound
were alike Dreadful. The swift jingle OF the
Woo!ng bobollnk swinging outside In the golden
ropes of The laournum pierced her sensitive
ears Ike the steely Clash OF swords. And the
oroDing hum OF bees, plunglng deep In the
white sweetness Of the syringas was as the
brsy OF trombone. Her heavy limbs ached
70 acne the more as she tried TO rest them III
new positions. 1t seemed to her that the deadly
nausea was In her feet, in her arms, in her
SDiDe-every where.
That the entrance Of any human being, even
her beloved Thanny. would be uncomfortable,
she Knew. But Oh, IL some phantom some in.
visible, fneudible agency, would but turn the
swivel OF the bind. where a ray of abnorrible
sunlight was already creeping in! How could
sne ever have let that bottle or Bohemian glass
sdDd on her bureau, even though Tnanny had
given 1t her, filled with cologne for her poor
neao; It's vivid REQ seemed 10 smlte her through
tne cloud or dull pain above ner brOxS Aud II
she shut Ter eyes, II did but glare the reddsr
Thanny brought her the tea, and IL was vile
PRESENTLY Obadiah's Sarah came creeping In
WIN GemonStratiFe quieLnesS IN SHOES that
creakeG ard gown thai crackied to set down
I nkling tray by the bedside. Aunt LarkIn,
WHO would have mourned over lie as over a
L Sc SOUL, had she been capable OF telling one
y 1gntd sleep 10 dismiss That anliable vandal
BuG when she opened her eyes and saw the ye,-
low butter, he deep blue plate, the brown toast,
teapot, she felt that sex alone, not
gratitude nor Christian grace 6ridled her
tongue from proiane aud vain babbllng.
Meantime, nature, who did not include sick
headache, or any other mortal maiady In her
scheme or existence, went about ner usual bu II.
nt SIS. The sun mounted higher and higher
cattle tToWsed, sheep fattened, buds blossomea,
crops grew. Among these the plantage at the
village academy t1ourished apace Here lay the
daily toll OF NJ. Nathan Larkln, assistant piiQ-
opal, q sensitive. conscientious fellow, or In
kindle In duiler brains and lighter natures his
own enthusiasm and his own resolve. The
Revere end Edward Granniss, ID, Ph.D., Ii D.
principal OF the Quaboag Seminary, beng a
gentleman or phlesmatic Temperament, much
a111cted TO heavy nners at monday, was
quite willing 10 let his esteemed young friend
90 ilioSt Vi tAe puiiiIg Oh Ine uouDle team eS-
pec!ally through the hard places. though
simply for his own improvement, OF COURSE
THUS the youth, taking no rest, spending OF
bis intense personality With prodgal readiness
tpbe1tfng from lis mother q set OF tense and
s'ltt-reSpondlng nerves, found himself .set
.: &c fortnight or so. by the same Il end, sick
headache, Which had devastated years OF her
useful life lie was young ana heloic. S1mf-
times he could grappia Win It. hold it stu, an0,
tna5 hampereG. go through the routine OF ais
@ork after dull fashion. Sometimes he yielded,
Undergoing tortures greater than his mothers,
as his imagination was more vivid. But eunar
way, he counted q month out of eael year an
unredeeneG sacrifice 10 this Moloch
On this summer day be felt W ondC r July alert
and alive. The boys thought he made CP3,r
aid the Anabas!s almost Interesting with mis-
Yivld sketch OF The splendid life OF III republic
and his showing up of hot-headed Cyrus, and
cool, cruel, able Artaxerxes, ''loDg .memored''
for bis wrongs. But in secret he was much
ttsquIeted. For Miss Allts Putnam was to
ctme that afternoon. and he felt that his poor
Not that he had not his own miSgiving5, A
strong minded young woman who had grad
uated first In her class from the medical col.
lsge, and walked the hospitals abroad for a
year. who had written prize treau g on slme
disgusting and sanguinary subject, and no
doubt practtced vivisection, should be. to his
thinking, though for quite opposite reasons,
Ike WOIdsworlh'S Lucy,
"a maid whom there were none to prise,
And very few TO love-"
He fancied he knew how she would look:
oilautf oduUs QeF ugQt CHAR.
acterlesS hair very neat and wholly uniutere; st.
Ing, her dress very upright and incorporating
a6ont the otases collars and cuffs prim ana
spotless-no sweet neglect" about her, nor
even "th' adulteries OF art" which, notWith-
standing Ben Jonson, be thought most be-
Witchfng. She was 50 distant a cousin that
kinshtp had not made the invitation obligatory
But bis mother had dearly loved her mother
aid when that gentle widow wrote Jhas her
dear AliiS had returned, and that she longed to
have her ever beloved Candace know her before
she settled down TO her profession, the ever.
beloved and ever ooiiging Candace replied at
once that the young traveller SHOULD be made
welcome.
A caravan Of unexpected guests could not
upset Aunt LaTkin's perfect order, nor ina her
garrison Impoverished Bat she cona1ed to
amy that she expected a girl t had lived
10 Paris Y ould find their way or Twin dreadful
o.d-fashtone2 aud common" And he guessed
That she secretly dreaded the incur5on, as b
DID, Polite lie would certainly be. but he thought
he " uld move his books cut TO the stable lott,
anu live as little a. possible at home while DIR.
AHl5 remained. He Wished women would keep
70 tneif own sphere, and let mems work alone.
by the tine the TWO sessions we're over, the
compositions inspected, ali the school ''chores"
uthe, aud his face TUNED bomeward. he was
stIe mat he deJested unWomenly women, and
chtefest
AS ne opened the kitchen door, Obadlah's
cdIah stoCd revealed, buX0m, red armed good
naiureu, carefully sJralning aromatic broth
lhIo cntna bowl Twas her notion" sue ex-
piaintu. Il shouldn't never have teched the