Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1881-07-02
SICK HEADACHE.
A Hygienic Love Story
IHarper'S Bazaar


[Harper's Bazaar
Cocks had crowed and hens had cackled for
full 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-
lows IN the barn the little 6rown Rnpoas that
piping and trilling that it was day, day, day,
TIL they half expected to hear the noon bell
ringing: The shy quail In the hedger row had
called their warning OF .'hot and dry, hot and
Dry over and over, to any ears thai would
listen. The spiders had long since hung out
their glitteIiDg webs drying on the wild ose
and pink and purple, had swung for hours
outside the buttery window, before the delin-
quept Aunt Larkln lifted the latch ana entered,
not as her wont was, quickly. as with desire,
white as her own linen.
There stood the row OF mllk-pails waiting to
be emptied. TO De washed, to De spread In the
sun, already fierce and hot outside. There was
the long array OF pans mantling win yellow
cream. There, In the corner, waited the eX-
acting churn, the daSher leaning toward her
hand with what seemed a maleVoent readiness.
As she look Up the skinner the Kitchen CLOCK
struck six.
'Oh DEAR" sighed Aunt Larkin. ''mornln'
lost, even1n' crossed
stripped the third pan OF ITS ricn abundance.
she laid down her weapons, so 10 SPEAK. and
capitulated TO the one foe able TO conquer that
resolved soul
:.Thanny,' she called, at the foot of the
stairs.
Yes, mother answered o Cheerful voice
fr)m among the lilac bushes, and a bro Sn
curry head, set ON the slender should RS Cf
young manhood, showed Itself In the doorway.
~ hat. another of the estl brood! Go straight
10 led, Hiother. III go rignt over for 90 .diau'S
age my Own breakfast. Don'l you worry about
me- But you see was right. mother. You
must have girl Shall help you up StaIrs?'
mo cear. You Just see 20 yourself. The
ana there's plenty or dOughnuts, and q curranJ
pie, and died beef, and cheese In the but
terry; aid II } on want t. fry yourself slice OF
meat, there's the fat In the red jar, and the
Veals cut LII the spring house.
But though the mOther-in5tinct insisted on
thus making the way easy for its young. human
nature sEuddered at this catalogue, and poor
Aunt Larkin staggered to her bed too horribly
Ill to speak again for bours- Slgnt and sound
were alike dreadful The swift Jingle of the
WooiDg booolihk Swinging outside Ia the golden
ropes OF the laburnum pierced her sensitive
ears like the SteeIy Clash OF swords. And the
droniDg hum or Dees, piunging deep In the
White sweetness OF the SJrDgaS, was as the
bray OF trombone. Her heavy limos ached,
TO ache the more as she tried 10 rest them In
new positions. IL seemed to her chat The deadly
nausea was In her feet, in her arms, in her
Sp1De-eyeTywhere
That the entrance Of any human being, even
her beloved Tnanny, would be une ldurabl
she knew. But oh. II some phantom, some In.
visible, 1naudio.e agency. would Du5 turn the
swivel OF the bind, where ray Of abhorrible
sunlight was already creeping I'M How could
Sue ever have let that bottle OF Bohemian glass
s aid Oh her bureau, even though Thanny had
given IL her. filled with cologne for her poor
ut 40! us vivid red seemed 10 5mte ner through
the cloud OF dull pain above her DroSa And IL
she shut ner eyes, IL did out glare the re- 1dor
Thanny brought Ter the tea, and IL was vile
PRESENTLY Ooadlahs Sarah came creeping In
Win oemonstratlve qlietness, In shoes that
creaked aid gown THAI cracked, to set down a
Dkilng tray by the b -iside. Aunt Larkin,
who would have mourned ever lie as over q
Il 81 soul, had she been capable Of telling one
Il 1GDed sleep TO dismiss that amiabie vdndal
Bu when she opened her eyes and saw che vel
low butter. the deep blue plate, the brown toast,
inc red milk pitcher. the black earthen
gratitude nor Christian grace, bridled her
tongue from protane and vain b.bbHng.
Meantime, nature, who did not include sick
neaoache, or any other mortal malady, in her
scheme OF existence. went about her usual bu 81
n S.. The sun mounted n1gher and higher.
Cattle browsed, sheep fattened buds blossoned
crops grew; Among these the plantage at the
daily toll OF MIR. n 4than Larkn, assistant Dr1oo
C1pa!. sensitive, conscientious fellow, OF in
d0mttable will. loving work, and tolitny TO
10 ase5 brains anG ard lighter his
Reyel end Edward Granniss ID, PnD LII D..
pt1L OF the Qlaboag Seminary, being q
gentleman OF phlegmaic temperament, much
quite willing to let his esteemed young friend
90 most OF the pulling OF the double team es.
pec'ally through the hard places. though
simply for Els own improvement, OF cour ,e
THUS the youth, taking no rest. span1iny of
MS intense personality With prodgaI readine IS,
1Dht ritirg from his mother set OF tensa ana
understanding nerves, found himself .seG,
o. &c q fortnight or so, by the same fiend, sick
neAdacle, which had devastated Years or her
useful life. He was young and heroic. S)me-
times ne could grapple with it, hold It STILL ant,
thus hampereo, go through the routine OF hts
wCIk after dull fashion. Symetines be Welded
unCeT going fortunes greater than his mothers
as his Imagination Wss more vivid. But either
way, ne counted month out OF eacn year An
uDrs deemed sacrifice 10 this Moioch
ON this summer day he felt W ondt r.ully alert
and al1Ve. the boys thought he made Cesar
and the Ahaoasis almost interesting, Win MIS-
vivid sketch OF the splendid life of III republic
and his showing up Of hos-headed Cyrus and
cool. cruel. able ArtaXerxes, '.iong .rnemoriedn
for Lis wrongs. Bat In secret he was much
disquleted. For Miss Allis Putnam WAS to
come that afternoon, and ne felt that hts moor
mother would worry" more tn An was needfuL
Not that ne had hot his own misgivngs. A
stroDg-mlnded young WON IN who had grad.
uateo mrs In ner class from the medical col.
lege, and walked the hospitals abroad for q
year, VITO had written prize treati on me
DISGUSTING and sangulnary subject, and no
doubt practlced vivisection. should be, to his
thinking, though for quite opposite reasons
Ike VOL dsworth's Lucy,
maid whom there were none to pr sise,
And very few to love-"
he fancied he Kew how she would look
slight, sandy-compleXiOned, her light char
acteries as hair very neat and wholly uui Interest,"
Ing, her dress very upright and uncompromislng
about the blases, collars ard cuffs prim and
''sweet neglect" about her. nor
even 'th' adulterieS OF art" which. no.with
star ding Ben JOnson. he thought most be-
Wltchlng. She was Sd distant a cousin that
kinsnip had Lot made the Invitation obligatory
But his mother had dearly loved her mother
and when that gentle widow wrote that her
dear AiliS had returned, and that she longed to
have her ever beloved Candaco know her before
she settled down to her profession, the ever
beloved and ever oDligng Candace replied at
once that the young traveller shoulc be made
welcome.
A caravan OF unexpected guests could not
upset Aunt Lar Kin g perfect ord3r, nor fnc her
garrison Impoverished. But sac conided to
II amy that she expected girl t had lived
10 Paris would find their way OF Twin dreadful
and common And ne guessed
that she secretly dreaced the incurslon, as b.
did. Polite lie would certainly be. but he thought
he would move his books Out to the stable lott,
and live as little as possible at home while DR..
TO their own sphere, and let men work alone,
By the time the two sessions were over the
compOSit1oDs Inspected, ali the school chores
done. and hts face TUNED home ward. he was
sure that he deJested unwomenly women, and
OF these sinners he Teckoned female doctors
chieiesr.
AS he opened the kitchen door, Ooadlah's
Sarah stood revealed. buxom, red. armed, bod
natured, carefully Stratning aromatic broth