Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1881-03-10

Honest truth be was glad to 60 away 5
free man, but somehow I felt sorry and
forsakeA.l sss Ny doll was STUFFED with
sawduss - .and I knew IL but u Yves .
Handsome doh that everybody admired,
and haA once been very fond q f.
ktAl borrow over its desEuctionP ,a4
: / 0on't know now just hew it was that
I ever came to think of any better way
in moaning and grooming over my own
/ troubles. / began to smooth out a few
OF the wrinkles then, and i saw the girls
and tried to talk with them; and let
Elsie stay with me sometimes instead Of
mother. And John came in to see me
r Now you know s. there's as much DIFF
| ference in, folks as there is in anybody"
In some people . strong physical consti-
tuition almost irritates an invalid, it seems
| SO coarse-fibered and obtrusive.i One
doesn't look for fine shades of sympathy
| in trained athlete. But you see John
was strong all over every way; Just like
his name" John Powers" It wasn't
simply that he could lift heavier weights
than the others, or merely that he was
fine scholar and knew, just what he
knew to, the end of creation-but he was
strong In these and in the best way Of
all beside--some just that sort Of
man whom One would trust and ask for
help; not in a sentimental way, exactly,
| for he was no more sentimental than
handsOmoA) n3es si-f .@ Ift| <@'@
h Il Why, no, don't call him handsome,
and Pm glad of it; don't like hand
some men. His nose isn't straight, and
his eyebrows are too heavy, but-IIrene
you're laughing at me! ~
Johns little visits did me world of
4 good. It was delightful relapse into
cheerfulness during those spring weeks !;
I thought they were going on forever. or
lat least until grew to be q marvel Of
serenity and saintliness; but they didn't.
4 for in the last of May John went to New
York, and I thought should-never
mind only that did seem to me pretty
hard to bear. He had never really come
to the stage of leverhood, and never put
on any air of being sighted or jealous
4 in the days of Arthur Lawrie, and I
i liked him all the betterfor it. But now,
you see, ii was carrying the matter too
far felt sure he cared nothing for me
after all in any bat the most utterly
commonplace way, and though knew
it was thoroughly just, 1t cut me to the
heart, for had come to care d great
deal for him. thought I should die,
the day he went away.
To make a long story short, then, I fell
back into the Slough Of Despond. :.
u We got Through the winter somehow
the machine works were opened once
more-oh, and John used to write to
(T111 Oh
some of them by and by) but the best
letters you ever saw. I began to think
!. did have q good many happy things
. l imagined perhaps John would get
i married some time and settle down in
New York--and bring his wife to call
on me when he came homein a. summer
vacation-it seemed to me never could
bear that 10 4'h1~ n1S .h'Ti To = d"
And then, after all the rest - 80
You've heard of Doctor Rothenhauslerl
He has performed great many opera.
tons in just such cases. Go think, Irene,
; of being regarded in the bony light of 9
sscase!H) We had heard of him, and
| it was partly on that account that father
worked so hard on his model, for he
wanted to get the money together ant
> send for this surgeon from Philadelphia
II But somehow everything went agains
{ it; his model wouldn't work
/ when he got it done, and it didn't seen
/ likely that I'd see the owner of that lons
name for q good while yet. But one day
8 in the last of February there came thi;
E letter from the doctor himself, saying
( that he had been requested from Bosto,
[ to come on to see the young lady and Sc
r forth, and would it be convenient to ap
t point such day. And he came. HI
2 looked good deal he talked very little
3 and-there's no use in going through
4 the long particulars of the long affair
l and though at first I hardly dared tt
d hope, YOU see it did come true. Oh
. Irene! if I could tell you . hundredti
B part of the happiness there was in get
t ting well once more! You know a LITTLE
t of what it is in an ordinary illness
1 there's nothing more delicious than {
h steady convalescence, when you feel lit
/ tie more strength as each week passes
@ but when you've been so helpless for 81
!. long, and find you are really going to b,
- alive again, along with the sweet, new
0 freshness Of q country spring - =
Hwasn't three months after the doc
O. tor came that father did something more
I to his model that made it just right, st
: that he got the patent. And l assure
Q Won we felt as rich as if we owned thu
' whole United States. Uncle Gershon
s wrote a very odd letter about the doc
!, tor; acted as ii he was ashamed to thini
I've knew he did it; but he was Away
( Iaueer, so we, didn't think it 20 yer!
1 strange Johns plans were accepted
for new Courthouse, and brought hin
gI q great deal of money at the same time
!, He came home for almost the whol'
: summer. It could have been nothing
1 but happy for me, for John was here
/. and saw what meant to me the very
s best thing OF aI..1 No, I don't know
d whether III tell you just how it hap
ipened. It was one evening in the fall
4 I was in the big armchair and he hat
t started to go and he came and stood be
q side me. think we neither of us salt
it much there was no need. " iaa-G{
til sob, joint" said I, 81 don't see how
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