The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1882-03-25

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"Oh, Mary! There isn't any way
OF doing the thing you mentioned.
Clarke feels awiully poor this sum-
mer. and have been trying harder
than ever to make the end lap over"
"Where is Clarke 2" the doctor in.
quired.
HE is down at the creek, haying."
II will drive down and have talk
with him right away" said my friend
making ready to leave.
"Oh. Mary Don't you think there
is any other way?"
The poor woman had broken down
completely now, and the doctor held
her for moment in her strong arms
and caressed her fondly.
"No other way SIS" she replied |;
''but we will do the best we can.
There's no telling what a good rest
and careful nursing may do for your
poor tired body, my dear"
II was going to take you to some
other places" the doctor remarked.
as we drove away, "but it would
have been the same old story work,
work, work, without rest or change
from years end to years end. My
mother killed herself by her attempts
to get ahead of time. Two sisters
have Travelled the same road that
Anna has started on, one of them alb
solutely dropped dead in her kitchen
in the midst of her. work. This is
the kind of thing / could not endure
to see 60 on. l knew it was all wrong
as soon as l knew anything, and
when became old enough to have a
voice In my own education I persists
ed in taking different course. My
sister Anna has tried SO hard to get
ahead of time and make things 'lap
over that she has abused and prob
ably killed herself besides criminally
neglecting and mismanaging her
children. l don't suppose she has
had five hours sleep out of the
twenty-four during the last five years,
and think of that amount of rest for
woman whose brain and muscle are
forever in use! Every year 1 come
up here and find things going from
bad to worst among my relatives
and most of my friends, and the
horrible part of it is that nothing one
can say or do will ever have the
slightest effect"
"DOn't you think your very natur-
al anxiety about your sister may have
colored your diagnosis a little?" 1
inquired.
mot in the least" my compan-
ion answered. "Anna's pulse was
one hundred and twelve. The respi-
ration was labOred and ominously
frequent. There is no mistaking such
signs.".
'How could she keep at work with
such pulse as that" l asked.
"By the exercise of will power"
said the doctor. "In our family will
power is direct inheritance. If it
could only have been put to good use
how much might have been accomp-
lished! My dear, this will power
eats salt pork when good beef and
the nutritious food are absolute ne
cessities. 1t makes all its cream into
butter that the cash may 'lap over
1t drinks skim milk, and works nine-
teen hours out of the twenty-four."
"Now you know all about it," she
remarked in parting, "and if any one
ever asked you why Mary Stedman
did not remain among her relatives
you can say that she declined to live
among criminals and suicides"
Five months after the above Incl
dent. sister Anna died, and one year
from the date the widower married
again. The second wife is duplicate
of the first, working night and day
and laying uD for future which is
more than likely she never will en-
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