Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1883-07-14

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born from yours? You use it without mercy
sixteen hours a day. You are subject tc
that fatal drain which stupidity is always
making upon cleverness. There's no YAM
pire like it. You never play. Why doni
YOU swim, ride, dance, row, play base ball,
practice archery, whist, and go to town
every vacation for an instructive course OF
theaters?"
"When, AllisP Why, there isn't time. ]
leave out half the work l ought to do as il
is"
"Ought! ought Oh dear! how shall
we stop the roll of that Juggernaut which
brushes all your racer You have no pure
ioy in existence. 1t doesn't even seem that
YOU have any love of life in itself. It's only
useful for the work you can wiring out of it,
You make yourselves less than your moods
and lenses, less than your butter and cheese
Time! If there isn't time to get well and
keep we'll, you'd better change for eternity
as YOU will, my dear young FRIEND If yoC
can't reform. 1 know that the kind of head
ache which you and Aunt Larkin are cursed
with never comes except with overwork and
under feeding. She must go on to suffer
poor thing though less, hope. But You
can cure yourself if you will. Obey me-
and YOU shall be a new man in year, Civ
ing me that delight in your growing health
Wnlcn an aftlSC Ie5lS III Ills growing picIure'
Dear Allis, abhor bran, and mother
would never cook it..
Dear simpleton, who asked you? No
you shall have delicious soups. and inviting
meats, and salads of celestial lineage, anG
vegetables, and milk and such bread as yor
have never tasted, made of -four whose
whole value has not paid tribute to the mill
en-"
"But Obadiah's Sarah"
ooh, yes, she can. I'll teach her. We
can do it all, and more, if only you will per-
suade your mother that it is my lark, OF
your whim, or what you will, SO that we dc
not seem to subvert the law of generations
or reproach the old order with the new
Don't you see what new creature she is
since have made her rest? And when she
says plaintively, as in her moments of rebel.
lion she does, The house is not what
was (if peradventure, Sarah has forgotten
TO set the salt box ON the right hand of the
sugar crock, instead of the left,) I reply,
| Never mind, dear Aunt Larkin, the home is
more. Did you ever see Nathan so happy
about you, as now that you tuck up your
feet and read in the afternoons, or go out
riding with me?' And then she is silenced,
and takes another turn at The Maid of Skier
with visible satisfaction. Do you suppose
anything in life would make her so happy
IS for you to escape your headaches? And
| [ have shown you the way"
Having put myself in your hands, DIR.
Putnam, am bound to follow your pre-
scription, I suppose. The preserves Shall
| mould upon their shelves. the cake box
shall rust upon its hinges, fapjacks from
henceforth be called accursed, and
the majestic shades of Sylvester Ora
| ham and Dio Lewis command my obedience.
"'Slowly their phantoms arise before US.
Our loftier brothers, but one in blood;
At bed and table they lord 1t DER us
With looks of beauty and words of good
Admirable, Master Nathan! L can stay
two weeks longer to see my remedies IN ac-
| lion, and then you are to be on honor AT
| the thanksgiving vacation come to town and
will administer the course of theaters adj
| vised, and measure your improvement. To-
morrow afternoon, if you please, we Will go
| TO the top of that beautiful purple hill, up
which you have not had the civility to invite
me. AS young lady, and your guest, L
could not, of course, mention the omission;
but as your physician, and in strictly re-
medal manner, proceed to rectlfy 1t.
From that day a new king arose over
Egypt No sparkling brook hid itself so
,unningly among the leaves that Nathan and
Alls did not find it in the long summer af-
;ernoons when work was done. No hill was
TOO difficult for their nimble feet, no berry
patch too far, no lily-bearing pond to inae-
,essible. Sometimes Aunt Larkin joined
Them in their frolic, wondering at herself
for electing play when work waited to be
done, feeling herself apostate to the faith OF
her fathers, yet delighting in the fun of
these children, and rejoicing to see her son
80 brown and hungry.
Then Doctor Allis had to say good-by,
and betake herself to town, evolving what
III oo1lo1 bor GEoffica" from n confusion of
books, pictures, flowers, patterns. of wall
paper, white muslin, and the spoils of her
life abroad When Nathan saw it, in No
vember, his notions of the fitness of pro-
fessional life for women underwent further
disintegration.
Nothing could be more refined" he said
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 q
hope deferred. For it was year after this
before the correspondence, of which speci
men is appended, enriched the departments;
HE TO HER.
$50 have been offered the profess
sorship of the classics at - college. Will
you come, too? i would not ask you while
nv 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 I trust l
have no more wish, to object, than you
would have concerning mine. And, indeed,
I hold that there is no nobler work in the
world than yours. Personally, it would ill
become me to limit your beneficence. For
know, Doctor Allis, that have not had a
yestige of sick headache in six months. l
said I would give third of my life to save
the other two from its ravages. ...
Take, o Doctor, thrice the fee;
Take, I givo it eagerly; ~
For, invisible to thee,
Devils blue have gone from me.
Does this not sound like love letter? If l
do not say that 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, /
believe, months or months ago. And if l
seem too Jolly for the attitude of prayer
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.
WOulu uOt DOCtO1 14dIhlu3 oO4fO CfCly C1u
as well as Doctor Putnam Brutus will
start spirit as soon as Caesar.
81 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,
am hedged about with danger. At - the
other day was even offered and pressed
upon with-PIE! IF have housekeeper,
doubt not that poisonous compound will
be daily on the table, and presently, in an
unvigilant moment, perhaps when am lost
in reflection on a doubtful ictua, 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
-, and the reception rooms seem to me
peculiarly eligible as an Office. You shall |
have it on the most favorable terms, an6
permanently, by addressing at once, "Youl
devoted, n L."
SHE TO HIM. |
Dear Sir:-My diagnosis is favorable. |
Your summary of symptoms find satisfac-