Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1884-04-17
GETTING 4 COUNTRY PRACTICE.

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and AZ the * yyeansg practitioner surveyed
it. he modessly hoped that it would not
draw a great many calls while he was
away from home, and wondered if he
had not better take it down and leave
it until he returned with his bride. He
had Just passed, I" not yet tried practis-
ing, and was sanguine in his ideas upon
the subject. He finally decided to let
il remain as il would serve for an adyer-
!tisement while he was away; and leav-
'ng word with his one servant woman
chat he would be at home on the eigh-
teenth of the month, lie departed on
his short journey. The marriage came
off, quietly and ~inexpensively, at the
house of the brides uncle. Annie had
lived with this uncle ever since she was
! little orphan child of three years.
Now, having been fitted out respect
ably, in the way of clothing, which with
his large family and limited means, was
al her uncle could afford to do, she left,
with Charlie for his new home, with
many kind wishes and prayers for her
happiness.
DR.. Minter's sole tangible possessions
we're a horse and chaise, 3 few articles
offurniture, a pretty good stock of med
cines and surgical instruments, and a
loving little wife, whom he well nigh
holized He had taken a tiny house,
N the pretty town of Pineville, and had
boldly displayed a brass plate, although
It was directly opposite to that Of DIR.
Jaeger, who supported his with many
years experience, a generous sprinkling
IF gray hairs, and pomposity of man
aers. The unpretending little house.
Iaken by the new doctor, consisted of
Tour Dom and S surgery.
Armies skillful hands soon trans
formed their abode into a little Para
aise. Bright flowers flashed from every
valuable nook; hanging baskets were
ashioned of MOSES and creepers, cur
aims Of snowy muslin were suspended
rom the windows; glasses and shells,
sled with buds and blossoms, were lib
orally distributed around the rooms; and
nnumerable little inexpensive things,
which only a woman's hand can form
allied mp the voids, giving an air Of re-
inement. and purity, and comfort to the
Whole. But people cannot subsist up
IN pretty nick-nacks; even a plain way
IF living requires money for its support ;
md u friends became painfully con-
sc.ous Of this unpleasant fact as the ro-
nance Of their lives was not invaded by
she patients.
Annie would sit in her front room,
and watch the patients flock to the
house OF her opposite neighbor, and
wonder why people would persist in
rushing blindly on to their ruin, as she
felt certain they were doing in thus
thus passing by her husband. OF
course, she reasoned, a talented young
man just fresh from the hospitals, must
be better posted than one who had
been ~rusticating for SO many years in a
country town. She had heard that a
wife had much influence in establishing
a practice; and she resolved that if her
husband lacked business, it should not
be owing to any dereliction of duty on
her part. She gathered all the chill
dren of the neighborhood about her
and amused them by the hour with
-@.esias she dressed a 81 iiooTT the the iiiittS Sis
girls, and played horse with the boys.
She received calls with the utmost
affability, returned them promptly,
and was sociable with most stupid and
tiresome, as we'll as with the most elig-
bleinhabitants of the town. Pineville
was a place of considerable gaiety; and
new Corners, on principle, responded to
all their invitations. TO parties and tea
drinkings. They threw open their
small house in return, and entertained
pleasantly and freely, putting them
selves on e diet of potatoes and salt fol
days afterwards to make up for the g K
ira outlay, People visited them, liked
them, and made much of them, but In q
business way ignored them. Her best
friends seemed to forget in time of ILL
ness, that Annie had d husband. and
persistently sent for their old physician
When III friends came in contact with
Or. Jaggar, the latter always shook
hands IN q pompous manner, smiled
with an air Of satisfaction, which seemed
20 say, lyon are not in the least in
my way and are quite welcome I'd r,-
main here if you wish" and blandly in
CURED how they liked our little town.
When others inquired his opinion Of the
new doctor, he would stroke his own
grey beard affectionately, and reply,
oh. q clever boy enoughl x very
sslever boy, needs experience" This