The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1885-04-21
DOLLIE'S LETTER.
Her Ideas of a Man as a Sick
Room Attendant-AL Little
Talk Of 9ossiping, Etc.
DEAR NELL:

Since last wrote you / have bern any,
thing but well, AMI / am afraid | was rot
as pleasant IS | mighI have been. by a
great deal. You remember toll you how
v,ry Cranky" Will was, curing his cent
at ack Of illness, well, would You believe it,
/ WIS even wo'se / did not want HIM 10
60 down town in the morning at all, and
every sugg stion he would make, In his
peculiarly bungliug shion, / rsfused. |
know he M art we'll, bu' | think men, IS
rule, are net calculated for sick nurses L
asked him one morning, when my h ad
ached very, very badly To Cheat up my pill
low triti ," and what did th,t POOR, awk-
wsrd boy do, bu each the pillow and give
/ il such "besiing" hat he burst d one of
my very pr t'ie>t t'immfd pillow cases,
clear acr, SIS the middle. Y,u should h We
seen his lcok Of considerable nj was too
sick TO laugh, but 1 couldn't, for the life of
me, keep from smiling-as he looked up
and caught my eye. BY jngo," he said,
"Dollie, seems to me hat was nigh poor
stuff in these comic unded pillow covers"
L FAD YES, pr sumo 81, but / think it
was not intended TO come in contact with a
strong msn's fist" "Pe Laps not" answer
ed Will, but thought you said 10 bet
it."
Well, yer mind, Nell, that is only a
sp cimen OF Wills waiting on M, bn; new
e. did m N try harder to please, az d looking
back on it now, forgive the ''n,ce glass OF
lemonade" he made witn salt for tie sweet
enirg, the peculiar, si5ilsnt singing OF
".;ally is the gIl for me-" ty which he
amused little be S ?, 50 that she would not
worry poor, sick mamma. the Iip-toeing
across the room in a squraky p,ir Of boo =,
The fried onions he had The g,rl 10 CO TO.
me TO tempt my appetite, the Bringing
home OF baskets of bananas aud oranges
End bottles Of p ,tent medicine, and boxes
OF pills although / bad regular prac'i-
tioner-ihe funny stores he told, aid the
way in xhlch he wruug Urge sized bath
towel out OF not very warm water, for my
head. with such ej acul 4tions as: "Lord,
but hats hot. Nearly buns my fingers
of, Dollie," slI these things | forgive, for
know the good heat undsr il all, and
Ii We covers q multitude of sins.
Do you K ow, n II, / think illn IS
Is sometimes sent uDUn US IS 3 lesson 70:
good In health and strength We are prone
II forget our trail hold on life aud we grow
insolent toward the creator. Not, Ieihaps
in tie sense of coarse welcomes shiG
stops at no bour dairy of honor or decency,
but We are not tolerant of faults in others,
neglect our du'ies toward our reighbor, we
forget that the poor we have always with
Us" we indulge in care'e-s SPEECH
aud We descend 10 gossip which seems Yer,
smsll snd very mean when gazing across
the eva ers of the dark river" / know
OF ursA you 1T. thinking while re d ng
this, OF the saying:
The devil when sick, the devil q monk would be- |
The evil when well, the devil 9 monk was ne,
but nrver mind am sure all sick les obs
are not wa ted aud somehow / cannot help |
believing that even reso YES which are bro |
ken help to elevate Us into a more spiritual |
atmosphere than merely The ".arth earthly" |
| was anu ed at the specimens IF poetry |
which you cent me, written by your friend |
+. b. M. / knew his miud ran in tn q \
groove, but hardly Ky ew he could do so
well. That vsrse wherein lie says:
"Oh besuteous maid so like the spring
In vernal beauty all coming
Ling light and joy and peIce
In one harmonious, rounded crease"
Seems to have q Sigh, hitch in it some
where, but maybe DO not quite catch the
sentiment. Isn't 1T strange anyhow, Nell
but the di position to write poe ~ or what
authors term poetry is one of the mysteries
If modern inns. / never eau uu-
derstsnd why they wish to do 81. As an
Intellectual employment il Yields no finan-
cial fruit and il involves much waste of
time and worry OF mind. Not one persoU
in t. n thousand reads its product, but not
withsisndipg all these discruraging circum-
stances, il is persisted In with 40 enthu-
siasm that nothing can abate until il slowly
evaporstes under the influence of cold
neglect. In some instances, the vitality OF
this enthusiasm is quite indes.rsciible.
not even failure of recognition or satirical
criticism can quench it and ouilssiing
youth, it keeps the mind coqueting with
The muse and framing iancies into rhyms,
while the head is whining to the fiual har-
vest. Ii is disposition, a tendency. i'm
pulse or whatever may be its proper desig-
nation, that cruelty misleads the victims.
They are incapable Of judging the merits
of their own composition and While they
invite criticism, like the bishops in "GIl
Bias" they resent il unless it is favorable. /
And now Nell, want to speak 10 you OF
the matter which / had hiuted at in my
LIST letter. A short time ago, had an er-
rand at one OF tue bookstores and In re
turniDg home had occasion to walk some
distance behind two gentlemen-I SUPPOSE
they would be called, but / really do not
thus class them-who were discussing Mrs.
who wss on The other side of the str ct.
Said one, IL wonder Whist her husband
would say did he know of her latest m ish7"
"Don't know Pm sure" said the oth-r, but
"I am glad, she is not my wife at all
evens" There were more similar remarks
made. Nell, aud although had no re-
spect for the men who would indulge in
them yet could not help feeling grieved
that there was the least cause. i know the
lady personally and have always found her
gracious, kindly and courteous and some
how cannot bell We that she is aware Of the
unkind remarks that are beirg made about
the attentions she permits from the
handsome yourg man who is so aften seen
in her company.
Will does not take q charitable uiaru Of