, 1885-06-14
READY MONEY.


III hiNNA NAAA ~ ~ aOa11
The bank was good enough taplace TO my
credit a couple OF hundred last week, just to
carry mo smiling through Christmaz After
Christmas the delugel l have come TO the
conclusion, % he continued thoughtfully,
shat there Is nothing in the world like ready
money, do You know, my boy, and for this
simple reason. To-day Is yours; tomorrow
belongs TO nobody. Give me health and a
day say that old opsimist. Emerson, and |
will m Ike thu p1Inp Of empcrors r~idiculousI
ltny Give mo health and half n sovereign
always IN my waistcoat pocket and will
forget the past, rejoice in the present and
regard the future
Here Do Batledaw paused The fact Is.
D. had a future. my dear fell
low, hs resumed. "what Ia the use Of talking
aloui the futurei There is really no such
thing. Il is the mere hugbear Of poet and
moraiists II has no real existence for you
until It becomes the present and l have
quite enough 70 do 70 deal with that |
have teen people worry themselves into their
graves over things which after all
never came 10 pass all ! oc
cupy myself exclusively with things which
do come 4 pass, while they are coming TO
Tass; | find that answers best. As 10 bills |
don't bother how they are TO
be paid-till l can pay them what's
the usol They come in to-day and
you may die tomorrow, or some one else
may die and leave you money, or you may
let some empty houss at any moment or
your shares may rise, or you may soil that
horse that you bought out Of a cab and fed
up for twice the purchase money, or you
can clair that little commission paid on
never mind what, by never mind whom, or
or he paused again, and then added
with extreme composure, "you can borrowf7
mo ono can say Dc Batledaw Is Of the
worrying sort, said Jones to his wife that
evening. Il wish l could take things as
coolly and l wish l had half his luck. Tho
fact Il, Jones, too, was in debt The water
rate man sat for an hour in the hall and
wouldn't 60 without the money. The coal
man had put all his Goals into sacks again
al 4 taken them of. on finding that his last
little bill was not going to DO paid Just
tien. Tho pastry cook grumbisd at being
asked TO send in a half dozen OF champagne
for Christmas day, remarkiny that he had
IN account for ices for tho summer months,
still unpaid. Then the cook had asked for
her wages twice, and there was absolutely
not a sovereign in the house, and the man
who jobbed the indispensable doctor
brougham was bothering for the last quar-.
ter Such was Jones' state at Christmas.
Ho wasa young surgeon He had lately
married a pretty wife. He treated the poor
for nothing. His brass plate shone, but nis
only paying patients seemed to have gone
out OF town for Christmas and had forgotten
10 settle up
in a few weeks" said he to Mrs Jones,
"they will come back the worse for Christ
mas, II all goes well. and there may b. a
few surgical operations, tonsils, and that
sort Of thing. but in the meantime we want
ready money
Exactly 50, - says Aurslia. (Aurelia had
married a little beneath her station-so her
mother SAID. Exactly so, Edward.
You're always ridiculing Archelaus De
Batledaw, but ho IS quite right, ready
moneys tho thing The large bills will get
paid in the season, WHOM you are called
In 70 see old Gurbel as usual; and the
Gushingtons, who sprain their ankles rogu-
larly every year trying to skate; and De !
Palsy, who always tumbles of his horse In
the park; and Lady Dekolty and all the
Others who catch cold at the qusen's draw
ing-room and suffer agonies with the ear
ache and think they want n surgeon; but
now ready money is what we want and
what. at all events, l must hAvaLT
Jones knew she would H
Dos you think our banker will put a couple
OF hundred % our creditf7
Don't talk nonsense, Edward. II were
to ask him he might; but that remedy is
wore than the disease. You know you
" hANhh W - lAiu. 1Ou ONcIQftW tue
bank 80 pounds sterling only last week, You
men are never any use in an emergency,
you've got no ideas"
whats TO be donei' says poor Jones.
Leave it TO me" replie. Aurelia. aCaIi
yourself a bread-winner indeedlp And the
lofty Aurelia, with ons OF her most superior
locke, tossed her head, took of her thimbls,
threw II into her work basket, and swept out
OF the consulting room.
Aurelin had not the slightest idea what 10
do, but she meant to do something. Jones
had lately taken a little house In a respecta-
bic neighborhoOd not 100 miles from Harley
street, where doctors most d. congregata.
The brass plato was small and looked very
neat and reliable. II he could hold out an
other year, he believed that he would,
greatly through his wife's connection, got
along But this Christmas, somehow, things
feemei coming to n crisis. Jones sat down
and did what perhaps was tho most unwiss
and depressing thing possible under the cir
eun-sinnees; no began to look over his
bills.
Presently he hoard his wife 20 down stairs
She was In one OF her scornful moods She
had apparently got Batls1aw on the brain.
She seemed TO think her husband ought to
have ready money. He did not care TO face
her Observation-Disclosures, she had taken
things into her own hands, and when u
woman does that you had best leave her
alone. The street door opened with a bang.
Aurelia was gone. Jones felt half inclined
TO go after her, but on second thoughts he
staid where he was. It was we'll for him
That he did.
Aurelia soon got into Oxford street; sho
stopped mechanically at a shop window to
look at sons CHRISTMAS cards She was a
clever artist herself; she thought she could
do cards as good ms many OF thoss which
seemed market hle. and went In TO make in
quUes Tor an artist "A friend Of hers she
said-who had some choice things TO offer.
They told her that the market was completely
overstocked.
there vas a chemist close by who made
up her husbands prescriptions. The man
bal q patent inhaler that cured everything.
He had written twice 10 get a signed testi.
mouial out OF Jones affirming its sovereign
efficacy Should she go in and promise the
coveted autograph and then wheedle It out
OF her husbandi The man had offered a fee
OF 8 pounds sterling, but the doctor had
treated the matter with contomptuous and
Indignant silence. Aurelia's foot was on the
doorstep but her pride got the better OF her;
in another moment she turned awa She
knew her husband wns right, She knew no
trustai her hmplicity-but not to tampar
with his honor. The bank was close by; she
hAu ohi9 70 go IN and speak 70 the
manager. an old friend Of her fathers
Her father was a MAcbone OF
Bonely hall be had been rich. but the farms
brought in nothing now, and Maebone's own
account at tho bank was small For his
sake however, the manager, who had often
danced Aurelia on his knee when a child,
would have been accommodating, ant even
handed her over the much coveted ready
money. indeed, he had done II before II
v7s = tempt Ntinn-not 80 sordd a. the lat
AMeiI-known Doctors Experience.
DR.. Q. EnMceff. resident nhvslcian of