Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1885-04-03
He was Inundated, but he did SO.
''Now to-day I want you to walk

lie was Inundated, DuL ne CID So
"Now to-day I want you to walk
"WaIkl it's all 1 can do TO drag one
foot after the other now"
II want you tn walk quarter OF a
mile and back" she SAID, not needing
his interruption, land do that every
day for a week. The next week make
it half mile; the next week whole
milo. Keep up that for three weeks,
and then every week double your por-
ton till you can do ten miles day
vita perfect ease"
81 never can in the worldr'
'Do as say, if you please Before
starting on your walk take a tepld
sponge bath, and on returning from
your walk rub yourself down thor.
oughly With flannel mltlen-I will
give you one; then go to bed entirely
addressed for a couple of hours, and
rub yourself again on rising. Go to
bed every night at 10 o'clock and lie
in bed 10 houIs. You are not to open
book or look in a newspaper for
three months"
Impossible"
'Perfeetly possible. You have no
idea how well the world will get along
with your attention in such case.
You are to do every thing which I'M
plies rest for the body, the nerve, the
brain. You fatigue the body in order
to rest il; wien you are able to walk
enough, take your gun with you and
tire Yourself out. Be as much out of
doors as you can. This is your medi>
cine"
And she limped across the room TO a
cabinet there, and selected one among
many boxes.
Take one the first day." she said,
"two the next and three the next. If
the three create nausea, stop at two,
and after a week try the three again.
Then / think they will not trouble
you"
What are they made of" he de
manded bluntly. Because, If there
is any calomel in them, won't take
them. And podophylim--"
"Never mind that. Do as l say.
Come back in three months. There
is no fee I'LL you are cured. Good
morning."
And the door was opened, and he
was on the outside of it, never having
been so unceremoEiously treated in
his iife-he, a leading physician Of
the east, sought far and wide-and
he was quite inclined to be very an
cry.
However, DR.. Tredickar was not a
man of halfway measures: having
undertaking the thing, he decided to
finish it. He went off on prairie
farm that he heard of, and he obeyed
her instructions TO the letter. He was
six months instead of three obeying
them But at the end of that time,
hale and hearty, ruddy and robust,
without an ache or an all, he again
sought the presence of his adviser.
II have come" said he, ito thank
you. to pay my fee, aud to ask you
for the formula of your wonderful
medicine. | am physician myself. ,
"Oh, l knew that, DIR. Tredicker, >
she said, calmly, lifting off the half
handkerchief of gray and black lace
that she wore about her waving and
still brown hair.
'FYou knew thatl How"
"You taue ht me, sir, to make these
pills yourself
''They are brown bread pills.
learned how to make them in your
kitchen"
"Dorothyr he cried
Eyes, Dorothy Merle"
Trulyl And where had his eyes
been' Doroth Merle, plumper. roster
and almost as-well, perhaps prettler
than ever. She had known hin at a
glance, aud she had disguised her
voice and walked with a cane, and
worn the Northumberland to mlslead
him.
Il thought" he said, severely,
that you were Mrs. Taylor
mo" she replied, Il have never
mar ried | assumed the name"
"And you will assume another be
fore this sun setsl" he cried. do
you think am going back to the east
alone2 How could you. how could
you leave me on that cruel day2
And Dr. Tredicker's wife still makes
a few brown bred pills from every
Sundays loaf