Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1886-04-08
MOTHERS LEGACY.
A Very Effective Cure for Hypo-
chondria.

chondria-
"Your mothers legacy has come,
Maria. va7g "a iGs0 500 %
HAS it, John? Who brought itf"
1T came alone in cab"
Game in cab! What do you mean,
John?' $50
"Why, mean what l say; it came
in a cab, and walked right upstairs.
Walked up stairs! l wish you
wouldn't tease me 50, John. What do
you meanP"
"Well, my dearest wife, in other
words, your aunt Amelia has arrived
big trunk, little trunk, bandbox and
bundle She. is now dOmesticated in
the second-story back room. otherwise
known rs the guest-chamber; and as
her head is. very tired, she is lying
down to rest for dinner / saw her,
however, doing up those iron-gray
curls and corkscrew ringlets of hers in
brown paper They look like the little
ctrls which are run off piece of black
walnut board by the carpenters plane.
She likes her room very much indeed,
and seems to be quite happy. So,
brace up, Maria, my dear, and begin
now to enjoy your mothers legacy"
Maria Templeton, the wife OF Hon.
p. Templeton, member of the State
Senate from the county of Philadelphia,
was the only child of fond and doting
mother, who had just died. Maria, or
Pinkie, as she was Familiarity called by
the members, of her family, was EN-
phatically spoiled child. Abolished
cabinet of household advisers in the
way of maternal aunts and elderly
cousins had assisted the late mother of
Pinkie, Mrs. Pentreath Jones, with an
assorted variety Of iudicious advice,
until this mother, with an infrm pur-
pose; had a will which was mended
and reset by outside moral appliances
in the way in which broken plate is
glued with stratena and is then loaded
with heavy weights, arranged on pur-
pose to test it's latent strength.
Pinkie, as child, had always vaguely
imagined that comfortable inherit
ance would one day be hers after her
mothers death. Not that she wanted
her mother to die. In fact, though she
had a husband, she never thought OF
him as social and financial @oian
attachment to the harp on the willows
of her daily life. Her mother was hel
only and constant comforter. Her hus.
band was necessity, but her mother
was luxury. John made continual
game of his wife's staff of medical ad
visers, but Pinkie's mother hailed witt
delight every new medical adviser anC
every fresh plan in the lifelong searcl
for health. Every mineral spring il
America had been tried, but il invari
ably happened that in one weeks TIM
after her return home the same dread
full complication of maladies reap
peared. The hot springs of Arkansas
the warm springs of Virginia, with thei
sulphur compounds and lithia alkalies
and the electric baths Of all sorts O
magnetic doctors had alike been tried
and had proved worthless. Carlsba,
and AK lie Bains, and the Engadine
and the Grape Cure of Mcran in tn
Tyrol kept the ten thousand demons O
inherited and acquired hypochondri
under for awhile, but, like their grea
leader Abaddon in the Apocalypse
after each short-lived mellenium the
were loosed again for new lease of Ell
deavor for little season.
A certain DIR. Mcpherson, in Edin
burgh, whom Mr.. Templetonconsulte
for his wife on their return from tn
high-air cure in the Engadine and tn
grape cure in the Tyrol. advised
consultation with a certain female ply
stefan at Los Angeles, California, VIII
had made Mrs. Templeton' complain,
speciality. He refrained from givin
the name. but gave the exact address.
The spring after this, when MI
Templeton started West on his annus
wool expedition for the firm of who's
house he was the unknown term, tn
60" he took Maria with him.
While waiting in the city of Sa
Francisco for the completion of tn
wool purchases, Mrs. Templeton had
severe attack of polykakia, or man
evils, consisting of headache, hypC
neuralgia. malaria, nervous prostrs
ton and rheumatic govt combined. A
she lay upon her couch, in her lndi
silk wrapper. struggling to fortify he
nerves by frequent internal coddling
against the coast breezes of the mi'
named Pacific" her husband entere
the room, and took seat by the ope
fire. with his back to his wife.
"Oh, Johnm groaned the voice {
Maria from the muil'ed depths of tn
pillows, If you only knew how wa
suffering from this wretched Pacific ali
you wouldn't keep me waiting in tn
way with Your wool business. 70
would think more of your wife an
less of this everlasting wool-sorting.
John made no reply.
"Besides. continued Maria, Il al
gery anxious to see the Los Angelo
doctor. When can we get OFF,"
Still no reply from John.
john said Maria. $685..
An oppressive silence followed.
before.
.sJohnr' exclaimed Maria, what
the matter? Why do you not speak?
Il do not know how TO speak. II
piled John, as he took his wife IN h
ar,ao RE q h,-avo voInan Mani