The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1886-03-19
MOTHERS LEGACY.
A Very Effective euro for Hypo-
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..Your mothers legacy has come.
Maria
Has il. John' Who brought it?"
1T came alone in cab"
Game in a cab. What do you mean.
John?'
why. mean what ! say; it came
in cab. and walked right upstairs"
Walked up stairs, l wish you
wouldn't tease me 50. John. What do
YOU mean,"
well. my dearest wife, in other
words. your aunt Amelia has arrived
big trunk. little trunk. bandbox and
bundle. She Is now domesticatcd in
the second-story hack room. otherwise
known rs the gucst-chambcr: and as
her head i very tired. she j. living
down to rest for dinner. ] saw her.
however. doing up those iron-gray
curls and corkscrcw ringlets Of hers in
brown paper. They look like the little
curls which are run off a piece Of black
walnut board by the carpenters plane.
She likes her room very much indeed,
and seems 10 BE- quite happy. 50,
brace mp. Maria. my dear. and begin
now 10 enjoy your mothers legacy
Maria Tempieton. the wife Of Hon.
II. 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
Pinkic. a. she was Familiarity called BY
the members Of her family. was en-
phaticaIly spoiled child A full-sized
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 judicious advice.
until this mother. with an iniirm pur-
pose. had will which was mendcd
and reset by outside moral appliances
in the way in which 4 broken plate Is
glued with stratena and Is then loaded
with heavy weights. arranged on pur-
pose 10 test It's latent strength.
Pinkie. a. child. had alwaysvaguely
imagined that comfortable inherit
ancr would one day be hers after her
mother death. Not that she wanted
her mother 10 die. In fact. though she
had a husband. she never thought Of
him A. 4 social and financial eolian
attachment to the harp on the willows
of her daily life. Her mother was her
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 adj
viscrs. but Pinkic's mother hailed with
delight every new medical adviser and
every fresh plan in the lifelong search
for health. Every mineral spring In
America had been tried, but II invari-
ably happened that in one weeks time
after her return home the same dread
full complication Of maladics reap
pcarcd- The hot springs Of Arkansas,
The warm springs 81 Virginia. with thciI
sulphur compounds and lithia alkalies,
and the electric baths Of all sorts d
magnetiodoctors had alike been tried
and had proved worthless. Carlsbad
and AK lc Bains. and the Engadine
and the Grape Cure Of Meran in the
Tyrol kept the ten thousand demons d
Inherited and acquired hypochondris
under for awhile. but. like their great
leader Abaddon in the Apocalypse
after each short-livcd mcllenium the,
were loosed again for . new lease Of en-
-dcavor for little season.
certain DR.. McPherson, In Edin
burgh. whom Mr.. TempIeton consulted
for his wife on their return from thu
high-air cure in the Engadinc and thu
grape cure in the Tyrol. advised :
consultation with certain female ply
stefan at Los Angeles. California whs
had made Mrs. Templcton' : complaint
speciality. He rcfraincd from giving
the name. but gave the exact address.
The spring after this. when Mr.
Tcmplcton started West on his annua
wool expedition for the firm Of who's
house he WAS the unknown term, III,
Go" he took Maria with him.
While waiting in the city Of Sal
Francisco for the completion Of tn
wool purchases. Mrs. Tcmplcton had
severe attack Of polykakia. Or man.
evils. consisting ~ headache. hypo
neuralgia. malaria. nervous prostra
ton and rheumatic govt combined. a
she lay upon hcr couch, in her Indi'
silk wrapper. struggling 10 fortify he
nerves BY frequent Internal ccddling
against the coast brcczcs II the mis-
named Pacific" her husband enters
the room. and took q seat BY the opc
Dire. with his back 20 his wife.
oh. john groancd the voice 4
Maria from the mufIicd depths Of III
pillows. III you only knew how wa
suffering from this wrctchcd Pacific al