Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1886-04-01
MOTHERS LEGACY.
A Very Effective Cure for Hypo-
chondria.

A Very Effective Cure for Hypo-
chondria.
"Your mothers legacy has come,
Maria"
HAS it, John? Who brought it?''
at came alone in cab
"Came in a cab! What do you mean,
John?'
"Why, mean what 1 say; it came
in cab, and walked right upstairs"
walked up stairs! 1 wish you
wouldn't tease me so, John. What do
you mean?"
"WeI, 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 as the guest-chamber; and as
her head is very tired, she is lying
down to rest for dinner. l saw her,
however, doing up those iron-gray
curls and corkscrew 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 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 Philad elphia,
was the only child of a 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. 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 intirm pur-
pose, had will which was mended
and reset by outside moral appliances
in the way in which a broken plate is
glued with stratena and is then loaded
with heavy weights. arranged on pur-
pose to test its latent strength.
Pinkie, as child, had ALWAYS vaguely
imagined that comfortable inherit
ance would one day be hers after her
mother 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 Rolian
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 a luxury. John made continual
game of his wife's staff of medical add
visers, but Pinkie's mother hailed with
delight every new medical adviser and
tvery fresh plan in the lifelong search
ior health. Every mineral spring in
america had been tried, but it invari-
IDLY happened that in one weeks time
after her return home the same dread
full complication of maladies reap
peared. The hot springs of Arkansas.
the warm springs of Virginia. with their
oulphur compounds and lithia alkalies.
and the electric baths of all sorts of
magnetic doctors had alike been tried.
and had proved worthless. Carlsbad
and AK lie Bains, and the Engadine,
and the Grape Cure of Meran in the
Tyrol kept the ten thousand demons of
inherited and acquired hypochondria
under for awhile, but, like their great
leader Abaddon in the Apocalypse.
after each short-lived mellenium they
were loosed again fora new lease of en-
deavor for little season.
A certain DR.. Mcpherson, in Edin-
burgh, whom Mr.. Templeton consulted
for his wife on their return from the
high-air cure in the Engadine and the
grape cure in the Tyrol. advised
consultation with certainfemale ply
stefan at Los Angeles. California. who
had made Mrs. Templeton's complaints
a speciality. He refrained from giving
the name, but gave the exact address.
The spring after this, when Mr..
Templeton started West on his annual
wool expedition for the firm of whose
house he was the unknown term, the
&C.," he took Maria with him.
While waiting in the city of San
Francisco for the completion of the
wool purchases. Mrs. Templeton had
severe attack of pOlykakia, or many
evils, consisting of headache, hypo-
neuralgia, malaria, nervous prostra-
ton and rheumatic govt combined. As
she lay upon her couch, in her India
silk wrapper. struggling to fortify her
nerves by frequent internal coddlings
against the coast breezes of the mis-
named Pacific" her husband entered
the room, and took seat by the open
fire, with his back to his wife.
'.Oh, John" groaned the voice of
Maria from the muffled depths of the
pillows, eff you only knew how was
suffering from this wretched Pacific air,