The Russellville Democrat. [volume] (Russellville, Ark.) 1875-1898, 1888-03-29

A LITTLE PALE FACED FAIRY.
| Waldron on the telephone and tell her had
a church matter of importanc to talk over
with her, but am too sick to come to see
her. And. Mary, if she can come over for a
few minutes, you can tell her about the
drops and she will bring them"
It's rather a long way round, it's femin-
inc, and Mrs Marsden turns on her pillow
TO wait results. Duly the doctor fits into
the room-all affection and regrets A
rare combination is she-bristling with
/ business on occasion, but womanly in
every particular; fond of her friend, she
/ is not blind to her weakness She finds her
patient uncommunicative. The matter?
Oh, one of those horrid, nervous headaches
SO unfortunate too | shall be fit for moth
ing tomorrow. Mabel had fall down
stairs and gave me quite q shock" The
doctor listens bordering her own plans
and purposes meanwhile, and continues
to softly stroke her friends head while
waiting for the explanation-th postscript
so to speak-of this communication In
time ii comes @Ahl yes, dear, I must tel
you; Beau has utterly ruined by bonnet;
but it does not matter so much since /
shall be quite unfit to attend church after
this nervous attack" what philosophical
balancing of ills! Did Newton speak more
calmly of the havoc made by dog Dia-
mondO sand do see that the flowers are
sprinkled at the close of the service, to
keep them fresh for evening"
Was the doctor deceived? Not a bit of it.
She puts heaven of sym pathy into a kiss
and her strolsing develops into a caress
For the patient the parpose of the doc
tors visit is achieved for the doctor the
visit has only just begun She came witha
mission more important than the mere COM
fortiug of a child with broken toy. She
must give her message casually. Thou art
the womani would be dramatic but dan
gerous She relates some of her profession
al experience. Tells how Mrs, Mcclure
ripped all the clothes from the child that
had fallen into commissions, and burned
them in the kitchen stove to break the
%spell that was on the darlint;" referring
the doctors demand for warm water and
bath, TO a jury of famliars who promptly
vetoed the use of so dangerous an element
%They evidently wanted whisky and a
wake, and they'll get it Tells that Mrs
Haskins, notorious hypo," has been
made whole by mind cure " 1t couldn't be
her own mind, my dear, because she HASN'T
any" ! am willing to give over that field
of medicine wherein the hypo" groweth
up like cookie burr, entirely to the mind
doctors, and my blessings with it
But l am afraid, in this case, its only
another turn OF the crank; and We may ex-
pect such an advocacy of mind cure In
season and out of season, as will prove
mind curse to some OF the rest of us -
And by the way, Jeanette, / must tell you
Of one OF the sweetest, saddest things.
Word was left at my office by young lady
that / should call at forty-four Breeds
nrfv ~
new locality for me, it is not two blocks
from your house, jeanette; that alley where
the lamp at the entrance has always q
broken pane of glass 1 found Breeds
COURT opine it breeds fevers.
A narrow court, with the windows on
each side close enough to permit the ex-
change OF family condolences between Mrs
Murphy and Mrs Flanagan, unpleasantly
close l should say in times when Murphy
is out wild Flanagan, " and regular guard
must be mounted to protect the clothes
pole, with its futtering, forked, scarlet
pennants / found fOrty-four at the end of
the court-the most decent-appearing
house in the row-climbed three flights OF
stairs my expectation of a new sensation
increasing ~ my breath decreased, and at
last tapped at the patients door, and was
invited in the sweetest little voice 10
n
small, round-shouldered room, so narrow
at the sides that a child could not stand
upright under the sloping roof A Barrow
window with an ivy on the sill, doing itS
sickly best to climb sunward, but seeming
not TO have successfully located the SUMS
position.
On the walls few placques and water
color sketches tunsod productions of an
unsuccessful artist, l noted mentally)
bright colored strip of carpet on the floor
where 1t could be most used, and In the
middle OF the room where the ceiling was
at its highest, a dainty white bed, and ly-
ing there in stated wanted to call her
Sweet Elaine and lily maid a little pale
faced fairy, with tumbled golden hair, and
eyes of pure violet with palpable under
deeps Such a little lady! You viii take
a chair You are the doctor, aren't your" she
said My dear, ! was Just and only woman,
so / slipped down on the bed and put my
arms round the little, lovely lonely thing,
forgetful OF patients, and of Bob, impa-
tent waiting at the corner with the bug
gy-A that nine O'Clock strflNingf Then /
must save the Test for another time What
viii Henry sayG l told him ! would be
back in half an hour at the outside Just
ike IL, " he'll say "when you only tust run
in 10 see Jeanette 1 may as Well 60 out or
go TO bed What do you women find TO
talk aboutgn
The doctor Is drawing on her gloveS
You viii be better, dc II, In the morning,
but don't try TO get y church tmuch-
needed advioel and leave the flowers TO
me Goodbye, and take the medicine in
she small tumhler till tho head is easier
The doctor is 40 the door Jeanette I've a
happy thought las II she had not planned
this denouement from the beglnningl
Why not run in GA my little patient in
the morning II you do feel equal 70 going
ont; then you can report 10 me in the after
noon when / come IN 20 tell you about the
morning service Goodbye I'm really
gone this time" And the doctor goes down
stairs with the satisfied feeling only known
70 successful diplomacy Tho hours pass
and with them Mrs Marsden's pains Yet
some tears are on her pillow, proving her
human kinsbip with the tired sewing.girl,
who softly cried herself 70 sleep and
wandered out into the twilight realm Of
dreams, leaving far behind her wraps, bon
nets and dis0ppolntments Mrs Marsden,
too, slept, and dreamed that a mournful
train bore Elaine tho lovablep all IN
white samite ROBBED aud laid her on the
steps az her own house door
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