The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1888-06-14
Sending for the Doctor,

/ L nave eSIaDllS0eu lulC never 10 70
to see a patient at night unless l feel
| fully satisfied that the case requires inn
| mediate attention, said q well-knCwn
| physician. Many doctors would gladly
| adopt the above decision. but they hes-
| itate for various reasons. Some are just
starting out in life. others find the build
ing up of lucrative practice such slow
work, that an assumption of independ-
ence on their part, is not to be thought
of 1t is only by hard work and many
sacrifices that a physician can ever
hope to have his claim toindependence
recognized.
Many people are constantly inviting
disease-fOr instance, a supper Of fried
oysters, hot biscuit, rich cake and
strong tea or coffee will, in nine cases
out Of ten, ruin the strongest digestion,
. and the individual who is in the habit
of gorging himself with highly season
ed food, late in the day, will probably
spend great portion Of his life regret
ting that he did not heed the warn
inc when his stomach cried Hold!
Enough!'
Fancy a tired. worn out physician
plOdding through a binding snow
storm, or drilling rain at midnight TO
attend an individual who, doubled up
with cramp and parched with fever,
imagines that he will surely die.
The doctor places his hand upon the
patients wrist, examines his tongue,
then, with an expression of disgust
| upon his countenance, which he cannot
| conceal, prescribes Il dose of oil, order
a warm bath and, rest.
Il would advise YOU to eat very little
rich, heavy food. If you keep on abus-
ing your stomach in this way, | will
not answer for the consequences" says
the doctor in tone of annoyance.
The patient, with lamb-like dOcilitY,
promises immediate reform, and while
his body is racked with pain and his
| throat parchcd with fever, he vows to
live on oatmeal, dry toast and ''cam-
| brio" tea henceforth and forever. Re
cOvery from the ''spell'' usually rem
deIs the individual entirely oblivious to
good resolutions and ere long he is
again called upon to pay the penalty
| OF indiscretiOn.
AS the doctor tramps or drives home
ward through the storm, we cannot
blame him for lapsing into a state Of
mind similar to that of the druggist,
| who was aroused on a cold winter
morning by a man who Wantod to buy
a-PoStagc stanp.-Good Housekeeping.
SERVANTS IN GERMAN FAMILIEs.-I
! Germany il makes no difference to Il
nObieman whether you own a shop or are
merely employed in one. In both cases
You work and that is sufficient. The Ell
| feet of this is that the German shOpkeep
/ er and man of middle class does not
| keep bis clerks and servants at half the
! distance that his American confrere
! does. An American hOusekeeper lives
! in q fine hOuse and walks about his TEN
! porium of fashion" as naughty % q ear.
/ If his wife or daughter honor the place
| at al it IS when they want new dress
or check from from papa. 10 France
! or Germany the same class OF shopkeep-
| er lives IN the room over his shop, and
! in all probability has his wife keep his
! books and his daughter wait on the
! counter. At uigLt, when the house is
! put TO rights, the house-maid will come
into the family sitting room, and while
! knitting listen to her employer read his
| papers or chat with the family. Sue is
not kept i'll a back room in the attic nor
! thrown entirely on her own resources for
amusement.
Hence the Germans ard French do
not experience that difficulty in securing
capable domestic help which most
American house wives too often encount-
CT. They bring their customs, more or
| less, to this country; and in American
cities the first to get good house servants
and the last to lose them are not Ameri-
can but the German aud French famil-
! les. Time was, in New England at any
rate, when hOuse girls were not called
servants and were not treated as machin-
es out Of which was 10 be gotten all the
work possible. They used to say help
in New England, aud when the ''help'
had finished her duties she not seldom
rolled down her sleeves and took her
seat at the table along with the family.
That custom is no longer in vogue, ex-
cept perhaps now and then il the country
or in very small towns, and as a result it
IS now as hard in any other part of the
country.-COr. Washington Post.