The Springdale news., 1889-08-30

and understand our patients thor oughly very often before we can mako out their ailments, and then one finds the mischief, because. you see, we are expected to discover it"
 But suppose there really is noth- ing"
 "Nonsense' There elways Is. But even If there were not, we are equally ! bound to find it; for if you tell these | anxious people, I can discover noth- ing wrong, they will naturally put it down to your ignorance, and send for somebody else who has knowledge enough of human nature or sufficient sdpotr fatre not to be embarrassed with sn Small difficulty. Now, do you see my meaning?"
 Theoretically there is nothing, practically there is.
 You may put it 50, if so it please you, Bnt assured you that there is- and there is your vigilance and punctllious exactitude notwithstand- ing little convenient difference in resonance. The mamma heard the remark, as 1 intended her to do; she lad not the remotest idea what it meant-why should she have?-but she Is perfectly happy now that the cause of her darling's cough has been l discovered, because she thinks, the cause being known. the cure will fol. | low. The more unintelligible the eX- l planation, the more convinced is she of it's correctness One may remedy. you know, a difference in resonance; but how can you pretend to cure per, son whom you consistently declare to have nothing the matte: with her?" l began to understand.
 Now" continued this consummate reader Of soclcty's intelligence, Fl ad- init that this is not science"
 Nor what the schools and our academical training teach us, haz- arded l.
 Quite So, my dear fellow; but ac- cept for once the tuition of man who has not altogether failed in his pro- fession. What 1 have taken the ! trouble to demonstrate to you gratis is a good working rule smelling a little, perhaps, so to speaG, of the shop or of legal tape but if our patrons are satisfied, our patients made happy, our regulations ad- vanced, can we wisely permit so triy- ial a matter as departure from slavish adherence to what is miscalled prin- ciple to stand between us and success?'
 Well, /" admitted l, little sadly, 'perhaps you are right"
 "Of course I am, my dear young friend am a cynic, but I succeed. l have been, for instance, bescechcd to meet you here to-day. And now for treatment.
 A little delicate standardization was suggested and agreed on; then the fashionable physician stepped into his elegant turnout before the door of Mount Aureo, amid tho profuse thanks | of Mrs. Midas Contango, a hundred guineas richer for his half-hour E visit. As he shook hands with me on 1 throwing himself back among the cushions of his brougham, the famous expert smi.ingiy whispered: You are too modest, my ingenious young friend; you have already tho science of medicine at your fnger-ends; why not acquire the art also2 Adieu,
 One rarely takes part in d consulta- tion without learning something; hut ] never obtained such valuable practi- cal knowledge from any meeting with a brother professional as l dld in that l inglorious scene in the drawing room Of Mount Aureo, in which I was So sadly let down, for a time at least, in the estimation of Mrs. Midas and Miss Muriel Contango.
 Miss Muriel subsequently recovered her temporarily defective resonance sufficiently to gladden. the hearts ot her parents by making marriage -at their cost--into a noble house. I still have the pleasure of ranking her among my patients, but for no organic or other serious ailment; and l have 1t on excellent authority that her hus- band Viscount Barrcnlands, would be extremely glad at times when he has been inordinately eXtravagant with his uncarned increment, if Lady MurieIs vigor Of voice and physique were both little less robust -Cf ann bers' Journal.