The Logan County banner. [volume] (Logan, W. Va.) 1889-1903, 1889-05-09

II TOOK Tie LIBERTY OF CALLING On
u. Y r-
DIR, Gaudier liked him.. The young
man had unwittingly touched his ten
derest vanity when he asked for adj
vice, and the old doctor counseled him
to stay in Atwater and promised to
help him.
Very often that summer the young
man, at the old DOCTORS solicitation,
called and spent afternoons or even
ings with DR.. Gaudier and his beauti-
full daughter, who had been her faith
cr's only companion since the death OF
her mother year before. Acquaint-
ance between the cid and the new doc
tors ripened into friendship and ru-
NOR had it that the relations between
the young man and the charming Miss
Galldier were even more interesting
than friendship However. rumor' is
always making love for persons who
never have spoken OF it themselves.
The fact was DR.. Gaudier claimed most
of his young friends time during these
calls. DR.. Atkins was fresh from his
books and profoundly inter ested in his
profession, and DR.. Gaudier soon came
to see. that he himself, with all his
practice and all his reputation, was
much less learned in the science Of
medicine than his protege, In his
heart he respected The young man
above himself, for he could not put
feel that the position he had won had
not really been earned.
"Still," he reasoned, eff | had not
played upon people a little / should
have been as poor now as Twas when
Ibegan,0 and this made amends to his
conscience til IL did not 1essen=his
respect for the young man who had
chosen the more straightforward
course.
One day as they sat together dis
4cussing the various phases of their
profession. Dir. Gaudier resolved to let
his young friend into secret which
thus far he had shared with nobody
the secret of his own success.
Frank said he. do you wish to
make money out of your professionPn
There is nothing that need more
than money, and my profession is my
only means of earning it.
Then, said the old doctor, quit
=studying~books and go to- studying
peepler@Yon4 already knoM-enolfgh- of
anatomy and the functions of drugs to
furnish forth dozen doctors for sue
cessful practice. You need to study
the vanities OF people, that is all.
Never mind the physical weaknesses
the neutral weaknesses are what you
need to know. | tell you, Frank, sue
cess is a trick.
Young Atkins was shocked and
panied. What Dir. Gaudier had said
expressed no new thought to him. He
had heard it from nearly all his college
instructors in one way or another and
he fully understood the theory of cur
ing with bread pills such persons as
are NOT ill-complaintless compiainers.
he called them-but his determination
had been to tell all such patients that
they did not need physician.
''If Lean not practice medicine with
out cheating and lying to my patients"
he had said to his classmates. II will
try my hand at saving wood. ] have
set out to be aphysician, not auquack. :"
The old doctor was so much inter-
sested asin#startings his young friend
on the easy road to success that he did
not notice the expression of regret this
unsettling of his confidence had
brought to his face.
.'My success, continued DIR. Gau-
der, dates from trick played on
one of the fashionable women OF this
place, when l, like yourself was a
poor young man trying to establish a
practice She had tried most of the
older doctors and at last sent for me.
From DR.. HARDWOOD learned that she
was vain, -fribbling woman who had
more money than brains, and probably
more ease than disease. When / Wis
tied her found her dressed in an ele-
giant wrapper a.a sitting in large
cushioned chair. As she told over her
symptoms l noti,.,d she bore heavily
upon the fact that her feet were al
ways cold, and, since she seemed to
think the trouble lay where it most
proclaimed itself, had just. sense
enough to agree with her. There is a
certain class OF conceited persons, you
know, who deem you wise only when
you agree with them. So examined
one of her feet very carefully. and"-
here the old doctor leaned back, and
, laughed heartily told her the
trouble was that her feet were so small
they could not contain blood enough to
keep them warm"
"And she believed that nonsensep''
asked the young man in a tone of scorn
which the old, doctor mistook for an
expression of his contempt for the
foolish woman.
Believe it! Ishould say she did; and
it pleased her beyond expression.
Why, bless you, from that moment
those cold feet were a boon to her. The
colder they were the more she AID
mired them, and the more she adver-
tised me among her wealthy associ-
ates. The vanity Of that woman re-
garding the size Of her feet male a
fortune for me-
Dr. Gaudier told many OF this kind
Of recollections that day. and when
young Atkins left him he had much
poorer opinion Of his adviser than. he
had had before. After that his visits
we're fewer and finally ceused alto