Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1889-07-17
PHEBE'S PRESCRIPTION.

I 0GDG y I xhESChx1 1xONs
In Her Search for Health she
Found q Husband
81 always foresaw how il would turn
out" said Mra Mynton. ''You can bear
witness, girls, that / prophesied this from
the beginning. She isn't strong enough to
work In store. She's no sort Of use about
the house; and here she is sick on our
hands, and no telling how long it is going to
last, with every prospect Of Doctors bill,
and an account at the drug store, and Myn-
toms salary just cut down on account Of the
dull season coming on and business being
slack, and"-
'Hush, mammap' said Angelina Mynton,
lifting her finger with gesture which de-
noted caution. "She hears you."
It was true. The black mist was floating
away from Phebe Clissold's obscured vision |;
the words, which at first sounded like the
distant buzzing from q beehive, now
assumed form and distinctness.
81 am very sorry, Aunt Mynton," said
she. "I will try not to be a burden on you.
Indeed, ;" with a faint smile Pickering around
her white lips, 81 did not faint away on pur-
pose; but the store was so hot, and the ven
GtloblOtl % pOOC-lI L COulQ uaV0 b lew QIOpS
Of water to drink''-
Phebs Clissold had been left an orphan ct
nineteen. Her nearest relatives brother
Of her deceased mother-was bank CLERK
in New York, and to him she had naturally
directed her footsteps. He had succeeded
in obtaining for her a situation in great
fancy store; and In this, the first quarter,
she had ANONYMOUSLY broken down.
I 'Ehe can not endure long hours and
close confinement" said DIR. Fallzney. s'She
must have plenty Of exercise and fresh air.
This store business won't do"
"ExerciseW bitterly repeated Mrs. Myn.
ton, In whose heart years Of privation and
toll had well nigh soured the milk Of
human kindness. "But we don't keep Q
carriage and pair, DR.. Falkney, neither do
we have time to walk in the park Fresh
| airi We live in fat, and the bedrooms
are lighted by gas and ventilated through
the shaft, and things can't be helped, so far
| as can see."
DR.. Falkney shook his head.
"Slow poison" said he, 'for girl Of her
temperament"
fhebe, lying on the lounge in the adjoin-
! lnR room, and slowly knitting on pair oi
socks for the last Mynton baby, heard al
this. She put two and two together in hel
mind.
| ''They don't want me here" thought she
sadly. 81 am a useless boarder, and DR.
Falkney says am not to go back to the
store. The question is, what am TO do
Exercised Fresh airi Aunt MyntoA 1,
right; there seems to be no prospect Of my
attaining any such luxuries."
AS she lay there she watched Angslins
Mypton trying to trim her last season. 8 ha,
| with three yards Of crushed-strawberry
colored ribbon, and bunch Of yellow prirn
roses. Evidently, Angelina was No milliner
She twitched the ribbon this way and that
she pinned the primroses 6rst on enc side
then on another, and ended by Ninginl
down the bonnet with an exclamation oi
despair.
"aateful old thingi' she cried, 81 cam,
do any thing with it."
Phebe laid down her knitting needlea
"}ive 1t to me !" said she.
A few dextrous folds and turninRs Of thu
ribbons, Q dainty adjustment Of the much
abused primroses, and Phebe held up thu
bonnet to Angelina's admiring glance.
''How do you like it nowt' said she.
Angelina clasped her needle-prickei
fingers In admiration.
''Oh, it's lovelyr' cried she. '.It ISM
Phebea"
~ don't know" said Phebe. az alway.
used to trim my own hats and my mothers
like TO do It."
'tYou ought to be a milliner," said An
gelina- ''Only," with sudden recollection
"Dr. Falkney says you can't be shut up In
store, and milliner's trade Is about as con
6ning a. any there Is"
"Yes," assented Phebe, with sigh.
DR.. Falkney was Q quiet, brief -spokel
man Of forty, and q bachelor at that. 81
had practiced medicine in the same location
for ten years, and never felt that an,
element was lacking in his life until now
But on this brisk spring morning he ga
thoughtfully In his ONCE, looking at th
great skeleton that hung behind q baiz
curtain in the corner, and tapping his rule
; on the table.
''She has eyes like q startled deer,n b
said to himself. sand such a soft, swee
voiceI She doesn't chatter like those cousin
Of hers. She speaks In q slow, gentle way
that seems to rest ones hearing. And sh
is 30 utterly friendless and alone. Yes, n
marry her, If she win have me-"
When DR.. Falkney once made up hi
mind, he was not long in acting upon II
He went that self-same afternoon to Mrs
Myuton's and asked to see Miss Clissold.
ssLar' said Mrs.. Mynton, who sat at he
everlasting mending- basket 'Didn't 70
knowi She's gone AWAY"
"Gone1" Dr.. Falkney looked surprised
st0one wherep'
"Well, it's the queerest thing, said Mr.
IMynton. ave dent know. And I dom
fairly believe she knows herself She sal
she was going TO follow out your prescriT
ton, doctor.n
my prescriptionin
ssExercise and fresh air, you know. Sh
said shed be back at the end Of fel
weeks and let US know how 1t worked"
DR.. Falkney's jet-black brows contractec
ssAnd you let her 60 away like thisP' sal
ha. $50 young. so lovely and 40 incl
per1encedi Where were your maternal i
stincts. Mrs. Myntont''
Mrs. Mynton bridled . little.
II 81 don't see what maternal instincts hay
TO do with it, " said she. ssShe's no hin
me. Only Mynton's sisters child. Ar
I've got four girls of my own to look afte
And when all's come and gone, I've got I
authority over Phebe Clissold to stay .
stop herr
Yes, see, y said the doctor, with Q di
trrbed look. 81 dare say it is IS you 90
| But hope she win soon come home again
Rhebe had made up her mind Whist to q
"Fn bea travelling peddler," she tod he
SELF part Of my stock IN carry In n
brains. and part on my arm.
That day, just as Mrs. Perkins, 6 Flo
- Center. was acting her tahle for dinne