The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-04-09

enunciating that which is clean, pure and
chaste as the icicles which hung In Dlanas
temples; her billowy breasts barred to the
world. warm and throbbing with sympathy
for its sorrow: Slowly she raises the God
like head, and a winning smile plays over
her lovely face; her lips, roseate and lus-
clous as rlpened cherries waiting 10 De
plucked, part, and in a voice tender and
persuasive, sweet as gentle Juliet speaklng
to her lover, there floats out upon the wings
OF the wind the words, Work while 1t Is
yet day for the night cometh when no man
Letters conveying regrets that the writer's
were unable to be present were received
from Hon. A. G.. Porter, Dr.. q. W.. ii.
kemper. of Muncie: DIR. James Whitaker.
of Cincinnati; DIR. A. NJ. Owen, OF Evans
Hon. Will Cumback. of Greensburg; DR..
Thad A. Reamy and others. The veneer
able DIR. n. S. Davis, of Chicago, the father
of the American Medical Association. sent
his special greeting. and DR.. +; :: Elder.
secretary of the Indiana State Medical So
clety, wrote of his inability to be present
that it vas the greatest social d~isappoint-
ment" of his life.
The toast, The Bench" was cleverly re-
sponded to by Judge L.. J. Hackney, of the
Shelby Circuit Court. He said: There is
a similarity in the positions of the physi-
clan and of the judge upon the bench In
responding to that demand OF duty TO rem
der judgment upon stated facts. While
decision with the one involves life and
death. n with the other 1T is generally
but a question of financial or property In
terest. and vastly the less important. At a
recent meeting of doctors at which some of
guest. but by some mishap dislocated his
engagement. He telegraphed his regrets
and closed by saying. May o continue to
take life with the ease you have IN the
4 past. 1t occasionally happens that a life
is taken by judicial process and possibly
the astute student of your profession may
find the slender thread of kinship between
that profession and the bench in the cruel
ease with which either may take life,"
DIR Geo. j. Cook, of Indianapolis, presi-
dent of the Mississippi Valley Medical
Association, responded briefly to the
toast, Western Medicine" He aptly
showed that the West had gone West and
no longer fingered about in Indiana. while
the next census would show that the center
of population had shifted and at the next
count would be found in HOOsier quarters,
probably not far from Shelbyville.
DIR. Green v. Wooden, of indianapolis.
stood up TO respond to THE Successful
Physician" which he did with becoming
sweetness and brevity: He was followed
by DR.. John Motfatt, of Rushville, who told
some quantity humorous stories of The
Country Doctor" and w. Scott Ray, who
responded to the toast ''The Press" in glow
ing periods pregnant with thoughts that
breathed and words that burned.
DR.. Joseph NJ. Matthews. of Louisville.
KY, spoke to the toast Our Wives" in a
richly sympathetic voice, his remarks being
a beautiful mingling of the humorous
and the tender as he described the wife of
the young doctor and her anxiety about
his first patient. and the dear old wife of
the aged physician. who, he declared,
would probably have to pull her busy hus-
band up to heaven by her apron-strings.
The last toast, "Armamentarium Medi-
corun" (the tools of the prOfession), was
cleverly responded to by Hon. w. III. Arm
strong, of Indianapolis, after which the
symposiarch rose, declared the symposium
ended. and shook hands with the depart
ing Quests.