Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1889-03-30

II TOOK THE LIBERTY OF CALLING OS
YOU
Dr. 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 aud spent afternoons or even
ings with DR.. Gaudier and his beauti-
fuI daughter, who had been her faith
er's only companion since the death Of
her mother a year before, Acquaiut-
ance between the old and the new doc
tors ripened into friendship and ru-
NOR had il hat the relations between
the Young mar and the charming Miss
Gaudier We're even more interesting
than friendship, However, rumor i
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 interested in his
profession, and Dr., Gaudier soon came
to see that he himself, with all his
practice and all his reputation. wa,
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 but
feel that the position he had won had
not really been earned.
still" he reasoned, "if | had not
played upon people a little | should
have been as poor now as | was when
| began" and this made amends to hi.
conscience though it did not lessen hi,
respect for the young man who had
chosen the more straightforward
course.
One day as they sat together dis
cussing the various phases of their
r. 'Vfr9r'oi', ~. os"at-. ~~~el-gd 60 lot
his young friend into a secret which
thus far he had shared with nobody
the secret of his own success.
Drank said he, do you wish to
make money out of your professions"
There is nothing that | heed more
than money, and my profession is my
only means of earning it."
"Then,' said the old doctor, ''ouit
studying books and 20 TO studying
people. You already know enough OF
anatomy and the functions of drugs to
furnish forth "a 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 arr what 0
need to know. tell you, Frank, sue
cess is a trick
Young Atkins was shocked and
panied. What DR., Gaudier had said
expressed no new thought to him. He
had heard it from nearly all his college
instructors in n way or another and
he fully understood the theory of cur
ing with bread pills such persons as
are not ill-complaintless complainers,
he called them-but his determination
had been to tell all such patients that
they did not need a physician.
"lf a not practice medicine with
out cheating and lying to my patients, "
he had said to his classmates. II will
my hand at saving wood. have
set out to be a physician. not a auack.'
The old doctor was so much inter-
ested in starting his young friend
the easy road to success that he did
not notice the expression of regret this
lnsettling of his confidence had
brought to his face.
my success" continued DIR. Gau-
iier, dates from a trick | PLAYED on
one of the fashionable women Of this
when |, 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.
rom DR.. Harwood | learned that she
vas a vain. fribbling oma who had
more money than brains, and probably
more ease than disease. When Wis
ted her | found her dressed in an Gle.
CANT wrapper and sitting in "a large
cushioned chair. As she told over her
symptoms noticed she bore heavily
upon the fact that her feet were al.
ways cold, and, since she seemed IN
mink the trouble lay where il 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, andn-
here the old doctor leaned back and
heartily-"and told her the
trouble was that her feet were so small
hey could not contain blood enough to
Keep them warm"
And she believed that n~onsensepn
asked the young mar in a tone of scorn
which the old doctor mistook for an
expression of his contempt for the
woman.
believe it! should say she did; and
: pleased her beyond expression.
Why, bless you, from that moment
hose cold feet were a boon to her. The
'older they were the more she ad-
nired them, and the more she adver-
Used mt among her wealthy associ-
ties. The vanity Of that woman re.
the size OF her feet made a
for me-"
DR.. Gaudier told many Of this kind
u r~ecollections that day, and when
'oung Atkins left him he had a much
,oorer opinion OF his adviser than he
lad had before. After that his visits