The Sunday herald and weekly national intelligencer., 1890-07-06

have dress, coat, Shoes and hat easy to put on,
and there is no reason in the world why you
should stay cooped up like sick chicken.
My daily pleasure and duty was to visit my dog
in the butcher shop. The butcher was a mild
looking man with ferocious way of talking.
He was fathering three other gentlemen dogs
besides mine-another fox terrier. an Irish set
ter, and brindle pup. Life was evidently full
of joy for him, inasmuch as he was master of the
situation, and you had to plead with him for CO.
ing what you were paying him for. l had urged
him to feed the delight of my heart only on milk
and bread, but perfectly certain that that
dog lived on raw meat and became bloodthirsty
during the trip. Whenever / went to see him
there was sort of "Ha-ha-I-have-you now
base-villain" look in his eye-in fact, in both of
them-and once when the butcher had his knives
out all the dogs looked at the knives, and then
looked at me as if only the presence of the
butcher himself protected me. However, take
it for all in all, the butcher was civil man. and
he sent me an invitation to come down and see
the brindle pup when it was sea.sick. didn't
know dog could be sea-sick until this time. l
had always known they were human, but If you
could have seen the tiendsh expression of glee
on the faces of the other dogs who, quite we'll
themselves, watched their sick companion, you
would have agreed with me that they were very
close kin 20 mankind.
recommended sulphur and molasses for the
sick dog, but the butcher said, Let him have his
CO." and as he was well the next day, presume
he went.
TRIALS OF A sHIP-SURGEON.
There was one trial left for Job. He was not
made a ship-surgeon, so that he needn't be
counted the most patient man in the world.
First of ALL it is necessary that ship-surgeon
should be good-looking, next that he must be
gallant, next that he must be considerate, and,
most important of all, he must answer every
question he is asked. When you realize that
a a whether
stop the ship for hundred dollars down to
desire to know exactly how deep the water is
where they are, when he is asked his opinion of
every patent medicine, and expected to carry
the ugliest, crossest, and most undesirable old
maid up stairs, because she thinks nobody can
do it as we'll as he does, you can understand how
manifold are his duties and how untring he
needs to be in the good cause. Women lean on
him and believe in him as If he were father
confessor, and when they are various colors of
the rainbow, their bangs out of curl, and they
are as limp and squirmy fishing tackle, they
still expect the doctor to admire them and find q
certain amount of interest in listening to the
story of their pains and anguish. Unless were
paid salary bigger than that given to the Presi-
dent of the United States, and was only required
to attend to men, should decline to be ship
surgeon.
HOW SEA-SICKNEss AFFECTS LOVE.
There is n young man here who is a joy forever.
He is going over to get married. and he's going
to bring his bride back to America with him on
the next trip So far her experience on the sea
is limited to going up the Thames in steam
launch, and most of us spend our time in won
dering if he will love her when they reach New
York. People who are not sea-sick fall in love
with great facility on board ship, but people
who are fall out of it with greater quickness
than can ever be imagined. If 1 could only give
a suggestion to the bride. it would be this-For-
bid your husband seeing you until you are quite
we'll. When man is sea-sick he doesn't look as
badly as woman does. 1t is probably because
he is so crime hardened that nothing could affect
him, but sea-sck woman is enough to make