The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-04-15
OUR SICK Bah.
The Sprightly Writer Longs for the
Delights Of Outdoor Life.

The Considerate Doctor-The Chill
That Never Gets Warm, and the
Fever That Never Gets Cold-In-
dulging in the Luxury of Moaning.
Bah Gives Some Practical Sick-room
Points.
New York, April 14.-Did you ever have
the chills2 Did you ever feel yourself as
cold as a block of ice, while every nerve
in your body was dancing and your teeth
were chattering and making noise de-
citedly suggestive of the bells on a FOOLS
cap2 Did you ever know what it was to
have hot water bags put on you, to be
mufied up in blankets, to have every fur
cloak in the house piled on you and then
10 feel as if you were freezing2 To
follow this up, did you ever have the
fever that comes after the chill,
that burns your eyes and lips. that
makes you feel as if you were
having a foretaste of your fu-
tllre, and that causes you to wonder
which, after all, is the worst-the chill
that never gets warm Or the fever that
never gets cold. That is the sort of thing
that have been undergoing. OF course,
there nave UG5u times III D6GWe6Q W0e0
neither the cold nor the heat have con-
trolled me, and during that time I have
been wondering what we were all made
for: why people ever have to be sick, and
TO feel as if | would like to get down on
nv knees and thank the man who dis
covered quinine.
You can't be cheerful and have the chills
they are not compatible. They seem to
knock the cheerfulness even out of ones
Daop1a in, init a
termination to make you feel happier, and
then Immediately contrast the pillow and
your face, and, looking at you, say:
'MY GOODNESS, HOW WHITE YOU AREn'
This is such an irritating fact that you
open your eyes as wide as you can, stare
at your so-called friend, and if you have
strength enough, ask if she expected to
find you black. She looks at you sorrow
fully. concludes that you are near death,
that this is a form of mania, and from
that time on she speaks in a low voice as
if there were corpse in the room. She
tells you of all the people she has ever
known who died young; of how the chills
invariably run into something else; Of
the folly of having the sort of doctor you
do, and she ends up by kissing
you good-by, and saying in a per-
tectly doleful tone she hopes she
will have another opportunity to speak
to YOU. Now, will you please tell me
why that sort Of a woman is allowed to
come 10 see anybody who is not quite
well Any jury would proclaim an in
valid not guilty if she shot woman like
that. Her only safeguard, so far as l
am concerned, has been, that, first,
did not have a pistol; second, I would
not know how to use one if | did have it,
and thirdly that | am hoping that [ may
revenge myself in a different way; i. e.,
when she is sick I will go and condole
with her
Next in beastiality to this woman is
the one who comes with the intention of
cheering you up. You have shaken with
chlAs, you have burned with the fever,
and you are so weak that if the house
caught on fire you would just lie and be
burned with the rest OF the rubbish But
THIS woman refuses TO recognize YOU as an
invalid. She says she never saw YOU
looking better in your life. She an
nounces That you are getting fat, that you
have got good color, and, in what she
means 10 be playful way, she tells YOU
that you are only lazy, not really sick,
ana mat 1t Is quite time you got up and
took good, long walk That is when
you wish the fool killer was around. and
you wonder what in the world YOU have
oeen so Ill for If you haven't something to
show for 1t. You do not want to be told
mat you look like ghost, neither do YOU
want people to say you are lazy. and that
Is what the would-be cheerful visitor in
variably does
COMMON SENSE IN SICK ROOMS.
me right kind Of woman to visit you
"nen you are Ill is the one who lets the
SUBJECT Of your illness entirely alone. I'M
less She permits you to do little moan
nag on your own private account; who
StuS you what IS going on in the world;
VINO makes YOU understand that you are
m.sSeG who brings you CHEEKY books, a
mower or something strange to eat.
Hhen came into this world it was
eetted oy the fairies that good health
should not be one of the gifts a my chris
lenIhg, SO have had the doubtful pleas
olG OF receiving ali sorts of coincidence.
ana making the acquaintance of all sorts
VI tonuolng friends and doctors. Once
was attended by doctor who believed
siay the calling of spade spade, even
III Iue case of illness, was quite unneces- /
at1' ana SO modest that it took me three
PuaflefS OF a day TO think out how |
1ooa tell him where my pains were
"i.HOut causing him TO blush. and later
Oh now | could ask him whether, when l
rVO up ought TO wear one OF two petit
coats lie viewed me at a distance, felt
NY purse IN the most delicate manner a
4@Fu on, and referred to the place where
H"u mad the rheumatism as nv lower
IULoS. Livery time he said that | con
CId3ulcted him and called them 'legs;'
anu Ihen he would raise one hand in the
"1r as II he thought / were out of my
nTnSeS' gave an apolOgetic cough, look at
ny mother and say, Don't mind her,
lD"odn, JUS the result of the fever How
W. uo you suppose that man ended! In she
"aS l always knew he would He ran
away with another mans wife"
TYPES OF DOCTORS.
=. Another time I had doctor who said
~ ~. oeheFed in the appreciation of pain.
ti1 thought 1t was good for women, and
nv, .e useu TO let me howl with the rheuma-
g H9ni' groan with rains in my lung, and be
a.'oSeJher miserable rather than give me
IL, dntSthetic. Personally, / don't be-
I've ~, ne knew anything at all about them.
e eIT was very fond of saying that he was
2s educated. At last the family met
i KIN III q cody and told him that | would
!; 80 .1 TO nave one quiet night got it, but
a SgeLeu likely at one time to have been
ni5hJ that would have lasted forever.
s rl 9e gave me an overdose of laudanum,
~ .o II III had not been for the energy of
r1I v iiamlly in banging me around and
ring not coffee down me, should not
ltIing my experience, but should be
tt,u1lea among the people who are en-
'lfey forgotten.
vt a. GOOD doctor is great blessing, and |
"Aeu l saw n pO0d dpofor I Ynaar a man