The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1894-10-16

| Wealth Insurance association in New
| York, and quite number of extremely
| personal questions were asked by a hand
somely dressed physician, who only par
TALLY concealed his scorn when he no.
ticed that at the elbow Of my red medi-
Gated fannels September twilight on
the French Broad river had been worked
with lemon colored Germantown wool
He asked if pimples had ever shown
themselves on my grandfather's side. 1
said no. which was true, although I
was careful not to say that he had ris-
ing once at the base of the clavicle. /
considered that fair, as / WAS there to
answer questions and not to volunteer
Information.
Drawing me out still further, he chat
ted on about hay fever, asthma, rose
fever, roseola, dandelion fever, golden
rod asthma, shortness of breath during
the haying season and nausea in the
harvest field, with feeling of revulsion
at the thought of work. passed, with
some difficulty, on these questions.
did hernia ever break out in your
family, and, if SO, how far back"
This was the next question, and COM
ing, as it did, from a man whom did
not know from Adams of OK, as the
saying goes, 1 flushed up to the roots Of
my hair and told him that my GRANDPA
Their while trying to move barn had
incurred hernia, but as to how far back
1t was l regarded that as nobody's bust
ness, and would shrink from saying so
even to a well dressed man in New
York city.
l remember that he smiled cold,
hard, tutti frutti ice cream smile and
asked me to remove the rest of my
clothing, as it would be necessary to
percuss my chest
He also gave me little ausculation
to see If the swallows had been nesting
in my broncho tubes, as L understood
him. He asked me some more things
about my parents. They would have en-
joyed it if they had known what an in
terest New York people took in them.
Perhaps we will all take a week off
some time and drive in. We never
thought that people in New York felt
tnat way uOWHu Us.
Then the man betrayed some anxiety
regarding insanity, calculus, suicide,
shingles, ringing in the ears. acidity of
the stomach, thrush, st. Vitus' dance
and other social features in our home
life. / told him that there had not been
any maniacs in our family lately, but
cranks had married into the family from
time to time in spite of all we could do.
''Are you habitual drunkard, or
have you ever been such:'
This question answered in a guard
ed way, yet truthfully. Once l was in
vited TO visit neighbor about IL years
ago to try some doughnutS and cider
made on the place.
/ now look back upon that evening
with shame and sorrow.
Little did / dream then that / would
have 70 say anything about II In after
years in order to get my life insured
The cider was made OF Siberian crab
apples and placed IN a brandy cask
which was not thoroughly renovated
Some two or chree quarts of the brandy
had been allowed 10 remain in II, and
then the weather turned in to be cold. /
freezing the cider solid, leaving in the |
center a dose OF distilled spirits Of a Pc /
culiarly restless and felOnious nature. | 4
remember driving home III the crisp T.
frosty moonlight, but l did not unhar- /
ness the horses until the following day. 1
I had no hostler at that time and used /
10 do great deal Of stable work in or 4
der TO keep well and strong. Ny ply 4
stefan advised me to do i, and 50 did 4
my banker.
In the morning the horses looked IS .
me reproschfully while trying 70 eat 1
part Of a partition that had been built /
between them. This was difficult, Is
pecially with curb bits IN their mouths
The following day special provi-
dence brought on merciful snowstOrm,
which wiped out the tracks / made On
that memorable night.
II was the frst time had ever been
. habitual drunkard. and was so-Ty
for IL But | have never been IN the
habit Of passing nv time ~ gI!ded
hell playing cards and gambling Or
drinking
OF course have been great social
iavoTire. and that has naturally bIo1gnt
temptation with Il. and have BEEN re
peatesily az hoIored guest AZ the ban