Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1894-12-06


sign System Supplies across the front,
you will be able to purchase what you
want. 1t is the best place in the city.
They do not adulterate their COM
pounds.
Thanks said Harold "You are
the first one who has given me any prac-
teal information.
II hope, faltered Mary, THAT you
Will not think me unwomanly for men
tionlng these things"
Unwonanly! Why should l think
that?'
Most men object to having women
speak OF such things. They prefer to
have us think that they are too angelic
to require system supplies. -
"They must be like some women I
used to know replied Harold, with /.
laugh. Well, good night, Mary
/ Harold ran lightly Up the stone steps,
but before he had touched the bell he
was again detained by Mary. "Hal-
old. she said softly, did you interfere
in my behalf because you have decided
to love me 4 lttle::"
Don't be SO siHy'' exclaimed Far
old in disgust. 7 was just beginning to
think you quite q jolly girl. Why nlUst
you spoil it ;ll:'
- understand, replied Mary bit
terly. lyon have given your heart to
Lefty, but she Will never care for you
half as tenderiy as could. There is 10
tenderness ii her nature.
Harold had touched The bell, and
Mary had not finished speaking when
the door was opened, and Harold was
invited to walk into the doctors office.
On entering he was Disguised to find
that e. a. Coburn was a lady.
81 beg pardon he said, "bgt think
there must be so41o mistake. Ie-pected
to find "a man Doctor
"The1e are 20 men prectici1g neul-
cine IN this city" replied Il. \. Co.
burn. Indeed 10 BOT know OF but
Cnc man doctor il Tie world, Ind he is
q quaczz. lie could not be otherwise.
you know, for ho WAS allowed to attend
10 medical college OF any note
''Do you mean to say that women
prescribe tor menu
"Why not: When man is sick, he
wants the best medical assistance to he
obtained. hIen are not either mentally
or physically strong enough to become
doctors. Neither have they the requisite
patience. Worse yet, their love q money
would lead them 10 ply their profession
with other than humanitarian motives. .
Notwithstanding, replied Harold,
"a feeling OF delcacy leads ne TO pre-
fer a man. However, i there is 10 man
to be had, | suppose must yield to the
Inevitable as gracefully as may be-
Dr.. CoburD not only prescribed for
Harold, but administered some Ct the
food which She thoilght his system t;e~
n:anGad most urgently, and w.lel be left
the otIice he felt that life Was lauch bet
ter worth living. lie hat! at last found
one change in the twentieth century
which met with has hearty approval
Or. Coburn refused 20 tazo the fee he
offered, saying tA&t it woGll be con
eiderod q bribe and that the >lary paid
by government wa5 quite resauncraciv3
enough TO meet her needs.
When Harold reached MS own door,
be CHANGED to glance back just in time
TO see two figures, one on either side OF
the street, disappearing into the shaG
ows. He at once surin;sed that hc had
been followed hy Mary, who III turn
had been followed ny Lefty.
CHAPTER VI.
Several weeks had paeaed since Far
old S proposition to meet Lefty ia the
park had been made and accepted, and
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deeply interested in each other. In fact,
the time had conc when each felt that
matters might rs well 10 settled be-
; tween them at once, and one fine morn
| ing each started for the park with the
firm determination to make a proposal
Of marriage that very day. Both were
strangely excited, for neither fUlt sure Of
the sentiments of the other. They had
succeeded very we'll in ignoring customs
and conventionalities, and their rela-
tionship during these weeks had been
much like that which might exist be-
tween two men or two women who ui,-
derstood each other, and who were
thrown together in q strange land where
no one understood them.
It was like that, with one little ex-
ception the difference in the infiu-
ence which love exert5 on two whom
nature intended for companions. In
deed conventionalit;e had been so en-
tirely forgotten that neither Harold nor
Lefty thought that the other might
claim the right Of proposal, but each
! acted according to the promptings of
| the heart. It was not until they at
tempted to put their thoughts into words
| that conventional difficulties arose to
make trouble between them.
My darling" began Harold as soon
as he caught sight OF Lefty.
Little sweetheart rapturously ex-
claimed Lefty at the same moment.
Each heard the other.
When you remember that it was not