Little Falls weekly transcript., 1894-08-31
VERY TRYING.
The q Unfortunate Position of Two Patients
In Doctors Office.

The Unfortunate Position of Two Patients
Ia q Doctors Office.
l. There is a doctor in neighboring city
who makes y speciality of diseases of the
nose and throat He is skillful and sue
cessful practitioner and has made great
reputation for himself. One morning, not
SO very long ago, a young man went to
see him. The specialist asked him few
questions, peered down his throat and
then took a towel ard wet it under tap
He handed the towel to the young man
and said: Put that towel over your nos
trils and mouth and go into this room in
the rear of my office. Breathe through it
until l tell you to come out. Do not, in
any circumstance, remove the towel until
I call you into this office.''
The young man did as he was bid He
walked into the rear room, which was
small, dingy place Uttered with instru-
mcnts and books and containing two easy
chairs. AS he went in he looked at his
watch. 1t was 1880 o'clock. He placed
the wet towel over his nostrils and mouth
and sat down in one of the chairs. He
had not been there longer than Is min
utes when the door opened and the rather
pretty young woman whom he had OBJ
served in the waiting room came in. She
carried a wet towel in her 2and, and she
carefully placed it over her nostrils and
mouth and sat down in the other chair.
j. They sat there for half an hour longer
Then the girl thought of something. She
held up her hands and slowly and labori-
ously spelled out with her fingers, DO
you understand the sign language?" The
young man nodded his head vigorously.
Then she spelled out, ''What on earth
Otyoc I'm,
young mans fingers told her that he didn't
know. II don't dare go away or go out
there" she spelled, ''for he's awful cross,
and he's SO high priced and knows so much
that want to get all the good can from
him this visit - ''same here, 'spelled the
young man.
By this time it was O'Clock. They
moved their chairs together, still keeping
the now dry towels over their mouths and
nostrils and talked with their fingers for
another hour. At o'clock the imprison-
ment became little less than torture. They
could not walk around, for if they did the
towels would drop off, and that would
never do. They did not want to 60 out
into the doctors office, for they did not
know but the doctor might have an ex-
cellent object in keeping them there. They
endured another hour. When the young
man looked at his watch for the three
hundred and thirty seventh time, he found
it was 5 o'clock. During that hour, from
to 5, he had been growing very restless.
He was hungry. At O'Clock he tore off
the towel and said vigorously: IN not
stay here another minute for all the throat
doctors in the world. This is a blank
blank outrage" The young woman pulled
her towel down and said, ''Oh, I'm ever so
much obliged to you for that!''
Then together, carrying the towels, they
went out to the other office. Itwas empty.
They went into the waiting room. There
was no one there. They walked out the
fronttdoo and down the step. They saw
no one. Half a block down the street they
met the doctor ambling ;.long with a big
cigar in his mouth and a lock of serene
contentment on his face .Here!:' shouted
the young man to. him as the three met.
What III the name of the larynx Of the
great jess do you mean by keeping US in
that room so long,. s 5|
The look Of contcntlaent on the doctors
face gave place to a startled expression.
} - Why = ke said confusedly, upon my
soul, forgot ali about you. - But ffalo
Express.
Immediate. {5xs.
She came and stood beside his chair. 81.
Papa, : her sweet voice faltered, t:he.
has asked me to be his wife. =
The old man started. D
: And, papa - -
The girlish head dropped.
We want to be married at once. =
He Wept. .
Ny child, he exclaimed, lit is not
IN my heart to stand in the way Of your
happiness. Tell your ma TO lay out my
dress suit while raise a minister by tele-
phone. Detroit & Tribune
IN tho Atmosphere.
CT And father has forbidden you the.
house?'' she said.
- Yes" he replied. This is the last
time can see YOU
Harold! You must go and see him. 2
.. s It, s no l1se The last time I met him