The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1894-01-27

uOCVOI, WIFI Ouc VI HIS uOSb ouuohiuy
smiles. The cat left the window and
stretched herself out in front of him.
The young man hesitatcd in answer
ing this question, but as the doctor
pressed him he finally admitted the
cause.
II can't help thinking about myself"
said he. "When 20 among people
am pursued by thoughts of my own |
awlswardness and stupidity and am
kcenly sensitive to every little slight |
This shuts my mouth and makes me
doubly uninteresting, and naturally
people don't enjoy me; and then come
home and brood over 1t, and it really
seems as if every ybody were laughing
at me, and get as blue as indigo"
"Yes, you're right" said the doctor;
''it's an aggravated case of morbid self
ccnteredness; but II you take this
Golden Remedy every time you get to
thinking about yourself, and take large
doses of 1t when you are in company,
you'll be cured as sure as fate"
The young man looked incredulous
as he took his little gilt box and his
departure. and went his way.
"Oh, doctor!'' said the next, poor
that the black cat again retired to the
sofa. "1'm SO blue! When get through
my work and sit alone in my little
room evenings, feel SO lonely I'd most
like to kill myself haven't a rela-
tion or a friend in all the town, and it's
something dreadful to have no one to
welcome you home-nobody to tell
things to, nobody to say good night or
morning to you. Why, sometimes !
kiss my own arm, feel so desperately
lopelvr and she burst into tears.
"Poor thing! poor thingv' said the
doctor, in cheerful voice. as If he
were saying: "Fine day! fine day! Wen
fix you up. Now. my dear, just follow
the directions in this little gilt box
whenever you begin to feel lonely; and
take q specially large dose in the even
ing when you come home from work. {"
The young girl smiled feeble little
smile as she thanked him for the box
and left the room.
"What in the world is the matter
with your inquired the doctor of his
next patient, an elegantly -attired
well-to-do and about as intellectual as
a well-fed, well-curried horse.
I'm bored to DEATH" drawled the
young fellow. 81 was so bored with
balls and parties and racing and cards
and shooting and theaters and every
thing else in that line, it was positively
relief to wake up one morning and
find had the blues; for it was a new
sensation. But I've had them SO long
now, I'm bored with them, too, and
I've come here to get cured"
WELL" said the doctor, looking al
him through his magnifying-glass till
the young man actually blushed, you'll
find my remedy so hard to follow II
will be like drawing teeth; but I car
assure you it will be new sensation.
| and if you stick to it it will cure ever
) you.''
''I'll take it at any price!" said this
afflicted representative of boredom.
| mo price," said the doctor, "except
secrecy. The remedy does no good i
/ anyone else learns that you are trying
it for such purpose"
The young man signed the bond, ant
departed with more animated expires
> sion on his blase countenance, and ,
l small gilt box in his pocket.
, The next arrival was an invalid in ,
, rolling chair. Her pale face beamet
with pleasure.
3 "Oh, no! So you're back! Remed,
: don't work?" said the doctor, knowing
: better.
! II should think it did work, she an
! swered, gravely. ''You know how
long the days were as I lay in my bes
or sat in this chair knowing coult
never take step. and brooding owe
: every ache and pain. Well, now tn
!, days are not half long enough to do Ell
, want The remedy has given me s,
: much to do, and made life entirely dif
y ferent to me. How can / thank you
. doctor?'
'.Pshaw, child" said the good man
don't thank me. It's the remedy
Keep it up; just keep it up"
Next came very intellectual-loolSin
young woman, who had obtained de
gree from university. She complaine
: that through all the studying to whic
she devoted her life for the cultivation
of her mind, there ran an underton
Of melancholy which, whenever sh
: stopped work, eliminated in an attac
of the blues.
AS usual. the doctor dispatched he
with his universal prescription, an
. also the other half dozen patients VIII
: called that afternoon. One was ma
9 made miserable by his own selfis
jealousy of any attention paid his wife
Another got the blues because she wa
. SO discontented with her humdrun
9 monotonous life, being kept at HON
by All invalid sister when she wante
! to study music in Germany.
81 So they came, rich and poor, youn
2 and old, no class in society seeming ,
8 be exempt from this miserable ailmen
and each departed thankful for tn
J Great Golden Remedy.
At last the clock struck six, and tn
;, doctor closed his office door and settle
q himself comfortably by the FIRE. TT
> black cat jumped up in his lap. and I'll
. doctor took one Of the mysterious Ii
o tie boxes from the table. AS he, in q
% absent-minded way, removed the cove
- little paper huttered out Not pi
= nor powder was to be seen, and IL
x Great Golden Remedy consisted only
=, the little paper, on which were printe
- in golden letters these words:
WHENEVER YOU ARE FEELING BL UE,
- SOMETHING FOR SOME ONE ELSE GO DO
"How silly beople arei" said the do