The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-09-23

spired. You have to say the very best
things you can for the physicians they
employ This is big world and hard
world, and it is always best to say all the
good you can about every one.
People are apt to ask your advice. too,
about which you consider the best, the
regular or the homeopathic school of
medicine, but although they ask the ques-
tion they are very likely to feel terribly ag-
grieved if you say anything against either
school.
Every one, of course, thinks a Doctors
wife understands all kinds of treatment.
Then there is that dreadful MRS. Doc
tor, " said this particular one, smiling an
aggrieved smile herself this time
"How many times hear that People
do not seem to realize that you got the
Mrs alone and not by degrees, bnt by
lust a few words The certificate one
gets at that time has nothing to do with
degrees or Mrs. Doctor"
81 suppose it is because of Mrs. Doctor
that there is hardly anything / shave not
been asked to do when the doctor was
out, from setting a broken arm to pulling
a tooth. And the people will see why /
cannot do it.
zone man wanted prescription. He
said he knew exactly how the signs
looked on paper if / would only make
them. The druggist would give him the
medicine without the paper. Another
man could give an exact description of
the bottle some medicine was taken from
if l would only get it for hiul1ifsU gdi
when there was such time about
vaccination / had quite an experience
with a woman and her little family She
was a woman Of the poorer class, and she
had dressed the children in their clean
pinafores 10 visit the doctor
g. cid l.. No. yftf aa \
vised her to go somewhere else. but she
absolutely refused. She insisted that |
should vaccine the children / told her
! had not the vacinnate points, would not
know what to do with themif had. and
would never think of vacinating even my
own children.
"She was positively abusive before we
finished talking But she would not go
away anyhow, and so / settled the child
dren on the Office floor with picture books,
gave them some candy, and left them to
be amused as best they could.
Then the life in house behind a brass
sign seems to me different from other
lives. There you are ticketed When
you stand in the window you are not a
private woman in private house. You
are Mrs. DIR. So-and-So to every one who
happens TO look your way.
"You are never sure OF an evening. and
long past calling time, and the doctor
won't come after all To be a Doctors
wife means 10 go TO dinner parties alone.
with your escort arriving perhaps with
the second or third course. IL ia a dull
life, with the doctors wife spreading her
self like thin varnish over it all. Then.
and it is not the least Of all, the DOCTORS
wife has 10 look after the family carving.
There is very little of the Doctors real
work that have helped him with Once
in a while have helped him give chloro-
form.
zone Of the hardest times ever had
was when a little fellow near here fell on
a picket fence and received an ugly cash
on his arm. He would not go home, for
he said his father was out OF town and
his mother would be frightened He was
a brave little fellow. He insisted that he
would wait for the doctor, and would not
go anywhere else or have another doctor
called. / sat there and told him funny
stories for an hour and ten minutes, his
arm held up IN the most comfortable posi-.
tiOn possible and half dozen boys keep
ing him company
Il held his arm when the doctor put CO.
caine on IL and took the necessary stitches.
but the carpet seemed 10 be coming up
nearer and nearer under my ewes. liz
seemed 10 have Just reached them when
left the room, but ] sat down for a few
minutes and all was right again
"A good deal Of charitable work comes