Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1894-04-19

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Never Gets Cold--iuduisius in ,h.
Luxury Of NoaHtug--some Practical
sIek-room Points.
| sPeeialce-respoaden ee Of Gazette and JoaruA
New YoEg April l3.-Dil YOU eyei
/ have the cai.!sE Did you ever fee.
yourself IS c1.d as block 81 ice while
every nerve 10 your bofy was dEnciuz
and your teeia were chaiteting an4
making . noise decidedly suggestive 81
the bells on i4Jl'z CAP: Did you eve:
know what il vas 10 have 10. wa,s.
bags pat on sou, 10 BE- mu;iled up L.
blankets. 10 have every fur cloak 10 tic
house piled on you and then to feel as 4!
you were freezing To follow this NJ.
Dbl you ever nave tie fever that comes
after tn. chill, iA4t bGTLs your eyes al. q
lips, that MAKES you feel Is If Won
were having foretasie Of your future.
and mat causes you - wonder which
after all, Is the wUfst-the chill tia.
never gets wgrlt OF tire fever thai neyer
gets cold. Tia. is the sort of thing Il Z.
have been undergoing. Of course.
there have been times in between whea
neither the cold nor the heat have con.
tTo.led mo, and during that time haze
been wondering what we were all made
for; why Jp.e ever have 10 be sick.
and to feel AZ If | would like to gel
down On my knees and thank the man
WAC discovered quiliGe.
You can't be cheerful and have tht
chI..s they arc not compatible. They
seem 70 knock the Cheerful, ness even out
OF ones visitors. People come in with
eTtg aeie. imitation 10 make YOU feel
happier, and tLen Immediately contrast
tie pillow and your face, and, looking
a you, say ...
NY GoOD%Ess, now WHITE you ARE :"
THIS is srch an irritating fact that
you open your eyes a side as YOU car
stare at your su.ca,leI FRIEND aud II you
have strength enough,as.. il sne expected
to md you black. She looks al YOU
sotEowiully, concludes that you are near
death, that this is q form Of mania. and
from that time on she SPEAKS in a low
voice, as ii there we're a corpse in the
room. She tells you Of all the people
she has ever known who died young; Of
how the caills invariably run into some
thing else Of the folly Of having ths
sort Of doctor you do, and she ends uD
by kissing you good bye, and saying Il.
a perfectly dolciul tone that she hopc.
she WI! have another opportunity 10
speak TO you. Now, will you please tel
me why that sort Of a woman is allowed
to come 70 see anybody who is not quite
wellE Any jury would proclaim an ia.
valid not guilty If she shot woman Ike
that Her only safeguard, as far as am
concerned, has been, that, first, did not
have pistol; second, would not know
how to use one il | did have il, and
thirdly, that am hoping that may re.
venge myself in different way:i. q.
when She Is sick l will go and condo.e
with her.
Next in beastiality to this woman is
the one who comes in with the inten.
ton Of cheering you up. You have
shaken with the chills, you have burned
with the fever, and you are so weak
that if the house caught on fire YOU
would just lie still and be burned
with the rest Of the rub
Dish. But this woman refuses to
recognize you as an invalid. she saws
she never saw you looking better ia
your life. She announces that YOU are
getting fat, that you have got good
color, and, in what she means 10 be a
playful way, she tells you that YOU are
only lazy, not really sick, and that il is
quite time you got up and took good
long walk. That is when you wish the
fool-klller was around, and you wonder
what IN the world you have been SO iii
Tor II you haven't something to show
Tor 1t. You do not want to be told that
you look like a ghost, neither do YOU
want people 10 say you are law, and
that Is what the would-be cheerful yisi.
tor invariably does.
COMMON SENSE IN SICK ROOMS.
The right kind Of woman to visit Won
when you are i'll is the one who lets the
subject of your illness entirely alone.
unless she permits you to do a little
moaning on your own private account;
VINO tells you what Is going On in the
world who makes you understand that
you are missed, who brings you CHEEKY
books, flower, or something strange 10
cat.
When | came into this world Il was
elected by the fairies that good health
should not be one of the gifts al nv
christening, so have had the doubtful
pleasure Of receiving all sorts of con.
doience, and making the acquaintance
OF all sorts of condoling friends and
doctors. Once | was attended nv
doctor who believed that the
calling Of a spade a spade, even
IN the case of illness, was quite unneces.
sary, and was so modest that it took me
three'quarters of day to think ont
how l could tell him where nv pains
were without causing him to blush. and
later on how | could ask him whether
when got up, ought to wear one or
TWO flannel pcttlcoats. He viewed me
az a distance, felt my pulse in the most
delicate manner yard off, and referred
to the place where had the rheumatism
rs my lower "iimbs.n Every time he
SAID that contradicted him and called
them "lcgs;" and then he would raise
one hand in the air as if he thought 1
we're out OF my senses, give an apolcgetic
cough, look at my mother and saw.
Don't mind her, madam, it's the result
OF the fever" How do you suppose
that man ended In the way | always
knew he would. He ran away with
another mans wife"
TYPEs OF DOCTORS.
Another time | had a doctor who said
ne believed in the appreciation of pain,
lie thought 1t was good for women. and
ne used to let me howl with the rheuma-
tism, groan with pains in my lung, and
be altogether miserable rather than give
inc an anesthetic. Personally, don't
believe he knew anything at all about
them. He was very FIND of ea,,in,r tI,at