Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1894-09-18
VERY TRYING.
The Unfortunate Position of Two Patients
Tn a Doctors Office.

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Thera il n doctor in neighboring city
who makes 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, young man Went TO
see him. The specialist asked him rev
questions peered down his throat and
then took towel and 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 1t
until tell you to come out. DO not, IN
any circumstance, remove the towel until
call you into this office
The young man did as he was bid. he
walked into the rear room, which was q
small, dingy place Uttered with instru-
ments 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 nostrls and mouth
and sat down in one of the chairs. he
had not been there longer than 10 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 wet towel in her hand, and she
carefully placed it over her nostrils and
mouth and sat down In the other chair.
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
l.; hor
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 fol
another hour. At o'clock the imprison
ment became little less than torture They
could not walk around, for if they did thu
towels would drop off, and that would
never do They did not want to go GU
into the DOCTORS office, for they did no
know but the doctor might have an ex
cellent object in keeping them there. The.
endured another hour. When the young
man looked at his watch for the thre
hundred and thirty seventh time, he foun'
it was o'clock. During that hour, from
to 5, he had been growing very restless
He was hungry. At o'clock he tore OF
the towel and said vigorously: "I'n no
stay here another minute for all the throa
doctors in the world. This is blanl
blank outrage" The young woman pulle
| her towel down and said, "Oh, I'm ever
much obliged to you for that!"
Then together, carrying the towels, the
went out to the other office TWAS empty
They went into the waiting room. Their
was no one there They walked out tn
front door and down the step. They say
no one. Half block down the street the
met the doctor ambling along with bi
cigar in his mouth and look of seren
contentment on his face. "Here!' shoute
the young man to him as the three met
'tWhat in the name of the larynx of tn
great joss do you mean by keeping us
that room so long?"
The look of contentment on the doctor
face gave place to a startled expression
"Why," he said confusedly, upon m
soul, forgot all about you. '-Butfa
Express.