Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1895-12-10

tation of the nervous system, and the de-
preston following prolonged artificial ex-
altation-it makes little difference whether
the cause be spiritual. as long as there is
certain physical effect upon your body
which l believe you have brought to me
to cure. Now as to diet. You look all
wrong there"
"My food is of the simpIest-I have no
hankering for aeshpots." responded the
patient.
II suppose you call saleratus bread and
salt pork and fiapjacks simpler" said the
doctor, coolly. "They are common enough,
and If you were working with your muscles
instead of your nerves, in that frame of
yours they might not hurt you; but you are
suffering as much from eating more than
you can digest as the verfest gourmand.
You must stop all that Go down to a
quiet hotel in some watering place for two
IT go to watering placer" interrupted
Masterton; ito the haunt of the idle the
frivolous and wanton-neverr'
Well I'm not particular about water
Ing place." said the doctor, with a shrug,
although little ideness and frivolity
with different food wouldn't hurt you
but You must go somewhere and change
your habits and mode of life completely.
Call your vocation a Calling If you like
suffering from its excess; if you wish to
be able to continue it you must do as I
say. will find you some sleepy old Span
1sh town In the southern county. where
p
full to you" he continued, grimly, you
can always call 1t a trial.
Stephen Masterton may have thought it
30 when, week later. he found himself
Issuing from rocky gorge into a rough,
padly paved, billy street, which seemed to
DC only continuation Of the mountain
road itself. 1t broadened suddenly into
square or plaza. thanked on each side by
an irregular row of following adobe
houses.
Rev. Stephen Masterton felt his throat.
swell with his old exhortative indigna ton.
gaudy yellow fan waved languidly in
front of a black rose-crested head at a
white-curtained window. He knew he was
stifing with righteous wrath. and clapped
Nevertheless in few days. bv the aid
OF a letter to the innkeeper, he was in
stalled In dlapidated adobe house. not
unlike those he had seen. but situated in
the outskirts, and overlooking the garden
and part OF the refectory of the old mis-
sloh- 1t had even a small garden of ira
oWn-if strip of hot wall. overburdened
with yellow and white roses, a dozen strag-
ei1ns callas bank of heliotrope and nm
almond tree could be called a garden. 1t
mad an open doorway, but so heavily re-
cessed IN the thick walls that 1t preserved
secluslon, sitting room. and an allowed
Ded room with deep embrasured windows
that. however, excluded the unwinkinp
sunlight and kept an even monotone nf
shade.
Strange to say, he found it cool restfuI
and, In spite of the dust, absolutely clean
A wrinkied Indian woman. Drowned and
veined like tobacco leaf ministered To
his simple wants. But these wants had
also been regulated by Dr. Duchesne. He
round himself breakfastng on single cup
OF chocolate instead of his usual bowl of
HolaSScS-sW eetened coffee; crumbIing a
crisp tortilla instead of the heavy saiera-
tus bread. greasy fiapjack, or the lard
Irled steak, and, more wonderful still
completing his repast with purple grapes
from the mission wall. He could not DENY
that 1t was simple-that 1t was even re
IreSnlng and consistent with the climate
ana his surroundings. On the other hand.
1t was the frugal diet of tho commonest
full idolators?
At the end of the week.-Mrs. correspon-
tehce pelng also restricted by his doctor
10 lew lines to himself regarding his
prosfesS-he wrote to that adviser:
Inc trembling and unquiet has almost
ceSsed' have less nightly turmoil and
visions; my carnal appetite seems to he
amply modified and soothed by these vi
ands' whatever may be their ultimate eff
Iect UPON the weakness of our common
s SIN III nature; But 1 should not be truth
1ul 10 you II l did not warn you that I am
viewing with the deepest spiritual concern
decided tendency toward sloth and
Ioiding OF the hands over matters thai
o1ten. fear, are spiritual as well as tenn
poral. L would ask you to consider in a
spirit of love, If 1t be not wise to rouse
my apathetic flesh, SO to strive, even
WIN the feeblest exhortations-against this
sioth in others-if only to keep oneself
from falling in the pit of easy indulgence.
what answer he received Is not known.
put IL Is to be presumed that he kept loyal
Faith with his physician, and gave him
self up to simple walks and rides and Oc
casional meditation His solitude was not
broken upon; curiosity was too active a
wee and induced too much exertion for
MS incident neighbors. and the Ameri-
cano's basking scclusion. though unlike the
naolts OF his countrymen. did not affe G;
them The shopkeeper and innkeeper sa-
iuted MIN always with profound courtesy
which awakened his slight resentment
partly because he was conscious that it
was grateful to him, and partly that he