The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1895-11-18
THE DOCTORS RECIPE.
BY GEORGE lIANvILLH FEM.
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I,
Lady Mount enniston was tho max
ing Of mo whom was a young doctor
newly started to practice in wilIowly,
She was very rich, resided Mt "rho
Park" four miles from the town, and
kept up quito an old Engliah family
state with her retinuo Of servants, car
rlases and hor.os, besides having the
finest gardens In the country
was plOdding on, glad OF the parish
work, and terribly looked down upon
by the principal doctor OF the place, q
pompouS, old,lashioued fellow, with a
flue gray head OF hair and q lordIy pres
ence.
All at once there was q change in my
affairs, for Lady Mount penniston
quarreled With tho doctor, who had
made quite u fortune ont OF tho old
lady, and sent her carriage to fetch me.
went OF course, and 10 my rivals
greas disgust, treated tho old lady so
much TO her satisfaction that | found
myself duly Installed Rs her family
physician. with orders to visit her twice
q week,
She was very jolly.looking, blunt,
spoken old lady, with tho temper Of
tyTanL generous In the extrsmei but
woe be to anyone who thwarted her,
The old doctor had beon unfortunate
enough to do so In his Independence,
aud you know tho result.
. ~ oh unil N mn thu frat
day I called In obedience to hoe sum.
nous, ~ rather like the look Of you,
doctor. and | hear you're clever"
u do my best, madame, Of course" /
SRid,
"Oh, yes, / know; and you've coma
irosh from London with all tho new
ideas and experiences Of the hest men.
MInsou's an old opinionalsd iudgo--a
regular old salts aud SIENNA and iRlap
doctor. Idont want thar. I'm not 20.
ing to BIZ drOnched with his nasty
drRughts. know more than he does
about myself aud what my complaint IT,
I'll tell you in DOCTORS Latin, too, It's
Ammo DOmini 90, aud eating and drink
ing too many good thinEs; that's what's
wrong with mo. You said 40 yourself
Us you entered the room, now didn't
you2"
laughed aud said frankly:
swell, yes. Lady Mount. Donnis:on.
There realiyis nothing else tho matter"
"Ho. Now don't you think you are a
worry foolish young man TO tell mo 80,
Wnen you might have humored my
Whims and run up q long bill"
MNn - aaHJ al do nnt -
"Thatll do. "shs said, swootly; land
I've good mind to send you abou!
your business but won't, for you are
Inst the sort Of young man | want
You come and see inc twice week. md
see to mo Just as that carpenter comes
to SEQ the park palingi, but don't give
me pill, aud draughts; hate them"
81 will try TO do all that 10 necessary
by regimen" ! said.
"Whatl You'd hotter not, cir. /
haven't long to live, aud, as I'm we'll, |
mean to enjoy life as much as l can.
So now you know what you've got 10 DO
There, that's enough. lrs just lunch
time. You stop and talk to lonely
old woman. want to know you better;
but you must find vile. Ladies' don't
like single men to aItOnd thcm. Get
married."
"vory WE'LL" | said, when the right
lady comes to the front, not before"
So / attended Lady Mount. Dsnniston.
and, to be in tho fashion, plenty oil the
neighborlng gentry, followed in her
wake, so that began to make worry
respectable income, and people said
that should now give up the parish
and the poor. But people are not al.
ways right, for did not, thank good.
ness, as you will hear.
Ono day duringth9 no! summer / had
been to SEQ her ladyship, who was sui.
ioring from Indigestion slightly, so |
treated her, promised to look In next
day, and returned to WilloWly, whore l
found q letter, written IN delicate,
feminine hand, imploring mo 10 como
and see child who was Ill.
every pretty, poorly.droSied young
widow lady, sir, my housekeeper said.
"she's n dressmaker, trying 10 got
living in the lower part OF the town.
She has been here three times, and
seems In great trouble. Will you have
your dinner before you go2"
NO, 1 hnIu, hhOttlyi anu Opeulug
the back window called to my man to
bring round the chnIsO again, and was
driven 10 the little iour.roomO cottage,
whose door was opened by sweet,
ladylikO.looking woman who tried TO
speak. but could only gasp out the
words;
"Pray-pruy-comc, doctor; he's dy.
ing fast"
hurried up after her into rather
baro but beautifully clOan room, and II
was too true. Tho pathetic story was
caSIly grasped. a young widow, whose
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