The Red Cloud chief., 1898-02-11
A CASE OF MIND CURE,
The Christian Scientists Ought to En-.
joy This story.

Joy lhtS STORY.
They were two women and they were
going to visit a winter resort. but for
different reasons, says the Philadel-
phia Times. One Of them was i'll. and
she was going away to get we'll; the
other was we'll. and she was going
away to take care of the invalid.
"Oh, dear" said the invalid. 'if any
body finds out that I'm i'll and begins
to pity and poor me, and above all
To recommend what | ought to do and
to take. | shall come home feeling
twice as Ill as | do now. | just simply
couldn { stand it," 81 tell you what"
said the other. Let me pose as the
invalid. It'll be the easiest thing In
the world. for you don't look q bit
Ill; as a matter of fact. you look bet
ter than | do. II can't do me any harm;
1t may do you n lot Of good. and In
such a good cause It won't be so very
wicked" The invalid consented and
the two arrived at the winter resort
with their plans well laid. There was
no need openly to fb about the thing.
~ 'h"' nv oAI'l Wbllltu ntu W wv
was to draw her mouth down a bit at
the corners and now and then to pass
her hand across her forehead, and
when things were passed her at the
tabIc TO say: "Oh. dear. do you sup
pose | ought to eat that? And the
other guests at the winter resort at
once bounced upon her as the invalid.
The only entertainment that guests at
such places have consists In wondering
about each other, and as most such
guests arc there for their health they
soon learn to know the earmarks of
the invalid. The woman who was not
III accordingly became the heroine of
such condltion-'the latest invalid"
She WIS condoled with and advised
ana criticised for not doing this and
eNtolled for doing the other. Every
variety of preventive and remedy was
recommended to her and in some in
stances thrust upon her. Each guest
a known or had heard of some doc
tor who would be infallible in her par
ticular case. The only time that table
TAX wandered from the subject OF all
ments and their cures was when Il
TOOK up the topic of doctors. The well
woman couldn't stir a peg without
some solicitous guest calling after her
to be sure to Tor not to- do this. that
o. the other. Still. II was all directed
at the well woman. She was the OBJ
Ject OF all the care and anxiety. Mean
while the real invalid throve apace
under such wholesome neglect. She
knew that the other guests must con-
denim her for taking so little interest
in the health OF the supposed invalid,
but, so far az possible, she kept alooi
from all that would remind her OF i'll.
ness. Not only her own mind but the
minds Of others had been side-tracket
from the fact that she was an inyalit
and her recuperation was rapid. Lonl
before she had expected to be able Il
do so she was ready to depart. Blu
as the two set on upon the homewart
Journey the one-time invalid noticed
that n change had come over her com
panlon. She was pale, dull-eyed and
tired-looking. Her voice was languid
her movements l~istless. She looked i'll
What could 1t mean? Can you guess %
said the one-time well woman: "I'm
no longer n make-believe invalid; I'm
the real thing. Such an ordeal as I've
been through would undermine the
constitution OF Hebe herself"