Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1899-07-11
WHAT CURED HIM.

Chivers had no definite occupation, but
his nerves were shattered. That was his
occupation.
"What do you think is the natter"
says he to Sir Andrew Leech of Wimpole
street.
"Do you drink tea" asked the doctor,
eying him Observation-Disclosures
tea?"
"Yes," says Chivers %anxiously,
"With cream?"
"Why, yes"
THAT'S the mischief 1t is the cream
that is wrecking your gastrics, my
friend!'
Off goes poor Chivers at once to Sir Bo-
lus McGorge in Harley street.
Doctor" says he, 'I'm feeling very
poorly. Should you say, now, tea was bad
for mo?"
MY dear sir, that depends. Take plenty
Of cream with your tea II it will do you
no great harm"
Chiyers then looks in on the celebrated
homeorath, DIR. Dodgem of Welbock street
quite the rising man on digestion, you
know
lJUCUOE, pray GCil ibo bIo "a esooas
teal
Teal says Dodgem. 1.-THE most insid-
ious of %poisons!"
"What--with plenty of cream
with or without; nothing can make
it wholesome"
Chiycrs took to coffee. As he felt no
better he consulted K%attorplasm, M, d.,
the family doctor, who asked him cheerily
"Enioy your food? Sleep soundp"
Neither" said poor Chivcrs.
"If you slept, you'd cat Do you drink
c%offeep"
~ do, in preference to tea
AT night"
eyes"
Gust so-it's the coffee keeps you
wake, Want of sleep naturally weakens
the stomach"
So he left off coffee and took cocoa.
Chivers had never smoked, but now he
felt q sort of craving that he could not al.
lay, and, a friend Offering him a cigarette,
he tried it, and it seemed to do him good
but his appetite did not improve He fan.
cied he slept little better, but he couldn't
quite decide, SO he called in DR., No 8 and
explained his sad case.
"Do you smoke!' said tho great special
ist, whose acute nose had detected u faint
aroma of tobacco while feeling his pulse,
"Yes. Is it badS" inquired the invalid
timidly.
bad! Are you aware that Sir Benja
min Brodie proved that a few drops of the
liquid sediment Of the noxious weed would
instantly destroy a full grown oat?"
tRrf-h,,t - ,,rpo1 Chiunrc NT,m NOT n
full grown cat"
"No, sir; you haven't the vitality Of a
kitten. Give up tobacco
Chivers gave it up. But he still felt
very low. He thought he would ask old
K~atterplasm, M. d., the family practi-
toner, to dinner and confde to him his
perplexity-no tea, no coffee, no tobacco
and getting weaker every dayl
ooh, take a glass of wineI You're feel
ing run down. You want a flip. Take
two glasses once in awhile-do you no
harm-do you good
Chivers took two and felt better, but the
next day he received a pamphlet issued by
the Society For the Total Abolition of
Hops and Wines, which proved that in
diligence in alcohol tempted the best men
to commit crimes of violence and shame
and hurried thousands into lunatic asy-
lums!
Then Chivers met a friend who persuad.
ed him to become q vegetarian, after which
he declined more rapidly than ever.
"Come up to Scotland, old" man. A
little yachting around the Hebrides-do
you all the good in the world; sea air
you know"
So Chivers went on board the Skylark
She was cutter rugged, and only % tons
She had not been out more than two hours
when she struck on a rock, and, as it was
evident that she was fast sinking, they
had just time to haul to tho boat that was
towed astern and jump mall four of
them-with a pint Of rum and n biscuit
The weather was fairly good, but there
was six hours of hard rowing between
them and land, no mistake.
Well, that wreck cured Chivers. After
seven hours battling with a strong cur.
rent that set out to sea the shipwrecked
crew grazed the shingle.
Carriages conveyed the crew to Sloggers
'shanty," MS he called his elegant high
land abode. A splendid collation. had been
prepared, including a fine Scotch leg OF
mutton, boiled with caper sauce. Chivers
forgot that he was a vegetarian.
lord, how dry rowing makes one!' he
exclaimed, and they filled him up a foam
ing beaker of brown ale. 'Chivers forgot
that he was n teototaler, and drank it off
AS they sat by the log fire Sloggers, Bal
son and Batson lit up and offered Chivers
a cigar. He forgot the DOCTORS warning
about tobacco and smoked it. Later on
they joined the ladies in the little cozy
wood walled drawing room looking over
the brink of a precipice right out to sea.
Sloggers' pretty young wife dispensed
the aromatic Souchong In dainty cups
Of biscuit china, while her s~prightly
younger sister offered cream, and plenty
of it too.
Next day Sloggers said: "Chivers, my
boy, we're old friends, and I want to do
you a good turn. There's nothing really
the mattsr with you, or II there was the
shipwret g cured you. All you want ia
fresh air, In active life, something to do,
and eat and drink what you like. You
shall be my highland agent, steward, over
seer-call 1t what you will. Try 1t for a
year,"
Chivers clasped Sloggers by the hand.
"Sloggers," said he, 'you understand
me. You are my friend. don't think
there's much wrong with me The doc
tors mean we'll, but they don't understand
my complaint. You alone have discovered
the physic that suits me. New York
World.
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