The commonwealth. (Greenwood, Miss.) 1896-1923, 1899-02-10

down 10 the awful crisis? There is {
great deal Of cheap and heartless wi,
/ about doctors, but ! notice that the PEG.
pie who get Of that wit are the first to
send for a doctor when there is any.
thing the matter. There are those who
} undertake to say in our day that doc.
tors are really useless. One man has
written o look entitled: Every Man
His Own Doctor" That author ought
10 write one more book entitled: Every
Man His Own Undertaken" "Oh," says
some one, physicians in constant pres
ence of pain get hard hearted" do
they? The most celebrated surgeon of
the last generation stood in a clinical
department of one of the New York
medical colleges, the students gathered
in the amphitheater TO see a very pain
full operation on a little child. The old
surgeon said: Gentlemen, reuse me
if | retire. These surgeons can do this
as well as I can, and as l get Older it
gives me more and more distress 10 see
pain"
Physicians have SO many ~hardships,
so many Interruptions, so many annoy
ances, | am glad they have so many en-
couragements. All doors open to
them. They are welcome TO mansion
and to cot. Little children shout when
they see them coming down the road.
and the aged, recognizing the step, look
up and say: doctor, is that your
They stand between our families and
the grave, fighting back the troops of
disorder that come up from their en-
campment by the cold river. No one
hears such thanks as the doctor hears.
They are eyes to the blind, they are
feet to the lame. their path is strewn
with the benedictions of those whom
they have befriended.
One day there was a dreadful fore
boding in our house. All hope was
gone. The doctor came four times that
day. The children put away their
toys, and all walked on tiptoe and at
the least sound said: ''Hush!" How
loudly the cleck did tick, and how the
banister creaked, though we tried to
keep it SO still! That night the doctor
stayed all night. He concentrated all
his skill upon the sufferer. At last the
restlessness of the sufferer subsidized
into a calm. sweet slumber, and the dee
tor looked up and smiled and said: THE
crisis is past When, propped up with
| ni1lnwS II, tho auS,. .h.tr che rnt ami
the south wind tried to blow a rose leaf
into the faded cheek, and the children
brought flowers-the one a red clover
top. the other a violet from the lawn
10 the lap Of the convalescent. and Bcr-
tina stood Oh a high chair with a brush
smoothing her mothers hair, and we
were told in n day or two she might
ride out, JOY came back TO our house.
And as we helped the old country doe
tor into his gig we noticed not that the
step was broken, or the horse stiff in the
knees, and We all realized for the frs,
time in our life what doctors were
worth. Encourage them.
Encourage The lawyers. They are
oiANh "a Jul VI tlVAA lVCss anu ~
often have TO breathe the villainous air
Of courtrooms, and they so often have
to bear pordcrous responsibility, and
they have to maintain against the
sharks in their profession the dignity
of that calling which was honored by
the fact that the only man allowed to
stand on Mount Sinai beside the Lord
was Moses, the lawyer, and that the BIZ
BILE spoke of Christ as the advocate. En-.
courage lawyers in their profession of
trunscendent importance-a profess
sion honored by having on the bench a
Chief Justice Story and at the bar q
RGfus Choate.
Encourage the teachers in u pub
lie schools-occupation arduous and
poorly compensated. In all the cities
when there mt ii fit OF economy IN
the part OF officials the first thing TO
do is always to cut down teachers sala-
ries. To take 40 or so boys whose par
cnts suppose them %precocious and keep
the parents from finding out their mis-
take, to take an empty head and fill il,
to meet the expectations of parents
who think their children at Is years of
age ought TO be mathematicians and
metaphysicians and rhetoricians. to
work successfully that great stufing
machine the modern school System. is
n very arduons work. Encourage them
by the usefulness and the everlasting. |
ness and the magnitude of their occu-
patton, and when your children do well
compliment the instructor. praise the
teacher, thank the educator.
Encourage all invalids by telling
them how many you have known with
the same ailments who got we'll and
not by telling them of their sunken eye
or asking them whether the color of
their cheeks Is really hectic or men
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