The age-herald., 1899-09-10
"Let's Play"
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 Age-Herald.

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 sLet's Play"
 Lets play doctor" begged Julia My, Lizabeth's had a very bad accident 1 let her fall on a big old rock and her head Is broke"
 "All right" said Ned. I'll be doctor and you can send Jack in a great hurry to my office for me to come at once.
 "Oh dearie little 'Lizabeth is your poor head suffrn bery bad?" Julia spoke so feelingly you would have thought her baby really felt as bad as you would if your head had been cracked, and your arm broken. "Poor child. you must not cry now. Oh, Jack, do please go for the doctor, quick, Jack she's gettin liriousl Go for Dr. Ned will you''
 Jack rushed off in great haste. burst in- to the improvised room the back piazza where Ned had located himself behind sev- eral chairs. He was sea ted in one and was leaning back with his legs crossed. look ing through his spectaces which he had just made out of a piece of wire and read ing the Age-Herald. He could not read very well, but the pictures on the chill dren's page seemed to be interesting him very much, for Jack rang an imaginary ing-a-ling-ling knocked loud and long be- fore the absorbed gentleman could collect his thoughts and call Come ini''
  Al faltering and excited said: "Oh Dr. Nedward, do come up to Miss Phunny's as quick as you can. Her daughter Lizabeth Mandy Ann has fallen out of the tenth story of her house. No, believe she fell from the nurses arms. Any way. she's broke her head and Miss Phunny says you're to come quick"
 "Ah, yes, yesl" hem hem. You say her child has received a serious fracture of the skull. An! too bad! well I'll come.
 A few minutes he writes busily at an imaginary desk. gets up, takes a drink of water turns over some papers and then leiSurely he goes to a supposed telephone. '9099 on TOPS" he calls, then 'Is that you livery stable?'' Well, he continued "send my buggy"
 After long wait he finally goes out and enters his buggy and rushed off at gall Top all around the yard and in great ap- parent haste runs up the doll house steps, rings the bell and with much dignity en- tered the sick room.
 @Oh, doctor, my child is very sick. Can you cure her, doctor?'
 "Just be quiet. madam. While there's life there's hope. Let me feel her pulse"
 Pretty bad. Let me see her tongue. An, Too d. madam, too red! You should have sent for me sooner I am afraid there's much inflammation
 You bad boy. did: you know it.
 "Oh, hush, play I am doctor. You must not tell the doctor is a bad boy. I won't play, if you do that way.
 "Now, Julia loved dearly to have the boys play with her, so she begun to play right at once
 pr. Nedward felt the dolls pulse, in- quired if she had eaten anything since she was hurt, declared she was very bad off indeed. "You see. madam. your child has not only this terrible crack where the cerebrum and celebelum ooze out but she has flisloca ted the right humuse and the left ulna and radius are broken the humerus and two phalanges. I am afraid twill be fatal"
 ~ "Oh, dear, those terrible names will be sure to kill her; broken what did you say?'
 Now, Ned went to the Paul Hayne school and was very proud of having learned much about the body. He de- lighted to play doctor that he might have the opportunity to display his knowledge, but Julia did not like for him to words she could not understand.
 ''The patella Miss Phunny-"
 'I am Mrs Brown. Don't call me Miss Phunny" Julia interrupted. "I won't play if you do that way"
 "The patilla Mrs. Brown is what some folks call the knee-pan."
 And that other bone?
 "Oh that's one that ends with the bone we call the funny bone cause it makes you cry when you hit if. That Mrs. Brown is the humerus. Though the way its bleeding sawdust is not a very humorous matter. I am sure. I shall write an article for the doctors magazine some day about the Inappropriate way they have of naming bones"
 "wel, doctor. can you cure herr" anx- iously questioned Julia''
 'sWe shall see." Dr. Needwood then pro- ceeded in very expert manner to bind up the head. legs and arms of the doll. give a prescription which he himself filled by putting water in a bottle with q few drops of red ink made from the poke berry. He then departed. saying he thought she would rest we'll anyway till he came again. Julia undressed her doll. put on the cutest little "nighty'' and laid her upon the bed, which was nicely made for Julia delighted in keeping neat house.
 Every morning before making the bed, she took each bed cover off, shook them and hung them on the back of chair a long time, which she played was an hour. Then she would sweep. dust and arrange her furniture, so this alarming accident found her ready with everything in its right place. Not for anything would she have had Mamie or Bessie any of her friends call and find her house disorder iy.. The boys who came 10 play with Jack and Ned secretly admired her tidy house. wifry, though they loved to tease her about 1t. They would promise all kinds of good behavior, though when Julia would have a dinner on her little dining table and would allow them to eat with her. She could mako them stop playing burglars and robbing her of all her treasures by promise of a tea-party; and often con- trolled them by this means, even though the young gentlemen would sometimes forget propriety and eat so much there would be nothing left for their hostess and her fam, fly.