The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1899-03-09

down to the awful crisis2 There is
great deal of cheap and heartless wit
about doctors, but notice that the peo-
pie who get off that wit are the first to
send for 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 look entitled: Every Man
His Own Doctor" That author ought
TO 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 clinical
department of one of the New York
medical colleges, the students gathered
in the amphitheater to see very pain
full operation on little child. The old
surgeon said: Gentlemen, excuse me
if l retire. These surgeons can do this
as we'll as can, and as get older it
gives me more and more distress to 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 you?"
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 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 subsided
into calm, sweet slumber, and the doc
tor looked up and smiled and said: 'The
crisis is past" When, propped up with
pillows in the easy chair, she sat and
the south wind tried to blow rose leaf
into the faded cheek, and the children
brought fowers-the one a red clover
top, the other violet from the lawn
to the lap of the convalescent, and Ber-
tha stood on high chair with brush
smoothing her mothers hair, and we
were told in day or two she might
ride out, JOY came back to our house.
And as we helped the old country doc
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
| often cheated out of their fees, and sc
often have to breathe the villainous ali
of courtrooms, and they so often have
to bear ponderous responsibility, ant
they have to maintain against the
sharks in their profession the dignity
Of that calling which was hono1ed by
the fact that the only man allowed tt
| stand on Mount Sinai beside the Lort
| was Moses, the lawyer, and that the Bi
Bile spoke of Christ as the advocate. En-
courage lawyers in their profession o
transcendent Importance prcfes
sion honored by having on the bench ;
Chief Justice Story and at the bar
Rufus Choate.
/ Encourage the teachers in our pub
lie schools-occupation arduous ant
poorly compensated. In all the cite
when there comes fit of economy o.
the part of officials the first thing t.
do is always to cut down teachers sala
ries. To take 40 or so boys whose pa1
ents suppose them precocious and kee
the parents from finding out their mis-
take, to take an empty head and fill il
to meet the expectations of parent
who think their children at Is years c
age ought to be mathematicians an
metaphy sicians- and rhetoricians, t
work successfully that great stuffin
machine the modern school system,
very arduous work. Encourage the1
by the usefulness and the everlasting
ness and the magnitude of their occ,
patton, and when your children do we
compliment the instructor, praise tt
teacher, thank the educator.
Encourage all invalids by tellin
! them how many you have known wit
, the same ailments who got well an
, not by telling them OF their sunken ey
or asking them whether the color {
their cheeks is really hectic or mel
tioning cases in which that style I
! disease ended fatally or telling thel
how badly they look. Cheerful wore
are more soothing than chloral, moi
, stimulating than cognac, more ton
than bitters. Many an invalid has r
, covered through the influence of chez
) full surroundings.
e Encouraging all starting in life
! yourself becoming reminiscent. +