The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1900-09-19

and I've been all through it with my
John. Did L ever tell you about the
time that John Matrimonial Bliss, Esq,
banker, broker, after-dinner speaker,
and retired warrior, came down with
the German measles?"
Miss Emily shook her head.
HE doesn't dream to this day that
he ever was the victim of so pesky a
little ailment. but sometimes, when he
chooses to reminiss about his wonder
full escapes and daring adventures, he
mods across the table at me and l say
with a sort of a break in my voice, Oh
Jack, don't talk of it, and he leaves
male listeners that he has faced worse
things than San Juan Hill.
WHEN THE CRISIS CAME.
THAT summer I knew Jack was
droopy when he began running down
the cook, but L didn't suggest there
was any loss Of appetite. From being
an entirely sOciable creature he seemed
to find pleasure in sitting alone and
glowering a good deal, and when L as
sumed a more cheerful air than usual
he tried TO explain himself by saying,
in the weird vernacular of down town,
that the street had cold feet.
THE last familiar phase that always
leads to some sort Of an attack with
my husband is when he, as mild a man
as ever paid bills or dismissed tipsy
cooks, began to, excuse me, Miss Emily,
to damn things. Then I knew John was
i'll, and the crisis came when he got into
a perfectly towering rage with the end
of a palm leaf that tickled his nose
while he was reading his paper. I apol-
ogized for and removed the palm, and
when the racking headache developed
lightly suggested the hot weather, g
touch of possible malaria, and invited
the doctor in to tea.
well, the long and short of 1t was
John spent four days in bed, and
bundled off the children and covered
myself with glory trying to keep my
lord in spirits and at the same timt
in his room. We never once let on 4
was measles-that would have hurt hi!
dignity; so the doctor and 1 talked OF
a basis OF incipient typhoid, brought OIL
by oyerwork, and alarmed him int
obedience, while I kept up his courag,
by wondering at his superb constitu
ton. Poor Jack! He was scared int
, fits at the sight Of his temperature, for
man like, once persuaded he is i'll, h
, glooms over the future, and / coult
easily have given him serious setbacl
by watching him with panied, anxiou
eyes. by tiptoeing around the room
, tickling his poor pulse, pleading witt
him to eat, hushing all normal, familia
/, sounds and begging him every ten min
utes to tell me how he felt.
; HOW TO MANAGE A SICK MAN.
, Treatment of that sort drives a ma
: either in a rage. out of his bed. or put
: him into alternate nervous chills an
;, fevers of sheer fright. The prope
= nursing for ones husband is to max
2 his sick room look cheerful and agree
a able. walk around as If there was moth
e ing to be afraid of, and speak in
Z pleasant. bouyant tone of voice. Gloa
i over his splendid resistive powers whe
y he gets down in the mouth. for no ma
j likes his constitution TO be impugne
/. any more than his honesty and cour
: age, and by proving to him tina
: though IL suffers terrible strains.
: comes out always ahead. you can flattt
and stimulate him to his great benefi
= When the time comes for the mast
: dose allow him 70 dedicate ii with a
the naughty words in his vocabular
:. IL helps him. he thinks. and then. whe
], IL goes down with a whoop and a GU