The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1900-07-14

| A Motherly Landlady's Unnecessary
solicitude over Favorite Board
| er.
"A week ago" said New Orleans
physician the other evening, Il felt
convinced that | had stumbled across
one of the biggest sensations of the
day. Since then the case has developed
in an entirely unanticipated direction,
but all the same It makes a pretty good
| story. I'll tell 1t to you in few words.
"One of my patients is bachelor
business man who has been lodging for
number of years in quiet old man"
zion not a great distance from Lee Cir
Gle His landlady is delightful
motherly old creature who has learned
to take as much interest in him as II
he was her own son, and altogether ne
is very comfortably fixed. About three
weeks ago ne came to me looking decld-
e7ly i'll and complained of a singular
stomach disturbance. He said that
distressing feeling Of nausea set IN
every morning, accompanied by a Sc
we're headache It would wear off grad
ually during the day, and he would go
to bed feeling first class but next
morning the same thing would be re-
heated knew him to be man OF
temperate habits and was a little sur
rrised Still I attached no great inn
portance to the matter and dismissed
him with some simple remedy. In five
or six days he came back looking much
worse, and told the same story, de-
claring that he couldn't eat and was
rapidly losing strength. Then took up
the matter seriously, made close in
duiry into his diet and 90 on and, to
be frank, Immediately suspected pois-
onine He told me the first thing he
did nawakening was to drink cup of
coffee, prepared by his old landlady
herself, and | offended him greatly by
asking him to quietly pour the contents
of the cup into a bottle next morning
and bring to me, Why, you don't
think he began, bristing up
Keep COOL said I; I think there may
be something wrong with the coffee
pot; that's all Bring me the bottle
and say nothing to anybody"
Next day he came around with the
Coffee continued the doctor, land adj
mitted that for once he haa missed his |
regular dLLdCk Oh nausea. L lildue IL |
chemical analysis of the stuff and |
found considerable quantity of ia
milar drug, harmless enough as an oc-
casional medicine, but certain to pro- |
duce the gravest gastric disturbances If |
persisted In While / half expected |
cf the kind. l was deeply |
shocked and don't mind admitting l |
was also considerably excited The |
drug could not possibly have gotten
into the coffee by accident, and as no
one else about the house had suffered,
it looked very much like a deliberate
poisoning plot against my patient. He |
himself was so Mortified and upset that |
he was simply incapable of giving sane
advice, and I was forced to take the
matter into my own hands. The up
shot of it was that I put on my hat |
and went around to have a guarded
talk with the landlady. ! knew her
only slightly, and she looked greatly |
surprised when asked to see her !
alone.
Mrs. -, I said, without any
preface who makes Mr.. IS morn
ing coffee?'
when l asked that question I /
thought the old lady would faint. Her /
face went as white as paper and her
hands began to tremble so violently she |
could hardly control them.