The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1901-11-15
AFTER THE VACATION
Busy Season for Doctors, Dentists
and Thinkers.
When People Return from summer
Outing There Is Much Demand for
Medical Advice and Much
Repairing to BE Done.

The end of the vacation season is
busy time for the transportat ton
companies, for the baggagemen and
for the apartment house agents. The
handy men who do little jobs about
house, from winding a sash cord
to cleaning furnace, the electri-
clans, bell hangers and the plumbers,
all find extra work when people re-
turn to their houses, which had been
closed or placed in the hands of a
servant or two for months. But
these are not the only people whose
work increases with the close of the
season-the physician and the dem
fist come in for their share of extra
work, and many of the men in these
professions know this and come home
from their vacation early enough to
be on hand when the wanderers re-
turn, says the New York Tribune.
Some people when they go away
for the summer, lay in stock of med
lclne and advice, and think they have
provided against anything that may
turn up. If nothing happens, if none
of the children become sick, if they
manage to avoid accidents and come
home whole, the wise parents pat
themselves on the back and congratu-
late themselves on having gone away
provided with DIR. Currents medicines
and advice. If there is sickness of
any kind in the family while the va
cation lasts one of the first things
that the returning mother does is to
send for the family physician. There
is nobody sick" she will tell the doc.
tor when he comes, "but while we were
away our William was unwell." Then
she'll tell what was the matter with
the boy, what medicine he got, what
diet was prescribed and all about the
cure. Now, do you think that was
all right?" she may say, or, IF there
was any typhoid in the water or ma
laria in the air can we do anything
now? or Shall we continue the
diet prescribed by the country doc
tor?"
That is only one class of after-va-
cation patients. Another is made up
of people who come to report as to
'iiot Soou vi hdl III HAS COIlC "
because of the physicians advice to
go to the country. These people are
not all agreeable visitors at the doc
tors office. If when they return to
town they are still not free from the
hay fever, malaria, rheumatl
nervousness or indigestion, for the
cure of which they went to the coun-
IN MI hn
doctor hears from them. Most pa
tients are reasonable in that respect
and understand that an absolute cure
was not expected, but others give the
doctor piece of their mind, and VOW
they will never go to the country
again because physician advises
them to do so.
But there is another class of pa
TENTS at this time of the year which
is rather a large one. 1t is made up
of people who went to the country
perfectly well and returned worn out
and sick. Their vacation is usually
A constant ''go" and they become
tired out, exhausted and complain of
being run down" On the whole
pA,y SlCluHS ltllSS pl
during the vacation months, but it is
usually made up right after the peo-
pie return. and the general practi-
toner gets a few weeks of heavy
business.
An uptown photographer said that
ne had stranger after-vacation eli
ents than his neighbor the physician.
people who go to the country and
invest lot of money in fresh air and
exercise" he said, "are proud when
one tells them that they look well
when they get back home. Some of
them are anxious to preserve the evil
dence of their summer gain, and
have had them come here, fresh from
the country. and ask to be photo
graphed and wonder if there was no
way to show their fine tam"