The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1901-06-09

~ I'd MR.. 3IUBBS was a rich
sAchelor. so rich in fact that
when be developed bad case
Of tho grippe his doctor sent for
twO trained rurses-one to
watch him by day and fan back
fhe hickering flame Of light, the other
30 90 the same thing by night
"A paU OF bright-eyed. merry girls
pretty as pictures, who had graduated
HJ the training school, responded to the
call. They were of the wholesome TYNE
If feminiuity that exudes lie from
every pore and scarters health germs
as IT goes ON its way
But they got no further than the
front door There they were met nv
Miss Jenny MuDbs. the old mans
niece, who Ead long since decided that
ms estate was none too large for her
self- A lools suggesting triple distilled
vinegar came over her face when she
saw the PAIR.
oh, no. she said, suspiciousIy: mot
To-Day Ihen she added to herself
These cd men have a way OF marry
ing the FIRST pink and white idiot thar
comes along, especially when they're
going 20 die. III pick his nurses for
him 1yself'f
And the nekr cay they came. a pair
Who looked as If they had been Dor
Towed from some old ladies' home.
Every time the invalid heard their
voices he turned his face 10 the wall
ana made q violent effort to hasten the
BUT in spite Of their TAD hey could
nurse, and soon Elr NJ IS was Mr.
Mubbs again TIE ME returned to
her home and the nurses went to find
another case.
Tt was s0ne weeks afterward that
Mr. Mubbs learned about the pretty
nurses VINO had been driven from his
threshold.
hum ne snorted angrily, Jenny
Mubbs was always mean with other
people money suppose she thought
young and pretty nurses We're too ex-
peuSiEe Tor me, and so She got q nair
Of second-hand old things because they
were cheap. But I'm fool her vet and
snow her that I'm not economical
when Sealth is cohcerned-at least. not
when the heaIths mine.
Ihen 4lr. Mubbs had a sudden re-
lapse Hls grippe. regardless of all
medical rules turned to gOut he sat
in MS draw ln5 room and ErOaned. per-
maps little more loudly than was
really necessary t0-seI attention to
batting and bandages until it looked
like a bolster.
Six of the prettiest nurses ne could
secure were i'm attendance. They talked
10 him. smoothed his pillow. mixed his
grog and ihed his pipe Miss Jenny
called. but she was too angry to stay
LONG at time.
frog for man with the EOutH she
grumbled- Fl supr use hen be turning
Mormon ana marrying the whole
bunch Of therll"
40 woman ever. believes in the gen
uineness of q bachelor She IS always
certain that the pose is an affected enc
and that sooner or later it viii cease
and -he fact that the man was a fraud
and mad matrimonial views an along
VIII be disclosed. But despite all sus-
picions old mr.. Nubbs had really no
more idea of committing matrim0ny
than he had OF perpetrating forgery.
There are such men.
I'll show 'em I'm not lny id
old miser," he said. A man may be
careful in business without iustifyiug
people in sending him secondhand
nurses when he's dying. Why I've a
good mind 20 get h log more nurses.
younger and prettier than ever"
And the old man chuclkied to himself
as ne noted the growing rage of his
niece every time She saw the bevy of
attendants. each demure and sweet
looking in her white lace cap
OF all the nurses by all odds the
pTettlest was Kathleen Vaughan, a tall
slim girl with big gray eyes Her
voice was sWeeter than the honey of
bees and there was a pride about her
bearing that spoke of good descent.
Ana she had brains too. for in a very
little time she found out that old
1lrbhs was shammiug. There was
nothing whatever The matter with him
lie was playing q part 10 get sym
pauly- mile his health lasted no
woman not fortune hunter would
have wasted any sentiment upon the
old chap, and here Ee was being petted
and spoiled Under the falsest of pre-
Leuses-
Kathleen sugriIy seized her bonnet.
81 nurse only those who are in" sba
said. as she began putting it on Pm
professional woman. j do not like
peing tri1led with. if you simply want
company, WY don't you send TO
theatre ana get some singers and dane
rn hal rrr..
and say funny things. or you might
get a monkey tame one I'm sure
you and be would get on well together.
and IT would be much cheaper"
odd Mr.. MuDbs gaspcd. n was not
often that he was snubbed esneciaUv
I'm bis own house And here was q girl
who looked ycung enough to play with
dolls teaching him ethics He e2ared
at her first, then his eyes FELL for there
was something I'm her eyes that made
l1su1 ashamed of himself
~ was doing little blUding" ne
confessed, rimidly. ~I wanted to show
nurses that are, and that don't have
10 take secondhand oEss. Please DONE
go.
The girl paused ct suppose If was
Zour niece VIM told YOU 10 stuarraI
with your nephew. Jack ives and r,f5f
Eim out of the firm because he ZEN ir
love with a working girl she said
Their vas shsnt sneer in her voice
Nupos NoW you mention it, be
leVe it was, he admitted. "Ruf
don Know who told YOU about fl. She
was an Impossible girl, though-lived
up arr alley. I believe. and walked
about in hec bare feet Z understand
she couldn't sread or write and thar
she had drunken fathet-that is he
got drunk when he wasn't in Jail"
How dare YOU the eirI screamed. I
She collapsed into "a chair aud burst
out sobbing-
First oil -alL he hires me as an en-
tertainef, she said. Insult Nc
Then ne says I'm drunk when I'm not
in 1atL ana next he tells lies about my
poor father. Oh, Jack. Jack. YOU wee
right when gou said they'd refuse bi3
@ die bad place when he died
DID Inst young scorndreI say Z
that feared Mr. Fubbs.
The girl took no notice. She forgot
where she was Mr.. aIubbe kicked OF
Dis bandage and looked as if he were I
about 70 run away.
He knew now tina this was the WORK ]