The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-07-26
WOMAN AND
HER DOCTOR

OlIlSG prescribing 1OI CUM
plants.
First Lady Patient-Doctor, want to
ask you something really confidential.
Do you think am going crazy? 1 don't
have any interest in anything in life
any more. / don't even love my own
sweetest poppet of a doggie any more
as ought to. have the Queerest feel
ings about the base of my esophagus
and in the region of my solar plexus,
and thoughts come into my mind that
brighten me, real doubts about things,
especially when I go into the silence.
Doctor tell me truly, do you see in
these signs any Indication that I am
losing my mind? have had great sor-
rows and trouble, you know. Gould it
have undermined my mental powers?
DIR. Pleasingly-No, my dear lady, 1t
is not possible. Ito himself)-Because
you never had any mental powers to
undermine. (Aloud)-You will never
under any circumstances lose your
mind, Mrs. Doolittle. I can say for
certain that you will keep your mental
faculties ITO himself-Such as they
are] SO long as you live, which will be
many years. 1 will give you tonic for
your nerves.
First Lady Patient-Oh, doctor. you
have relieved my mind altogether
Thank you SO very much.
Second Lady Patient-Oh, DIR. Pleas
ingly you know everything. I want to
consult you. / want one of those new
big picture hats. My husband says I'm
too old to wear it-thats just like
husband; and. he says he won't be seen
out with me if I get it. Now, my eyes
are getting weak lately; you know my
eyes are a little weak don't you ?-Cook-
ing very meaningly at Ahasuerus)-and
with a small bonnet the glare of the
light is SO very painful! I want large
brim that will shade my eyes, don't I?
| Ahasuerus-Yes, my dear lady, am
sure you do. Tell your husband I say
| you need large hat.
! Third Lady Patient-Doctor, I just
ran in to ask you something. I'm going
to sit for a photograph this afternoon,
profile view. I wish you'd tell me which
is the prettiest side of my face. I don't
think my hair looks so we'll on the right
side as on the left. Examine it while I
| turn one side, then the other, and tell
me truly.
| Ahasuerus views the face critically
right view, left view, and says gallant
/ ly: MY dear lady, one side is just as
pretty as the other, and both are hand
some alike. But, now I look at it care
seem more artistic in a picture.
Third Lady Patient-Thank you so
much. I knew you could tell me.
DR.. Pleasingly's fourth lady patient
meets her friend Mrs. Meanwell and
| asks tenderly after her health. Mrs.
| Meanwell has not been well and says So
DR.. Pleasingly's Fourth Lady Patient
Ibid you send for DR.. Pleasingly?
Mrs. Meanwell-No, I didn't 1 had
my old family physician, DIR. Dosey,
who tended my mother before 1 was
born. DR.. Dosey knows every turn in
our family's constitution, and if he
can't bring us round there is no med
ical skill on earth that can do it.
DR.. Pleasingiy's Fourth Lady Patient
1-Well, know one thing You'd have
got well weeks sooner if you'd had DR..
Pleasingly. He's made special study
of the delicate feminine nervous sys-
| mans, and he knows all the new rene
dies, and then he uses mental sugges-
ton too. You haven't investigated sci
ence, Mrs. Meanwell.
/ Mrs. MeanweI-Id have you know
that I've got just as much science as
you have. Mrs. Mumpsey, and a little
bit more, if anything. When 1 say DR..
/, Dosey knows more than all the doctors
around here put together, mean it.
| And then frost fell between the two
ladies' ANNA MUM.