The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1902-05-03

NA out her doctorg Ahasueris
NM Pleasingly. M. H.. sits IN his
- office prescribing for CONF
paints
First Lady Patient Doctor, j want TO
ask YOU something really confidential
10 YOU think l am Coins crazy? don't
nave any interest in anything IA life
any more. / don't even love my own
sweetest poppet OF a doggie any more
as / ought 10. | have the queerest feel
ings abput the base OF my esophagus
and in the region OF my solar pieXus,
and thoughts come into my mind that
friehten me. real doubts about things.
especially when l go into The silence.
Doctor. tell me truly do you see In
these signs any indication that I am
losing my mind2 I have had great sor-
rows and troubley you know. Could II
have undermined my mental powers"
DR. Pleasingly- No. my dear lady, Il
is not possible CTo himsclD Because
you never had any mental powers 10
undermine (Aloud)--You viii never
under any circumstances lose your
mind, Mrs. Doolittle. | can say for
certain that you viii keep your mental
faculties ITO hlmself-Such as they
arel so long as you live, which will be
many years 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. DR.. Pleas
ingly. you know everything. | want TO
consult you. | want one OF those new
big picture hats. My husband says I'm
too old 10 wear it--that's just like a
husband: and he says he won't be seen
out with me II 1 get IL. Now my eyes
are getting weak lately; YOU know my
eyes are a little weak, don't you2-(look-
ing very meaningly at Ahasuerus) land
with a small bonnet the glare OF the
light Is so very painful! i want a large
brim that will shade my eyes. don't L?
Ahasuerus-Yes. my dear lady. / am
sure you do. Tell your husband / say
you need large hat.
Third Lady Patient-Doctor just
ran in 10 ask you something. I'm going
to sit for a photograph this afternoon.
profile view. / wish you'd tell me which
is the prettiest side of my face. don't
think my hair looks so well on the right
side as on the left. Examine It while
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 look at IL care
1ully. | perceive that the left side would
seem more artistic in a picture.
Third Lady Patient-Thank you so
much. / knew you could tell me.
Or. Pleaslngly'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
Did you send for DR. Pleasingly?
Mrs Meanwell--No, ] didn't had
my old family physician. Dr. Dosey.
who tended my mother before j was
born. Dr. Dosey knows every turn i'm
our familys constitution, and il he
can't bring us round there is no med
ical skill on earth that can do it.
DR.. Pleasingiy's Fourth Lady Patient
We'll. ! know one thing. You'd have
got wen weeks sooner If you'd had DIR.
Pieasingly He's made a special study
of the delicate feminine nervous sys-
tenn which, he says, is different from
mans, and he knows all the new reme-
dies. and then he uses mental sugges-
ton too. You haven't investigated sci
ence Mrs. Meanwel.
Mrs Meanwell--Id have you know
that I've got just as much science as
you have, Mrs Mumpsey, and a little
bit more, il anything. When I say DR.
Dosey knows more than all the doctors
around here put together. mean II.
And then frost fell between the two
ladies. ANNA MUM.