The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1902-05-29


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First Lady Patient--Doctor / want 10
ask you something really confidential.
Do you think am going crazy? don't
have any interest I'm anything I'm life
any more. / don't even love my own
sweetest poppet OF a doggie any more
as ought 10. 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
frighten 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 / am
losing my mind? i have had great sor-
rows and trouble, you know. Could II
have undermined my mental powers?
DR.. Pleasingly-No, my dear lady, II
is not possible. CTo himselD-Because
you never had any mental powers to
undermine. (Aloud)-You viii never
under any circumstances lose your
mind, Mrs. Doolittle. / can say for
certain that you will keep your mental
faculties ITO himself-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, DIR. Pleas
ingly, you know everything. I want TO
consult you. i want one OF those new
big picture hats My husband says I'm
too old 10 wear it--that's just like
husband and he says he won't be seen
out with me if / get II. 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 / want a large
brim that will shade my eyes. don't 1?
Ahasuerus-Yes, my dear lady, am
sure you do. Tell your husband I say
you need a large hat.
Third Lady Patient-Doctor, I Just
ran I'm to 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 IL while
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 look at It care
fully. perceive that the left side would
seem more artistic in a picture.
Third Lady Patient-Thank you so
much ] knew you could tell me.
DR.. 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 Or. Pleasingly?
drs. Meanwell-No, i didn't. I had
my old family physician. DR.. Dosey.
who tended my mother before I was
! born. DR. Dosey knows every turn in
our family's constitution, and IL he
| can't bring us round there is no med
ical skill on earth that can do il.
DR.. Pleasingly's Fourth Lady Patient
We'll, know one thing. You'd have
got well weeks sooner If you'd had Dr.
Pleasingly. He's made a special study
of the delicate feminine nervous sys-
TEN. 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. Meanwell.
Mrs. Meanwell--rd have you know
that I've got just as much science as
you have. Mrs. Mumpsey, and a little
, bit more, II anything. When / say Or.
Dosey knows more than all the doctors
around here put together l mean ii.
And then frost fell between the two
ladies. ANNA MUM.