Arizona republican., 1903-03-23
YOU ALL KNOW THE STORY
That Old Joke About Woman's Talk
 ing Too Much.

She was i'll. not seriously i'll. but there were disquieting symptoms, and the doctor had been called. The doctor put his little thermometer under her tongue and the silence that followed was so deep and unusual that her husbanl looked up from his paper.
 After the doctor had gone she began to tell her husband how foolish it was to call hm at all. The bill, she said. would probably take some of the fund she had put aside for a new gown.
 An, of course, he'll come again to See how I am gettin' along" she added.
 ''Oh. I'll stop that" returned her hus- band.
 A day or two after he came home with a little thermometer.
 "The doctor gave it to me-" he ex- plained. He said. if he wasn't to come again, I must take your temperature whenever you got excited, an if it went too high, I must notify him.
 Well, now, that's sensible,' she as serted. Even if it's got to be done, there is no use payin' a doctor to do it. But, if 1t hadn't been for me, you'd have let him come chasin' along fifteen or twenty times an then you'd have groaned about the cost of Twin. Why. you'd run us to the DOT house, if T."
 "Open your mouth,' he commanded suddenly. I,
 Now. don't be a fool"
 Doctors orders! You're gettin' ex- cited! Open it!''
 Before she fully realized what had happened the thermometer was under her tongue.
 Five minutes" he said.
 She shook her head. She knew the doctor had not left it there longer than a minute.
 An old hand" he explained. "can do it in less but for a new one it's got to be five Doctor said so. An don't you go to foolin' with it. cause I got to see it the moment it comes out or I won t get it right, an if I send in the wrong figures the doctor'n come bobbin' right up here.''
 Then he settled himself in comfort with his pipe and he was in a blissful state of forgetfulness and repose when his wife touched his arm, having al- lowed seven minutes of silence to elapse He promptly removed the thermometer and she made few remarks while he pretended to make few notes. She didn't like to be overlooked and neg ! lected under such circumstances. Better not get excited" he eau tioned, and she immediately subsided.
 This sort of thing continued for a week or ten days and the occasions when it was necessary to take her tenn perature grew less and less frequent. Even the night he kept dinner waiting nearly an hour she eXpoStulated only in a mild way.
 Then the doctor called. | "I happened to be passing" he said, land I thought I'd drop in. Your hus- band said you were all right, but there was a chance of something serious de- veloping when I first called, and" | "Oh I'm all right" she broke in. but what's the use of keeping it up?"
 Keeping what up?"
 She told him.
 Why I advised TO such thing as that" he said.
 The doctor, departing, met the hus- band, coming.
 Your wife is looking for you said the doctor, with an amused smile. "I've | just been there.'
 The husband turned and walked with the doctor.
 | II think I'll telephone that can't get home tonight" he said. But, say Doc." responsibility. If you'd Only told me you were coming I'd have paid you your regular visiting rate to keeu l away"