The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-05-28

color in her cheeks. and her eyes are
bright. In fact, her appearance by no
means matches the role of ailing woman
she Is constantly required to play.
Mrs. Cook, another agent is on the
other hand, small and slight, although
perfectly healthy. for which reason she
can occasionally get evidence where the
other fails.
Sometimes these two agents go togeth-
err but oftener they make their visits
singly. accompanied now and then by a
friend who may be trusted to pose as a
patient and keep her own counsel.
One day" said Mrs. Witherspoon in
relating some OF her experiences. "a
friend whom l had taken along and in
troduced as my sister-in-law to a great
big woman-a nerve specialist she called
herself, from Copenhagen-got more than
she bargained for and was shy of going
again with me anywhere.
My friend told the specialist that she
suffered with pains in her head and in
the back of her neck and was troubled
with sleeplessness. The doctor asked a
great many questions, felt her neck,
looked at her eyes and pronounced it a
bad case of diseased nerves, and said
that she was all run down, whereas, a
matter of fact, the woman was in per-
feet health and didn't know she had
such thing as nerves.
After prescribing some medicine
quietng powders, she call them-the doc
tor seated her patient in chair opposite
a talcum-powdered apparatus dangling
from the wall, fastened a strap around
either ankle and then without warning
began to hoist her feet up, up up, until
they We're a goot bit higher than her
head, and kept them in that position
fully seven minutes. Only that my friend
was there for purpose she would not
have submitted, and as it was she was
quite stiff the next day from remaining
so long In an unnatural position.
THE doctor said this treatment was
excellent for the nerves: that she had
cured serious case of sciatica and sew
eral rheumatic patients by using this ap-
paratus alone.
In your CASE she told my friend,
you must come here at least three times
a week for five weeks for treatment.
The charge will be 81 a visit
Got a Good Scare.
1.-The worst scare | ever got in my life.
1 think happened this way:
II was sent to get evidence against
woman living in squalid quarter of the
East Side. She called herself a palmist.
and fortune teller but word had reached
the siciety that she was prescribing medi-
cines for women and that she did thriv-
ployed in the stores and factories of the
lower East Side.
II think she was suspicious of me at
the outset. My dress and speech may
have had something to do with it, TO be
sure, l was dressed very plainly, but still
1 was different from the residents of that
neighborhood.
Il told her | had come to have my for
tune told at which she closed her eyes
for a few minutes as II in meditation,
then jumped up pushed up my eyelids,
gazed into my eyes and then remarked:
I know why you have come here.
You are not well you need medicine
Why how clever of you - discover
that l said. L did come for just that
purpose.
I can give you the medicine you need.
but it will cost you $25.' said the woman.
Z" oh. I never could pay so much as
that My husband would not give it to
me- I exclaimed. I have only 81 with
me today, and l would like some medi-
cine right away
All right, l will make you a pill but