Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1905-02-22
WHAT WILLIS DID,

When young DR.. Willis put out MS
brass plate in the exclusive Royal avenue
there We're those who said it was utter
folly. For young Willis was entirely
dependent Oh his own exertions, having
run through most of small capital i'll
the years that made up his medical
course.
Iie was q thorough youth who believed
that he needed Vienna and its schools at
a time when all his advisers told him
that he needed The beginnings OF a prac
tice. He took Vienna.
After two years there he was back III
town, ready at last in his own mind to
begin the practice of medicine.
Here again he found his critics They
said it behooved yoLrg Willis, in his al
most penniless condition, to get a small
hospital position or to 60 out in some
rapidly growing suburb and make a
quick start of some sort.
Cheap buildings were mentioned; part
nerships were suggested. In the very
teeth of his friends young Willis took Il
small but fitwless West End apartment
and waited for patients-waited because
professional ethics forbid advertising.
He waited six months-nine months.
Then he began to allow himself to Won
der if, after all, those friends of his had
been wise and he had been foolish
He went out walking one afternoon
simply because he could not stay indoors
On that afternoon he met for perhaps
the seventeenth time in as many DAYS
Miss Ethel Wynne, a young woman of
much beauty, whom he remembered tx
his dancing school days, and who cvi-
IDENTIFY remembered him.
She greeted him this afternoon with
shade more cordiality than she had ever
shown him before. She stopped the car-
riage and beckoned to him. and in an
other moment he was whirling down the
road beside her.
1t was on this afternoon that Miss
Wynne realized that the suit which Or.
Willis was wearing then was the luen-
teal one that ne had worn on every one
OF the consecutive days of the last three
weeks in which she had seen him.
Miss Ethel was young woman of IL
logical bent, and she swiftly deduced the
painful fact that it was the young doe
tors only suit-a state of affairs winch
meant to her intolerable poverty
Now, the Willetses were an old family
which had all but died out. and in their
day they had owned the very spot where
the Wynnes' house stood at present So
Miss Wyme planned swiftly and exc
cutcd with dispatch
Paul Willis must be helped to speedy
comfort-helped professionally, for, UNI
fortunately, ne was not q church. to be
aided with a bazaar; nor an orphan asy-
hum, to be aided with lawn fete
The next day DR.. Willis received a
sudden call to the ThrasDers' home. That
Miss Maude Ihasher was Miss Wynne's
bosom friend he could not be expected
to know. The Thrasler governess was
i'll, ard DIR. Willis easily rose to the oc-
casion.
That afternoon he was called to the
Caldwell mansion, TO prescribe for Miss
Edith CaldwclFs little dog. and Miss
Edith held the strangely calm animal
herself and eyed Dr. Willis with in
terest.
Those girls worked like Troians. Dogs,
governesses, all were grist, and when one
day Corinne Bertram happened to put
her wrist out of Joint she was incoher-
emily begged to do it again and send for
Dr.. Willis.
In six months time DR.. Willis had
been advanced, solely through the media
of Miss Wynne's interested circle, from
dogs to children, and from governesses
to unimpOrtant members of great fami-
lies.
By the end of the year he was the
lion of a select portion of Kensington.
He had become the fashionable fad, pro-
fessionally and personally. His practice
was worth his time and much money. and
his whole method of study and practice
had become justified.
Then what did young DR.. Willis do?
Not what he might have done He went
back to Vienna again-a trip made pos
sible. only because of the dogs and GOV
ernesses that were thrown in his way
and he brought back with him the fair
German girl who had waited for him all
those years to enjoy the prosperity which
Whenever DR.. Willis told the story he
always called it simple luck.-Illustrate
Bits.