Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1905-02-25
WHAT WILLIS DID.


When young Dr. Willis put out his
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 in
the years that made up his medical
course.
lie was thorough youth who believed
that he needed Vienna and its schools ut
a time when all his advisers told him
that he needed the beginnings oil u prac-
tice. He took Vienna
After two years there he was back in
town, ready at last in his own mind To
begin the practice of medicine
Here again he found his critics. They
said it behooved yoUrg Willis, in his al
most penniless condition, to get Il small
hospital position or to go out in some
rapidly growing suburb and make a
quick start of some sort.
Cheap buildings were mentioned part
nerships We're suggested. In the very
teeth of his friends young Willis took
small but t&Wless West End apartment
and waited for patients waited because
professional ethics forbid advertising.
He waited six months-nne 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 i'll as many DAYS
Miss Ethel Wynne, young woman OF
much beauty, whom he remembered in
his dancing school days, and who cyi
IDENTIFY remembered him.
She greeted him this afternoon with a
shade more cordiality than she had ever
shown him before. She stopped the car
riage and bcckoned TO him. and in an
ether moment he was whirling down the
road beside her
1t was on this afternoon that Miss
Wynne realized that the suit which Dir.
Willis was wearing then was the iuen-
teal one that he 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
logical bent, and she swiftly deduced the
painful fact that it was the young doc
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 Nynnes' house stood at present So
Miss Wynne planned swiftly and exc
cutcd with dispatch.
Paul Willis must be helped to speedy
comfort-helped professionally, for, UNI
fortunately, he was not a church. to be
aided with bazaar; nor an orphan asy-
lum, to be aided with q lawn fete.
The next day Dr.. Willis received
sudden call to the Thrashers' home. That
Hiss Maude Ihrasher vas Miss Wynne's
bosom friend he could not be expected
to know. The ThrasLer governess was
III. ard DIR. Willis easily rose to the oc
casion.
That afternoon he WAS called to the
Caldwell mansion, to prescribe for Miss
Edith Caldwclls little dog. and Miss
Edith held the strangely calm animal
herself and eyed DR.. Willis with in
terest
Those girls worked like Trojans. Dogs,
goyernesses, all were grist, and when one
day Corlnne 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
he owed to-
Whenever DR.. Willis told the story he
always called it simple Illustrated