Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-06-18

OH4oH Hill MINING STOCK as q piece
of waste paper. 1t had been pur-
- chased in moment of enthusiasm,
and after two years Of alternate
hope and despair, father had tucked it into
the lowest stratum of his strong box and
the family had forgotten it's existence
When he was unexpectedly offered $3.50 for
his shares the money came very much after
the fashion of fairy gift, and the family
gathered in conference to discuss its ex-
penditure
Il paid that little account at the hard
ware store and ordered me a new suit of
clothes on my way up" said father
We'll 1t does seem to me might have
the front room papered and a new set of
curtains" was mothers suggestion.
The son, who was in his last year at
high school, wanted enough money TO Join
the Y. NJ. c. a. camping crowd.
only $50" he urged. for a month of
We'll. if Henry goes camping. I think 7
might go down TO the shore for a week
and have one au-new dress" was the
daughters comment
The father swept the circle with a eoo5-
humored glance
Hold up minute. There's DR.. Ellis to
be thought of. We still owe him some
money. How low, much is it, mother?"
'Phew;," whistled Harry. who all has
been sick that mueh?"
You broke your arm for. one" snapped
Bessie, as she Suddenly saw her trip to
the shore slipping from her..
The mother looked at her husband with
a deprecatory smile
We'll, 1t seems as If we ought to pay
him something. We have not made any
payment since the first of the year"
Yes. l guess we had better pay him
$50 said the father; and l will give him
the rest the first of July"
Bessie drew a sigh of relief
He can wait until then. Doctors are
used to waiting"
Aunt Amanda who had not asked for
anything, but who had $50 invested in
Union Hill stock, now spoke quietly But
DR.. Ellis did not wait when you telcphoned
him that Harry had fallen off his wheel
and broken his arm, and II he had waited
even five hours when your mother had ap-
pendicitis there would have been no need
for him to come at all. You'd have been
paying your undertaken instead l have
always noticed that the doctor is the first
10 be called when you're in trouble and the
last to be paid when you get out of it,
Now it just seems to me l would send DIR.
Ellis 500 OF that money with an apology
for keeping him waiting for nearly six
months Then if some of you get sick
Jaunting around the country you won't
feel ashamed to send for him when you
come back
Ard after six months this doctor re-
ceived the last of the money which. as the
town was not large, he had probably need
ed 10 pay the butcher, the baker and the
gas company.
And it is just such cases as this that
have brought the modern doctor TO a reali-
zation that he must be a financier as we'll
as physician.
The doctors gig, which. with It's sham
bling old horse. its black case of bottles
and instruments and its kindly driver in
rusty black, carrying with him innumer-
able family secrets and unpaid accounts.
is etill in evidence in the back country
But in the big cities. and some OF the
small ones. too, the well-to-do public de-
mands the up-to-date doctor well groomed
well dressed well housed. and it gives the
preference 10 him who rides beside his
chauffeur in an automobile
The owner of the house the doctor lives
in does not care whether the Doctors pa
tients pay their bills or not. He wants the
Doctors rent. II he does not get it the
doctor receives diSposSesS notice If the
gas bin is not paid the company's officials
turn off the supply. The fact that the phy-
stefan cannot collect his bills carries no
weight with an urgent corporation If YOU
do not pay your doctors bills you need NOT
be surprised 10 find some day that hts
telephone connection has been taken out
and, OF course. the up-to-date doctor cam
not hold practice unless he has a teie-
phone.
You speak with regret of the dear old
family physician who used to visit the
farm, pat your eEliGren On The head, cali
ing you by his fayofite nickname and per-
haps passing out rnysteriousy delightful
chocolate drops with little pellets on top
of them, and then disappearing in the more
mysterious sick room from which you were
barred. You never heard his bill discussed
In fact, his account bouks would have
driven the expert accountant of today into
nervous prostration.
But the fact remains that today you like
TO employ in your household the physician
whose linen is correct. whose ties are In
good taste, whose hands are well mani
cured and whose name is found upon one