Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1906-12-10
DAILY. STORY.
THE COUPLE WITH THE
GREEN PATCHES.


next patient for consultation. He was
a handsome, healthy looking young
fellow, with eyes as clear as crystal.
advanced, looking at him inquiringly.
Doctor" he said, 81 wish you to
thke out my right eye"
whats the matter with it?'' / asked.
astonished.
Nothing, but I wish you to take it
OUT
Il will perpetrate no such unprofes-
sional nonsense"
The young man stepped aside to a
table on which some instruments were
lying. took up a sharp pointed knife
and, holding it before his eye, said:
eff you will not take it out pro-
fessionally, 1 will take it out unpro-
fessionally."
| "Holdv' 1 said, seeing that he would
me why you wish to lose your eye and
1 will oblige you"
II am desperately in love with a
lady who has lost one of her eyes-at
least the sight of it-and she is obliged
to wear a green patch over 1t. The
Disagreement has made her inordinate
| ly sensitive. She positively declines to
| infiict herself on any man for life.
Instead of inficting herself on me for
life she is running my life. If 1 have
the same defect she cannot refuse me-"
az see," 1 said. Now, my friend,
let me give you a piece of advice. In
stead of cutting out your eye, cut out
the woman you love from your heart.
There are plenty of women who would
be delighted to marry you
Doctor, fulfill your promise. have
done my part in giving you my reason.
Now do your part"
1 summoned an assistant. placed the
man on an operating chair, gave him
an anaesthetic, and when be came to
himself and 1 held glass before him
he saw a green patch instead of an
eye and felt considerable pain.
"Now," 1 said, eff you don't want
the loss of one eye to affect the other
and leave you totally blind, don't re-
move the covering on any account.
For how long? 1 must change the
patch occasionally. One won't last
forever"
when it is too much soiled to be
worn longer, come to me, and 1 will
change 1t for you
every we'll. Your fee. doctor?''
"Fee? Do you suppose would take
a fee for manning a man? I perform
ed the operation to prevent your max
ing 1t worse"
st am very much obliged to you,
DOCTOR
And the man who wished his sight
impaired followed the man who wish
ed his sight restored.
"Nextr' 1 called to the attendant,
muttering to myself, "What a queer
worldr'
A month later when ''next" was call
ed he proved to be the man who had
wished his eye removed. He was ac-
companied by young lady wearing a
patch similar to his. But for the patch
and the saddest face 1 ever saw she
would have been extraordinarily
pretty.
Doctor" said the man, 81 have
called to ask you to change the patch.
and have brought with me the lady
on whose account I had my eye re-
moved. We are soon to be married"
"Oh, DOCTOR she said in a wall,
''why did you do it?"
Without noticing her remark / turn
ed to the man and told him that l
would change his patch, but in order
that no ray of light should enter the
place where the eye had been l must
darken the room. 1 then closed the
blinds and changed his patch. When
had finished asked the young lady
if it might not be possible for me to
ho1 hor. Chn hpci.
tated and looked meaningly at her
lover. / took the hint and asked him
to wait without until 1 made an ex-
animation. AS soon as he had gone the
girl turned to me and said in despair
ing tones:
Doctor, have ruined his life. When
1 met him 1 was temporarily wearing
a patch for some slight weakness in
my eye. In a fit of coquetry l told
him what he told you. 1 never dream
ed that he would-that he loved me so
/ shall never remove my
patch, though 1 do not need it."
81 dislike" said. ito lecture WON
an, but 1 confess that women who give
way to such feminine temptations de-
serve the punishment they receive and
often do not receive"
81 deserve all and more" she moan
ed. 81 even wish were dead"
''INhen are you to be marriedT'
sTn two weeks. Will you come to
the wedding?'
Eyes Your intended will need
new patch for such an important cere-
mony. 1 will be there In time to put
1t on
The next day I received the cards |
and ON the morning of the wedding |
went to the house where the marriage |
was to take place, arriving about ten |
minutes before the appointed hour. |
The groom's best man on learning my |
name took me to back drawing room, |
where the bride and groom were walt I
ing The bride started to close the |
shutters. but called her back and. GO |