Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1906-03-31


care of man who is down and oui
with it.
Disease always takes woman bs
surprise. no matter how much she may
have courted it. \ man, never. lie +
always expecting to be stricken down.
1t may be that having to pay life IN
surance calls keeps his mind hNed on
death and calamity. Anyway. IN the
midst of health he begins to prepare e
have the influenza.
He reads the remedies suggested ~
the daily papers and comes home AZ
night with his pockets bulging with
drugs.
He talks it over with his friends on the
street cars and in his office and goes out
and buys Something that did Smith good,
and stops on his way uptown to puf-
chase bottle of the specific that ROBIN
son recommended.
Above all, he is strong on preventiyes.
He reads that you must keep warm, ana
he smothers his family i'll tiannels, aud
turns the house into sweat box.
He is told you must keep your feet
dry. and he buys rubber Overshoes that
he wears one day and forgetS the next
Somebody informs him that You must
avoid drafts, and he becomes kind Of
domestic Sherlock Holmes. pottering
around trying to find cracks in the WIN
doctor. of whom he never heard before.
recommends quinine, and pills become
the staple of his daily diet.
All signs fail to dry weather, how
ever and all precautions are wasted in
times of grippe. so some day he comes
home with chills playing leap frog up
and down his spine, and every bone IN
his body working overtime on new and
separate ache.
what is the matter?" his wife asks.
Il have got it, he answers i'll Il sepul-
chral tone. and then he adds. II am a
dying man. Maria. People Of my build
never get over the grippe, | knew
should never live through it if | caught
it, and that is the reason | took 50
many precautions to avoid it. Send for
Il doctor and two trained nurses, but
mark my words, Maria, I'm Il doomed
man
oh. nonsense" says Maria. who has
seen him sick before You have just
got a bad cold. and I'll make you hot
punch and put YOU to bed, and by To-
morrow"
"Coldr' he echoes hollowly with an mir
of one stabbed to the heart Great Je-
hoShcphat. woman. did You ever know
me TO give in for little thing like Il
cold? | tell You l have a combination OF
grip, rheumatism and heart failure that
would kill wooden man
Maria assists him to bed and he re
marks moanfully. that she will find his
will in the safety deposit box and thai
his insurance is paid up. and that he has
| tried TO be good husband to her. and
he hopes she and the children will try
not to forget him."
Then he braces up and takes about
four fingers of whisky and calls for the
! hot water bottle, somebody to hold his
hands. rub his head. lower the blinds. get
a mustard plaster for his back, telephone
10 see why the doctor doesn't come, AMI
hurry up the nurses.
The ensuing days are full of trouble
and tribulation. Maria sits by the bed
and tries to assume Il proper deathbed
expression, although she knows there is
no occasion for it, The trained nurses
are worn to a fragile.
The cook is kept on the jump from
morning until night preparing little
messes that the sick man thinks he could
eat if somebody could cook so that thing
taste like they used TO when he was out
camping.
Then about the time the whole house
hold is so Worn out they feel ms if they
would be reconciled to his death, he gets
well. and spends the next six months de
scrIblng his symptoms to every one who
will listen TO him.
| A clever Washington woman once said
that she always went to the inaugufa
balls to keep people from describing them
TO her.
1t is a safe tip. The only way in these
days to save yourself from being bored
by having to listen to the account of
other peoples influenza is to have the
grip first yourself and symptoms and
remedies of your own. Philadelphia
Evening Bulletin.