Evening journal. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1907-1913, 1908-04-22

lid one wh didn't use Twas q little
ten Us SIX building that Marcellns had
for q Toulouse. and the shingles was
falling o9 and the roof aud sides iull
Of cracks and knotholes. we set The
lounge down ID there.
What on earth r. says T.
gm going to tell you says she.
"Mr Hartley said could have the
lounge"
Then she told what BIS. plan was.
Twas a mighty good one, and l
promised 10 help along 7 laughed
over 1t tia supper time.
That evening we was all IN the din
ing room The weather had changed
lately and the nights was chilly and
windy Twa'n't pleasant enough for
the Twins to be on the porch, and
Washy had come down from his room
and was All hunched up in front o. the
stove in the kitchen Eureka was
just finishing the dishes. Ali o. sud-
den / heard her say
pa dent spose you feel wen
enough 70 80 10 work."
/ could hear her dads feet come
down OF The stove hearth with q
thump he started 70 speak, and then,
remembering himself he coughed, az
hollow as an empty biler
y asked Eureka goes On, because
/ saw Mr Brown yesterday and he
said YOU coald nave that Job at the
hotel ans time you wanted r."
Hotel ioBlH hollers Washy. How
long do you cal4ate ia last Juggling
bricks and digging? Amt YOU salts
fled @ see me slipping into the grave
day BIS day without wanting 70 shove
nae under all at oHce2"
no. knew you want fit to work.
But ia. I've been hoping to find a way
to cure son some day and now I've
learned The way And I'm going 70
tiy IT,"
Washy coughed again I was listen
iug with an my ears and see the
Twins doing the same. -
"Curea Humphl snils the old ndn.
Im past curing. darter Don't YOU
worry about me Let me die, that's
all. let ME die Only | hope twont
be too slow Cure The doctors give
me up long spel ago"
Doctors give you upl What doc
torso Nobody but Penrose, and you've
said moren a thousand times that he
want no doctor i've been reading
up lately and know how real doc
tors cure folks
IT ain n0 USE begins her dad.
She cut him short
Your case is kind o. mixed-up pa,
says She elm free TO say. owing To
your consumption being complicated
with nervous dysnepsy But I've made
to my mind to start IN on your lungs
and kind Of work round to your stom-
ach You listen to this"
She come ID the dining room and
took a maeazlne ont Of the chest AZ
drawers Then she opened to place
ehere the lear was turned down, and
went baeR % the kitchen.
Consumption, pa she says, amt
cured b3 medicine no more Not by
the real doctors. # amt You say Your
self that all Miss Pages medicine amt
done you no good Fresh air night
and DAY IS what's needed, and you
don't get L here By the stove or shut
up b your room You ought to live
out door Yes. and sleep there, too.
sleep out door, What Kind Of tank
Is that2 BE you crazy or
Don / sereeeh so. pa says Eureka.
cold as an lee chest Folks over on
the main viii think this place is on
ire Listen to This Here's a piece
about consumption Ia this magazine.
They call il Che White Plague III
read some OF it
The Hearenlies was in a broad grin
by ais time Washy Kept yelling ihat
he didn't want to hear no such fool-
isfuess 6ut his daughter spelt out
different parts of the magazine piece.
e told about how dangerous snut-up
rooms and confined atmospheresr
was. and about what it called open
air sauitaFiums and outdoor bed
rooms
See pa says she "luok al this
picture. Here's d tent where two con-
samptiVe folGs lived and slept for over
year Twas 30 below zero there
sometimes but IT cured EN- And see
this one Twas As bslow whore that
shanty was butt
THE invalid jumped out Of his chair
and come boiling into the dining room
Take it amayt" he wells, frantic.
If yon expect me TO believe such lies
as Them you're
They aint Iies says Eureka, fol.
lowing him W. and speaking calm and
easy They're true; amt they, Mr.
Van Erun
Van smothered his grins aud
nodded
True as gospel he says
Yes. course they be And pa. I'm
going 10 eare you or die a-trying The
old Toulouse ont back Of the barn
IS just The place for Won IT'S full Of
holes and cracks. SO there1l be plenty
IF fresh afr And I took The sofy out
thege this very day You can sleep
there nights and set Ia the sun day
times You mustn't come 10 tie house
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