Palisadian. [volume] (Cliffside Park, N.J.) 1906-current, 1908-12-01
MUSINGS

boudoir of fashion were to compare notes with
the doctor who just left the laborers wife, it
would be found that sickness belongs to a COM
mon humanity, and that there is no more dig
nifty ard sweetness in the pains of the society's
favorite than there is in the pains of the fac
tory worker.
Recall in visions the great army of devoted,
trained men going forth day by day, night by
night, on their healing mission all over the
world--even in the rail
| The Ginger of road wreck the horror of
.4ccideutS, Fires the holocaust is being les
and WreckS sened by these volunteers,
who await neither orders
nor suitable accommodations, but do their work
with the dizziness and tenderness of a
How often does the story run thus, illus
trating how much of the doctors work is with
out rocompense save in conscientiousness of
duty done A call from poor district; it
at II O'Clock at night, anG the messenger
thinly clad little girl. Would the doctor go?
If it rot for mama | wouldn't ask that
he go out at night The doctor has slightly
frowned at the first request; but when the lit
tie ore expressed as best she could her regret
at asking the doctor to go out on such bitter
cold night, he wnched; then looking first at
the poor thin dress of the child and then
Numbering his own big fur overcoat over
shoes and gloves-a push of the buttoE-an
automobile at the door in charge OF the doc
UnSelfsh Minis lifts the little one in be-
| terng to Children side himself tucks the
robes about her, and
starts away for the stricken home. 'Pneu,
monia the doctor said when he had finished
his examination.
Leaving the room where the children sit
wide-eyed at the appearance OF the big, KIND
doctor, he goes into the kitchen. Good God!
he exclaims for he uses bit of emphatic Ian
guaee and again. It's a wonder she
isn't dead. | believe. horse could not stand
it as long as she did. The kitchen fire out,
the coal pail empty, the larder bare-these
present additional tuggings at the doctors
] heart.
"A nurse is installed; grocery wagon and
milkman stop at their house the next day.
1t was hard fight, but the sick woman pulls
through The doctor gets a bill from the
coal man, another from the nurse, another
from the milkman, and more from the grocer
and the butcher. The woman does not get any
/ bill. There is no entry on the doctors book
of many. Regarding the doctor in this light
alone is there any standard by which we can
estimate his worth
"The doctor is not glad TO hear of sickness
The study and advice Of all good doctors now
adays are towards prevention as well as re-
4 .4i7U1yS From the time the
\ WIIiHg SerQGEt doctor starts his
rounds IN the morning
until he answers his last call at right, he hears
rothing but the groars cf suffering, when
giving relief. His life is rot a pleasant one
he cam OF assure himself lights sleep
not ore days vacation. All the freaks of pal
and sufferii g, the wages Of sin, the per atty of
! igr orarce are before him cor startly. This is
the rervc-taxrg heartbreakirg and self-sac-
rihcirg work of the Doctor.
For his roble deeds-for his patience-sor
his skill-for his great share in bsaring hui
mraity's burden, we to-day greet the Doctor
May he live to see all his advice followed all
his patients cured-all his bills paid.
A beautiful hard, wrote Lord Beacorsfeld,
is an excellent thing in woman; it is a charm
that snever pals, ard better than all, 1t is a
of fascination that
Ab0Str0Phe to never disappears. Wom-
/ A WomdH'S Hand carry beautiful har d
with them to the grave,
ard where a beautiful face has long ago van
shed or ceased to erchant The expression
OF the hard, too, is irexhaustible; and when
the eyes we may have worshipped longer
flash or sparkle, the ringets with which VIC
may have played covered with cap or
worse a turban, ard the symmetrical presence
which in our sounets has reminded us so oft
of az telopes ard wild gazelles. have, all, all
varished the hard, the immortal hand. defyirg
alike time ard care, still vanquishes, and still
triumphs; ard small soft and fair by an airy
attitude. gentle pressure, a ring re-