Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1910-01-29

down to her heels; and her fathers
hat, which almost gave her a crick in
her neck, it was so wabbly and hard
to balance, and she was carrying big
umbrella. She set the umbrella against
the wall and took off her hat-she
was glad it is not polite to wear your
hat in the house when you are man.
Good morning, ma am" she said to
grandmother. 81 am a doctor; not
just plain one, but special doctor
that's very important, and my visits
cost a lot of dollars apiece
By this time Molly and grandmother
were shaking hands.
What is your name, doctor?" in
quired grandmother.
Mn" meditated Molly. my name
is DR.. Mary. l can't stay long There
is great deal of measles and Group
and other diseases waiting for me in a
hurry. But your son asked me to step
in, SO l obliged him. Please let me
see your tongue
DR.. Mary looked at grandmother's
tongue, then she felt her pulse, then
she laid the palm Of her hand on
grandmother's forehead and put the
back of her hand against the end of
grandmother nose.
DR.. Mary shook her head
you are very very sick lady" she
said gravely. 1--WE got just three cures
to give you. If they don't cure you l
don't know what I'll do"
"Three!" cried grandmother. 1t
must be a bad case! What is the
first?''
THE first" answered Molly, trying
to keep her dimples from showing (for
who ever heard of a great special doc
tor that had dimples?) ''the first is to
kiss mel"
Grandmother was not slow to obey
which is a great point with patient.
L feel better already" she said.
"The second" continued Dr. Mary.
when she had smoothed her hair back
again out of her eyes, SIS to take all
these different things that I am going
to tell you about and stir them up to-
gether and put them right over your
heart in a plaster, to draw"
Molly got that last expression from
Julie, the laundress. She waited to see
whether grandmother would appreci-
ate it. Grandmother did
Very WELL l will" she promised.
Tell me what the things are"
Why" said Molly, this is one;
Charley told the other boys that he felt
pretty shy of grandmothers before you
came, but now he liked them; they
were all right he said And mother
said it made a change in a family
when an angel came and lived with it
she meant you Julie and Katy think
you are splendid. I heard them tell
the butcher there wasn't another old
lady in town could hold a candle to-
you That was very slangy, but they
meant to be nice And father is crazy
about you All of us are. Now" end
ed Dr. Mary, "stir all these up and
put them over your heart-the heat
will be good for you"
"Oh, very, good!' said grandmother
softly, her eyes shining. Then she
tried the first cure" over again sew
eral times without stopping,
Wait Wait" said DR.. Mary.
There is one more medicine for you
to take
81 don't need it," said grandmother.
But DR.. Mary frowned at her. Then
she laughed and frisked about the
room in way that was very undigni-
figed for a famous physician.
II you knew what 1t was! she
cried delightedly If you just knew
what it was. you would never say
that! THERE"
She snatched something out of her
pocket, that is to say, Charley's peck
et-and dropped it into grandmother's
lap. 1t was small and oblong and had
many foreign postmarks 1t was a let
ter from grandmother youngest son,
| her baby" who was writing a re-
markedly learned book in Japan.
How do you feel now?' asked Mol
! ly, when grandmother was turning the
first page.
"As if l had never had an i'll day in
my life" answered grandmother.
| And indeed she looked it.
Sally Campbell in the February st.
Nicholas.
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