The searchlight. [volume] (Culbertson, Mont.) 1902-current, 1911-06-16

Don't nothing put the heart In a broke.
down woman like little loving"
Miss Selma Lue.
"Bennie, honey. run IN the hill and
tell Miss Cynthie that | wishY she
would come right down, fer Blossom
amt SO well; and stop in and ask Mis-
Kinney to come and sell the suppers
fer me, cause I don't want TO leave
the baby"
"Oh. Miss Seliny Lue. is she much
sick?" Bennie's freckled face drew
up into knot with anxiety. for Bios.
som was the core of the green apple
that at his age passes for a heart.
Yes. honey. she's pretty bad, and I
feel I must see Miss Cynthie q bit.
Now run along; and IL YOU see Mr..
Alan. send him to me, too" Miss Sc.
line Lue's strong face was grave and
sweet. but had none of the disfiguring
marks with which anxiety ravages
many countenances. As she turned
MIR. Alan entered the back door.
"How's the Blossom" he asked anx-
iously as he deposited his kit In the
corner.
Looks like can't even want q
thing In my heart without when
open my eyes there IL is" said Miss
Selma Lue softly. The baby amt so
well, | am Altered. and | was TEST
mean and selfish enough TO send fer
Miss Cynthie TO come down and worry
with me. I never did hold with shar.
ing worries. but didn't expect you
back till dark. and II jest seemed like
| had to have one or tOther OF you a
while"
What did the doctor say" asked
Mr.. Alan as he came and stood by her
in the door.
There was strength and comfort in
the very sight of him, and Miss Selma
Lue frightened yisibly as she an.
| swered.
We'll. Mr.. Alan, II do beat every.
thing to me to see man-doctor
founder around and hunt for what s
the matter with a baby It's plumb
painful. But this young Teller. what
you and Miss Cynthie say is a spe-
cialer with babies, done pretty well.
with my helping him along. He says
II is pneumony with a long-named
side issue TO IL, what call Jest plain
being threatened with bad Group. II
IL was one of the Tyneses now. or
l.uella Kinney, I would think sure
could pull 'em through: but Blossom
looks like she wasn't mixed outen the
same ingrejints as the other children
on the Bluff. and somehow" Miss
Selma Lue's voice faltered for a mo
ment.
Mr.. Alan took her hand in his and
said gently: She is very special
sort OF flower is the Blossom. and we
all feel that. Did the doctor say he
would rather have the trained nurse?
| Il asked him faithful cause I prom
ised yon, but he jest looked at me and
he said there wasn't no SIGH nursing
as she had to be bought in the city
And course he knows about you walk
ing her nights and Miss Cynthie
a-spelling of us both. Looks like &c
me, too, that they amt no nursing In
the world that can do as well nj
| "hai 'ohitS iibii lh' manu- VI lbNt-
If II il guided by common sense"
Yes, but skill sometimes is needed
i'm some"
We'll. amt skill another name fel
common sense? I've done had ex
perience with the lack of 'em both
When Ethel Maud was six months old
Mis- Dobbs fed her a little strawberr,
preserves. and thought her time ha,
come when seed the spasm she wen
into. After a spell when ! got hei
emptied out and full OF hot ginger tea
she woulder quieted down but hel
mother set her afire with candle sh,
was holding To see IL she was a.breath
Ing. And. lands alive. the child wa
most burned to death fore could pu
her out! And what with the straw
berry poison working on her at thu
same time she almost passed from US
And there she is alive and a-settin,
by Blossom as quiet as a mouse Z,
call me II she stirs-baby-loving an,
tending was horned In that child"
Miss Seliny Lue." called a small
frightened voice, which was followe,
by a hoarse cough.
Watch fer Miss Cynthie and brin,
her back to my room. There Gomez
Mis- Kinney to sell the suppers! Can
you kinder keep her talking out here
| S,he lo make the hahy hmm IN