Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1911-09-12

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".By Jover exclaimed on reading
this. If she can only get Florence to
act on that with me won't need the
prescription
Then the absurdity OF attributing
all the fault TO you occurred TO me,
and 1 laughed"
why. do you know. dAr." the wife
interrupted. that seamstress ! had Cor
two weeks after my summer al Z. said
the very same thing to me that your
domestic healer said TO you
II wonder" remarked the husband
renectiveIy. IF she could have been
deputy"
"And I told her that / wished some
one would make that remark to my
husband"
Did your"
was that all the treatment your
clever Miss Blossom gave usT'
81 don't know. wonder if ii was
did you ever learn the identity o.
the deputy who observed you during
the summer 1 was at B.T
NO. and 1 don't believe 1 was OBJ
served"
'.Are you sure Miss Blossom went to
B. and studied me?"
mo; I'm not"
What was the rest OF the treat
ment7"
why, Miss Blossom wrote me once
every week to ask me If we had had
any uuarrels and If so whether /
could not have prevented them by act
ing in accordance with her prescrip-
ton. This kept the prescription in ny
mind, and 1 acted upon it constantly.
After three or four weeks 1 replied to
her query that we hadn't had any dis
agreements"
''Now I think Of it." the wife broke
in again. that Miss Harding, the
seamstress, who had sewed for me,
was about that time continually com
ing to see me to ask if'I couldn't get
her some work or on some trivial mat
ter. do believe they were all pretexts.
for every time she called she asked
me how / was getting on as TO the
matter of which we had spoken and
always ended by saying people can't
quarrel if they will keep their eyes
fixed on their own faults"
Flo" said the husband impressively,
at the same time pulling his mus
tache with vigor, 1--WE got an idea"
"What is it?'
'oThat you and made two big jack
anapes of ourselves. / paid that con-
sarned woman $50 as a retaining fee,
$50 for an outing, which she doubt
less took at some other place than
B., and a bill Of 5000 more for 'profes-
sionaI services And what did she
do? Crammed into our empty pates
what any ordinary fool should know"
"Why, it's in the Bible, isn't it?'
''That about picking the beam out
of your own eye instead of picking
q mote out of your brothers eyer"
Surely"
"Well, I'll be fingered"
They hung their heads for a few
moments; then the wife said:
Bob. you've had an idea; now l
have one.'
what is itY'
"That that Miss Blossom is nobody's
fool if she did swindle u.s."
"Swindle us? I don't think she did
Doctors who cram drugs down peo-
pies threats. not knowing what is the
matter with them, and charge them
big fees for doing so may be liable
to that charge, but this woman actu-
ally cured u.s.
Indeed she did"
land if she hadn't charged me
big fee l wouldn't have acted on her
advice. paid her so much money that
l was bound to get the worth of It
And got the worth Of 1t. That w9s
the cheapest cure 1 ever bought. I
wouldn't give back what I got for ten
times. the amount l paid. Miss Bios
som is brick. Let's invite her TO din
uer"
Lets"
Miss Blossom was invited to dinner
She accepted and sat between the pa
tients wreathed In smiles. Then she
gave them another surprise. Though
poor, she gave all her fees, reserving
only enough for her maintenance, to
the poor.