Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1913-04-25

piasters, good strong ones myself
All this time Emmy was engaged to
Alpert Glenn; but the old captain was
real feeble, and Emmy wouldn't leave
,.in 70 git married. will saw Mrs.
Daftsr was real devoted to him.
'lougn Emmy done all the night work
ana spared her all she could. give up
ner school, and spent every cent Of
tie money she'd laid by school-teach-
ing and working art embroidery for
her clothes, when she'd be married.
spent every cent on her pa. Got him
wheel chair, and If ever a man set
ene world by his daughter the captain
aone It. He liked Albert, too. / guess
II captain had lived, sicks he was,
ned have found a way SOS Emmy and
ALBERT could git married. But he died.
Inen you'd "a s'posed they could mar
ry, Tor his life was well insured and
they got enough for the wilder to be
comfortable and keep a girl But the
minnit he died poor Mrs. Darter got
nervous prostration, and she was a
nervous PROSTATE for year. and they
mad to spend money travelling, and of
course Emmy couldn't git married.
Mrs. Barter went to Hot Springs. Ar
kansas, and she went to a sanitarium,
and last she come home saying she
was cured. But on the cars she MADE
the acquaintance of a. woman well,
don't want to jedge-jedge not, and
you won't git jedged, you know and
know It's hard for q woman to make
living, but guess that woman was
crank. and desig ming one at that.
But she went to Mrs. Darter's to
board, and she never paid no
board, but she preached to Mrs. Oar
ter bout how all the diseases that we
have come from eating wrong things:
and she said we'd got to live 'cording
to nature more; and eating meat made
folks fierce like the carnivorous beasts,
and things seasoned with salt was bad
for you, and jest plain farnishous
foods without salt-like We was chick
ens!-was best for us. / don't see
how Mrs. Barter, who used to cook
real well and liked to have the sewing
society to tea, could stand sech sick
stuff, but she did; and what's wuss,
even after the fool .critter ran away
and married magnetic healer who,
they do say, has another wife, even to
this day Abiel Barter believes in her
and goes by what she says. And she
amt ct any fit food for so long that if
she ever does git coaxed to take a
wholesome bite of beef or pie her
stummick is so weak of course she
| cayn't stand it. Strong folks can
eat strong vituals, and weak folks
cayn't. Mrs. Glenn coaxed her in to
a boiled dinner one day, and poor Mrs.
Darter nearly died of it. Now you
caynt git her to bulge from her grass
and potato diet, as Conner calls it.
And as for poor Emmy, when she can
| git married Lord only knows!'
Miss Keith had not interrupted the
story by as much as a hum of assent.
| She looked up with a queer smile.
sHas Mrs. Barter ever tried Chris
tian Science?"
mo, she amt" snorted Mrs. Con-
ner; we've been spared that The
Bigelow girls-they're two single Ia
dies, real nice girls, too, who live in
that big brown house with cupola
and a hip-roof there, bout two doors
up-they tried to get her into that
way of thinking; they're at every
body. And they used to go over and
set with her and give her silent
treatment they called it, and try to
think the dyspepsia out Of her; but
one of 'em got a fish-bone in her throat
and they had to come to me to pull
| it out with a pair of tWeezers. That
sorter dampened 'em for while and
Mrs. Darter says, Why didn't you
think it out?' And then Ann-she's
the oldest-says they wasn't far
enough advanced yet. Mrs. Barter told
'em then they wasn't far enough ad-
yanced to doctor her. And ! guess
they amt been there sense
| ssAll the same" insisted Miss Keith,
smiling. 81 think Mrs. Darter needs
mental healing or Christian Science, |
don't care which"
| Emmy put her mother to bed. She
gave her the soothing drops winch the
/ vanished but still reverenced healer
had left-drops which she was almost
certain owed their potency to some
alias Of opium. In the morning Mrs.
Barter came out of her drugged sleep
with deadly nausea that swathed her
muscles and laid her rigid in its limp,
deyil.fish clutch. The roof OF her
mouth was like leather; her head
seemed to be pounded with hammers;
she was burning with fever, and ma
IGN twitchings and itchings torment
ed her to rub her nose necessarily,
when the least motion was fearsome
to her. She had much more cause
than ordinary to moan, and moan she
did at every breath. jimmy had rush
! cd away to a small chum the moment
the dishes for her own breakfast had
been washed; but Emmy couldn't run.
She drank a cup of coffee; she had
mo- heart to eat jimmy, however, had
eaten the dainty little meal that En-
INV had Prepared forlorn hope TO
tempt the invalid.
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