Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1913-12-04
|HlS FIRST QU1lN6
Edward Must Have Enjoyed L So
Much After That Long
Illness.
BY MARY STEWART CUTTING.

that the very first time he went out il
would be over here to your house, sc
you see it's quite an event.
| The doctor said this morning,
when he found Edward so depressed,
that if the weather continued to be
mild it would be the very best thing
in the world for him to have little
change of scene and thought--to be
taken out Of himself that's what he
really needs now.
He wanted to come over here
alone, but | said to him: No, Ed
ward, / don't dare let you 60 with
out me. I'm so afraid you might do
something imprudent.
OF course he doesn't realize it; but
he has to be watched every minute,
especially now that he begins to
seem all right. You have to be so
careful about ptomaine poisoning.
Mrs. Calender, would you mind
moving your chair a little, SO that
Edward can move his out of the
draft? No. Edward, you don't feel
it now, but you will feel it.
Thank you, Mrs. Calender, Per-
haps / shall be more at ease about
him if the windows shut. It's all
very well for you to say you like the
air, Edward; you don't realize now
how dangerous air is, but if you wake
up in the middle of the night with
pain in the back of your neck and
| have to go down and get hot water
bottles for you, you'll wish that you
had been more careful.
What do you think, Mr.. Calender
Il have heated III water bottles for
him in the last three weeksl
Edward, dear, put your feet up on
this ottoman-I know Mrs. Callen-
der will excuse you. I'll throw my
cape over them, in case they might
get chilled.
Edward How can you act like
that, SO perfectly silly? Very well,
then, never mind about the cape.
Aren't men just like children? I'm
sure you wouldn't behave like this,
Mr.. Calender, if your wife took you
out after such a severe illness as he
has had Well, it's very kind of you
to speak that way.
Pm sure | have tried to do all that
l could-nobody knows what I've
been through. I've had to keep ev-
erything to myself He was so ter
ribly i'll that first week-he doesn't
realize how i'll he was. If it wasn't
the dreadful pain in his head it was
pain all over him.
/ put sixteen plasters on him
day, and when you consider what
that means, Mrs. Calender, running
up and down two pairs of stairs to
the kitchen and back again to make
each plaster, besides everything else
that came on me-O, yes, 1 know
that / ought to have had trained
nurse, but at the time | was so anx-
ious about Edward-when it's your
husband you feel as if you must do
everything yourself for him.
Yes, that's what uses you up so,
standing on your feet. l said to Ed
ward today: Edward, if you realized
all / go through, standing on my
feet
Yes, dear, l knew you wanted me
to send for your mother to help me,
but. He doesn't understand, as
you would, Mrs. Calender, how
much work it makes to have an
other person-and especially an old
er person, like your husbands
the house during sick
ness.
Mrs. Delaney is perfectly dear and
considerable, but you can't treat her
like anybody else-you wouldn't
want to, of course, and besides, she's
one of those people who can only eat
very simple things, and you know
how much trouble that makes with
the girl in the kitchen-it means
extra cooked for each
meal, and we are always getting out
Of the right cereal, no matter how
| try not to!
/ really felt, just now, that with
as he is, really couldn't
stand anything more on my mind.
He looks a great deal better, l
know, but his color isn't quite right