Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1913-04-03
RMONT FREDERICK COUNTY, MD, THURSDAY, APRIL 1913

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All this time Emmy was engaged to
Albert Glenn; but the old captain was
real feeble, and Emmy wouldn't leave
him to git married. will say Mrs.
Darter was real devoted to him,
though Emmy done all the night work
and spared her all she could, give up
her school, and spent every cent OF
the 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
a wheel chair, and If ever man set
the world by his daughter the captain
done it. He liked Albert, too. l guess
II captain had lived, sick's he was,
he'd have found way SOS Emmy and
Albert could git married. But he died.
Then you'd "a s'posed they could mar
ry, for his life was well insured, and
they got enough for tLu widder 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
had to spend money travelling, and of
course Emmy couldn't git married.
Mrs. Darter 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 woman-well,
don't want to Jedge-jedge not, and
you won't git jedged, you know-and
[ know It's hard for woman to make
living, but guess that woman was
a 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. Dar-
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 Darter, 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 a magnetic healer who.
they do say, has another wife, even to
this day Abiel Darter believes In her
and goes by what she says. And she
amt ct any fit food for so long that II
she ever does git coaxed to take
wholesome bite of beef or pie her
stummick is so weak of course she
cayn't stand 1t. Strong folks can
eat strong vituals, and weak folks
cayn't. Mrs. Glenn coaxed her In to
boiled dinner one day, and poor Mrs.
Darter nearly died of 1t. Now you
cayn't git her to bulge from her grass
and potato diet, as Conner calls 1t.
And as for poor Emmy, when she can
git married Lord only knows!"
Miss Keith had not interrupted the
story by as much as hum Of assent.
She locked up with queer smile.
HAS Mrs. Darter 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 60 over and
set with her and give her silent
treatment they called 1t, and try to
think the dyspepsia out Of her; but
one of 'em got fishbone In her throat
and they had to come to me to pull
1t out with a pair of tweezers. That
sorter dampened 'em for a while and
Mrs. Darter says, Why didn't you
think 1t out?' And then Ann-she's
the oldest-says they wasn't far
enough advanced yet Mrs. Darter told
'em then they wasn't far enough ad'
vanced to doctor her. And ! guess
they amt been there sense
"All 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 which 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.
Darter came out of her drugged sleep
with deadly nausea that swathed her
muscles and laid her rigid in its limp,
devilfish clutch. The roof OF her
mouth was like leather; her head
seemed to be pounded with hammers;
she was burning with fever, and ma
lign 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
ed away to 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
no heart to eat jimmy, however, had
eaten the dainty little meal that EN-
my had prepared-a forlorn hope to
tempt the invalid.
ooh, my nose! my nose!" walled
Mrs. Darter. Emmy, you've got to
"a 1oxxt