Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1913-02-06

| BOAT from the Dutch coast. and an in.
dlHerent breakfast at a small inn
was not unwillingly persuaded to do
full justice to the British beef and
bread and beer, which he praised at
every mouthful He won Phyllida's
heart completely by his admiration OF
the picture of Mrs. Allen in her child
ish days over the mantelpiece. paint.
ed by the great Sir Joshua himself,
Rs she was playing with his favorite
niece, Theophila Gwatl1in, and he
promised to find out the original in
town, and tell her his story, or rather
Franks, at first hand.
They parted cordially, and his last
words were prophecy, meant to be
cheering, that Frank would soon be
across the water; but Phyllida went
home, in spite of it, with a heavy
heart, quite forgetting that she had
left her books in pile on the draw
ing-room floor.
1t was well, perhaps, that she had
not much leisure to mediate on the
foreign news which had so disturbed
the peaceful tenor of her way. The
evening of that very day, from which
PhylIida dated many misfortunes, her
mother was seized after supper with a
sudden attack of Inconsistencies,
which lasted so long that the house
hold was alarmed into dispatching
Job Makey with all speed for the doc
tor.
Mrs. Ivert was person who treat
ed all ailments as more or less of a
crime. to be met with stern patience
and self-suppression; and Phyllida
was both surprised and alarmed at
her taking the doctors arrival quietly,
and at being sent downstairs herself
whilst he interviewed his patient
and Mrs. Makey. Their consultations
lasted long time, it seemed to her,
waiting in the parlor, until he came
in, stumbling over the threshold with
an Oath-oaths were the evil fashion
of those days.
He was brisk, pompOus little man,
with large cooked hat, gold-headed
cane, and voluminous ruf1es by way
of medical uniform, and habit of
bending his body and moving his feet
whilst he talked, as if he we're per-
petually preparing for a chAsse across
the room, and then changed his mind
as to it's direction. Luckhurst had
been known to call him "a Jumping
Jenny" though what she meant was
not very clear.
He was truly kind-hearted, and
though he was secretly Tuning to re-
turn to the rubber, from which he
had been summoned at a critical mo-
ment of the game, he sat down and
took several pinches of snuff in rapid
succession - facts combined which
would have told any one better &C
quainted with him than Phyllida was,
that something serious was the mat
ter. She was sufficiently alarmed,
however, by his opening, which was
invariable in every fresh care:
eve must, under the circumstances
of our patients condition, follow !.
strictly antiphlogistic treatment,
combined with cheerful repose and re-
freshlng beverages"
Then, dropping his pompous man
ner, he told Phyllida plainly that her
mother was suffering from an incura-
BILE disease, of which she had long
been herself aware, keeping it a
secret with the reticence in such mat
tiers more common to her generation
than our own. TnlS mad now reached
a crisis, from which she might rally
for a time, though she could never
regain any great measure of health or
activity. Rest and alienation of pain
we're all that could be done for her.
He had given full directions to Mrs.
Makey, and would call again when he
was sent for.
Herewith he departed, leaving
Phyllida beWildered by the fall Of this
thunderbolt out of clear sky, and
filled with remorse at having been
too much absorbed in her own ankle
ties to have remarked her mothers
failing health. For some days she
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virtually the mistress of the house,
whilst Mrs. Ivert lay in bed for the
first time in her recollection, well con-
tent to be there, which was even
more wonderful. In truth, she had
struggled on so long in pain and
WEAKNESS, that it was relief to her
to cease the attempt to keep up and
fulfil her daily duties.
Phyllida began to understand what
a trial her life for many months must
have been, and how her sharp words
and ways were accounted for, and she
felt doubly grateful to Mrs. Allen, who
had always reproved any signs of re-
belliOn or fault-finding on her part.
After the first few days she began
to take pride in her housekeeping and
nursing, which, with good Mrs. Ma
keys advice and assistance, were not
too onerous, though she had seldom
many minutes to herself upstairs or
down. The common trouble drew
mother and daughter closer than they
had ever been before, though little
was said on either side. Mrs. Ivert's
chief anxiety was that her father-in-