El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1913-10-16

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But hold on moment That is not
just what mean. mean to say what a
! disappointment she is when she gets
on woman's ordinary clothes. If she is
| a disappointment when she gets off her
uniform, of course 1 don't know. l pre-
sumo, however, with her corset off
and her hair down and off too, that she
! looks as if she were falling to pieces
| just like any other woman.
I am judging, Of course, by what 1
| have read in the books. 1 read a great
many books.
My pretty nurse has worn stiff white
| linen dresses with matroBly, white
linen aprons, and a little white cap on
/ her head, ever since she came, On her
walks with Manette she always wore
| this same costume, and as she has
| never gone to town had never seen
her in her street clothes till today.
/ The occasion was a visit to the hotel
| near by. The suffraget said they had
a fine orchestra and. had invited the
nurse over to dinner to hear II:
| 1 was drinking cup of beef tea, and
/ wishing I knew who invented the stuff,
so L could throw a few rocks at his
| grave, when she appeared, and the
! shock made me spill the beef tea all
4 over the pup who was taking a nap
/ on the floor beside me.
| Plain Talk.
Il don't like you when you are not
a nurse" I growled, with the privi-
Iege the enforced sick room familiarity
I had given me. You look like Saliva
ton Nell. Where's your tambourine?"
She had on a dark green skirt, a red
plaid waist and her hat of dark blue
was so modiSh it covered all the pretty
| hair which is in charming evidence
under her nurses cap.
I had told her few days before that
2 nurse is irresistible to a patient pro
rata with his helplessness, and I was
quite sure that if 1 had been blown
up by boiler explosion Ia
have married her the moment all of me
came down. The sight of her in her
mind.
TT would take more than boiler
explosion to make me propose to you
with that dress on. There wouldn't
be remnant of me that wouldn't pro-
test" groWled at her, "at the pros
pect of a wife looking like you DO
you lead the parade tOday?"
She made no reply, but went quickly
into the house, and when she returned
it was with an unusually large dose of
the most bitter medicine the doctor had
ordered for me- And she made me
You viii find Mr.. Max" as she
waved good-by, that even when your
nurse gets on what you call her Saliva
ton Army clothes, she has her training
on underneath"
He Was Blind.
Undoubtedly have been paying high
wages all these weeks to a stiffly
d
starched cap on top. Richard doesn't
wear a uniform, and that has blinded
me to the fact that she is a natural
born nurse.
Poor RichardI When I think of her
I am reminded of the nurses conten-
tion that men canonize the women
they don't marry, for all the saints
were old maids.
The nurse came home long after I
had fallen asleep, and woke me up by
saying goodbye TO some one
A guest at the hotel-a man-had
brought her home
a Puzzle.
Il am surprised I remarked that
any man could go that far with you
in those clothes you wore II ne
could see you in that uniform it would
be fatal, but 1 am quite sure you will
never see him again
Don't be so sure" mockingly and
I felt that I had been too sure when
he called this afternoon, a self salts
fled looking creature with a mustache
like a walrus and the expression of
an eel, and took her for ride.
you are making a mistake" said
sarcasucally, TO ride around IN tnat
Noah's Ark of an affair. It will spoil
your pleasure in riding in my lin
CUISINE when we get home"
She laughed and said nothing. And
a woman by the way can laugh and say
nothing and say more than any one
who ever lived.
I have decided that IL he comes to-
morrow to take her for a ride I will
develop a chill and keep her at home
1t will not be difficult to shake out
some new ailment If I see her in any
more of her regulation clothes To-
day she wore a purple hat with a pale
blue feather. but I remembered the
medicine of yesterday and said nothing
In time, will learn, like the pup, to
protest only with my eyes