Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1914-03-19

pleasure seeking.
We can never tell for what persons
are fitted until they are tried. Lucy,
of whom her husband had expected
nothing as II nurse. rose to the occa
sion. Her sunny disposition proved
great comfort to him. When he was
words of encouragement which she did
not feel she wept with him This did
him more good than telling him what
he knew was false, and he would say
to himself: Poor little girl. She suf-
fers for me more than | suffer.
must brace up for her sake
Georges condition grew gradually
worse He would not have doctors to
visit him. because he had been told
that they could do him no good DR..
Franklin came to see him occasionally
and was now and then called in to
effect some temporary relief. George
asked him one day to tell him the ma
ture of his disease, but the doctor con-
WINGED him that it was better for him
to remain in ignorance of it.
One day Mrs. Underhill received
note from DR.. Franklin asking her to
bring her husband to his Office Many
cures were being announced for differ
ent diseases by investigators, but most
of them excited wild hopes only to be
crushed. A cure for her husbands dis
ease had been discovered which-at any
rate, in certain cases-gaye temporary
relief. She might tell this to the in
valid, giving him to understand that
the relief was expected to be only
temporary. Any relief was accepta-
bic, and, ordering car. George was
carried to the physicians office.
DR.. Franklin covered bis neck with
sheet lead with hole in it large
enough to admit the swelling. What
else he did George could not see. and,
as for Lucy. she did not understand
what it meant. The doctor was bring
ing to bear upon the swelling some in
visible current, but what it was she
could not know without an altogether
uncommon scientific knowledge.
Several visits were made to DIR.
Franklins office, and the swelling ON
the patients neck begsn to recede, and
after awhile it became diminutive.
Then one day Lucy took up a morning
newspaper and read to her husband an
item of news. 1t was an announcement
that the radium rays had been brought
to bear on cancer and that the disease
had been in certain cases undoubtedly
| interrupted. Whether or not rad1um
would permanently cure it the opera
tors had not considered themselves
prepared to announce.
| Lucy" said George. looking at his
wife with hope lighting his eye. II
| shouldn't wonder if that's what my
trouble is. and DR.. Franklin is apply
| ing radium in my case
| I'm sure it isr cried the wife with
! that impulsive embrace which was her
| treatment for both good and bad con-
ditions
George was to visit the doctor that
morning When he and his wife reached
the Office Lucy said to the physician:
Doctor, my husband has cancer, and
a cure has been found
"Who told you that?"
The newspapers"
WELL" replied the doctor thought
| fully. we are not vet ready to an
nounce that we have found cure, but
we feel very hopeful"
You mean you are certain. but you
won't say so for fear of raising false
| expectations
Were pretty well satisfied that ra-
| dunn is death to the cancer Scourge.
The Underhi.ls left the doctors Of
flee a happy couple. Their visits to
the doctor were continued, and with
the continuance of the treatment the
swelling returned to its original size.
When it had almost entirely disappear
ed Lucy said to her husband one day:
George, don't you think it time we
We're beginning to get rid of some of
this property that l married you to
help spend? We haven't used half the
income"
That's just what l was thinking
about. fancy i can keep up the
| treatment as we'll in one city as an
other. Suppose we 20 abroad?'
It's just the time of year to go, es
pecially to Italy
We'll do it. BY the bye. sweetheart
this discovery of radium as a cure fol
my trouble just came in time to pre-
vent you having to spend our fortune
alone.
1T wouldn't have been half the fun
would it?"
II don't suppose it would
She gave him kiss. after which
he wrote a note to steamship com
pany asking for room on the vessel t.
sail that day two weeks and to hi.
banker for Il letter OF credit
They sailed in February for trip
to Naples and other Italian cities, and
before their departure so great had be
come the confidence by the medical
profession that efforts We're being made
to preserve the radium producing
grounds in the United States for the
| benefit of the sufferers of the dread dis