The Columbus courier. [volume] (Columbus, Luna County, N.M.) 1911-1920, 1914-12-25

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~ sS the theme OF setting Of our
,-.amArama. Your surgeon, tossing
"aaa,iv on his bed. sees himself cut
,Inv 10 remove an appendix only 10
s,.cover that that unpopular portion
h,s na,Ient'a anatomy already hobs
- alcoholic glee in n bottle ON the TOP
.so,t of the laboratory OF n more alert
sso-soss,onal brother. Your civil en-
sineer constructs imaginary bridges
.b,cb slump and fall as quickly as they
.,o completed. Your stage favorite.
4 the throes Of a post-lobster night
mare. has a horrid vision OF herself
a,estlnr" I'm January. But when he
qho sells goods on the road groans
and losses In the clutches OF a dread
mI dream, Il Is. strangely enough,
never of cancelled orders. maniacal
train schedules. Iumpy mattresses or
sllely cooked food, These everyday
things he accepts with a philosophers
eheerfulness. No-his nightmare is
always a vision OF himself, sick on the
road. at n country hotel In the middle
Of the spring season.
On the third day that che looked
with more than ordinary Indifference
anon hotel and dining car food, Mrs.
Emma McChesney. representing the
r. A. Buck Featherloom Petticoat
company. wondered II, perhapa. she
did not need a bottle OF bitter tonic.
On the hfth day she noticed that
there were chills chashing up and
down her spine. and back and forth
from legs TO shoulder blades when
other people were wiping their cnins
and foreheads with misunderstanding
handkerchiefs. and demanding how
long this heat was going to last. any
way. On the sixth day she lost all in
forest in +. A. Bucks featherloom pet
ucoats. And then she knew that
something was seriously wrong. On
the seventh day. when the blonde and
nasal waitress approached her In the
dining room Of tho little hotel at Glen
Rock. Mimi, Emma McChesney's mind
somehow failed to grasp the meaning
Of the all too obvious string OF ques'
tons which were put to her-ques.
lions ending in the inevitable tea. cot
fee r milk" AZ that juncture Emma
McChesney had looked up into the
girls faco In IA puzzled. uncompre
bending way, had passed one hand
dazedly over her hot forehead and re
lied, with great %earnestness;
Yours Of the twelfth at hand ant
contents noted the greatest
little skirt On the market he''
going 20 be a son to be- proud Of, Goo
bless him want to leave a cal
for seven sharp"
The lank waitress face took ON al
added Darkness. One OF dhe two trav
cling men az the same table started
10 laugh. but the other put out hi
hand quickly, rose, and said, Shut up
you blamed fool! Can't you see thu
lady's sick?" Aud started in the di
rection OF her chair.
Even then there came into EmmI
McChesney's ordinarily w~ell-ordered
alert mind the uncomfortable though
that she was talking nonsense. Sh,
made a last effort 10 order her braii
into It's usual sane c~learness, failed
and saw the coarse white table clotl
rising swiftly and slanting to NEE
her head.
Il speaks we'll for Emma McChe'
ney's balance that when she fOunI
herself in bed, two strange women
and one strange man. and an all.toC
familiar bell.bOy in the room, she di
not say, Where am ~ What haI
pened?" instead she told herself tha
the amazingly and unbelievably hanG
some young mai bending owe he
with a stethOsoope was a doctor; tina
the plump. bleaehed blonde in th
white shirtwaist was the hotel hous'
Keeper; that the iank ditto vas
waitress; aud that the expression o
the face OF each was that OF appr'
henhion, tinged with a ~plsasurable e.
cltemont. SO she sat up. dislodgin
ne stethOscOpe. and ignoring the pu
pose Of the Thermometer which had II
posed under her tongue.
Look here," she said. addressln
the doctor In a high. queer voice.
AM be sick, young man, Haven
m Not Just now, Put II on unit
august and III be- as sick as you Xix
"hy, man, this Ia tho middle OF Jun
aud Im due In Minneapolis now"
Lie down, please said the hanI
some young doctor, 'and don't daI
ienofs this thermometer again unit
tell you 10. This can't be put on unit
August, You're sick right now"
Mrs, McChesney shut her lips ov'
the little glass tube, and watched N
young DOCTORS impaasive face {
takes them no time 10 learn that trlol
ana womanwise, jumped to her 0w
conclusion.
How sickY" she demanded. Il
thermometer read
oh. II won't be 80 h8d,' said d
very young doctor, with a professio
ally cheerful smile