The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-08-27
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She was brave industrious, was Little Woman, married to a brave, industrious, but poorly informed Ldtr tie Man. Little Woman stayed prop er1y at home and cared for her nest; Little Man daily went forth to labor at very particular steel things.
 Little Woman could do verything about the house; Little Man could do; just one thing connected with the manufacture of finely graduated cal1p- CTS or gauges, capable of measuring the tlickness-or rather, the thin- ness-of writing paper
 1t is not the purpose of this ac- count to describe the conditions of had to spend many bent-oveF hours each day away from fresh air. benevo- lent sunlight, and healthfuI out-of- doors, the development of tuberculo- sis in Little Man was natural. He wasn't very robust by birth; he wasn't informed about tubercular infection. and all he could do was to "p1ug along at the job
 Of course, when he became unable to do his work well, that is to say. when .sthe boss kicked too much" he consulted doctor. The doctor a chanica11y, prescribed mechanfcaI remedy for the mechanic who was to swallow it; for. he said that the me kchnie's trouble was a chronic C0ugh.f And mus IL was LnaI -1S1LLle Man had a narrow squeak
 The doctor had a medical friend wfho. himself, had taken chances, gone to Texas, or Arizona, or New Mexico. or somewhere in the Southwest" and it occurred to the eastern man, as 1t occurs to so many eastern men, that the southwest was the very place for sick, helpless mechanics who have ev- Cry opportunity of, finding sustenance in a region where factories are prae- ticalIy unknown and specialized me- chanisrn entirely of the imported var ietyi So Little Man listened to the advice which pointed him to 1ife-giv ing prairie air and provided niracu- lously for work. and went home to Little Woman to talk things over and count up cash. Little Woman knew that Little Man must do something must do something for them both- Therefore, she. would take in sewing or go after it, in that wonderful south west of p1enteous jobs, while Little Man might work at som nething-or- other-which ord-wou1d-provide.
 In this simple way, Little Man would speedily get well, home would hold together, and a vacation outing would
 take the place of the necnanica1 mis- lery of graduated gauges. Cash? ]?
 $100 besides the expense of 8 journey
 to the southwest.
 It never occurred to them not to trust the doctor-he had often and Ioften trusted them
 It never occurred to the doctor not
 to trust his own mechanical prescrip- l ton. He had no time to study rush
 and dust and other mysteries of very lparticular steel things.
 So the doctor sent the young couple l away to the southwest, emitting to fo-
 tify his friend the southwest doctor
 about them until they were on the train. Then it was too late for the l southwest doctor to do anything but think unprintabie things when he t1earned that he was to meet at the train two ignoramuses fighting tuber- -l culosis and expecting to find jobs just
 waiting under the slim and scanty