The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1917-03-15
DOCTOR CALLED IN
MRs.cLATTERRY's WAYS AS TOLD
BY MR.. HARBOUR.

]. L.. Harbour has a clever little
article in the current issue of Judge.
As JEFF" was a former Beacon boy,
his many old time friends will en-
joy reading the sketch which is here
reproduced: FlAUId
Yes it is the boy that is sick, doc
tor--at least we call him the baby al
though he is six years old now, or will
be the tenth of next month, but he is
so large that most people think he
is eight or nine years old and all
ways buy at least eight size for him
when ! buy clothes ready-made, and
in these days when one can get such
good ready-made clothing at such
reasonable prices it really does not
pay to try to make them. My mother
would no more have thought of buy
ing ready-made clothing for one of
4 her children, but then she couldn't
have done SO il she had wanted to for
we lived in a little town where hardly
a ready-made thing could be bought
and-no | can't say that he has been
very foverish and yet he has, had
rather higher flush than usual in his
checks; but then he always did have
more color than any of my other chill
dren. His grandmother, my mother,
always calls him "Apple-cheek' be-
cause he has such rosy cheeks. Some
times when he comes in on cold
day his cheeks fairly glow and If he
were not so young i would fear that
it indicated heart trouble. You know
that people with heart trouble are apt
to have a very high color, although
cousin Of mine, or rather second
cousin, had heart trouble for years
and finally dropped dead with it, and
she was always very pale. sup
! pose that the disease varies in differ
ent cases and that--no. he hasn't
been complaining any OF late, and he
1 went to bed last night as we'll as he
! ever was although he had eaten more
4 than usually allow him to eat for
pudding that an old aunt of my hus-
bands had made and sent to him for
his birthday and we had rich sauce
for it, and I fear allowed the children
to partake more heartily than they
should of it when we also had nuts
and raisins and some rather rich
birthday cake on the table. We al
ways observe the birthdays in our
family for I think that it means a
good deal to keep up those little an
. niversaries, for goodness knows that
there is none too much sentiment in
the average American family. Don't
you think, doctor, that the tendency
of the age is to get more--more--
what shall j say? Material, yes,
that is it, 1t seems to me that we
, are getting farther and farther away
; from the-do as the doctor wants
| you to, dear, and put out your tongue,
, that's a good boy! noticed this morn
ing that his tongue was little coat
| ed, but of course that is never an
alarming symptom Sometimes when
my childrens' tongues are, slightly
7 coated and there is no other symptom
treat them myself but ! think that
it is always best to call a doctor when
there is fever with a coated tongue,
and the child is listless and his eyes
: are dull and watery and-yet, he has
had the measles. He had them
when he was nearly five years old
i and he was real sick. 8They didn't
| and he was real sick, They didn't
! child suffered a great deal. When
the other children had them they
] ,,,.o I1Hy at oil In uTh
{. our oldest boy had them he slipped
, out of the house when was not no
( ticing and went to playing with sew
= eral Of the neighbors boys and you
can imagine how felt when 4 found
[ it out and ! was worried nearly to
: death for the next ten days, but none
of the boys he had played with came
/. down with it, Everything seems to
go harder with this boy than with my
: other children. He had three times
the trouble teething that any of the
other children had and If he gets just
i cold Tiny brother has a little boy
, who is just the same way and his
, mother was telling me over the phone
this Very morning that-a glass half
. full of water and a spoon? Ger
tainly. | will get them right away.
Half full. did you say? An ordinary
! glass | presume. There is such a
difference in the size of glasses and
| like to be exact. They say would
. make good nurse, for 7 always do
just as the doctor says, and really
: doctor, ! thought quite seriously Of
becoming nurse before was mar
, ried and truly think that if had
not married | would have been a
: nurse. 1t is such useful and no.
Bile profession and feel so at home
, in the sick room and have such CON
!, troll of my feelings that-haf glass
4 like to be e tct They say | would
!. Of water and a teaspoon had one
of these regular medicine glasses
) with glass cover, but it-excuse me
just a. moment, doctor and will get
the glass for you. Couldn't you re-
I,cite that little piece you spoke at the
: Sunday school conert while p am
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