Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1918-11-14
STRICTLY PROFESSIONAL
ADVICE.
By Louise Alice Knox.


Copyright. 1914. by the Mcclure News.
paper Syndicate.
When. the eminent nerve specialist, DR..
=. Mead Ferguson. opened his office door
perienced a decided shock. There. sit.
ting among the other patients. was his
mn, Molly. he cried In suppressed amaze.
ter-feel sick '"e mat
The ansiety IN his face changed to an
EXPRESSION OF utter at her an.
Good morning. Or. Ferguson. No. I'm
wait my turn very easily
phrase amazedly. He stared sip down ,n rte
Molly's calm face with gasping incredu-
Molly. what does this mean?, he de.
manded under his breath.
But he received only a smile for an.
swer. ~
her strange visit until her turn Came IN
After a moment Of waiting. DR.. Ferguson
turned and beckoned the patient next in
AS he took the nervous patient into
the inner office and began a test OF her
nsart. ne puzzled over the cause Of his
finally. She thinks she'll get around
me by pleading nervous conditions
o oToas hsx on Oh because aus az, she s,t san' nd have her
" way. Ous yOQ Oily Alllle AlOlly.
Yet. though It amused him to see the
girls clever slyness. his viii was SET
as firmly as ever against the Idea OF
only would her social friends hold up
their hands in horror at such a move
2 step of that sort would reflect upor
him. AS II che wife Of DIR. j. Mead Fer
guson had to work.
SO when Molly at last came Into the
Inner office and 9 the chair by the
great fiat topped desk, although her hus-
mine method to. get around him. he
showed in every line Of him an iron OPP
p' "case of nerves because you can't do
newspaper work?' he anticipated her
Moiiy's hands dropped Imply into her
lap. She looked long and re~proachfully
into his amused face.
Then she dropped her eyes. A tear
slipped out from under long lashes..
II thought you could do TOR me as
them out with an unprecedented mind-but
I see that you can't" she said sadly. II
guess I'd better go"
But as she rose. he stopped her. Some.
thing in her manner touched the deepest
chords in his nature. He looked down
into her hopeless face with a feeling Of
and childish standing there.
Come. sit down again. and IN treat
o as a patient" he said, leniently;
you as I treat other patients, II you want
me to-as II 1 couldn't do that much for
my wife. This shall be just a professional
70 y5sl take X { tSat w stand Il; 1t was mean OF me
ut WIS., she said simply. sitting. down
again. II mean to pay you for this; I
want it to be a real professional call; For
have nerves. | have. Oh. I've been miser-
able for weeks"
DR.. ]. Mead Ferguson settled himself
back in his swivel chair. He put his fin
L ger tfna fn0Qfher an he did when other
patients sat before him. and tried to mag
Inc that the beautiful. troubled girl IN
the big chair was not his wife at al, nut
eli, was not Molly right-could he not do
for her as much as ne would do for any
"You'y been feeling miserable .sa he a re,
look. IKE nerve'. Nerves are the result
without looking at Molly he knew that
she had Strengthened and was noting
thankfully that he meant to deal with
"Now. What are you worrying about.
Mrs. Ferguson?.. There must be a cause
for your worry" u.
control: It had taken no small effort to
say Mrs. Ferguson"
70 his surprise. Molly jumped to he :
feet and began to pace the ne n 10 or;a se eel ama
Dc DOWN sDIf Before a,a' his i.' desk. His eyes took on
a shade OF alarm as he noted that he!
hands were clenched n her step mac &c
had seen only in extreme cases OF nerves
He leaned forward and stared at her In
surprise. Had he, then been blind to this
side Of his wife? Was she in reality 9
more highiy-strung creature than he had
always believed? He listened tensely
when her voice suddenly rose In an out.
burst of rebellion: b..
"oh, I've always worried!" she cried vi.
brantiy. seemingly to herself. Il remem
Der when it first began; Thai was year.
agoLwhen 1 was IS. l wanted to teaef
with that hope in my heart: l wanted tt
spread beauty in the world by helping
other girls to express their feelings ii
music. This seemed to me the most beau
tiful thing one could do. l saw no shame
my mother forbade it. She seemed t.
find nsaa some h disgrace ;e i'm In this Has,d ma she to p
me that our social friends would b,
shocked-that they wouldn't be able t.
understand my earning my own living.
dreams were frustrated. NY ambition
was killed. I gave up music entirely
Somehow. music seemed to hurt me, aftel
was a quitter-that / had turned my bach
on ambition. In other words. 1t made mt
worry"
VII, WIN , the eessa. s;'nnt IF her .s. voice. stcaa he sa
the vide office window. her back to tn,
doctor. Her shoulders had a droop tina
seemed to say: What is the use Of tryini
to make him to see? This bit OF ~ren,inis
cence hasn't meant anything to him
hasn't told him that this disappointment
Of my life has been repeated again an.
again. He will never understand that
woman can have ambition as we'll as
man. He will never understand that II
cannot do the newspaper work, I shall
After this. newspapers Will cry to me
You're a gutter! You've turned you