Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1919-10-09

AN1l5ElkA MT 1879 b9 NilT " 1ahSlA
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Young Doctor Bellows felt that he
( was on the high road TO success when
( that acknowledged leader of the rul-
/ Ing social set, Miss Marcia Druse, sent
/ for him He was a newcomer in the
1 village and had located there upon
learning that the principal physician,
( Doctor Morton, was about to retire
I from practice.
Bellows understood that Miss Druse
had been a source of regular profess
sional income to his predecessor lie
was in the drug store when the tele-
phone message arrived and its pro-
prietor grinned eNpansiyey.
81 hope you diagnose Miss Druse's
case on the basis that Doctor Morton
followed" he observed Miss Druse
is a good patient to nurse along, and
you mustn't oppose symptoms, They
/ comprise the pet frailties of her life.
She has been that way ever since an
electro-speCtico-hu faddist dis
covered that she had about everything
under the sun. Why, do you know
that she actually broke off the engage
ment with Col Leo Dysart, the richest
man in town, on account of the pre-
dicted near approach of dissolution"
The young physician made no com
ment, and realized that 1t was policy
to act on his own initiative. He spent
full two hours with this new patient
Miss Druse had a long list of symp-
toms to present, a whole library OF
medical works, miniature drug
store in her cabinet, and Bellows Mt
once analysed the situation. She was
physically sound, but with her idle
whims and the arrant nonsense in
jected by the faddists she would, he
foresaw, ultimately degenerate into
chronic hypochrondiac.
Bellows was serious of visage and
sympathetic of MEN, but this he af-
fected in order TO gain time to think
over matters and possibly rescue his
patient from her fanciful terrors and
infuse into her some comomn sense
81 did not sleep ut all last night, doc
tor" declared Miss Druse dolefully.
For several days there has been q
SuilS'hg sensation IN the left shoulder
oIade' dangerously near to the heart
I can feel a distinct lump there Don't
alarm me too greatly. doctor, if there
IS sun any nope but very much fear
ihat II Is the beginning OF the end.
Doctor Bellows diagnosed a vicious
mosquito bite and feigned to ponder
gravely. He had Intercepted his pa
tient as to diet and habits of exercise,
ana "A quick idea suggested itself and
ne Illuminated II 70 the full.
MISS l'ruSe' ne said, do you wish
to become a perfectly well being, In all
the InIlheSS OF your youth and
he'u'N'
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me WIN Try
her niece Murlel Allen Doctor
beuo"S met thal orlehL l9Nely young
slFi at tne heEt calI ana from that
moment ms me seemed warmed oy
new sunlight. somehow mischievous
Twinkle Ia lhose intelligent eyes told
the young physician that Miss Allen
shared ms opinion as 70 the trivial
character or the ailments OF her aunt.
Three mornings after that Doctor
Bellows purposely came upon the
twain tramping across the greensward
OF an inclosed pasture. The shapely
pink and white feet OF MurieI twin
killed. in and out Of the dewy grasses
with bewitchtng gracefulness. Miss
Druse was grumblng a trile, but al