Durant weekly news. (Durant, Choctaw Nation, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 190?-1944, 1920-11-19

''Sss s2s,aasss2s2 n,r, ,, m @
t"ns, and -" relief the best way he
can"
81 can understand Just how II has
worried you said the hotolkccpcr.
"'fI" fact that you coudn't reach
around aEh claw the itching place
with Your fingers kept the matter
fresh in y"ur memory ana got on your
nerves. The pursuit of the unattnin-
able always is more interesting to us
than the easier work close to hand.
You had yrnr whole person to scratch,
and might have bought a currycomb
for n quarter, and had a good time. but
YOU couldn't he happy until you had
reached tn" one inaccessible spot.
"a while ago I imagined had
heart disease. and went and saw the
doctor. lie knows I hav" money in
the bank ana am considered good pTy.
80 he confirmed my worst fears. and
made w his mind tn have me for his
star patient. until one OF us pctcrch
nut lie threw an awful scare into mo.
So tli;i, went home sweating Ice cold
rircns lemonade.
III" gave me some medicines ana Il
to, of Instructions Among them was
on" Ia the effect that when went to
bed should always sleep on my righ,
side. He cautioned me over and over
again n.ain>, having on my left side.
and left the impression that IL | dis
nhry"d him. I'd wake up some morn
Ing to find myself Il candidate for n
floral horseshoe.
"That matter looked easy Mt the
lime. and I assured the doctor I'd fol
low his bylaws to the letter. When
!, I went 10 bed that night. stretched
ont on my right side. and in ten min
ntes was Just suffering to roll over.
7 don't believe I ever had such
hnnkrring for anything. It seemed to
me the height Of human happiness
would lie in shopping on ones left side.
followed instructions for two nights,
and then I decided that life wasn't
worth such sacrifices, and I rolled over
and slept on my left side. and nothing
happened. was feeling better than
usual next morning when I got up.
"Of course this experience lessened
my confidence In the doctors instruc-
tions. and I concluded that If I was
going to sidestPp the instructions I
too. for they tasted like low life in
Chinese alley, and I threw the whole
lot out of the window. Thus the saw
homes lost his most promising patient
because ne handed out a rule that
wasn't strictly necessary.
"Speaking of the unattainable. do
you know what's the matter with Silas
Furhrlow? He has everything a man
could ask, n stranger in the town
would say. lie has n beautiful home
and wife who would he considered a
success anywhere. and he has festOons
Of money where It will do the most
good.
"Yet he has secret sorrow.
think he's the most melancholy man I
ever saw. and his trouble is that he
can't raise good stand Of whiskers.
Nowadays. when whiskers are cOnsid-
cred an infirmity, 1t seems strange
that any man should grieve over such
a matter.
"He sends all over the United
States for hair growers and half the
time his face Ia hlistered or swollen.
and still the whiskers won't grow on
him. n some miracle happened. and
he woke M some morning to find his
cOuntonance all covered with whiskers.
he'd probably have them shaved of
within week; hut because they won't
grow. he won't be happy till he gets
them"