Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1921-11-01
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up IN that neck Of the woods: and
they do say he's some doctor!"
As she edged toward the stranger
and murmured nothing in particular. !
Carol. remembered that Gopher
Prairie was a Minnesota wheat.prairie
town Of something over three thou +,
sand people. KS .
Pleased to meet you," stated DR..
Kennicott. His hand was strong; the
palm soft, but the back weathered.
showing golden hairs against firm red
skin. :
He looked at her as though she was
an, agreeable discovery. She tugged
her hand free and fluttered. II must
Marbury." She did not speak to him
again till. after she had heated the
rolls and passed the paper napinks,
Mr.. Marbury captured her with D
loud. "Oh, quit fussing now. Come
over here and sit down and tell US
how's tricks" He herded her to a
sofa with DR.. Kennicott, who was
rather vague about the eyes, rather
dropping Of bulky shoulder, as though
he was wondering what he was ex-
pected to do next. As their host left
IAAOAAlS
"Marbury tells me you're a high
mogul in the public library. I was
surprised. Didn't hardly think you
were old enough. I thought o were
a girl, still in college maybe"
'Oh, I'm dreadfully old. I expect
to take to a lip-stick, to find a
gray hair any morning now"
Huh! You must be frightfully old
-prob'ly too old to be my, grand
daughter, I guess!"
Thus in the Vale Of Already nymph
~ thus, M not in honeyed penta-
meters, discoursed Elaine and the
worn Sir Launcelot in the pleached
alley.
How do you like your work." ask
ed the doctors.
TITS pleasant, but sometimes I feel
shut off from things-the steel stacks,
and the everlasting cards smeared all
over with red rubber stamps"
Don't vol get sick of the city,"
"St. Paul? Why, don't you like it?
I don't know of any lovelier view than
when you stand, on Summit avenue
and look across Lower Town to the
Mississippi cliffs and h upland farms
beyond T.. sd
II know but OF course I've
spent nine ear around the Twin
!, Cities-took my B.. A. and NJ. D. over
! at the u, and had my internship in a
hospital in Minneapolis, but still, oh
: well, you don't get to know folks
here, way you do up home. 1 feel I've
, got something to say about running
: Gopher Prairie. but you take it in a
, big city of two-three hundred thou
j sand, and I'm just one flea on the
! dogs back. And then I like country
. driving, and the hunting in the fall,
Do 0 know Gopher Prairie at all?"
2 mo, but 1 hear it's q very nice
town" +sN Z 1"tsE@7"
Nice? Say honestly OF course
I may be ~prejudiced, but I've seen ar
awful lot of towns-one time I went
Medical association meeting and
spent practically a week in New
y York! But 1 never saw a town tina,
had sue up-and-coming people al
, Gopher Prairie. : lsBresnahan-yo,
: know-the famous auto manufacturer
- he comes from Gopher Prairie. Borr
and brought up there! And it's a, dar1
y pretty town. Lots of fine NAPLES ant
bcxelders, and there's two of tn.
dandiests lakes YOU ever saw, RICH
near town.! And we've got sever
n miles Of cement walks already. ant
, building more every day! Course Z
lot of these towns still put up will
plank walks, but not for us, 70,
le bet!"
Really"
% (Why was she thinking of stewar
n Snyder?)
Gopher Prairie is going to have
great future. Some Of the best dair.
N and wheat land in the state right nea
there-some of it selling right 10Y a
4; one-ffty an acre, and l bet. it will g.
,,y, 4 n wv ~ o. a.. - ut an i, -,
l. years." ~; :"
lis Do you like your profes
m sion?" : So
l. Nothing like 1t. Keeps you gu,
and yet you have a chance to loaf ii
the office for a change"
- II don't mean that way. ! meal
its such al opportunity for sym
= pathy."
d. DR.. Kennicott launched into
heavy. "Oh. these Dutch farmer
don't want sympathy. All they nee
70 is a bath and good dose Of salts"
Carol must have finched, for in
,e stantly he was urging, what l mea
Il. is-I'don't want you to think I'm on
of these old s~alts-and- quinine ped
dlers. but l mean: SO many Of my pa
tents are husky farmers that l sup
pose l get kind of case-hardened."<
~ 1T seems to me that. a doctor .coul
= transform a whole community, iii h
c. wanted to-if he saw it. He's usual
re the only man in the .neighborhoo
~ who has any scientific training, ism
he 2"
le Yes, that's SO, but 1 guess most c
10 us get rusty. We land in a rut {
obstetrics and typhoid and buste
legs. What we need is women lk
YOU to jump on us. It'd be you this
ie would transform the town"
mo, 1 couldn't. Too fighty. I di
used to think about doing just tina
curipusly enough but l seem to hay
u drtfted away from the idea. oh, II
- a fine one to be lecturing YOU"
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