The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-03-09
The Woman
He Married
DICK HAS PNEUMONIA.
BY JANE PHELPS

For two or three days Dick kept
up, insisting upon going to work.
But his cold Increased, so. that finally
he yielded to my persuasions enough
Peabody recommended. ] went with
him. He told the doctor 1 didn't
trust him. I laughed, but acknowl-
edged I was afraid he would not tell
me just what the doctor said
"a doubling Thomas when it comes
to your husbands reporting?" he
asked.
Eyes, Doctor Hill. He always makes
flight of any ailment he may have"
"a good plan il not carried to an
extreme"
The doctor gave him thoro ex-
animation, and after it was over he
Looked very serious.
"Go home and go to bed, young
man, or I won't answer for the con-
sequences" he said after testing Dicks
! Nonsense! It's nothing but cold"
IT don't want to brighten either OF
you, hut it looks like pneumonia TO
me-" He have me some advice. wrote
a prescription and we left. We stop
ped at the druggists and had the pre-
scription filled and Dick took 1t regu-
larly all the evening. 1t seemed to
relieve his cough, and he felt PETER
in the morning and again insisted
upon going to work. He took the
larry. But about noon he came home.
He had a high fever, and made no OBJ
! jeetions. when I told him he must go
| to bed I called the doctor, and he
came over Immediately.
+ 1t was pneumonia. The exposure
as well as a strain. of which l had
| not been told, caused when he shipped
with the child he was carrying down
| the ladder, added to His refusal to re-
| main at home, had resulted in this
I loH bxrn
For two weeks he was frightfully Ill.
Then he slowly began TO mend, but SO
slowly 1 became almost discouraged
1 at times, Mother came over and re-
mained with me while the fever was
| the worst, his condition the most
| dangerous. then she took Junior home
! with her.
| 1t was fortunate I had good help
| in the shop, because we needed many
things for an invalid that would have
ary which Mr.. Peabody sent to me
regularly. We had made a VOW never
| to run in debt again and when he had
expensive wines and delicacies DICK
would beg me not to- forget 1t. he
seemed to fear that I might be tempt,
| ed to do for him what had promised
| 1 would not do for myself.
but, dear, the work is going OF
! at the shop. / can afford it, L as
1 sured him again and again
You are wonderful Nan! won
der if ever another man had such
wife,"
NV ewes filled Was not everything
that had happened traeeable to me?
Had 1 been the right kind of wife
when we were first married Dick
would have kept his position with his
firm. They were fond of him., es-
pecially Mr.. Ogden, and l am sure
would have advanced him to more
responsible position than he could ever
hope to hold in a small town bank
| aside from realizing his ambition, he
woul dhave made far more money.
Was not everything due to my Will
| full extravaganza at that time? Even
tho we had been so happy of late In
/ Lansing, I could not help but think
that had we not been obliged to move
/ Dick would not have been sick His
| splendid energy seemed almost wasted
| in this small town But I had not
thought Of this until this illness came
to him. I had been too busy, toe
happy that I could help him.
/ Now it came upon me with almost
| crushing force as I looked at him SO
white and thin, that il I had done
right, done my part, he would not
have needed my help in the way I had
given it. He had been as successful
as most young men of his age, more
so perhaps. Had I been contented to
! live in the sphere belonging to us, he
would have needed no financial assis-
lance, only the companionship, the en-
couragement every good wife gives to
| her husband.
! AS the days passed showing scarcely
| any improvement in his condition,
| scoursed myself with these thoughts
/ OF course he grew little stronger, but
| it was so little that feared he never
1 would be well again. So one day
went by myself for e talk with Doctor
Hill. We had cemome very fond OF
1 him, and think he of us. I said:
| Il want the truth, doctor
/ 81 shall not deceive you
4 (Tomorrow-An uItimatum.)