Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1921-09-12
MONDAY,

Doctor for Betty" inquired Henry
anxiously, as Mrs. Hooper came back in
to their room after giving the child Il
drink of water. she has had such a
restless night and seems so feverish that
I'm afraid she is going to be very Ill.
I'm little bit worried, ack-
ltowledged Mrs. Hooper, but l shall see
what / can do for her today, and If her
temperature doesn't go down under my
home treatment, I'll send for the doctor
because it isn't as if she had been under
my eyes all the time, as she has always
been. l don't know to what she may
have been exposed or what unusual
things she may have eaten"
Has she been sick at all while she
was away" asked Henry, "Or is this
just sudden attack"
Her grandmother said when | ar
rived on Saturday that she hadn't seemed
as bright as usual all day, and her
appetite was gone, but that up to then
she had been perfectly normal and we'll
] knew the minute l looked at her, how
ever, that some kind of illness was
coming That is why l brought her home
Immediately instead Of putting her to
bed there"
well, she seems to be asleep. now"
said Henry, giving one more look at
the child, before starting down stairs for
breakfast, but I don't think you ought
to take any chances, Mary, about
having the doctor at once"
81 won't" replied Mrs. Hooper as
she darkened the room, SO that Betty
might sleep on undisturhed; but she
may be alright when she wakes up, as
the result of the medicine I have given
her"
Mrs. Hooper had made no comment
whatever on the orderly state Of the
house, when she returned, after having
been away from Saturday morning till
Sunday night, because the time or her
absence had been very short, she had
left nearly everything prepared for just
the finishing touches, and there mad
been not a thing out of place from
garnet to basement when she took her
departure She felt that neither Henry
nor Roger nor Helen deserved any
special credit for having carried on"
PERFECTLY for so short a time, so she
made no remark about, when she found
that the beds had been carefully made,
the rooms put in order, the dishes and
cooking utensils washed and in their
places and the usual Sunday night
supper neatly set out on the table,
awaiting her when she came home
Althugh it seemed to justify her Delle1
that the family was really self reliant
enough TO take care of itself If necessary,
because of her insistence that no detail
of the house keeping should ever be
neglected and that habit had so impressed
itself on her husband and the children
that it would be impossible for them
ever to slip into slovenly habits, even
though they were left without her super
vision, she know that the brief interval
that she had been away had given no
opportunity for a fair test. So she re-
Trained from telling Henry that she
thought he was absolutely wrong in
supposing that he and Helen and Roger
could not be trusted to run the house
without her.
After breakfast she went upstairs to
have another look at Betty. The child
was still sleeping ftfully, and her little
hands and face were burning with fever.
Mrs Hoover was even more alarmed than
she had indicated to Henry, as upper
most in her mind was always the desire
TO save him from worry. She had been
watching Betty for nearly forty eight
hours. and during this time she had ex-
hausted every means at her command TO
relieve the child, but she felt certain
now that she was growing worse instead
Of better.
Her mother had insisted that so far as
she knew, Betty had been exposed TO
nothing that was contagious. There had
been comparatively few children with
whom she had come in contact at the sea-
shore, and among those there had been
not the slightest symptom of illness.
Knowing how particular Mrs. Hooper was
about the child's diet, her mother had
permitted Betty to eat only the simplest
food, so that there was nothing to which
the sudden attack could be traced.
She kept hesitating about calling the
doctor, because her experience so far
with all three of the children had been
that their little disorders were so simple
and fundamental, that a doctor seldom
did thing for them that an intelligent
-sother, such as she knew she was. could
not do for them equally well She be
1ieved that It was far more difficult for
a strange doctor to diagnose the case of
a child, than for its own mother to know
the reason for its having fallen I'll, and
that in most cases more harm than good
was done by the hasty summoning OF
physician every time a child showed a
symptom which If traced to it's source
by a watchful mother could be readily
checked by some simple home remedy.
For an hour or two after luncheon
Mrs. Hooper had brief spell of hopeful
ness that the worst was over. and that
whatever had been wrong was yielding
to the physic, but toward nightfsH Betty's
temperature began to mount again and
she began to babble delir-ously.
When Henry reached home Mrs. Hooper
met him at the door.
I've sent for the doctor" she said,
'aHd he will be right over"
The menus for the three meals on
Tuesday are: