The Wrangell sentinel., 1922-11-02

defy the conven tions, and get relief the best way ht can." z#z .##.IH taHs. D- u.t .' "1 can understand just how it has worried you," said the hotelkeeper The fact that you couldn't reach around and claw the itching place with your fingers kept the matter fresh in your memory and got on your nerves. The pursuit of the unattain- able always is more interesting to us than the easier work close to hand. You had your whole person to scratch, and might have bought a currycomb for quarter. and had good time, but you couldn't be happy until you had reached the one inaccessible spot
 "A while ago I imagined I had heart disease, and went and saw the doctor. He knows I have money in the bank, and am considered good pay, so he confirmed my worst fears, and made up his mind to have me for his star patient, until one of us petered out. He threw an awful scare into me. so that I went home sweating Ice cold circus lemonade. ....... ...
 "He gave me some medicines and lot of instructions. Among them was one to the effect that when I went to bed I should always sleep on my right side. He cautioned me over and over again against laying on my left side, and left the impression that if dis obeyed him, I'd wake up some morn iror fn find p,yco1f nondidotn f0r floral horseshoe.
 ''That matter looked easy at the time, and I assured the doctor I'd fol- low his bylaws to the letter When I went to bed that night 1 stretched out on my right side, and in ten min utes I was just suffering to roll over. I don't believe I ever had such hankering for anything. It seemed to me the height of human happiness. would lie in sleeping on ones left side. I 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. I was feeling better than usual next morning when got llp.
 Of course this experience lessened my confidence in the doctors instruc- going to sidestep the instructions might as we'll sidestep the medicines, too. for they tasted like low life in Chinese alley, and I threw the whole lot out of the window Thus the saw bones lost his most promising patient 1 because he handed out rule that wasn't strictly necessary.
 Speaking of the unattainable, do you know what's the matter with Silas Furbelow? He has everything man could ask, a stranger in the town would say. He has a beautiful home and a wife who would be considered q success anywhere, and he has festoons of money where 1t will do the most good. .. . sst
 "Yet he has secret sorrow. l think he's the most melancholy man l ever saw. and his trouble is that he can't raise good stand of whlskers Nowadays. when whskers are consid cred an infirmity, it seems strange that any man should grieve over slch matter. -...5 .,.... .og.t.gtGI ..r
 "He. sends all over the United States for hair growers, and half the | time his face is bllstered or swollen and still the whiskers won't grow or him.. If some miracle happened. and he woke up some morning to find his | countenance all covered with whiskers he'd probably have them shaved of within a week but because they won't grow, he won't be happy till he gets them" .'