The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-11-23
Chapters From a
Woman s Life
FIDo is I'LL AND THE DOCTOR
CALLED.
BY JANE PHELPS
Chapter lt

FTDO is I'LL AND THE DOCTOI
CALLED.
Chapter 10.
One night after we had retired
i heard Mrs. Page calling Walter.
\ Weakened him, saying his mother want
| hurried him to her.
I'm afraid she is i'll. If she is, cal
me-" told him. was always afraid
OF intruding; fearful of doing the
wrong thing with her.
Call a doctor at once!" heard heI
| say thru the door.
what is it, are you ill.," I asked
hurrying to her room.
Don't stand there looking at me like
thatI" she sad impatiently, then to
Fido, as mothers little darling sick
Poor dear. he'll be better soon"
But. mother, I don't know any vet
And it's 2 o'clock. Can't you wait
until morning?" Walter asked
Calf your own doctor! Be quick.
Fido is getting worse. 1 believe that
that siclxened him. If she has she
must go!"
Waiter turned reluctantly from the
room and>I heard his voice answering
the doctor as went back to my room
to put on my clothes.
what did you tell him?" I asked
when Walter Joined me after speaking
to his mother.
Il told him mother wanted him. he
replied Sheep-shly. she can do her
own explaining. He wouldn't have
come if I had told him it was a dog;
and mother would have had me cali
every doctor in town until we found
one that would"
We were scarcely decently robed
when the bell rang. Walter let the
doctor in, and I followed them down
the hall, unwilling to miss what he
said when he found he had a four
legged patient.
wei, madame what can I do for
you?' he said br.skly as Walter muir
INJURED an introduction.
It's Fido, doctor! His nose is hot,
and he has hard work to breathe. oh,
do something for him quickly!" as the
dog whined.
"A dogl I'm not a Dag doctor."
the physician threw a disguised glance
at Walter"
But you can do something for him
If you are not"
The doctor opened his bag, the look
of resentment deepening on his face
and gave her powder to dissolve in
water.
IF he has eaten anything that dis
agrees with him that will help him."
he said ungraciously. IF it doesn't
you call a vet.'
AS he went out I heard Walter
apologizing and the doctor grumbling
Then just before the door closed he
laughed heartily and said:
I've been called out of bed forsalI
sorts of things; but this is the first,
time / ever was called to doctor a
puppy"
Fido quieted, and we all went back
to bed to get what sleep We could. In
the morning Jennie was put thru a
grilling by Mrs. Page while~I stood by
making all sorts of faces at Jennie,
begging her not to be angry /"
L laughed over the episode. Fido
was perfectly all right the next day
But it had annoyed Walter, hurt his
pride. He took no pains to conceal
it from me. Said if the doctor told of
being called to attend his mothers
dog, we would be a laughing-stock
1t did get about, and George Harter
and others leased Walter numerically
about it.
I'm glad the dog didn't belong to
me-" 1 told him when he grouched.
rYou have too much good sense to
make fool of yourself over a dogi"
he replied, and altho it was not in
tended as 2 compliment, I was gla.l
and happy all day because he had
found one point in which I was su-
perior to his very superior mother
1had disliked Mrs. Page. thought
her hard, unsympathetic. Then I saw
another side of her character
1 occasionally had severe neuralgia
headaches. One prevented me rising
one morning after she had been with
US about three weeks. I tried desper-
ately to rise, but Walter insisted I
stay in bed. After he left for the
studio, Mrs. Page came IN to see me;
3nd, whether it was because looked
SO desperately I'LL always grew very
pale-or If she were really sorry for |
me, she nursed me all day, was gentle. |
soothing, kind She had been subject
TO headaches when younger herself |
and knew just how one suffered, Just |
what to do.
I was grateful and berated myself |
for judging her so hastily She had |
been kindness itself to me; and I de- |
-ermined to forget my silly dislike of |
her; to remember she had her good /
points, as well as ones that annoyed |
me.
Brings Miss Raj |
strom Home.