Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-01-10
Crime Crops Purchasing Strikes and Some Sympat
Old Practice of Looking for Symptoms
Has It's Drawbacks, the Wife Discovers
BY NINA WILCOX PUTNAM.

As Irrisfpilus. the great Roman
horse doctor, once write as a persCrip-
uon-in tablet form, probably, paper
being scarce in them old ancient days
well, anyways, as he once wrote
I'm memorium pro bonehead publico,
saleritius."
And whatever that means, the truth
OF il certainly come home TO me last
week when l made up my mind that
George. that's my husband, hadn't
worried over me half enough lately,
and that it was high time ! com
menced complaining about not feeling
so good, and etc. As every female
woman knows, especially if married,
one way to keep Il husband is to keep
him worried. and if she don't fall sick
onct in a while, why he is kinda apt to
fall down on his attentiveness.
And so, having all OF a sudden real
lied where l had been neglecting my
wifely duty in this respect, l com
menCed looking around for 4 few
symptoms and found them without
hardly any trouble at all. | didn't
even hat 10 read Old Doctor Dicks
Deadly Remedy Almanac which the
drug store had give us for Christmas
when l paid the Nov. bill This Alma
nae was fun of facts about New
Moons, ST. Swithern's Day, Rheumatic
Fever and every other form OF disease.
known and unknown. But | wouldn't
pull no diseases from mercy reading
The descriptions like some Of we girls
do, no. / just set down and had a rea-
sonabIy honest talk with myself, with
the net result that when Geo. come
home, about 4 hour later, | was il a
position TO say wasn't at all well. In
other words | was laying on the din
ing room sofa, very pale and wan,
whatever wan may be-Something be
tween worn and wandering, J guess.
Well anyways, when Geo. teen me,
he at once says. all sweet sympathy.
what and the devil are You laying
down for, don't you know ii is nearly
dinner time? And | says yes. dear,
but feel pretty miserable, l don't feel
good a all. l feel bad, in the virtuous
meaning of it. Well. when that finally
registered. Geo. shed his coat and set
down beside me- in the helpless way
men have when their wife is sick and
he says no. What ails YOU. what seems
TO be the matter?
And l says oh | don't quite know,
dear, but everything / eat seems to
lake away my appetite. for one thing,
and I've noticed lately where my hair
Is growing in far TOO fast for normal.
And Geo says we'll dear what is that
sign of. d'you suppose? And | give
groan and says I'm not sure. but
seem TO of heard that. especially with
bobbed hair like mine. it Il sign am
putatlon is conner he necessary pretty
soon.
And Geo. says good heavens, I
hope YOU amt conner be laid up for
repairs, and | says l hope not, and
he says we'll YOU lay still. cant
get the dinner? And | says YOU
know perfectly Well you can't. no,
/ prefer to make the effort. SO 1
got up and struggled nobly with all
the cooking, George not doing q
thing only opening the canned soup,
canned vegetables, canned cold meat
and canned eclairs for me.
WELL Hot Bozo, Next morning
Geo. went away to business prop
erly depressed, but kind of glad to
escape. the way men are. and I was
loafng around the house wondering
if I was well enough to go out. when
what would ring only the telephone,
and there was that Joe Bush of the |
Hawthorne Club on the wire. Say |
Jennie, he says to me, l got a chunk |
of bad news for you. he says, and |
says my heavens don't tell me Mabel |
lost that evening coat l loaned her. |
/ couldn't bear it, And he says
neither could l. no, il is merely that
Mabel was took to the Aunty Scep-
day afternoon we discovered how
bad she was, and she's out of the
laughing gas now, 1 wisht you could
run over and see her
Well, naturally, run wasn't hardly
the word for what l did. / was so
afraid I was conner miss something
that / didn't hardly stop on my way
there long enough to buy Mabel a
little token of how / felt regarding
her. OF course. flowers, while she
could still smell them. was a nice
idea but when l found lemon bios
SONS was a dollar each. and they
the only blooms in the florist store
/ cared for. why it seemed foolish
TO spend the money.
I thought, we'll now if not flowers, |