Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-07-10
The Original Twist.
ME twist started with q broker

HE twist started with broken
wrist.
-The only doctor available
at the hotel is woman
Ralph Todd told his friend
ITO set il crooked clinton Mar
groaned.
A slim young woman in a white
dress, with a medical case in her
hand came into tlte room like cool
Ing breeze from the hills. She open
ed the case and pushed back the pa
tents sleeve before he realized ne
was in the hands of the enemy.
"A bad break! How did you man
age it," she asked lightly.
81 do not feel as cheerfully about
Il as YOU do. Mar answered.
Keep your other hand away.
please; I understand bones, whole or
broken"
fully. and Mar was obliged to confess
Il was a neat job.
II wonder how soon / shall be per-
mitted to take my hand out of this
sling?p Mar said one morning as ne
walked with his friend among the
hills. !,
''The little doctor has made it well
I and you might offer it to her., Todd
suggested.
nave QCSu q w w ctNSS@AN~ -
Q drug box
The conversation fioated up to the
young doctor seated on rock above
them. Being normal young woman
In spite of her education, she was
very angry.
II shall carry a drug box and
saw if / choose TO de So" she said
to herself do you think l spent
years working for my degree only to
drop it fP the first good-looking man
in fiannels?'
The next morning Dr. Moore ban
daged the wrist as usual. then turned
her patient over to the hotel doctor.
''You are past the danger point or
should not dare turn you over to the
mercy of a man., she told Mar
tightly, "All you, now need Is
fresh bandage and--ans occasional
mint drop"
Clinton Mar missed the light, sooths
ing touch of the small hands. Mean.
time, DR., Moore played golf, climbed
and danced with his friend. Mar,
handicapped by his accident, was
little resentful.
"You and my doctor are rather
friendly" he told Todd one evening
after having been neglected by both.
.'She can climb and dance better
than any woman here. and has self.
control that others of her sex would
Go well to cultivate.
Mar whistled. HAS 1t gone as far
as that?"
do you object to my dancing and
ciinbing with DIR. Moore?'
g mo, only don't break your heart.
She might not be able to mend 1t as
easily as wrists"
II shall ask her." Todd laughed.
do! She will be delighted to know
we have been discussing her., Mar
said dryly.
The following day they learned that
Dr. Moore had left the hotel,
Clinton Mar returned to the town
where he made his Nhome with his
sister and her small son. One day he
came from his Office to find the lad
i'll with diphtheria, and though his
sister protested his doing so, he re-
manned with her.
"It is rash and Unnecessary she
told him. DIR. Barton sent a young
woman from the hospital to care for
him, who ii a doctor as well as q
nurse"
Mar was glad, though, that he had
remained for during the night, the
child called for him repeatedly. AS
he followed his sister into the room
he saw his doctor holding the hot
little hands in her cool ones. She put
her finger on her lips for silence and
without a word they all watched to-
gether through the long night hours.
do not thank me-" DR.. Barton
said, when the danger was past.
"Save it for the young woman up
stairs No nurse could have done
what she did haven't a man on
my staff more slillful than DR.. Moore.
Her father was physician and my
friend objected to medicine as g
vocation for her, but she has made
good The first man / find tempting
her to change her name I am going
to etheriZe"
"You shall no longer prescribe for
me-" Mar said.
II do not fear you." Doctor Barton
replied
Mar held up his wrist. she set
that last Summer"
AS well as I could have done II"
DIR. Barton acknowledged. Now,
Mrs. Bright, keep this brother of
yours from annoying nay little doctor.
He has no claim upon her time sim
ply because she set wrist for him."
Mrs. Bright went to the phone |
while a cry from his small nephew |
caused Mar to hurry to the sick room. |
He found that DR.. Moore had slipped |
on the polished floor and hurt her |
foot. He lifted her like q child to an
easy chair.
ST am ashamed of YOU" he said. |