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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Signal, 1882-02-10, Page 66 eerasemeenellinflellitiaitie "AHEAD OF TIME.' "Now I'm going to show you why 1 struck . out for myself." I had been driving a mule „i two with my cheery friend, Dr. Mary Stedman, and until that moment was unaware of any motive for the ride other than the usual one of pleasure to us both. "1 have ■ warts place in sty heart for my native Vermont," she went on; "and knowing how I love it, i am sure you have often wondered why I did not re- train here instead of seeking a home and a profession for myself among strang- ers." I had often speculated on this very subject, but there was no time to confess it, for at that moment my companion rein- ed up suddenly, and with a brisk "Here we are !" jumped from the carriage. "This," pointing to a weather-beaten but still comfortable -looking house, "u the homestead. Since the death of our parents my eldest brother has lived here. You needn't beat all disturbed," as I naturally hesitated about intruding among strangers, "for.. my sister-in-law expecte us." "How cowl : how neat ! how shady and oAlnfortable !" were my first exclama- tions as I followed my leader into the old-fashioned parlor. "Just w," she responded drily. "And, my dear, you might search from cellar to garret of this great house, and though you stood upon ladders, and peered with a microscope on your hand and knees, you would never be able to find a fly." Mrs. Stedman looked as her sister-in- law had described her—"like a very sad and troubled ghost." She was painfully thin and haggard, and at least a dozen times during our short call I noticed her mournful eyes 411 with tears. "Well, o..,r.;,` ...; 1 • ,n .. . "you are as busy ae etc., a s.:�•; ,,u •'O, yes," our hostess replied; "there is never any end to work." "Been making butter to -day ?" I rade a little over forty pounds this morning " ' 'Before breakfast, I suppose r'' The dostor's tone was somewhat. crisp. "I churned at four, and I have just worked my butter over. I don't mind w much when churning doesn't Dome washing -days; and, you see, cream has gut to be attended to whenever it is randy.'' "Been washing, too ?" my friend in- quired. "O, yes ! And it did seem as if I had every garment in the tub that there was in the house." "So you've made forty pounds of but- ter," said the doctor, "washed—and what else ?" "Not much else beside the regular work. I picked some beans for dinner and made a few pies; thet's all !" At this point my Anent., nisch to my surprise, turned the conversation into other channels, ar w• t altar we took our leave. • "It seems to ins Oyu have neglected an opportunity," I remarked, as soon as we had driven away. "I supposed you'd t.hii.k so," nay com- panion answered; "b yon can form no conception of the amount of breath I have wasted on that very case. 1 am re- garding it now solely from a scientific standpoint. I think I can calculate the length of that woman's days within a fraction of time." "I should think your brother wouldn't all..w his wife to work so," I remarked. "What does he know about it ?" said the doctor.,,"He conies into the house for the thee meals that are prepared for hien, and when night ,tomes he goes o bed and to sleep, or lie drives over to the village and spend/ his evenings with his friends. My brother :works hard, but he works out of doors,and that saves hits. Sarah has an excellent reputation as wife and housekeeper all over the county. She has helped my brother to 'isp up'—in Vermont vernacular- seve- ral thousand dollars. It doesn't take a prophet to see that another wife will have the benefit of this one's toil ; though it is probable, if she comes from this section of the country she'll not have sense enough to be benefitted by anything " • "If your sister-in-law would only hare a servant," I suggested. "A servant ! Why, what a greenhorn you are !" said the doctor. "Do you thine my brut her and his wife are strong enough to bear the finger of worn that would inevitably he tainted at them ghoul they employ a servant 1 It is far better, my door, to work one's self to .Leath than to be called lazy and shiftless and extravagant. If this were not the eau* they would not think they could atford a servant. My broiler Is domi- nated, soul and body, by the spirit of muttony, and his wife is hie reflection. Here we ere again, my friend continued, coining to a steep before the door of a mo.e as darn and more pretentious house. "eafy youngest sister lives mere. it see.ns angular, doom t it, that f have never introduced you to niy relatives be- fore i fns troth ie, yuu and 1 are Daly psrylexitito to theme good people We tern them out of their beaten tracks f..: a w .ole, with no other result than to add to tnear h.wrJ work and anxieties Ten year. typo "til' sister Anna was as healthy , ytr, is '.ten was in Vermont and the �i I' brig! test and wittiest one of the family. 1 had wane hopes that she wuul i p uut uf the treadmill, and, if she did mar- ry a farmer and settle down here that she would .furnish an example of cum- luuu settee to her neighbors; but she u just like the rest, worse, perhaps." All this as the ducker hitched her horse, and we walked up the lung grav- eled walk. Sister Anna was scolding one of her children when we enter the house, and we were upon her before she had finish- ed her loud -pitched harangue. "I don't believe any ono ever hal such contrary youngsters as 1 have got! ' she remarked, apologetically. "They do worry me wmetiulw that it seems to me I should enjoy myself in my grave." "Send a couple of them to me, eines, whenever you feel like parting with them," said the doctor. • •1 would in a minute if their father was willing," the lady replied. "I don't know how to bring up children," she ad- ded, "and if I did know how, I haven't any time. To tell the truth, I have such • pain in my side all the time that I'm not fit for anything. I wish you'd give me some of that medicnie, Mary, that you gave me last summer." "I suppose you work jest as hard An- na, as though you hadn't a pain in your side," the doctor remarked. "Of course I do," eats the somewhat irritable response. "Who else is there to do it if I give it upr' "Where is the pain, Anna, and how long have you had it?" The doctor's tones were even, and her manner so calmly professional that I had at the time no suspicion that any of it was assumed. "It is under my left shoulder blade," her ester replied, "and 1 haven't breath- ed a long breath since last November. Sometimes it is worse than others, and I am conscious of it every minute." The doctor drew a chair to her sister's side, and took nee hand in hers. • "Dear me,Mary, lay pulse is all right" said the invalid, doing her best to make light of the situation. "How many men does your husband hire this summer, Anna?" the doctor in- quired as she prepared some medicine. "Only six this year." "And you cook and wash fur them, 1 seppeeer "Of coarse. " "How many cows have your' "Fourteen." "And you make butter for market ?" Suter Anna smiled as she answered this question. '"1 average about sixty pounds a week. "What time do you pt up in the morning 7" "About four o'clock." - "What time doyou go to bed r' "Anywhere from ten to twelve;" and then with a glance in my direction, "you ass, farmers have to keep ahead of time. If they didn't manage to do this they oouldn't lay up anything, to save their lives" "Anna," said the doctor, taking no notice of the above remark, "I intend to stay in Vermont a month, unless I am needed in New York: .Would you like we to take charge of your case during that time 7" ' "My case !" her sister repeated, in great perplezty. "I don't suppose I shall need anything more than that me- dicine." "I will gladly do all I can for you, Anna," the doctor reamed, "and when I am compelled to go back I will leave yuu in good hands; but it must be on rendition of the most perfect obedience on your part You have hard coughing spells every morning. do you net h" "yes, Mary, but how in the world did you know that r "No matter how I know it. That I do know it is sufficient . To begin with Anna, your husband must find other places for his workmen, and some one must be found immediately to do your housework. You must go to bed every night at eight o'clock and remain in bed till after breakfast. You must have all sorts of nourishing food, and pork, and codfish must be eliminated from your bill of fare." "Mary, what do you mean 1' There was • look of terror in the poor woman's eyes. and her lips quivered painfully. "i mean, if you do exactly as f tell you you may get well; if not, it is im- possible," the doctor replied. "if you think 1 am ezaggersting, or don't know what i ata talking about, send for any reputable physician you please and ask him to tell the truth " "(1 Mary t There lam t any way of doing the things you speak . i Clarke feels awfully poor this summer, and i have been trying harder than ever to make the ends lap over. "Where is (lark 1" the doct.,r in Tuned. "He's down at the tree►, hayiag. "1 will drive down and here a talk with him right away, said my friend, making ready to leave "n' Mary 1 Don't you think there re any other way r The poor woman had broken down completely now, and the doctor held her for a moment in leer etenng arm and ear e.aa.ei her fnndl, THE HURON SIONA1.• }1i1DAY, FEB. 10. I . "No other way, sis," she rep114d; "but we will do the twat we can. There's no tolling what a good rest and careful nursing nay do for your poor tired body, my dear." I was going to take you to some other places," the doctor remarked, as we drove away-, "butt would have been the ssutw old story; %lurk, work. work, without rest or change, fromear's end to year's end. My mother killed her- self by her attempts to get ahead of time. Two sisters have traveled the saute road that Auna has started on, one of thein absolutely dropping dead in her kitchen in the midst of her work. This is the kind of thing I could not endure to see go ou. 1 knew it was all wrong as woe as I knew 'anything, and when I became old enough to have a voice in my own education I persisted in taking a differ- ent course. My sister Anna has tried to get w far ahead of time and make things 'lapover' that she has abused and probably illed herself, besides crimin- ally neglecting and mismanaging her children. I don't suppose she has averaged over live hours sleep out of the twenty-four during the last tive years, and think of that amount of rest fur a woman whose brain and murals are forever in use ! Every year I come up here and find things going from bed to worse among my relatives and most of my friends, and the. horrible part uf it is that igothing one can say or do will ever have the slightest effect." "Don't you think your very natural anxiety about your 'sister may have colored your diagnosis a little 1' I in- qnired. "Not in the least," my companion answered. "Anna's pulse was one hun- dred and twelve. The respiration was labored and ominously freMuent. There is no mistaking such signs. ' "How could she keep at work with such a pulse as that ?" I asked. "By the exercise of will power," said, the doctor. "In our family will power is a direct inheritance. If it could only have been put to s good use how much might have been accomplished ' My dear, this will power eats salt pork when good beef and the most nutritious food are absolute necessities. It makes all its cream int* butter that the cash may 'Lap over.' It dunks skim milk, and works nineteen hours out of twenty- four." Soon after this the doctor dropped tae at my boarding-house. "Now you know all about it," she re- marked in parting, "and if tiny one ever asks you why Mary Stedman did not re- main among her relatives you can say that she declined to lice among criminals and suicides." Five mouths after the above incident sister Anna died, and one year from that date the widower married again. The second wife is a duplicate of the first, working night and day and "laying up" for a future which it is more than likely she never will enjoy. -[Eleanor Kirk in Christian Union. THINGS TO TRY. n'.•a.1�1a1 ee. Thew troublesome complaints may be ily cured by H.gyard's Yellow Oil great itlteuutetic remedy, which, as an external application and as an inter- nal remedy has a wide' range of useful- n ess than any similar preparation in the world. AU druggists sell it. 25c. (!, PRCHERON HOMES liteeessmatadallieMI Steen a dimmed .et Ral1a. LARQEeT Importing and Breeding M. W. DUNHAM, Wayne, Du Page County,Illinois, l7. 8. A. 133 miles west ofChi'wjr'J Dario, the pest 17 wseatsas Ma ITAL. 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EMBRY LABOR EvnziY NEIGHBORHOOD IRMO a t1111111oas" R'•L "III BEcAusEtalrty �eatf trial has damca- siesf.d fast when bred to the mammon marca at the country has peadoce L mon uniform, ars easier keepers. better work. era, and soil for more mosey oo the matset than ass user dans d Ramses. From Foote's Health Monthly. Try popcorn for nausea. Try cranberry for malaria. Try sun bath for rheuntttiam. Try ginger ale for stomach cramps. Try clam broth for a weak stomach. Try cranberry poultices fur erysipelas. Try gargling lager beer for cure of sore throat. Try Dating fresh radishes and yellow turnips for gravel. Try swallowing saina when troubled with sour stomach. Try a wet towel to the tack of the neck when sleepless. Try buttermilk for removal of freckles. tan and butternut stains. Try eating onions and hierseredish to relieve dreuaical swellings. Try the croup tippet when a child ii likely to be troubled in that way. Try a hot flannel over the heat of neu- ralgic pain, and renew frequently. Try snuffing powdered borax up the nostrils for catarrhal ''cold in the head." Try hard cider -a wine-elasiful three times a day --for ague and rheumatism. Try taking your cod-liver oil in term ato catsup, if you want to make it palata- ble. ' Try taking a nap to the arternonn if you are going to be out late in the even- ing. Try breathing the fcr.iee of eirpentine or carbolic acid t, rer..,ve +►loping cough. Try a cioth wrung out from cold wa- ter put about the, ne•-!z at night f,'r sore throat. Try an extra pane ••f sU.ciimes ,•utaide of your sa,,ea wines tra.ehng in cold weather Try walking with your hands behind you if you find yourself booming bent forward. Try a silk handkerchief over the face when obliged to 4o spinst a cold, pierc- ing iersing wind. Try planting sunflowers ir, your ear den if eoempelled to lire in a malarial neighborhood. 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