Cottonwood Chronicle Newspaper, February 7, 1919, Page 2

| | \ Prescribing . for Paul -~ By JANE OSBORN Wspa) per (Copyright, 1918, by McClure Ne " Syndicate.) Aside from any considerations of patriotism—and he really was as true a patriot as any in the county—Paul Dedham longed to join the colors and lamented the youthful bookishness that had made him too astigmatic as to eyesight to be of military use to his country. This secondary feeling of discontent in mufti was frankly due to the fact that he felt completely snubbed in the once-doting circle of his own family, snubbed by the young women of the community by whom his mother had once assured him he was regarded as quite a catch. For the little community of Marden was with- in short range of an encampment and Marden was doing its best’ to create a “desirable home atmosphere” for the boys in khaki. Meantime men who still’ wore gray cheviot, or blue serge, or pepper-and-salt business suits were negligible. You don’t mind not having any sugar on your baked apple,” Paul was as- sured sweetly by his mother at break- fast. “We are muking apple pies for the canteen this morning, and those apples were so tart that we had to use all the sugar we had on hand.” And when Paul, his mouth in a pucker, put his hand out for the sugar bow! for his coffee his mother passed him @ nice little jug of sirup, assuring him that he was going to enjoy using that in place of sugar because they had used practically their entire quota of ‘ eut sugar and they would henceforth have it only when they had soldier boys for dinner. “The boys just love cake,” his sister assured him, “and it does seem a pity to use any substitute in it.” Then with moisture in her eyes—They’ll be in France so soon the least we can do is to let them have our wheat,” and Paul gulped down a soggy bullet of a corn muffin and sipped cautiously the insipid mixture of his coffee. Occasionally, however, Paul was as- sured that he was a “perfect dear.” That was after he had signed a check for his mother for the Red Cross, or wheh jhe had paid the bill for a hun- . dred pounds -of candy for a soldier spread at the canteen. He was a “nice boy,” too, sometimes, and was assured that he was one by some of the girls who had once rather vied with each other to meet him on the tennis*court “or golf links. But to earn that title he had to’sit for an hour or more on someone's front porch holding hanks of yarn or winding them. from. the backs of chairs, while he was actually deserted for a man in khaki. “If you should happen to get any- thing the matter with you,” his sister told him one morning when he was young wom.n, who somehow sent strange thriiis coursing througi one’s veins when she felt one’s pulse, and for lack of a stethoscope she had to lay her golden-erowned little head against his heart for full three min- utes at a time to find out the state of that organ. But, anyway, there were. advantages in this new embar- rassment. At least she was taking him seriously—even though she re- ceived_a fee for doing so—and that was more than any woman had done since the encampment was established near Marden, She told him that be surely did need treatment, but that she would have to think the matter over before she could prescribe. Meantime Paul went home encour- aged and Doctor Kate cultivated the acquaintance of +Paul’s sister and mother. She had suspected something and she found it to be true. Then she laid out a plan for a cure and pro- ceeded to apply it. But the cure did not come in any pill boxes or medicine bottles. The first dose was an invi- tation to dinner at her house, on the pretext of meeting her mother. And Doctor Kate watched with satisfac- tion that was not all professional as he accepted his fifth muflin—they were made with as much wheat as the Hoo- ver regulation allowed—and watched him eat the dessert to make which she and her mother had foregone sugar for two days. Doctor Kate had a won- derful way of finding things out, for Paul himself never told her about his socks, But before many weeks had passed he was actually bringing his socks stealthily to Doctor Kate’s mother, who assured-him she had a perfect passion for darning, and since her own boy had gone to the front she had hag none to do. Then Kate prescribed some sort of electrical treatment for her patient that had to be administered every morning in her office before breakfast, und she alsf assured him that the good effects of the treatment would be off- set if he went out afterward without eating. Heving« breakfast with Doc- tor Kate and her mother therefore be- came part of the treatment. And Paul recovered rapidly. He re- gained the lost pounds, and presently his case was spoken of as a feather in the cap of Doctor Kate Pratt. Gos- sip had it that he was In an actual decline when she took him in hand. No one knew just what the treatment had been, but it had required many, many visits, and the fee that was handed over to the Red Cross as a result was enough to buy all the yarn that Marden women could knit pp in | a year, 5 And the funny thing was that when Paul: sued for Doctor Kate’s heart and hand and gained#them both Mar- den women folk were a little peeved, even to Paul’s own mother and sister. “It’s always that way with eligible men,” was the comment. .“The girls in the home town can pet them and pamper them for years, but the first nice girl from out of town is the one they marry.” For Marden failed to see how pitt- fully susceptible Paul Dedham had be- come as a result of the neglect he had suffered. Shade Trees For “Planting ho. Every How to Plant.” —— NOTICE TO CREDITORS. 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These trees are listed and priced in Circular No 5, “Forest and Shade Trees fo> Planting in Idaho.” Copies of this circular may be had on appli- cation to the School of Forestery, University of Idaho, Moscow, Ida- prospective planter should also send for Bulietin 108, | “Trees—What, Where, When, and In the Probate Court, County of In the matter of the estate of Hel- that Let-! ters of Administration on the estate| of Helmuth P. Lage, deceased were granted to the undersigned on the 25th day of January, 1919, by the Pro-| All persons having claims against | said estate are required to exhibit them | to me for allowance at the office of H, | Taylor, at Grangeville, Idaho, the| same being hereby designated as_ the place of business uf said estate; with- the first publication of this notice, or they Dated this 29th day of January Annie C, Lage, Administratrix of the estate of Helmuth P. Lage, H. Taylor, Attorney for Adminis- Residence and post office ad- dress, Grangeville, Idaho, 6-4 From current articles one might sup- pose the art of making gardens gay with color in the fall to be something Quite otherwise is the fact, as one may learn by reading Bacon, par- | “I do hold it in the Royall Ordering of Gardens that there ought to be gardens for all the months of the year, in which severally things of beauty may be there in sea- It is quaintly put, of course, but Perhaps it is true, however, that too little at- tention has been given fall gardens in America, although the’ excuse may be made that, as here the autumn leaves and the woodland berries take on so | fine a color, artificiality becomes vain. doesn’t world feeling especially dejected over the cook’s most recent attempt at war muffins, “I do wish you'd let Doctor Pratt have a try at you—not, of course, that I want you to have any- thing—but if you should.” a And on inquiry as to who Doctor Pratt was he was informed that Doc- tor Pratt was Kate Pratt—that Doctor Peters, being a skilled surgeon, had volunteered for the war and that Kate Pratt, his niece, just from medical col lege, was going to handle his practice “And she has quite a lot of money so she is going to give all her fee: to the Red Cross or to the canteen or something. That is confidential, of course, but I have it on gooa author- ity. So it would be awfully nice if you did get something the matter with you to go to her, She’s been quite successful. She set Priscilla’s chow’s leg the other day and the blessed dog didn’t even whimper, and she fixed one of the soldiers’ ankles at the ser vice chub dance. He was daneing with that fat Baldwin girl and she tripped him and he Strained his anklé and Doctor Pratt fixed him—but of course she didn’t chargé for that.” To Paul there was something odious in the idea of letting a woman doctor prescribe for him, but he kept his opinion to himself and merely made some comment on Priscilla’s chow, and hoped that he was much better. Meantime he had @ new worry. He was wondering how he could get his socks darned, for his mother’and sis- ter knit soldier socks now to the dis- regard of the darning bag. At first he had bought new socks as he needed them, but he had now accumulated three. or four dozen pairs and it didn’t seem the best solution. He was uF wondering whether he could arrange with some seamstress to mend them without letting his mother know—he didn’t want her to feel offended, of course, So Paul’s spirits and his appetite waned, and before long his mother and sister noticed a lagging note in his step and.a stoop to his shoulders that had not been there before. He neg- lected the unsweetened apples and the coffee with corn sirup and they decided’ he had no appetite. “Well, any way, it will be a case for Doctor Kate,” his sister told him, and because Paul. was actually becoming alarmed over his own dejected condition and because there was no other doctor in the place, Paul. made a special appoint- ment for consultation and went to see her .in old Doctor Peters’ office. 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