Evening Star Newspaper, December 2, 1926, Page 48

The Smile of the Sphinx. €¢] NEVER knew it to fal the doctor’s wife muttered in an exasperated tone as she .. 3 stooped before the kitchen stove and peeped into the oven at the pufiing cottage pud- ding that she had started to bake. “Whenever 1 attempt to have any- thipg that should be eaten as soon @s don, Dave phones he will be late!” “Couldn’t help it. Pete,” he told her when he came in. “My star patient has been cutting up didoes again. “You mean Connie Sanderson? “Yep. Usual stunt. Nerves gone all to pieces. Then, as a result of wealness, from one fainting fit to &nother. It beats the old boy.” “I thought your star patient was dolng so famously,” resumed Minty Newton as she biought in the heaped- up plate that she had kept hot in the oven. “She was. improve the one to s last Never kpew an; she's done ti month. Since started in building up her general health on milk, raw eggs and spinach,” he added in a patting-himself-on-the-back tone as he began eating hungrily. “But Mrs. Jimmy's been away with her hus- band on his Summer vacation, and I suppose Connie overdid.” “Mrs. Jimmy?" questioned the doc- tor's wife, setting down a saucer of epplesauce for his pork chep and a daish of his favorite mustard pickle. “Mrs. Jimmy Sayre, the married sister, who lives around the corner from Conn!s and her bre r in one of the bungalows on ITvy s TR ‘wonderful woman. Most apable. Does all her own housework. Yet manages to spend threefourths of the time with Connie. Attends to her marketing. Plans her meals. Helps with the cooking. Saves her in a hundred ways. I never saw such de- votion., But she’'s five years older than Connfe and has always mother- ed her. You'd never take them for sisters. Direct opposites in every way. Say, Pete, this is bully apple. sauce. Any more of 1t?" “With her sister away, who's tak- ing care of Connle Sanderson?” asked the doctor's wife as she came with the replenished saucer. “Oh, the sister got back two days ago. A good thing she did. A capi- tal nurse. Anything that she under- rles through regardless “M'm!” shrugged Minty. “When Miss Connie is able to see company I think I'll call on her. Baffling cases interest me. And perhaps she'd like some of my jelly.” She went at the end of the week. “Well, what is the consulting physt- clan's dlagnosis?” smiled the doctor that evening. “That the stupldity of the average an is without limit, dear,” she twin klingly replied. “I wasn't in the San- derson house half an hour before I saw the root of the whole trouble. Mra. Jimmy Sayre gon of efficlency, is the f Connie's Left in a snow overnight " THE EVENING STORY chronically going to pleces or I miss my_guess.” “You're joking.” “It's no joke. It's very serfous. She’s mothering the life out of her— like a big, purry cat with the most affectionate intentions in the world seating itself upon a delicate child’'s chest. As you say, the two sisters are totally different in every way. And instead of being willing to live and let live, Mrs. Jinmy wants to im- pose her will upon her ‘baby sister,’ as she calls her. And, high strung, su- persensitive, not strong physically, it gets on Connie’s nerves to the break- ing point.” “But her ‘big sister’ would lay down her life for Connie,” protested the doctor. “Go through fire or water to save her a finger ache.” “Precisely. Connie is tied hand and foot with obligations of her devotion and a sense of loyalty. She keeps all the exasperation, the countless daily irritations bottled up in silence—until the inevitable periodic explosion, when, pop, up flles the cork and hits the celling.” “If there's no limit to the average man’s stupidity,” retallateds the doc- tor, “there’s certainly none%o a wom- an’s imagination.” “You will find that I'm right, my dear,” was her woman'’s last word. He did. For on his next call Con- nie Sanderson was alone and off guard. “There’s no use ordering a new tonic, Dr. Newton,” she sald dispirit- edly. “All the medicine in the world won’t do any good. I will never be well until I can live my own life.” Then she poured out the whole story tearfully. ‘““And it's so hope- less,”” she concluded tearfully. “Olive simply doesn’t understand. And after all her devotion and self-sacrifice it would be cruel, heartless in me to tell her how I feel. Besides, it wouldn't do any good. She would think it just one of my ‘symptoms’ and treat my outburst with the most angelic pa- tience.” ‘The doctor came home very hum- ble In spirit. “Pete, I take off my hat to you!" he satd when he had reported the inter- view. “It beats the old boy how you hit the nail square on the head with one whack, while I only bungled and pounded my fingers.” “If I could hit a cure it would be to some purpose,” sald Minty New- ton. “Connie’s too sweet and dear a girl to be sacrificed.” “Would it be possible to have a tactful little talk with Mrs. Jimmy and tell her she mustn’t?”” suggested | the doctor. Minty shook her head. “With a strong-willed child never say ‘don’t,’ " she answered cryptically. “Instead, divert her attention from forbidden sweets. I must have time to think the thing through. Besides, I can’t undertake anything else until I get the opening of the new orphanage building off my hands.” One evening, that of the day when the new little inmates were installed, l;{lmy Newton did not get home until ‘The doctor heard the taxi draw up at the door ms the clock struck and determined to have a talk with his wife the first thing in the morning. “It's got to stop,” he muttererd to himself, half asleep. “I'll put my foot down good and hard.” But he was calldti out before Minty was up, and when he came in again had such exciting news that he for- got_everything else. “Pete, what &o you suppose has happened? Here, in Smithfield, not at the movies he burst into the living room. “A pair of freal live twin bables has been left on a door- FOR, ! ’ Stomach PHILLIPS' Milk ~ of Magnesia — Instead of soda hereafter, take a little “Phillips Milk of Magnesia” in ases. 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