Democratic Sentinel, Volume 6, Number 49, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 January 1883 — The Eminent Doctor Decided It. [ARTICLE]

The Eminent Doctor Decided It.

A young blood who is about to enter into the holy estate of matrimony goee to seek of an old friend, his family doctor. “The girl, you see,” says the young man, with engaging frankness, “hasn’t got any tin now, but she has a rich uncle with the heart disease that—” “I don’t know abont that,” says the doctor, reflectively, “a man with heart disease is apt to live much longer than—” “But it is a serious case. Only this morning they called in your eminent colleague, Dr. X.” “Then, if they have, marry her, sir; you haven’t a minute to lose.”