Democratic Sentinel, Volume 17, Number 15, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 April 1893 — Suggestive to Doctors and Scolds. [ARTICLE]

Suggestive to Doctors and Scolds.

Dr. P. was not really a surly man, bqt the burry of his large and ard- ' lions practice made him appear so Kimetfttfces, Directly opposite his office lived Mr. Bradley, whose wife was an inveterate and loud-voiced scold. She had never had occasion for the Doctor’s services except for one thing, and that was to set her dislocated jaw several times. It had been first injured in an accident some years before, and had never fully recovered; any unusual strain was liable to throw it out of joint again. One morning, as he was preparing in haste for a long round of professional calls, his ears were assailed by the din of Mrs. Bradley’s scolding. She was giving her husband a violent “curtain lecture,” and no doubt the Doctor was nettled by the ~ound. “J hope she woqlt put her jaw out of joint with her clack, and come over here to have it set,” muttered he to himself. But the next moment in she came, holding her chin in one hand, and with the other pointing into her open mouth, which she could not shut, and mumbling, “Ah, ah, ah!” “Yes, yes, I know!” exploded the Doctor; “you’ve got your jaw out a scolding your husband. I expected it! I expected it! Well, sit down here, and I’ll put it down in a wink!” shoving a chair toward her as he spoke. She began to sit down, but, just as she was almost seated, the Doctor discovered that the chair did not face the light as he wished, and gave it a slight turn. Somehow, between them, the chair was so misplaced that she missed it, and sat down with a tremendous thump on the floor. It is an ill mishap that brings nobody good. The force of her collision with the floor did a neater job in setting her jaw than tbe Doctor could have done. Yet, all the ame, Mrs. Bradley did not like such § style of surgery. Scrambling to her feet, she squared off, with battle in her attitude and fire in her eyes, to give the Doctor a lingual thrashing. But she had met more than her match. The Doctor flung opep the door, and seizing her by the prm, marched her out and down the steps, exclaiming: “Go right home and stop scolding forever, for I’ll never your jaw again#” Home she went, and it is said she never scolded any more. The incident is suggestive to doctors and scolds. ’