Democratic Sentinel, Volume 22, Number 17, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 April 1898 — SENSATIONS IN ILLNESS. [ARTICLE]

SENSATIONS IN ILLNESS.

■ —■ Curious How a Man Feels When Hi Knows He Needs a Doctor. “It is curious,” said a men yesterday “the various sensations a man experiences when he goes to see a doctor or a lentist. There Is a long, preliminary ♦lege of mental agony, alternately exaggerating £nd belittling your ailment, until finally in a moment of desperation you decide to go and see what Vs the matter, anyway. Perhaps you have a cold, which has settled on Uie lungs and developed a troublesome cough that keeps you awake nights. The cough Itself is not so bad as the terrible possibilities it suggests.. Visions of swift demise from pneumonia ol slow, wasting away with consumption rise up before your eyes, and every wheeze and cough confirms these ten-1 ble premonitions. If you could, yot would go then in a hurry, but in the morning you feel better. “The cough is still there, but the terrors of the imagination have fled before the daylight, you put it off another day. But finally decide to go, and with firmness born of despair, march up to tile medical man’s door to learn your fate. In the case "of toothache every one knows how a tooth will hop and |ump and smart all day until you get to the dentist’s, and then calm down so quiet and painless that you can’t tell which one was aching. It Is the same way with a cough or other ailment. As you go up to the door you secretly hope that the doctor is not at home. Tou pull the doorbell gently, and half wish that yon had not come. Then the funnleat part of it all is how mad you will get when you fiad the doctor Is not at home, and feel as If you had beea cheated out of one of your dearest hopes.”— Washington Post

His Clothes 'Were Deceiving, A queer incident took place yesterday in the office of one of the natural gas companies. A seedy-looking and poorly dressed U An entered the office and asked for the president. The clerk whom he addressed had been annoyed more than nsnal of late by beggars and tramps and replied brusquely: “Well, he don’t want to see you, so dear out unless you have some business here, and if you have you can transact It with mfc" “All right, I can deal with you. I did want to refer the president to a customer who is desirclus of taking some stock in a new enterprise he is about to embark in. But I can see him at another time when he Is not so carefully guarded by such zealous subordinates. I will pay the gas bill for my North Meridian street house, however, and I suppose you will be good enough to take my money/' The clerk’s eyes bulged until they were in danger of dropping from theii position when he was handed from ft Well-filled wallet a hundred-dollar bill to change in payment of a good-steed monthly account He had been dealing with one of the city’s most prominent and prosperous workingmen who did not see it necessary to cease his man nal labor because he had accumulated a fair proportion of wealth.—lndianap oils Sentinel.