Democratic Sentinel, Volume 22, Number 49, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 December 1898 — SENSATIONS IN ILLNESS. [ARTICLE]

SENSATIONS IN ILLNESS.

Cnrlona Bow a Man Feela When Knows He Need* a Doctor. "It Is curious,** said a men yesterday “the various sensations a man experiences when he goes to see a doctor or * lentlst. There is a long, preliminary, siege of mental agony, alternately exaggerating 2nd belittling your ailment, until finally in a moment of desperation you decide to go and see what U th* matter, anyway. Perhaps you have a cold, which has settled on lhe iungg and developed a troublesome cough that keeps yon awake nights. The cough Itself is not so bad as the terrible possibilities It suggest*. Vision* of swift demise from pneumonia o| slow, wasting away with consumptio< rise up before your eyes, and ever* wheeze and cough confirms these terrb ble premonition* If you could, yoa would go then In a hurry, but in th* morning you feel better. "The eough Is still there, but the terrors of the imagination have fled b» fore the daylight, you put it off ano they day. But finally decide to go, and with firmness born of despair, march up to the medical man’s door to learn your fate. In the case of toothache every one knows how a tooth will hop and Jump and smart all day until you get to the dentist’s, and then calm down so quiet and painless that you can’t tell whldh one was aching. It Is the same way with a cough or other aliment Aa you go up to the secretly hope that the doctor Is nW at home. You gull the doorbell gently, and half wish that you had not come. Then the funniest part of it all Is how mad you wIM get when you find the doctor Is not at home, and feel as If you had been cheated out of on* of your dearest hope*.”—Washington Post

His Clothes Were Deceiving, A queer Incident took place yesterday In the office of one of the natural ga* companies. A seedy-looklng and poorly dressed u An entered the offloe and Mk*d for the president. The clerlf Whom he addressed had been annoyed more than usual of late by beggar* and tramps and replied brusquely: "Well, he don’t want to see you, so clear out unless you have some business here, and If you have you can transact, it with me.’’ “All right, I can deaf with you. I did want to refer the president to a customer who Is desirevs 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 their position when he was handed from a Well-filled wallet a hundred-dollar bill to change In payment of a good-slsed 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 hl* manual because he had accumulated a fair proportion of wealth.—lndJanap' oils Sentinel. 9