Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 103, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 May 1911 — Symptoms Were There. [ARTICLE]

Symptoms Were There.

“Your husband might have a little solid food directly he begins to mend,’ ’ said the doctor. “But how am I to tell?” inquired the anxious wife. ■ “The convalescent stages of influenza,” replied the doctor, “are marked by a slight irritability.” The next day he called and found the patient’s wife radiant. “When I refused to order his Bteak * and 'onions,” she explained, “he came into the kitchen and smashed fourteen soup plates and a dinner service; so, of course, I sent out for steak at once.” —Stray Stories.