Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 293, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 December 1912 — In a Moment of Relaxation. [ARTICLE]

In a Moment of Relaxation.

A medical journal has a story to the effect that a woman who was seriously awoke one night to find thg nurse sitting at the foot of her bed, smoking a cigarette and reading a novel. Greatly startled, the patient raised herself up In her bed, and cried you doling, nurse?" To which the nurse, dropping Cigarette and novel in amazement, replied. “Good gracious! I thought you were dead/*