Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 111, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 May 1914 — SMILES [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

SMILES

TAKING THE COUNT- ' A doctor in an lowa town had been very busy for several days, and was worn out and sleepy when he got to bed one morning about two o’clock. Just as he dropped off a summons came from a house half a mile away. The lady of the house, the call said, was dying of a heart difficulty. The sleepy got into his clothes somehow and went to the house, where the patient—a very stout woman—was in bed, breathing stentoriouely. The doctor could find nothing specially wrong, but the woman was panicky. “Cough!” he ordered. She could not Then he put his ear over her heart and said: “Count slowly.” Next thing he knew he woke to hear the woman counting faintly: “Ten thousand and forty-seven—ten thousand and forty-eight.—”—Satur-day Evening “Post .