Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 41, Number 88, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 July 1909 — Why He Couldn’t Help Her. [ARTICLE]

Why He Couldn’t Help Her.

v «L A very pretty young woman slipped and fell on the stone steps in front of her father’s house; spraining her knee. She disliked doctors, but the knee finally grew so bad that she was persuaded to call in medical advice. She wouldn’t have this doctor or that one, hut finally said she would consent to have called in a spruce-look-ing young man carrying a homepathic medicine case who passed the house every day. The family kept a sharp lookout, and when he came along called him in. The young lady modestly raised her skirts and showed the disabled member. The young man looked at it and said: “That certainly is quite serious” ’“Well,” said thd young lady, “what shall I do?” ~ “If I were you,” he said, “I would send for a physician.” “But can you not attend to it?” asked the girl. “Not very well,” answered the young man. “I am a piano-tuner.”