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IN THE PALM
OE NIS HAND
By EUGENIE UHLRICH
CopvriflM, mot, by McClure's Xevxpaper
Syndicate
MISS GERVAISE PLYMPTON
had one hobby—chiromancy.
She spent all her spare time
investigating its mysteries.
It was even said that her chief rea
son for entering the hospital training
school was the opportunity it offered
to feel the pulse and incidentally
glance at palms of the hands of the
patients. Out of it all she had drawn
confirmation for certain palmist the
ories and amended others by a few
rules of her own which she contem
plated publishing—by and by.
There is a popular superstition that
young house doctors and nurses always
fall in love with each other. But Miss
Plympton was saved from this extrav
agance of emotions by her discovery
that all her contemporary doctors had
forbidding lines. In the hand of one
she discovered unmistakable evidence
of mental aberration, iu another signs
of a violent temper, and still another
was hopelessly stingy. The owner of
the latter, however, persisted in lik
ing her in spite of all her snubs. So
it came about that when he established
a successful practice in a little town
near the city it was she for whom he
sent when, he had a difficult case.
One stifling summer day she re
ceived a telegram from him:
CJome at ones. Only girl in Tamily has
typhoid. Family lost their heads. Cook
gone.
It was not clear from the telegram
which was worse, the typhoid or the
desertion of the cook. But Miss Plymp
ton concluded that she would risk im
pression in the latter’s place and went
down on the next train.
The doctor met her and drove her to
the Macdonald house. There for two
days and nights she saw and heard
nothing but her patient. Then Mrs.
Macdonald recovered sufficiently from
her exhaustion to take her turn at the
nursing again. Miss Plympton slipped
out on the veranda for a breath of
fresh air to soothe her nerves before
going to bed.
A tall young man came up the path.
Seeing her, he stopped.
“Miss Plympton, I believe. I am your
patient’s oldest brother. Mother tells
me that Mary is better, thanks to you.
Why, when she is well again we five
boys will be ready to canonize you.”
He laughed and sat down beside her.
Miss Plympton tried to smile, but
the domination of sleep was upon her,
and she gazed at him with vague,
heavy eyes.
“Pardon me, you are very tired,” he
said hastily. As she said "Good night”
and crept away to bed she still re
membered the consideration in his
tone.
The next evening when she went out
on the veranda Robert Macdonald
“I have a case for you. Just see how
my finger is swollen.”
again happened up the walk, and again
he stopped beside her. But she was
now more in the mood for a chat.
Very soon they found that he knew
friends in her home town and were
friends by proxy.
When Mary grew still better, Miss
Plympton and Robert ventured on lit
tle walks. When the invalid was sit
ting up, Robert took her nurse driving.
The days were passing very pleasantly
for Miss Plympton, so pleasantly that
she seemed to have forgotten her hob
by. Perhaps she dreaded to introduce
into these peaceful tete-a-tetes the dis
cussion which an exposition of her
theories always seemed fated to arouse.
Indeed, she seemed almost fearful of
glancing at Robert's palms and loath
to read the story they might tell.
When he came to her one evening
holding out his hand with an exagger
ated air of affliction, she saw that her
duty could no longer be evaded.
“I have a ease for you, Miss Plymp
ton. Just see how my linger is swoll
en. I cut it yesterday morning on the
edge of a sheet of paper.”
‘‘You have infected it. It needs to
be laid open and drained.” In a mo
ment she was busy getting together
gauze, water and scalpel. When she
was through and had put the last
touches on the neat bandage, he no
ticed that she was silent and pale. He
thought it was because she minded the
bit of blood.
"I ought to have gone down to Dr.
Buckley,” he said apologetically, “and
u.mt'u you to wiutr over urn wuen
you were tired out”
She shook her head smilingly.
Just the same, when she reached
her own nxmi she threw herself down
on the bed and cried and cried. She
was learning how much she cared for
Robert, learning It when she must
never think of him again. Was it not
all there In the lines of his veil kept
hand—lnsanity and violent death? It
was kind of the gods to forewarn her,
hut at first the kindness seemed hard.
The next evening she did not go out
on the veranda, and so for many even
ings. When Robert urged her to come
for a walk, she said she was too tired.
Instead she fell into the habit of tak
ing lonely little walks in the morn
ing, just for exercise.
She went down to the drugstore one
day to till a prescription for Mary. In
a cage in one corner was a monkey
whose only diversion seemed to be the
teasing of a frolicsome fox terrier.
The monkey would stretch out a hand
and pull the terrier’s ear, then
scramble up and listen to the dog’s
snappy bark with the caricature of a
laugh on his impish face.
From force of habit Miss Plympton
watched his little yellowish pink palm.
It aa'us a perfect hand. The heart line,
the head line, the mounts, had the
stamp of an admirable hand. \That
monkey, according to her science,
should live long, marry happily and
have nil the catalogue of virtues.
Miss Plympton watched in fascinat
ed horror. Then the light of a great
relief overspread her face. Finally
she laughed long and heartily, but the
druggist was surprised to detect a
touch of hysteria in her laugh. The
life of a nurse is hard on the nerves,
he reflected.
That evening Miss Plympton came
down on the veranda, and Robert was
delighted to tind that the hauteur of
the last days had melted as if by
magic. They talked long and late, and
the moonlight disclosed happiness In
two faces.
Robert Macdonald never understood
his wife’s fancy for the drugstore
monkey. * When it died shortly, the
druggist declared that she had killed
it with sweets, but Mrs. Macdonald
only saw in the beast’s death the last
providential argument against her pal
mistie aberrations.
Cleopatra's Musical Voice.
Cleopatra always selected the same
lover, the head of the invading army,
and always used him to help her in
founding, as she hoped, the empire of
the east. Her attractive power was
probably not her beauty. Iler coins do
not reveal a beautiful woman, but a
broad browed, thoughtful queen, and
Plutarch in describing her evidently
speaks on the authority of men whose
fathers had studied her face. He says:
“Her actual beauty, it is said, was not
in itself so remarkable that none could
be compared with her or that no one
could see her without being struck by
it, but the contact of her presence if
you lived with her was irresistible.
The attraction of her person, joining
with the charm of her conversation,
and the character that attended all she
staid or did "“'"““T®’
It was a pleasure merely to hear the
sound of her voice, with which, like an
instrument of many strings, she could
pass from one language to another, so
that there were few of the barbarian
nations that she answered by an inter
preter. To most of them she spoke her
self, as to the Ethiopians, Troglodytes,
Hebrews, Arabians, Syrians, Medes,
Partliians and many others, whose lan
guages she had learned.”
Prevention and Cure of Cold*.
For ten of the twelve years of his
life my son suffered from influenza,
which no amount of precaution ‘could
ward off, and which, with or without
a doctor, was often weeks in running
its course, at the end of which time he
was about ready for a fresh one. At
last I became convinced that an overin
dulgence in sweets was one fertile
cause, and many a box of candy—the
gift of unwise friends—was suppressed,
tmd the colds became less frequent. On
his tenth birthday he began upon ris
ing in the morning a series of cold
sponge baths, followed by friction with
a coarse towel. That year his colds
were limited to two. When the second
began to make its appearance we de
termined to try heroic measures, and
for thirty-six hours he went without
food, with the exception of a cupful of
hot water and the juice of an orange
taken on the morning of the first day's
fast. The second morning he awoke
without a vestige of cold, and a hap
pier and more triumphant boy it would
have been hard to find. As many of my
friends and family have tried this with
equal success I do not hesitate to rec
ommend iL—Woman’s Home Com
panion.
Sensitive Mrs. Pat Campbell.
It is related that one evening last
winter at a dinner given in honor of
Mrs. Pat Campbell in New York the
English actress remarked loftily:
“They wanted me to play Tess of
the D’Crbervilles in England, but I
thought it a vulgar character, and
I can’t be gross, you know.” This
from the woman whose whole fame
rested on her impersonations of wo
men with malodorous pasts or no
torious presents was astounding to
all present, each one of whom had
said something in extenuation of
the sins of poor Tess and in admira
tion of Hardy’s masterpiece as a
dramatic character drawing. For a
moment there was an embarrassed
silence, and then Miss Warren, who
is to star in the play this season,
spoke up innocently: “It is dreadful
to be so sensitive. I expect, Mrs.
Campbell, you find it hard even to
accept your share of the gross re
ceipts.” t
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How a Bright Boy May Perform Mag
ic With a Siphon.
Here is a little feat that any boy
can perform and yet it looks like a
trick of a magician. If you wish to
entertain a company with it, tell
them that you have a bottle and a
goblet, both full to the brim of wa
ter, and that you are going to emp
ty the goblet by means of the bottle
without taking a drop of water from
the latter.
This is the way to prepare for it:
With a redhot wire bore two holes
through a cork and into tlem in
sert two straws, one of them extend
ing above the cork as high as the
goblet is deep, the other about twice
as high.
Now, with a little kneaded bread
or wax close the upper end of the
shorter straw and then force the
cork into the mouth of the bottle
until the water spurts out through
the longer straw.
Meanwhile you have the goblet of
water on the table near you and also
a basin or bowl and a pair of scis
sors. Hold the goblet over the basin
with your left hand and with your
right hand turn the bottle upside
down, putting the shorter straw in
°m''vv ' c IV Y&U this have
some one take the sctssuis aim uu
off the closed end of the shorter
straw. Water will at once begin to
run out of the longer straw into the
basin and will continue to run until
the goblet is empty. You must, of
course, hold the bottle so that the
short straw will reach down to the
bottom of the goblet.
This is simply the operation of a,
siphon.
A Dumb Parrot.
Hetty Green recently bought a
parrot of a bird fancier of no par
ticular standby. The man war
ranted the bird to be a splendid talk
er, but Mrs. Green found after some
months that it never made a sound
approaching the semblance of a
word. She called on the bird fan
cier and demanded an explanation.
‘■'Well, ma’am;” said that worthy,
“that there bird was brought up in
my humble home, and I expect when
it went to your residence and saw all
the beautiful, luxurious surround
ings it was struck dumb with sur
prise. 1 dare say it won’t ever talk
again, but that ain’t no ways my
fault, so I can’t take it back.” —
New Y'ork Times.
The Fashion Spreads.
“Oh, doctor,” moaned the suffer
ing young woman, “I have such an
excruciating pain in my side!”
“Um—yes. What seems to be the
nature of the pain ?” asked the phy
sician. “Does it cover the side, or is
it confined to one spot?”
“It seems to be scattered all over,”
explained the patient; “just as if it
were in a hundred little spots all at
once.”
“Ah,” mused the physician, “this
corroborates my theory of the in
fluence of current fashions upon the
human system. You have what we
would colloquially term a drop stitch
in the side.”—J udge.
Sleeping Car Porters.
The surprising announcement is
made from East St. Louis, according
to the ltailway Age, that a sleeping
car porters’ union has been organ
ized at that point for the purpose
of abolishing the “tipping” system.
A full list of officers was elected,
and applications will be made for a
charter affiliating the new union
with the American Federation of
Labor. The .union is to be based on
the principle that porters should he
paid sufficient wages so they may
not be compelled to ask for and re
ceive tips.
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was exercising in the neighborhood
of Salisbury plain. The gallant of
ficer in command, evidently bent on
playing the game thoroughly, or
dered his battery into a field of
standing corn, whereupon the irate
farmer appeared on the scene and
ordered them off. The C. 0. direct
ed his men to arrest the farmer,
who promptly seized a pitchfork
and defied them. There being noth
ing about pitchforks in the hooks,
the gunners were hopelessly bewil
dered by these tactics, and the farm
er, seeing his advantage, fell upon
them and literally drove them out
of the field. Following this up, he
charged the commanding officer,
who, after hesitating for a moment,
ignominiously turned and fled. It
is said that there is to be an in
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“boor” had been studying “the les
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j hut I am afraid the story is too good
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