Show HIS QUEER PATIENT A falatea HI exit clenca with a awman 0 faublon Fac blon my funniest patient said the doctor well that question is of a facer you newspaper fellows do ask the queerest que erast questions tell me doc urged the scribe about the moat singular patient you have or ever had as the case may be 1 I see said the doctor thoughtfully you are bound to BUCK TO mo nice a vampire until I 1 tell you something so here goes A certain woman who lives on west fifty seventh street has a mania for every thing extraordinary she is what you would call a beautiful woman hut I 1 dont believe she has even an apology for a whether her husband realizes the latter fact I 1 do not pretend to say and if ho does he has too much pride to confess it to the world well this woman came to me one morning with a little vial and requested me to inject some of its contents in both of her arms and neck of course I 1 inquired what the liquid might by she answered all right I 1 will give you fifty dollars it you will do it but madam I 1 protested am not in the habit of injecting unknown fluids into the human system oh I 1 know what it is she answered and moreover I 1 dont want it in my system nor in my veins I 1 simply want it administered under the skin 1 I looked at her a moment and wondered though she did not look like one it she was a morphine fiend she seemed to divine my semi suspicion and said no it is no kind of morphine smell 0 it sho held tho little vial in her own hand to my nostrils which inhaled potent fragrance in which rose oil wa represented you see she explained 1 I have a friend who has just returned from paris where she has seen this successfully done come here is fifty dollar note do you refuse now you as a newspaper man know the value of fifty dollars and so do L it seemed wise for me to say no but I 1 secured the necessary instrument and told her I 1 would comply with her request at her own peril all right she answered and in five minutes I 1 had completed my novel taste she had an idea you know that her arms and neck would exhale a delicious perfume and she went away as happy as a two days old butterfly in about a week she came back and want edme to inject some more of the potent essence in her arms and neck on her liht arm I 1 noticed an inflamed spot just where the previous injection had been made and I 1 told her that it looked as if an abscess waa form there never mind she said 1 I want to find oat if there is tny thin in it then I 1 firmly declined to pursue the experiment she departed in a state of wrath and I 1 have not seen her from that day to this she ws my funniest M Y ress |