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Show KEEPING THE WINDOWS OPEN Citizen Followed the Doctor's Advice In Winter and the Plumber Paid Over th Percentage. One upon a time a citizen complained to a physician that he was troubled with a feeling of lassitude on arising In the morning, and after half an hour spent in dtep reflection the healer of men replied: 'Although it Is winter, 1 think you suffer from the want of fresh air in the house. Go home and open your cellar windows and let the ozone ' sweep through the house at Its wild pleasure." "But the thermometer stands below zero," protested the citizen. "So do you. Let her stand. Leave the windows open all night. That lassitude will be gone when you get up in the morning." The citizen did as directed, and at six o'clock next morning the cook was borne from earth away by the explosion explo-sion of the kitchen range. Four busted bust-ed water pipes also went into the cascade cas-cade business with unqualified sue- cess, and two children were overhauled over-hauled to find that their toes were frostbitten. Five days later, when the plumber had presented his bill and received re-ceived the long green, he entered the office of the physician and said: "Twenty per cent, of $90 is $13. and here Is the same. If you will only advise ad-vise the old chap next door to leave all his windows open some night to cure his asthma it will mean at least $40 to me and $8 for you." Moral In helping other people we most always help ourselves. |