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Show n Knew His Business. J "I had always heard that New Eng- A landers wore 'smart,' " a young phy- ,t Blclan who had "graduated" from a J vlllago practice remarked tho other : day, "but I hardly thought It devol- f oped at such an early ago." ' Ho smiled romlnlscontly, then con- !! tinned: "Just after I settled In Dobbs Corners Cor-ners a twclvo-year-old boy called on mo one evening. .s, "Say, Doc, I guess I got measles.' j,l ho remarked, hut nobody knows it . rcept tho folks at home, an' they ain't tho kind of folks that talk, if there's j any good reason to keep quiet.' I "I was puzzled, and I suppose I looked it. "Aw, got wIbo, Doc,' my small visitor vis-itor suggested. 'What will you give t mo to go to school an spread it among f all tho kids in tho village?'" Lippln-cot't's. |