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Show SIIOCKISD.TIIia DOCTOR. " One of the physicians who live protty well up on the East Side, and whose speech is a cololction" 4 of very carefully selected words, and whoso sentiments senti-ments regarding women have escaped all shock because of his remaining a bachelor, was coming down tho street with a very beautiful girl in front of him. He didn't have anything to do with their relative positions. She just happened to be going, along. And at the crossing of a gutter she stepped out with the confident assurance of ono accustomed to putting her foot down where she wanted it and the tightness at the bottom of her skirt caught her advancing foot, and she mighty nigh tumbled into tho flowing water of tho gutter. ' The doctor was there with all the strength of a wrestler and the gallantry of a Sir Walter Raleigh, and ho grasped her arm. lie had noted before the fall that she was pretty, that she was dressed with exceptional taste for these bachelor doctors have pretty fine ideas on drPHs for the eternal feminine; and that she had ull the marks of a perfect lady. Otherwise he i might not have rushed to the rescue act. For an instant she leaned heavily against him, and he began to think of first aids to the trip-, ping, when the girl writhed, put her hand to the pnrt of her dress where waist and skirt meet and are supposed to fasten, and exclaimed: "I dam near broke my back. Thank you." Then sho straightened up, moved away from her, helper, and vanished from his sight. And that doctor still is wondering if that is the common speech of women when thoy are at the oxtromes of suffering,- and whon pretense Is Impossible or" if ho simply wont wrong In his judgment at. the! first place. |