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Show Sign of Recovery. "If when the devil is sick a monk " ' - he will be," said Rose Stahl sagely, "then the devil gets well in double quick time. Witness that young 'divil with the ladies, my kid cousin. Last winter he was ill, so ill he didn't have any sense of humor left nor any sense either. I was staying at the same hotel, ho-tel, and when I went in to look after him he virtuously remarked that his room was no place for a 'Chorus Lady' and promptly shooed me out. (A few years ago I spanked that kid.) Then he got scared and sent for a doctor and the doctor sent for a trained nurse. For several days I got bulletins bulle-tins of his progress from the chambermaid. cham-bermaid. The fourth morning she set my mind completely at rest. " 'Sure, ma'am,' said Maggie, 'an' I think he do be gettin' along very well. The nurse was sittin' on his lap this mornin'!' " |