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Show H I .1! I TT IB &cf the Bl m Cold -Water HI V$& Maw 111! $?? Man. jU wS By CLARA AUCUSTA B -40V COUGH ItO.N'i: was n tlrin iH j( - J li(dloor In tlic melldttal H O -. o virtues of cold water. lint S -- K cold vvntoi would not of- S yoW lout. In tin' way of curing flj tin- ills wlilcli llesh Is heir to might :ik flj well lie given up us Imposslble B Accoidlng to Geoige's theory, If n HJ iiiiiii only drank enough cold miter, nnd IBM soaked lilmsclt enough In cold water. BBJ he would live forever, If no accident BBJ took him off buiMciiIj . fifl lie set up a sott of cold-watct cure BH at his house, obtaining his supplj of BBJ water from n well dug tit u height siif- HBJ ticlent to tin on the water to the second BBJ Hour of his duelling, for (icotgu lived BBJ lu the couutrj, where water In the BBJ house Ifl a rare liixurj. BBJ In the luthroom was a law upright BBJ tub, live or sit feet higher than a fair- AH sized iiiiiii'h head and lu this tub Hfl George passed a large part of his time. Mm doctoring himself. VBJ His wife was a timid, yielding little BBJ woman, and she was constantly made UK' the subject of her luisb mil's expert- BBJ inuntn In the cold-water business. BJ .She had neuralgia, and though she BJ bore It for n lone; time In silence, pro- BJ fcrrlug the pain to George's doctoring, H In (in unguarded hour she groaned BJ aloud, and her fate was Healed A pa- BJ tleat to coddle was Hone's pet desire, anil he began the business with vigor. BJ lor Mr. Hone was showered, and BJ packed, nnd sponged and submerged, BJ until she was ptetty much soaked away, nnd one day George turned on too iinicli water, and It went over her flj head, and washed the life entirely out fl Poor woman, after bIio went to her long home which was, proieily spc-ik-BJ lug, a short home, seeing as she was only four feet tiro Iter htisbuid la-BBJ la-BBJ men tod her deiuituie. but stuck to his BBJ first Observation that she died from BBJ lack of cold water, Instead of finm su-BJ su-BJ fiernlmndanee. Por. If she hail only flf ,Iono '"'f Ity b) herself and bathed BBJ properly, she would have had strength BBJ einugli to have eiled out, or liuist open BBJ the door of the bathing tub, and bo BBJ. hove been saved. BK Wlieu she hid been dead a jpir Mr. BR Hone made airangoiueiits for supply. BBJ tug her pi ice 'lime wis short, he BBJ said, and It he ever ciletilated on hav- BBJ lug a second wife now was his lime. BBJ Ills choice fell on Pnttv Plolds, a BJ apluster of forlj, with a temper lll.ii a BJ ton-Jiorso power steam engine, tlumgli BBJ hc geiierallr kept It undei, and was all BJ the hotter woman lor having it BBJ She vrns not a believer lu the cold- BBJ wider doctilne, but lieoige "Iked her BBJ quite as well. Ho should torn either, BBJ lie Raid, nml thus add atiolhci iiiember Ml to the cold-water clique BBJ The wedding dnv nine, the fenst was BBJ prcad nnd the guoMs iisemliIod. '1'lie BB curemony was to take pi uv .it S o lock BJ lu the evening, and the appointed time BBt arrived, nud still the btldegtooui tar- U lie guests began to whisper together BBt ,IK' ,0,,c Riave; the pat son took to Br reading the Itlble, 1'att.v hed a few BBJ tears, us lu riutj bound, ami iotied BJ tier lavender tie with the salt water. BBJ and old Major I'lehls her falliei. who BBJ bad "seen seiviee," and vv is as pluekv BJ os a boy of tweiit), put on In sloth li BJ, bat, uhouldeitsl his ohi ml,., nud pro- BJ toetlud to Itoue'b lioitie. wuii vengeamo BJ tu his heart. H The sirvant 'i giggled when she BJ opened the dom ,iud saw him, nnd BJf vvheu he asked toi Mr Hone she. ion- BJ flucted him to tint htthiootu vvllli nlae. BBJ rit). Theie ho foiind tin. missing BBJ brltlegiooin. up to Ills chin lu v.utor, BJ tplushilig about like a li.ig, uud oi- BJ (lentb eiijojiiig liiiuseir mu. Ii on the ft uiue principle. I II "'"U llilein.ll hcntiiiiliel!' riled old I jj rields, "what do ou me in to keeping 1 Uy darter in biispense, and the vv iiildlu' I M folks a vriiltln'V" HJ Oood giaeloiiN Major'" fclaiuied H Ueorge, "it cnn'i bo J oVIn-k. mu H.'" 9 'lhu Xtnjoi held out to him the old BJ ".bull1 ej o" vv ati h, vv hli h had belonged M to his giaudfuthei, ami its iiauil point BJB d to the oiiiliious hour o. t) BBJ "Well, well, well!" escliiliuod (ieorge, BJI aprluglug out of the bath and uttiiig BjBJ tduisLir iiibido lti cloihes w,th uo BJb wblc of tiiuu, 'did over anv body see BJB tbo beat of that? Wb.v, I gut inio the BBJ bath at Jubt tl o'elo'k m i I would BJB bare bvroin It was onl 7 now. nine Ef passeb (juiekly vvlnu a iiiiiii is engiued Jg lu the Liiusu of hi h in e, 1 was nurcrv- H lug tho beautiful elli.ts o. iM water MB lu opening the pores oi tin eidder J mis i jBt 'Upper deunls nud lovvu iMiiub be! m , ciisbed!" tiled old 1 lelds nnuil.) "A Bt man that has to soak luin-, It tiuee H liotiis uforo he can oM to his own S) jwixldlug deseives a hosi whi ping H Are )ou calkllutlug, sit tobeiuiined BBJJ or notV" QR "Certainly, Majm, icrt ilulj - to ID WBj', "jure-!" mid Ueoigp huiijiug up his W4 Hollct, under the hupeivi.ion o his In W, dtended father lu Invv and the old mle J , Tbe wwldluc was u little later than the tlma appointed, but the guests hnd better aptiutitus lu conscaucnco of the delay. Mr. and Mrs Itone bid no bridal tour, but went at once to housekeeping, (iiotge did not II ml a veri pliant sub Jout lor cold water expirlmcn's Iti Ids second wile. Mie bad n will of her own, a'lil absolutelv dei lined to submit to au.v cold-vviitir dodoung (itorge lelt persottall.v ngrlcrcd orcr her (ouiluct I Jt ue was sure that she had symptoms of blllloiisiipss, iiiil ho had gieat taith lu cold water for that dlllleitltj ailoin were the experiments experi-ments which he adopted to induce lar to trj bis ((ceiil -she was obdurate. One night Mis Itone went to bed tin-nstiMllv tin-nstiMllv clmii.tcd fiom u hard (lav's vvoik. hhe slept like t'top, but Rome time In the night she was awakened b.v a sensation of euremo coldness She put out her held and lo there were ivldentes of a deliue all ntotiml het -die alvvajs had matihes undir her p.llovv and she seratclud one. Its light showed hei tint her bed hid livn innved into the bathroom, ai.d the vvati i hid been turned on and had risen to the height of her oul. L'vet.v-thing L'vet.v-thing was hoiking wet and the water was steadll.v tUlng. Mis itone was a woman of action Mle knew that (ieote 'eiPt be at the 1 bottom of it, nnd she got n light and paddled around up to her km es In water to Unit him. He was hidden In the bithtub, peeping out through a hole at the side, lie ir the top, laughing at the success of his experiment tu give his wife a bath, Mrs. Hones temper was aroused. She vet j quiet!) fnstemd the door of the tub on the outside and let lu the water. It poured over the vvrotehul prisoner In torrents, and In n few minutes min-utes would have been above his head, but foi the fact that he had climbed to tin top of the tub nud was clinging oil with both hands to a bar unoss the top. "Let me out. Tatty. Por hearen's sake, let mo out!" ho shoutuL "Not by a long chalk!" cried I'nttj. "I want to sotk jou clean through. i ou know jou'ro always Insisted upon it that the beauty of bathing was In being well soaked. Make join self easy and try to bear 1L It's alt In the caiibe of science." It was cold weather, nnd the bard-lipartpd bard-lipartpd Patty cairled the mutter so far that It came near being the death of poor lieoige, who was beginning to congeal and whose teeth chattered like castanets befoie he was let out. He had nn attack of rheumatism which lasted for six weeks, und during that time his vrlfe had the well which sup-plied sup-plied the bathroom tilled up, and thus tho supply of water was cut off. (leoige wisely deciding that It wns no use to puisne science umlpi such dllllcultles, has tinned his nttenllon to raising squashes, at which ho Is very successful. Hut whenever he sees nny water he alvvajs shakes his head and slgh, prob-ablr prob-ablr with the lemembrauce of what "might hare been." .New York Weekly. |