Show d n Oll rd And Young Dr Rousseau Loyed Betty Kovert So Much That He Gave Up His Surgeons Surgeon Profession Put on the Clothes ofa of a 7 4 Common Laborer and Went to toW W Shovelling for a Livia Living g a 1 A S soon as Betty Kovert was old As enough to think about the he sort of she de- de decided decided de decided man she would marry that he must be one who wore overalls She was determined never to have a white collar man for a hus hus- husband hus- hus husband husband band What she wanted was a man who who earned his living at hard labor as her father ather and brothers did All AU this she genty explained to Dr Philias II H Rousseau college and medical school graduate and md rising young sur sur- surgeon sur- sur surgeon surgeon geon a few months ago when he asked her her to be his wife But this did not end the doctors doctor's woo woo- wooing wooing wooing ing as she rather regretfully expected it would Oh no l The doctor was too deeply in love with Betty to be cheated of her by any such objection as this If she insisted on a man in overalls for a husband a man in overalls he would be- be be become come and come and he did Casting into the discard all aU his long and costly preparation for lor forthe the profession of medicine he he sold his surgical i menu and his medical li- li H library t and went to work asa asa as p t ta a common laborer wielding s a a pick and shovel To-day To f x the hands that were trained 1 f S to handle clinical thermometers thermometers eters and delicate surgical instruments are manipulating manipulating ing the grimy levers ofa of Ja II a steam shovel fifty feet leet below the surface t of a Philadelphia street where a subway is is b bek beg bet be- be k g t ing dug yf Did the light of love loved shining in the soft brown eyes of a nine- nine teen old k year teen girl ever 7 work a more amazing transformation in aman a man No more white shirts Dressed and sot sort hands for him F Dressed in dirty overalls r he toils tois for long hours every r every day helping excavate excavate vate vate tons of earth and rock He lie has forsaken the Philias H quiet and cheerful bright- bright and ness of a surgeons surgeon's office for the murky twilight of an underground tunnel air re- re resounds resounds re resounds sounds with the clangor of machinery and the shouts of busy men He lie has left the antiseptic whiteness of the operating room to burrow in oozing mud and oil oi Instead of wealthy patients and cul- cul cultured cultured cul cultured professional men he now has for companions only toil grimed laborers jabbering in a babel of strange tongues Instead of having deft and soft soft- soft footed footed nurses to order about he himself is one of the as bossed as liable Habe as the next man to be cursed or fired if he fails to keep earth and rock moving at top speed To most people what Philias Rousseau has the sake of ol love o e will wil seem like a tremendous sacrifice But the for for- former Cormer for former mer physician and surgeon does not re- re regard re regard gard what he has done at all aU in this light He lie is delighted with his new call caU- call calling ing-as ing ing as delighted as he is with his bride and and he is supremely confident that itis itis it is going to lead him to a brighter and more prosperous future than he would ever have known if he had kept on practicing practicing practicing medicine and surgery The romance that has made a steam shovel man of a rising young surgeon be- be began began be began gan one night last July It was the kind of night when romance should be afoot aloot and and is for tor those who seek A full fullmoon fullmoon fullmoon moon A lovers moon After a n hot day cool breezes murmured over the city Betty Kovert slim and pretty full of life and the joy of living with her dancing eyes and thick curly dark brown bobbed hair went to a fraternity dance in Philadelphia She had lived in Philadelphia since being graduated from Newburgh Academy in New York It was a radiant Betty that greeted the ees eyes of the dancers It was a medi medi- medical medi- medi medical medical cal fraternity and the pick of the young physicians and surgeons of the city were there Eyes Ees were centered upon Betty Bettya attracted attracted by a girl so ISO glowing so vital so In love with life and nd romance When the eyes of young Dr Rous Rous- Rousseau Rousseau Rousseau seau year twenty globe trotter World War veteran physician and sur- sur surgeon surgeon sur surgeon geon sighted her he knew at once he had met net the one girl for him He knew that in the palms of her slender expressive expressive sive hands she held his destiny What t I 11 lJ j I IJ J i I jD I r Ir I II I Betty Kovert didn't want any white collar mart man for lor a husband n ton and anda a doctor least of 01 all Even the wealth and social position toa to F would lilt lift her could make her change I a which a surgeons surgeon's success not A her mind But when Dr Rousseau obligingly gave up his profession nom and took tooka a common laborers laborer well job then she couldn't marry him soon enough Rousseau the former physician 1 and the bride he won by giving giving up his profession she wanted him to be he knew he would be He knew that for her smile to see seethe seethe seethe the glow of love awaken in her eyes he would make any sacrifice Nothing would be too great an offering to lay at the feet of the dancing Betty Turning to a friend to whom Betty had nodded he asked if he might not meet this girl of his dreams Hard Bard hit laughed his friend Sure come on over Ill I'll introduce you They met For the rest of the night they danced together When they sepa sepa- separated sepa- sepa separated separated rated it was with an arrangement to meet the following night Dr Rousseau's mind was quickly made up Everything he had ever wanted he had got Now he must have Betty lIe He had arrived in Philadelphia only a short time before to open an office and practice surgery That plan now lay crumbled at Bettys Betty's feet It was for her to do what she would with him He lie proposed She refused She wanted no white collar man for lor a hus- hus hus husband least band band least of all aU a surgeon Why honey she told him if I married you wouldn't I really have you youat youat youat at all an You would be at the beck and call caU of your our patients You would not only be away from me all day but half the night too I could never count on you for tor anything At three o'clock in inthe inthe inthe the morning you might be called out leaving me all alone When I love Jove a man Betty Belly contin contin- continued continued continued I want him for lor my very own lie He will be my man I wont won't share him I want him to myself But do you love me Betty the doctor pleaded That is all an that mat mat- matters matters matters Say you ou love Jove me Yes I do love Jove you Betty whispered but I wont won't marry a white collar man manI I dont don't think he would fit ft into my family S Bettys Betty's father Francis Kovert had come thirty years ago with his wife wile from froma a town in Hungary to make his fortune in this thia country lie He went to work in New York and soon despite a large and increasing increasing ever family he had saved enough money to go into the contracting business for himself lIe He couldn't bear white collar men IA IAiA iA rr e a i 4 r a Doc 9 Rousseau f photographed photographed in one of the ex ex excavations for Philadelphia Philadelphia's new subway where he is operating a steam shovel Then there were Bettys Betty's brothers brothers- brothers eight in all and all sight eight ight operated steam shovels or were in the contracting busi- busi business business busi business ness fr themselves They too had a hearty contempt for white collar men Their education was limited N None ne of the boys had finished finished high school They detested book learning As soon Oon as they were old enough they had left school and gone operating steam shovels First Betty Detty explained to the man who boasted bonsted a B S and an M 1 D after his name who could talk learnedly on almost any subject even on the Einstein Theory of Relativity who spoke French and Spanish fluently and who who- was a well groomed and a cultured man of the world there ther is Brother Frank who Is In the business contracting for himself himself in in Willo Willow v Grove outside of Philadelphia Tl Then there are Jose Joseph h and Louis Louis whoM who M operate shovels in th the Broad BroadStreet BroadStreet Broad BroadStreet Street subway Frank and and Michael operate steam shovels shovels in New York And there are are John and Andrew and Daniel who are steam in Trenton So you see Betty Betty continued my husband husband will have to go into a a steam shovelling family A white collar man never would fit into such an environment environment en- en environment especially a aS high hat surgeon If It I prove to you that I am not a high hat white collar man will you marry me the doctor pleaded pleaded Will you marry me if I Ii and and give up my profession become a steam like your brothers and f your father Will you marry me then i J Oh but Doc Doe Betty 1 remonstrated You never never would be willing to doy dot do dof y t that Think of what it it 1 ii would mean And anyway any any- anyway any anyway way maybe you couldn't Its It's hard breaking back-breaking work And youre you're not used to it it Your hards bards are soft and you are so immaculate in your ap- ap appearance appearance ap appearance You wouldn't be willing willingto l to put on dirty overalls and work t ten hours a day S 0 Id willing to do anything for you OU the doctor replied Will you marry me if I become t a t steam Yes Ill I'll marr marry you Betty Detty promised The next day found Dr Rousseau atthe at atthe atthe the offices of the contractor for the Broad Street subway The superintendent superintendent superintendent looked him over quizzically lIe Ito took in his dapper appearance his slen slen- sen- sen sender slender slender der white artistic hands with their tapering fingers Well he finally ejaculated it looks queer to me But we n need d men If youre you're willing to take a n chance I nm am Get yourself some overalls and start to work right away But Im I'm telling you now I dont don't think you'll last long And so it was settled bellied Doc bor bor- borrowed bor- bor borrowed borrowed rowed a pair of overalls o from Brother Joe and started to work That same night he and Betty were married Borrowing Brothers Brother's Joe car carthey they had gone for tor a ride and ride and headed ri right ht into matrimony Now that Im I'm a steam said aid the ex-doctor ex forgetting his ach ach- ach o Tu me IB ID ing muscles in the glow of love will you marry me to night You darling murmured Betty You are just the dearest and nicest man in the world Lets Let's get married now So they drove to Media Philadel- Philadel Philadelphia's phia's Gretna Green and got Justice of Peace Cooper from his bed to per per- perform perform perform form the ceremony Betty and Doc established their own love nest and were supremely happy Then an S 0 O S was sent out by by her brothers and md mother A family of steam shovelling men he-men make a alot alot lot of work in the too home home too much for one woman to do There are enormous breakfasts to be cooked to tofit tofit tofit fit them for tor their days day's hard work there there are lynches 1 to be packed and I mammoth dinners to be prepared Doc Dec and his bride when back to Bettys Betty's home to live And here much to the brothers surprise Doc fitted And what has Doc to say about all this about about this metamorphosis that has given him the strenuous life of a work work- working working working ing man when he might have had a life lile of comparative ease and luxury as a surgeon love Jove it Im I'm Its great groat he says I having a wonderful time I feel better now than I ever did in my life It was hard at first but now Im I'm getting used to it it It is a sane normal healthful life And dont don't forget I have Betty She is worth the world And Betty Well Betty is so proud of her Doc that she doesn't l know now what to do She looks at him with adoration love Jove and admiration in every glance There is no one in the world to her like Doc And the brothers 1 Well they know hes he's a regular fellow Dr Rousseau is a French Canadian Isis Ilis father lather is Commissioner of the Do- Do Dominion Dominion Do Dominion minion Police Dawson City Yukon Ter Ter- Territory Ter- Ter Territory Territory Early in life he was going to become a surgeon lIe went to McGill University and received his B S When the war broke out Rousseau enlisted At the Battle of Ypres he was gassed At Ridge be was struck with shrapnel Again he was hit at lieU lien HellFire Fire Corner in the summer of 1918 and definitely put out of the fight Ho He was sent to the Drummond Hospital at Mon Mon- Montreal Montreal Montreal treal and when he recovered he came cameto cameto cameto to the States to take his medical course lie took his degree at Washington Uni Uni- University University St Louis and then went to the Colo Hospital at Panama to serve his k A r 4 i Its a great life says Rousseau I ike it better than being a surgeon From there he went to Peru going on the staff of several hospitals and becom- becom becoming becoming ing resident phy physician ici n at Santa Rosa Hospital True soldier of fortune that he was he was lured to Mexico by what he termed itching feet War was on lie went through the lines on the staff of Colonel Marinez after being rejected by bythe bythe the Mexican Federal Government be- be because because cause he was a foreigner lie served as asa asa a surgeon for three months and then made his way to Galveston and back to Panama He shipped on in a fruit liner as assistant to the chief surgeon and after seeing aU all there was to be seen in South America he went to Philadelphia In Philadelphia he he- hemet met Betty and the course of his life was changed Gone is his ambition to be a sur- sur surgeon surgeon geon I shall shaU stay on the steam shovel until I have saved enough money to buy a steam shovel d cf my own lIe he said and then I shall shaU become a contractor When that will be Rousseau doesn't know A s steam eam shovel costs much more than a surgeons surgeon's equipment But on the other hand he pointed out as n a steam he can earn from to n a week no office to maintain and no business expenses Its fine lie no said with witha a grin And dont don't forget I have Betty Soon well we'll have money saved ed to buy a car carand carand and then well welI save sove for the steam shoveL When I 1 go into the contra contracting ting business for myself I will make a minimum of a week right said Betty reaching up to kiss her man look at my brothers how wen well they are doing Its It's the only if life e A 0 i |