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A WONDERFUL WOMAN

("Dunedin Tablet,") If you happen to ba standing anywhere In the neighbo?hood of the lower cod of High street, Dunediu, at about 4 p.m., you will see a very remarkable sight. Every day for the past two or thre-3 weeks at that hour a vehicle appears In the street. It is a rather curious composition In the way of a cairlage— half pbaetoo, half-coaoh, and pud together thoagh not on the same phn, much la the same heterogeueoua manner m which those old horrors of by-gone times, the dillgenoeß, ueed to bo. It is drawn by three grey homes harnessed abreßt, and on the top a br»33 baud Is located. The interest however, centres m the driver, who is m front, beneath the 'hood,' whloh m let dovin, and m the middle of the oapacloui aeat, She io a lady who gnldea her horaea very deftly and whips them along In gallaut style, until she reaches a vacant lot qnlte at the end of the street, and situated m the 4jiose vicinity of the "Daily Times Office," end dlcectly at the bottom of the steep hill on which the First Church is Bltuatod. Arrived at her destination, where a dense crowd of paople has awaited her, Bhe draws up her horses and places her oarriage m a convenient position with its right Bide turned to the street. She then ties up her reios, divests heraelf of her outer garment, puta on ao apron and arranges ia front of her a number of cases that contain a varied and admirable colleotlon of surgioal instruments. The lady, In short, is Madame Dofl^t, a Frenoh Oonadlan ladydoctor. And what pen can describe the scenes that follow ? From tbo righthand aide there first climb up into the carriage, by one or two at c time, »U manner of people who want to have their teeth drawn. Chlldran flock to the ordeal as if it were a feast of lollies, as indeed it generally for them results m for every child is presented with a shilling But nothing Is too difficult for the ladydoctor. Teeth of every degree of malformation, teeth that have defied dentists and iv j*wa that doctors have refused to meddle with come oafc without a slip. People have them out without being aware of It, and while they think the operation is golug to commence, and are screwing dp their courage, the job is done and the tooth ia laid before them. No child otters a cry or sheds a tear. The extreme rapidity, and the unfaltering, unfailing akill with which all is done are credible only to those who witness them. Bat thia Is only the preliminary uUgo. From the left-hand side advance cripples paralytics— the blind, the maimed, »nd the halt— and there m the carriage, m fu?l view of the orowd, and yet with complete deoency, even delicacy — aro treated arid sent aw.iy either healed completely or evidently on the way to recovery. But hero, for example, Is a particular case. A mother, a woman plainly of high reapeotablllty, brings up a littlo child, a pretty engaging-looking little boy, some three or four years of age, He hai been paralysed, yon are told, about two years, and the?© hangs hli poor little arm, aad there his leg— all too c'early powerless, and a sight to bring teara into youc eyea— -the child who hoB been subjected to every imaginable form of of treatment without Buaceas, seeing that he la about to be treated anew, soreamß shrilly. But the lady-doctor begins her work— rubbinc him with her lotion— and bis orlas are , soothed Flcally, the child who had not for two years laid a foot to the ground Is ■ent toddling on his feet again. It is, , Indeed, a sight to move a stone, and no wonder the crowd—made np for the most , park of our ataid oitfzsns of all classas— applauds to the echo. And our lady doctor, what of her ; Surely she ia some great masculine creature, with the voice of a Stontor and the form of a heavy dfftgoon. No, nothing of the kind. A slight, perfectly womanly woman, of middle heigh*, pleasant face, aad a musical womanly voice. It Is one of the thlnga worth hearing when she addresses the orowd m her broken English and voluble I Frenoh— whloh la interpreted for her by • young man who B l ands on the stop of the oarriage. « "Every one h satisfied • Tout h mond est content. Ma mbdicine est bonne What I does I does well. Je connais mon metier? and so on, and bo on Thia lady knows her worth, and claims it' but without vanity or boasting. A little angry la she now and then at certain letters that have been unfairly published about her, and whoao writera she well knows how to answer. And very angry was she at the Isolenoo of an Intruder on one oocaalon whom she with spirit expelled from her preolnots. In fact, we know of no peraon more unprofitable to vex than a bright good-humoured, witty lllitle Frenchwoman. When tha lady-dootor ;ells us there ia no particular virtue In lor hand, aud that her medloines used by anyone olae will aot aa well— will remove great wens and tumours, after a short application and without a cat, will restore animation of the lifeless limb, and subdue rheumatic painß, we are ready to believe her— we have Boon too much to doubt But wo maintain that the nngic touch with which, for example, she deals with the teeth, ia percullar to heraelf, a gift of natare, or of nature's God, thatoan neither Ibo taught nor acquired, A gift of a like ! klud is the genial manner, that of one clearly delighting to do good, nnd to relieve from pain, and so nlfo ia the abounding charity that senda ao mnny poor people away, not only healed, bat with money m their p^oketa to buy the things of whioh they stand In need. See this little boy again ; he comes to havo a tooth drawn. Bat the cruel woman mocks at hie tattera, and mokes them woiaa with her hand. It I. a badly-feigned cruelty. Who will tako him, aha asks, and buy him a now anlt ? Ha goee and relurna— a new bny, from head to foot wtli and becomingly dad by her bounty Then aho drawa his tooth, glvea him a kiau. and aonda him. away rejoicing. The whole thing la a unique Bight-one to bo wlineaaed m a life-time, and, taken all togethor, lady, cirrlage, patients, crowd, aud all— nothing bottor worth aeeiog, aa it Booms to ua, i.i It poaslble to find.

SkinnylMbn.— • Wolla' Health Kennwor," restores health and vigor, cures Dyspepsia, impotence, Sexual Debility. At ohomiats and druggists. Kempthorue, Proasor and Co., agents, Chnstoburoh 2

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Ashburton Guardian, Volume VII, Issue 1778, 28 February 1888, Page 2

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A WONDERFUL WOMAN Ashburton Guardian, Volume VII, Issue 1778, 28 February 1888, Page 2

A WONDERFUL WOMAN Ashburton Guardian, Volume VII, Issue 1778, 28 February 1888, Page 2

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