The health master (1913)

Author: Adams, Samuel Hopkins, 1871-1958
Subject: Health; Public health
Publisher: Boston, Houghton Mifflin Co.
Language: English

THE HEALTH MASTER
THE CHINESE PLAN PHYSICIAN
THE eleven-o'clock car was just leaving
Monument Square when Mr. Thomas Clyde
swung aboard with an ease and agility worthy of a
younger and less portly man. Fortune favored him
with an unoccupied seat, into which he dropped
gratefully. Just in front of him sprawled a heavyshouldered
young man, apparently asleep. Mr.
Clyde was unfavorably impressed both by his
appearance and by the manner of his breathing,
which was as excessive as it was unusual. As the car
swung sharply around a curve the young man's
body sagged at the waist, and lopped over toward
the aisle. Before Mr. Clyde's restraining hand
could close upon his shoulder, he had tumbled
outward to the floor, and lay quiet, with upturned
face. There was a stir through the car.
"The horrid drunken creature!" exclaimed a
black-clad woman opposite Mr. Clyde. "Why do
they allow such people on the cars?"
The conductor hurried forward, only to find his
way blocked by a very tall, slender man who had ......Read more