To each friend she met she made the same remarks: "Matty is very ill.

I'm dreadfully anxious about her.

Dr.Morris is in close attendance.

She's to be kept strictly to her bed, and the greatest care has to be exercised to maintain her feeble strength.

It's a heavy trial to have one's child so ill--and from such a cause." "Dear, dear," the sympathizing neighbor would answer.