The great Parisian surgeons hay established reputation fur extra immense fees fiom rich patients; und the following authentic story, which is now yoing the rounds of the salons, has provided much food for reflection. 'The heroine is wealthy baroness who woke up one tuarning with a mysterious pain in her iddio-class woman would just have taken afew days' rest, but the baroness had too much money, and to many friends, to try #0 simple a rome She rent for her doctor, who shook his igely and said there must be a consultation. "An eminent specialist was call ed in and pronounced fur "n_ operation, for which his fee would be £100. The amount did not frighten the baron-s, hut the idea of an operation did, und in her distress she confide! in her maid, who smiled ironically and propounded scheme whereby her mistress could defy the surgeon and all his works. The baroness assumed the zarp of a femme de chambre nnd installed herself in one of the servant's bedrooms while the muid went for her own doctor; just a plain, ordinary practitioner who sao not member of the Academy, was not even decorated, and wro usually charged half crown per visit, He examined the pseudo-domestic's knee, shrugged his shoulders, and prescribed a mustard-plaster. Four days later, the baroness cnuid have danced the cakewalk. It is to be hoped that some of the difference between the £400 und the half-crown found its way into the maid's pocket.
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