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seems to be the name of a genus of flowering plants, and also the name of a country girl in Theocritus and Virgil. What do you suppose the doctor meant by that? I know what he meant, said I. I know now. A word to a brother who may have come under the spell of the unquiet Lady Neurasthenia. The formula was true. Even though gropingly at times, the physicians of the walled cities had put their fingers upon the specific medicament. And so for the exercise one is referred to good Doctor Tatum on Black Oak Mountaintake the road to your right at the Methodist meeting-house in the pine-grove. Absolute rest and exercise. What rest more remedial than to sit with Amaryllis in the shade, and, with a sixth sense, read the wordless Theocritan idyll of the gold-bannered blue mountains marching orderly into the dormitories of the night? |
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