What a fearful complaint this is that Madame de Murska is suffering from ! I hear everyone say thus, showing what virtue there is in big words, as Dr Bake well well knew. 1 hope that the charming little lady will soon recover, as I am par ticularly anxious to hear her, but 1 don't think anyone need be afraid that the complaint she is suffering from is a dangerous one, for it is neither more nor less than a common cold. How it got a big name happened thus : When she wasi unable to sing her agent at once sent for a medical man, as people never believe that there is any reason for non-compli ance with engagements. The medico at once said it was a cold she was suffering from and proceeded to write out a certi ficate. "Oh, that will never do — can't you call it something else ? " The medico pondered for a moment, and then said — ''Will bronchial catarrh do?" "By Jove, that's the very thing," was the reply, and so she suffers from a severe bronchial catarrh. ,

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