A Cure For The Imagination

At a largo hotel the not uncommon dilemma of there being only one room in the house vacant wlieu two viaitors required accommodadion for the night. It was & double-bedded chamber, or was soon converted into such,and the guestB, who wore both commercial travel - ers, agreed to sharo it. One of these gentlemen was a confirmad hypochondriac, and greatly alarmed his companion by waking him np in the middle of tho night gasping for breath. "Aethma,"hepanted out; "I am subject to the spasmodie attacks ! Open the window quickly; givenioair!" Terrifled beyond moaBure, the other jumped out of bed. But the room was piteh dark, he had no matches, and he had forgotten the position of the wimlow. "For heaven'e sake bo quiek!" gasped the in valid. uitj iiio iiiMiü mtt Kik j. stiitll Uil UiiU ; Ah length, by diut of groping wilaly and upsetting lialf the furniture in the apartment, the window was found ; but it wae an old-fashiouod caaement, aud no haep or catch was to be discovered. "Quick, quick! Air, air!" implored the apparently dying man. "Open it, break it, or I shall be autfooated!'' Thua abjured, his friond lost uo more time, but, seizing a boot, smaahcd every paue, and tho sutferer immodiately experieiioed great relief. "Oh, thankyou - a thousand thankal Ha!" he elolaimed, ürawing deep aigha which teatifled to the graat comfort he derived; "I think in another moment I ehoiüd have been dead!" Aud, when he had s-, áently recovered and had expreseed hia hua tfelt gratitudo, ha described the intenso distrogg of these attacks and the length of timo he had suffered from them. After a while both feil asleep again, devoutly thankful for the result It was a warm summer night, and they feit no iuconvenience f rom the brolton window ; but, when daylight relieved the pitchy darknesa of tho night, the window waB found to be still entire. Had invisible glaziers been at work already, or was the episode of the past night only a dream? No; for the floor was still ttrewn with the broken glass. Then, as they looked round the room in amazement, the sofution of the mystery presented ltself in the shape of an antiqwated book case the latticed glas9 doors of whioh were a shattored wreek. The epasmod - ioally attacked one was cured from tnat mmeut