Murat Halsted, in an article lately published in McClure's Magazine, thus quotes from President Garfield's remarks about his wife's sickness:
The President said, with the greatest earnestness:. . . "It is curious, isn't it? My wife's sickness cured me. I got so anxious about her I ceased to think about myself.. . . I thought no more of the pit of my stomach and the base of my brain and the top of my head; and when she was out of danger, and my little troubles occurred to me —why, they were gone and I have not noticed them since. And so," said the President, uttering the short words with deliberation, and picking them with care, "and so, if one could, so to say, unself one's self, what a cure all that would be!"
