Bedford inquirer. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1857-1884, 1868-06-19
upM rHE MouNTAINs.

Every summer vacation ask loysei' WY
neople who have no relish for country lie
doom themselves TO yawn through SIX OF
EIGHT weeks of it? People who never move
from a certain chair on the piazza save to
MIGRATE TO their beds, or to the dining-table;
who have neither eyes to see earths glory, or
heart to be greatful for it, or ears upen to ITS
myriad musical voices-living discords amid
all its harmony. If invafds, | can under
stand and pity their misfortune but your fat,
well.to-do. buxom meu and women, who
have no earthly impediment to their locomo-
tion. and vet who live weeks in the vicinity !
of grand natural objects, and are just as dead |
to them as the OK in the meadow-whY do |
| thew travel thousands or dusty miles to get
| 10 them? People who look pityingly at you,
as you return exhilarated from your delicious
rambles, as If to say, "Roor lunaticsP Oue
turns from them to the children, to whom
every daisy and blade Of grass is bright
heaven, and counts sadly over their lost
years. Also / would like to ask, is there
ANYTHING in the climate of Vermont which
: turns out such huge trees, mountains, and
men, that dwarfs nearly all its woman kind
' Again: Do preserves and pills, hap;Jaeks
r and ipecac, plum cake and castor-oli Jelly
, and ;alap have natural affinity, that they
T are So often found in each others company
me vrrrvr vafue Of the Register h IL
profession, is the treekIy DTbIfoa.; ~ .ts Asyo
Law and Practice Reports Of imporfant o.sa
sAe Se'eIal District Courts; especial and narticn
? In other words: Why do the t55tflill sions :
e Of New England waste their time in eoncoct
e ing the indigestible richness which everybody
IS is better without, and which renders these
y drugs necessary? Half the time thus spent,
e if devoted to the manufacture Of that rare
ii commodity-sweet, wholesome bread-or to
IS the best way of cooking meat so as to pre-
8 serve its juices, would shut up the drug.
It shops, prolong their own lives and good
+ looks, and make them credit to the glorious
d country in which they are born. Giee as
: good bread my dear country woman. What
+ else soeyer you pass over, don't slight the
II bread 1t is the crying sin of the country,
y that if there are cakes and pies in plenty, the
II bread may be sour, filed with saleratus, OF
so stale that dog would not swallow it, or SO
''slack baked" that one might as well eat
;, dough. Now the digestion of an ostrich
would fail on such fare as this A healthy
: stomach revolts at it, and refuses to be put
off with the sweets and preserves. 1t is O
crime to set such bread before little children,
l even if adult digestion were equal to it,
which it is not A great reform is needed
: here, and if l can help it on, care not who
a boxes my ears for the attempt To see hu-
man beings making and swallowing such
T messes, and then sending physic after it, like
a detective, TO clear it from the system, is a
! proceeding which should give them all free
= pass to the Lunatic Asylum There-now l
] feel betteri While am catechising, do YOU
suppose there was ever an invalid who didn't
? button-h hole everybody, to recapitulate his, or
s her, symptoms, exhibit their tongues, and
discuss patent medicines? 1t gets monoto-
: nous after while, particularly when you
: know that they are bound personally to ex-
: pertinent on every pill, powder and plaster
f that any heartless quack may invent to make
= a living. If half of them were to stop taking
a physic entirely, live on wholesome food, take
! plenty of fresh air and sleep, they would new
er know pain or ache. Don't the doctors
, know shis and laugh in their sleeves at itf
And does a doctor erer giUe drugs to has o1Cn
family? 1 think l have asked questions
enough for the present, so We viii consider
the meeting adjourned. FANNY FERN.