Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1871-03-03
A Cold In the Head.

THE VIEWS OF "JoHN PAUL" THEREON.
In any mistakes are visible in the pres
ent writing, attribute them to my having
O bad cold. No man alive can epell cor.
rectly or use good grammer, with a bad
told--especially If 1t be cold In the head
The French waitress, Bridget Okeeie,
spoke to me about 1t this morning ct
breakfast, st,-Coa3 aces Un Thstfne, she said
No one remarked that my rhun'e was bet
ter than my company but l telt In my
heart that both were bad enough TO stand
on their own dement's. One cannot be
cheerful with cold In the hend the
human soul Is not disposed to burst forth
In song Under such conditions, And. the
worst of 1t is one gets no sympathy from
ones friends You 70 FOUND with red,
swollen nose, and swollen red eyes.
Halo, Johni What's the matterS" halls
the first fellow we'll met "a bad cold"
you reply. 20, is that allS" with a sigh
of relief. The fact Is, you feel that you
are as much to be pitted as though you
had the smallpox. And he treats your
affliction as lightly as though 1t were that
you'd only lost you mother-in-law. Then
the remedies that are suggested for me to
| try "Steam your head, said my aunt,
SO was persuaded to hold my head over
bowl of blazing hot water till 1t was
done through like an early potato am
now regarded as her 'steemed nephew and
| it is thought she may leave me something
in her will. AS she never tries her own
remedies, however, an early succession
| to the property does not seem prob
able. Bathing in all its forms, has been
recommended to me; for more than a
week past have been night companion
of the bath, but it seems to do little good.
"Stuif a cold has passed into sort of
proverb; but my head at present, is
stopped up enougb-too much to be made
available for any practical purpose. I've
taken sage advice and sage tea in enor-
nous quantities, but with no perceptible
benefit. Hot Scotch whisky, with little
hot water, and slight mingling of lemon
peel in it, was urged upon me by a friend,
who kindly consented to drop in and help
me take it. | assisted him home at late
hour of the night, and his wife demanded
at the door, in an nngry tone, what had
been doing to her husband. That didn't
do my cold much good. Since then gin
and molasses has been suggested as O SOW
ereign remedy for all the chills which flesh
is heir to ; but turn an emphatically cold
shoulder on all which savors of spirits.
My mother writes from the interior OF
Maine to say that l had better come up
there and be "nursed." | think I'll GO
There must be about bushel of boneset
to say nothing about other herbs, about
the house--wisps of medical weeds, long
stored up against family emergencies
Since the children grew up and went
away from home, there has been no one to
ply with teas and syrups Of traditional
virtue; but the gathering of the materials
has still gone on with unfailing regularity
In my minds eye, see myself venturine
up there alone, to draw the fire of thost
accumulated teas. No, rather let me, tC
the refusal of further remedies, sit in my
city chair, like n patient on a monument
smiling at relief
How did l catch my cold, you ask. All
there's the rub-thence the series OF rubs
A party of girls persuaded me to so anC
skate. Before venturing upon the ice, al
aged guardian of that public place, wh'
stood with frozen look, in frieze coat
shiyering on the bank, admOnished us Il
look out for that ere holew Somehow
| oontrived to skate into that air. hole
They fished me out with poles; if yo1
want to know just how cold the poles are
break through the ice once and be 1ishet
out with them. They rolled me on
/ barrel to restore me, under the impression
: seemingly, that the vital organ is a barre
l organ. They put bricks to my feet
. women would always see to it that thei
/, idols stand thus on baked clay, it would b
| better There were few things, indeed
that the bystanders did not do for mt
5 except the right thing. One unbuttone
! my shirt collar, to relieve me-, he said
E another attempted to empty my pockets
a to relieve me, suppose. A Newfoundlan
E dog was playing on the bank when I fe
e in. Strange to say, he did not rush to m
e rescue while struggling in the water, b'
0 he went for me Immediately l got Q
' shore 1t may have been generous of hiI
to refrain from attacking me till got Q
dry land, but my faith in the humane il
;, stincts of that noble animal is sadl
: shaken. Had l been bone, I've n
doubt that Nero would have rescued an
= brought me to the shore. Well, to max
: a long story short, am safe at home nov
a and firm in my resolve to go skating I
u more myself, and to let the girls Slide
= Boery Saturday.