Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1871-04-06
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! A Coldinst the Head--The Views Of
-. 80. J0hn Paul" Thereon. aff
If any mistakes are visible in the
present writing attribute them to my
having bad cold. No man alive can
spell correctly or write good grammar
with q bad cold especially if it be q
cold in the head. The French waitress,
Bridget O'Keefe, spoke to me about it
this morning at break kfast-vous ares ",
sh,snse, she said No one remarked that
my rhune was betterthan my company,
but felt in my heart that both We're
bad enough to stand on their own de-
merits. One cannot be cheerful with
cold in his head; 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. y You go round with red, swof-
len nose, and swollen red eyes. "Hallo,
John! What's the matter?o halls the
first fellow we'll met. IA bad cold"
you reply. 80, is that all?'' with
sigh of relief The fact is, you feel that
you are as much to be pitied as though
you had the smallpox. And he treats
your affiiction aslightly as though you'd
only lost your InOther-in-law. Then
the remedies that are suggested for you
to try! aSteam your head,' said my
aunt. So I was persuaded to hold my
head over bowl of blazing hot water
till 1 was. done through like an early
potato. liam now regarded as siher
'steemed nephew; and it is thoughtsh
may leave me something in her WILL
AS She never tries her own remedies,
however, an. carly succession TO the
property does not seem probable. Bath
ing in all forms has. been recommended
to me; for more than q, week past i
have been night companion Of the
bath, but it seems to do little good
.'sStuff q cold >, hzs passed into a sort of
pfOverb; but my head at present, is
stopped up enOugh-t0O much to be
to Be made available for any practical
purpose. I've taken sage advice and
sage tea in enormous quantities, but
with no perceptible qbeneft. Hot
Scotch whisky with O. little hot water
and slight mingling of lemonpeel in it,
was urged upon nae by y friend, who
kindly consented to drop In and help
me take it. i assisted him home at a
late hour Of the night, and his wife de-
manded, at the door, in an angry, tone,
what had been doing to her husband,
That didn't t do my cold much g0Od.---'
Since then gin and jmOlasses has been
suggested as sovereign remedy for all
the chills flesh is heir to; but turn an
emphatically cold shoulder on all which
SAVIOR of spirits. My mother writes
from the interior Of Maine to say thatI
had dbettercomeupthere and be 'nursed.'
I think I'll go. There must be about q
bushel of boneset, to say nothing about
other herbs, about the house 3Wisps Of
medical weeds, long stored up against
family emergencies Since the. chill
dren grew up, and went away from
home there has, been no one to ply with
teas and sirups OF traditional virtue;
but the gathering Of the materials, has
stu gone on. with unfailing regularity.
In my minds eye, / see. myself ven
turing upthere alone, to draw the fire
of those accumulated teas. No., rather.
let me, to the refusal Of further reme-l
dies, sit in my city chair hkea patient
on a monument, smiling at relief 9e
q How did I'catch my cold. YOU ask
All. there's the rub--tiience the series
of rubs. A party of girls persuaded me-
to go and skate Before venturing upon
the,ice ap aged guardian of that public,
place, who stood with a frozen look, in
q frieze coat, admqpished Us to "look1
out for that ,ere hQle!' Somehow L
contrived to skate into that air-hOle.-,
They had fshed me out with poles, If
you want to know just how cold the
poles are, break through the ice once
and be fshed out with them. They
rolled me. on a barrel to restore me,
under the impression, seemingly, that
the vital organ is barrel organ. They
put bricks to myfeet-if women would
always see to it, that their idols stood
thus on baked clay, it would be better.
There were few things, indeed, that the
bystanders did not do for me, except
the right thing. One unbuttened my
shirt cellar, to relieve me, he said; am
other attempted to empty my pockets
Ito relieve me, ], SUPPOSE a New
dog was playing on the bank
when Ifen in. Strange TO say, he. did
not rush to my rescue while struggling
in the water, but he went for me inn
I got sOn shore. 1tmay have
been generous of, him to refrain from
me until j. got on dry land, \
but mysfaith, in the humane instincts of
that noble animal is sadly shaken. Had 4
been bone, I've no. doubt but that
Nero would have rescued and brought 4
me to shore. Well, to make q lodgli
story short am safe at home now.and
Arm in the. resolve to go skating no |
more myself, and to let the girls slide.
n ECery saturday., ~ rfa.szyT ri;d5i5sy u l