Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1872-12-16
Publisher and Proprietor.
sTAMMERISG.
How 10 Cure It-What DiG Lewis
Says.

| uelPnla lobby says
Some years ago famous professor
came to town where we were then re-
siding, and announced that he could
"cure the worst cases of suffering in ten
minutes without a surgical operation.
| A friend of ours was an inveterate case,
and we advised him to call upon the
| wonderful magician. He called was
| convinced by the testimonials exhibited,
struck up Bargain, paid the fifty dol
lars, and soon called at our Office talking
as straight as railroad track.
We were greatly astonished, and asked
our friend by what miracle he had been
so strangely and suddenly relieved of his
lifelong trouble. He most provokingly
informed us that he had made solemn
pledge not to reveal the process of
cure.
We knew two other bad cases-ladies
and calling upon them, reported what
had come to pass.
They were soon at the professor s
rooms, came away greatly elated, raised
the hundred dollars, went the next day,
paid the cash, and in half an hour were
ready, had the question been popped, to
|
We we're soon made acquainted with
several other cures quite as remarkable,
and resolved to put on our sharpest wits
and wait upon the magician ourselves.
He seemed an honest man, and in
two days we had made up our mind to
pay him q large fee and learn the strange
art, with the privilege Of using it tocnre
WbOmsoever we would.
Those who had been cured by the pro.
fessor were solemnly bound not to re-
veal the secret to any one, but our con-
tract gave us the privilege of using the
knowledge as we pleased.
And now we propose to give the
readers of this journal simple art
which has enabled US to make very
happy many unhappy stammerers. In
our own hands it has often failed to ef-
feet the desired result, but in three
fourths OF the cases which we have
treated the cure has been complete.
The secret is simply this: The stam-
merer is made to mark the time in his
speech, Just as it Is ordinarily done in
singing. He is at first to beat on every
syllable. Ii Is best at the first lesson to
read some simple composition, like one
Of David's Psalms, striking the finger on
the knee at every word then read in a
newspaper, beating each syllable,
You can beat time by striking the
finger on the knee, by simply hitting
the thumb against the forefnger or
moving the large toe in the boot.
We doubt if the worst case of stutter-
ing could continue long, provided the
sufferer would read Rn hour or two
every day, with thorough practice of
this simple art, observing the same IN
in his conversation.
AS thousands have paid fifty and
hundred dollars for this secret, we take
great pleasure in imparting it to the
patrons of this journal. .sra III
w aBi COLD BATHs,
The same writer says Of cold baths,
Twenty years ago the eold-water mania
came near sousing and freezing US to
death. Everybody had to drink and
douche. Pale, delicate women in the
hydropathic cures or freezers stood uR-
der cold water, sat dopn in cold water,
Law down 10 cold water, and we're wrapped
up in cold water. In addition, they |
filled their stomaehs with cold water, |
Pale, shrunken, shiveFing, they moved
about spectre-like, and with chattering !,
teeth described to each other the effects
of the last douche. Bridget, when asked
about her absent mistress, said she has
gone to soak" A writer, in describing
the great institution of Priessnitz in the
says that be net here and
a. =, tho ,,,or,,tofp rofhc r,r1r..hnrs nf
bare-headed, halfdressed, comfortably
crazy people, wandering about from
spring TO spring, each with tumbler in
his hand, mournfully repeating the num-
Der oftumblers ofwater he had swallowed.
From this dangerous excess there mas
been a great reaction, and now there is a
disposition to condemn cold-water bath
ing. Both are extremes. Amorniug cold
bath Is e lest important habit. We
don't believe theSs is one person in
who would be injuFp3 by morn
ing cold bath. But everything depends
npon the manner in which it is taken.
IL : feeble person in a cold room crawls
into bath Of cold water, aud remains
till he can't speek loud, and is in a cold
collapse, and then rising stands by an
open window and rubs himself gently
EoF half an hour, he viii be seriously
hErt. Bet If one Of the rubber bath
mats be thrown upon the carpet, and
even delicate person rises quickly,
!, lows of the night garDent, steps into
he ma. slips the hands into pair Of
,atb.mitten.S and passes them as quickly
I. possiblc over every part Of the person
~ fojlov,s with a Grass thEel o. quickly h