The Rutland daily globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1873-07-14
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"a Good Time 20 have the whoopipy
Coughs
BY DIR. GALES EsoULAprus LEArHrRpoop.

BY DIR. GALEN EsCULAPIUs LEATHERPoop.
Leaves have their time to fall. There Is
a good time and a bad time to go a-fishing.
There is time, Mrs. Higginson says, to
wean babies. The moon has something TO
DO with it. In fact. the moon has some
thing to do with most everything. There
is deal of ''moonshne" in this world.
When our children came down with the
whooping-cough the other day, wife and |
did not mind it much at first. But am
satisfied now that the whooping- cough is
no joke. Being doctor" myself mere
ly because of the classical name with
which my blessed parents started me in
life, | did not attempt to "prescribe. ="
Wife asked Mrs. IIigginson, dear old dis
clple OF catnip tea and boneset, what was
good for whooping-cough
children got it Z" she inquired.
TERRIBLY" Mrs. l..
Dear little hearts," calculated the kind
lady. ''They couldn't have it in better
time. Jes let 'em have little lickrish to
eat, and they'll get over it lovely"
This made wife and | glad. Three
weeks of the best time to have whooping
cough in have gone by and our little ones
are still wrestling with the disease We
comfort ourselves with the belief that the
good time" can't lass much longer, and
that little Johnnie, who has got it the
worst, is certainly going to ''get over it
lovely" For fortnight wife and have
not slept wink. 1t is not trifling task
to take good care of seven children when
they are all afflicted simultaneously with
the whooping- cough. They will kick the
clothes off. The thought has come over
me with singular force frequently during
the last fortnight as l have stumbled around
to the various cribs in the night time with a
bottle of ipecac in one hand and a glass of
ice water in the other, that, in the language
of the poet, ''this worlds Wilderness"
vale of tears, as 1t were,-My shins are
beautifully variegated in blue, purple and
yellow tints, according to the date of the
bruise. Inotice that jams on the shin fol-
low a regular law. When you first fall over
the chair the place looks red and irritated;
then it changes 10 dark azure ;by Wednes-
day a little purple begins to be mixed in
around the edges and finally it assumes
saffron tinge. l watched the development
of this law with much interest till the
bruises got much confused to date them
accurately. My east shin now bears
Il striking resemblance to an old
map OF the United States with
the Chicago fire, Showing the burnt dis
trict" just below the knee, an the Boston
fire little lower down. The most dis
couraging thing, though about tour
through the whooping cough, that is, when
it's 'good time to have it," is the joy
with which all your friends seem to be in
spired when you tell them, with n haggard
look, that all your children are down with
it. Mine is a heart that naturally Graves
| sympathy. yearn for it. But not since
my wedding day eight years ago, have l
been congratulated so much as have since
my seven children took the whooping cough.
Every time | go home to my dinner tell
Samantha of some good friend whom have
met, and who says ''there never was bet
ter time to have the whooping cough"
Samantha sheds sickly smile, strangles
| little, and tries to look encouraged. just
about this time jennie explodes grabs his
little waist band, all the rest set up a whoop
and for a moment my usually quiet home
reminds one of a Modoc stronghold. Then
grandmother, ''aunt jane" wife and go
back to the table again and talk it over,
and wife says, "goodness konws, Pm glad
| the little dears didn't catch it any other
season." And so struggled on, from day
to day, the constant recipient of hearty con-
CALCULATIONS that my children are so fortu-
nate as to have the whooping cough at this
season of the year. Some times think TO
myself that few people are blessed with so
many dear children and so much season.
able whooping cough. And yet am con-
WINGED that if the number of children in my
family had been less the whooping cough
might have got the best of us, even in this
dear, delightfully."- opportune whooping
cough time.