Arizona citizen., 1877-03-10
THE CITIZEN.
[ o GIL NA TIERS.

! HE Diue sIaSs pathological theory Is
 gaining strength every hour in the day and
 every day fin the week The peculiar tint
 of glass has gone into innumerable win
 dows and has gone up in price. We are
 sorry to see a disposition on the part Of
 certain fscetious newspaper writers to
 make fun Of the great discovery. This is
 wrong. General Pleasanton, the promoter
 1T not the originator of the theory, is a
 Reputable gentleman and has published
 numerous instances Of benefit, and radical
 cure Of disease, in practical tests Of his
 medicinal system. Anything that is in-
 expensive in the trying and that contains promise Of benehting afflicted humanity
 should at least be exempt from ridicule,
 and yet while these trihing scribblers are cracking their dull jokes over the Pleason- tonian theory, 1t has ceased to be theory only and has become a grand reality.
 Blue glass is very scarce in Tucson. but
 even here we have an instance Of its ef- lfectiveness to narrRte, though through ig-
 norance and carelessness there is no great benefit derived in this instance. A young
 mother in town whose infant was not very strong, having read of the great virtues of blue glass In developing backward babies, Iobtained a single pane of the coveted glass and made a trial of 1t. With the tender caution of a mother she refrained from trying an unknown remedial agent on the
 more delicate parts, and tried the blue glass first on her infants feet. She should have subjected the whole body to an equal division Of the influence. Alter glv-
 ing the baby's feet two or three baths Of to see those little feet commence 10 swell
 before her very eyes. Shequickly removed
 the child from the infiuence; but 1t was too late,-the work was done. That child's feet continued to swell and grow in size
 notwithstanding every effort ofthe mother to repress the progress, and only stopped growing when they had reached size requiring mems No. l3 boots 10 1t them
 Here was go. Imagine that mothers an gush when she contemplated the pedal
 proportions Of her otherwise dainty little darling She tried to conceal the disaster from her husband in hopes the feet would
 soon resume their normal state, aud that evening when the father came home from his work and stopped over 10 kiss his infant lying in its mothers lap, with the feet covered up, the babe gave one Of its Joyous kicks Of recognition and taking the father in the pit Of the stomach with both Of its No. l3 feet. sent him flying across the room and doubled him up in the corner minus breath and with but a vestige of lie remaining. Restoratlves were quickly applied aud the father, with difficulty, resuscitated. When he came to find what struck hin feeling of cool ness sprung up between that parent and his child. But there were those terrible feet nevertheless. IL WAS a reprehensible habit Of these fond parents. when they It. tired for the night, tO put the child In the middle of the bed, between them. They went to-bed that night ss usual, but they were destined to have an unQuiet time Of it. In the middle Of the night the baby RwOke and commenced kicking and al every stroke or its feet. one Of those pa
 
 dle or the room. This was bad enough but finally the baby got mad and giving the father a terrific hoist, sent him clear through a front window, out on the street. This made the father mad and the mother went into mysteries and there vas S gen eral unpleasantness in that hitherto quiet home. Since then things have somewhat .quieted down and they are getting used 10 the big feet. But it Is very unplea ant,
 and they keep the whole thing to them selves. The female neighbOrs will call on the mother and fondle the babe and put their hand down as usual To tickle its little feet and say something about "the title foOtsle Ootsles," and when they dls-' cover those No. I3's they nrst blush and then shriek and then go of the handle:
 and several .telicstely situated females
 are contemplating suits for damages from
 fright. There's trouble ahead for those af-
 ficted parents. Go carefully with your blue glass.