Mexico weekly ledger., 1879-08-28
Watermelon Kinds Good for
Dyspepsia.

| r. NJ. WHITE: Are watermelon rinds good
| for dyspepsiaP FLORA.
The question is somewhat variega.
ted with yagueness. If you mean to
ask if they can be SO picked or pre-
served as to be good for dyspeptics,
then we are prepared to answer, after
mature deliberation, that we think we
don't know. On general principles,
however, We think they are good. All
medical authorities with which We are
| at all familiar, agree, we believe. that
,, Ienty of exercise, such as riding,
Ska ing, etc., has tendency TO scat
ter the disease, and although we are
a victim OF the malady, We are as in
nocent of the trial of the remedy. &c
far as watern' 'eIon rinds are concern
ed, as the averaA ATe tramp is of veracity.
But we have friend on Promen'
ade street who has a neighbor until
recently a confirmed d.vspeptic. whose
cure was effected through tue agency
of watermelon rind, and tor the
benefit of our questioner we will stale
his experience and leave her to judge
for herself rs to the sultableness ol
the article for dyspeptics.
He got up in large hurry about
eleven O'Clock one night to prepare
cow to he converted into canned
beef" His movements were acccler'
ated by the fact that the brute was IL
the garden sampling bis cabbage.
She had ali eady taken in Two rows
and began on the third when that man
appeared on the back porch in his
shirt sleeves, and negan feeling
around on the beams overhead for the
hatchet with which to sever her spine.
He didn't find it, but in the north
east corner he set bis foot into q
watermelon rind, which took q posi-
ton with the ends curled up over his
toes and heel like 4 skate, and pro.
ceeded at once to business. The first
thing he did was to sit down on his
back and hold both feet up over his
head in the air, and he did the same
with a suddenness and emphasis that
split his coat, which was hanging Oh
chair in the bedroom, the full lcngtl
of the back and partly down the
sleeve, and SO frightened that COW
that she went through new place i'll
the fence with a wilderness of tomato
vines on her horns before she had
swallowed her thirty-siXth cabbage,
Then his wife came to the door on
a gallop and asked him from what
height he had fallen, and suggested
that if he wanted to tear the balance
of the house down, that he defer the
matter until she could wake up tho
! children and get them into the barn
A groan from out of the darkness was
( the only response to her inquiries
/ 1t then occurred 20 her that he might
be seriously damaged and she CROPPED
I round until she stumbled onto hiu
and fell with her elbow in his eye,
and asked him if she could do any.
/ thing to assist him He gave vent tC
/ another grOan, recovered his speecl
and said that if it was all the same to
her she might keep her elbow out Of his
L. NNNs anu SCt NIlClllti IL W do Ills bdtb
or one or more of the sills under the
! floor that was fractured. She went
into the house and in moment re-
turned with a light, and her appear,
ance so inspired him that he raised
himself and sat up, and spoke 6
piece. He said: "You 'xXxX' sim.
p'eton you, for heavens sake get back
into the house, and either get some
clothes on, or blow out the light, CT
| your brains, or both, l don't care 8
fig which, so it don t take you all night
to accomplish it, and then 90 to bed
Why don't you know, you uncom,
promising lunatlc, chat if AL. Camp.
bell, the night-watchman, is awake, he
will have the mayor and five or six
| aldermen down here in less than sew.
en- minutes looking around for 9
ghost--or something!"
Then it was her turn to crate. She
said: "ThanI you, sir, l deeply re,
gret to have to inform you that an
satisfied it's not your back that is
broken, and if you have to remain
where you are till-till Hutton
starts his daily, you will get no as,
sistance from me. Good night"
Then he repented; they compro-
missed and she came out and assisted
him on his feet, but before she had
let go of him he settled down on the
foot that was shod and shot across
the whole length of the porch like 6
tornado, taking her with him. She
didn't relish the trip. 1t made hei
head ache and ruffled her temper
She jammed him into the corner and
said: "See here, you villainous com
pound OF british humanity, what is
the matter with you? Do you-'
but he had begun another trip and
she didn't walt till he had finished
She lodged into the house and lefl
him spinning round on the porch and
in the back yard like hurricane
He kept up the exercise until he skat
ed himself through stand Of flower
pots and blended about a hundred
choice varieties of flowers into one
broke off the pump handle, turned
over the ash hopper onto setting
hen, lost his melon rind and his dys
pepsla in the potato vines, and fount
an appetite that would shame boz
constructor. Exercise is good 70
dyspepsia.
"What shall the harvest be?'
Brethren, please ryes and sing thi
wheat song after the choir leade