Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1882-10-04
Cured Easily

CureU EHsly.
What's on Jour mind p asked the
little doctor, cheerfully, as distressed
| looking woman climbed the stairs at
the sign of the big foot on Woodward
avenue.
Warts on my nose, DOCTOR reIoined
the woman, laying aside her veil and
revea ling a protuberance of uncommon
dimensions on the very tip of Roman
nose:
'That'll come of as easy as an offi-
cial head,' said the doctor, and leave
not trace behind. How long. madam
may 1 inquire. have you been afflicted
with this miserable wort p
Ten years. said the woman; dejec'
tedly. I've always been afraid to have
it taken off; besides, my friends said it
was a sign of good luck
It's big enough to be sign for a
cheese factory. Now, ifyou will walk
into my parlor will soon chow you
what mistake you have made in not
coming to me nine years and eleven
months sooner, Sit down, please, con-
tinued the doctor, who is chirope-
dist, as well as a wart destroyer. Then
he produced case OF instruments f1om
among which he selected fine probe.
A search among the bottles discovered
tinv vial filled with straw.colored
LIQUID that emitted pungent odor. The
woman looked on suspiclouSly.
I've left word at home where am
she said sternly. Il don't want any
experiments tried on me-
Perhaps you'd batter keep the wart, ,
| said the doctor, coolly. 'Ips fifty cents
| in my pocket, anyway, aud I've taken
| 2s, 900 warts off of different women's
faces, and nsver killed anybody yet
That settled the matter. The woman
resigned herself to fate, and the doctor
made a pass over the warl and it rolled
off like a Turceman's head then be
wound the probe with seme soft wool,
dipped 1t in the vial, and jabbed at the
spot where ths wart had been, talking
meanwhile to keep up his patients
courage.
Took forty-seven warts off one mans
hands [jab jabl. Something curious
about warts you never see 'em come
and you never see 'em go, unless they
come to stay, as this one did, aud have
10 be urged to leave Uab jab]. I've
taken warts off babies three months old
and boy's hands. PYo taken thous-
ands off of boys hands. Warts are as
natural to boys as the measles LAB Jao]
The little fellows have lots Of fun with
them, selling them and giving them
away. They steal mothers dish cloth
and bury it, aud when the dish cloth Is
consumed in the earth the wart goes
ayay-at least that Is what is expected.
Ever try to sell that wart p
Yes said the woman, I've tried to
sell it. and tried to give it away, but
nobody ever seemed TO want it, and
when read pieces in the paper about
the woman with wart on her Eose 1t
made me awful mad, for knew it was
me they meant all the time. l stole
piece Of pork once and buried it near
running stream, but it didn't 60 away.
! took it of once with silk thread out
| before could turn round twice IL was
back again.
That. cause you didn't kill the
ROOTS, said the doctor; If you kill the
root there's no more trouble. That's
what Pm dong now. THIS liquid is an
! invention of my Own, and it eats out
all tho foreign substancs. The fungus
,ovth and tho diseased flesh which
cause, it. I.,n.e moles and birth marks
the same way. N6,,y, if you nave any
noles, my eradlcator will 1-emoVe 'ne'n
without leaving single scar.'
i've only one mole, and that is on
the hack of nv neck, and L wouldn't
have il taken of for a hundred thous-
and dollars. 1t signifies long lie ana
riches
81 took strawberry mark of lady's
arm the other day. said the doctor. III
wa. tho prettiest birthmark.I ever saw.
II never showed much the folks sald'
fill the season came round for straw
berries. Theuit was just the color,
with little dots Of white. didn't want
to take it of, for If that lady was ever
lost the mother could identity It easily
with that mark on il {; but the 10 lSs
thought it would dsfgure 1t, so took
It cut. roots and ALL By this time the
woman with wart lad lost her lden-
ity. The wart and all traces OF it were
gone, and the doctor, selecting a tiny
heart-.haped bit of court-plaster from
a box of beauty spots, applied TO the
place. Her gratitude was bourdless.