The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1883-08-11

more progressive communities; however, as
| we have Galileo's testimony to the effect
that the earth still moves, l dare say in
time we will all be able to stand up and
waltz in as unabashed manner as our
| neighbors. | can not say though, all things
I considered that it is a coHsummation de-
youtly to be wished.
| Our summer epidemic of fevers has COM
menced, and as it is an i'll wind that blows
nobody some good the M. D. s-lucky NOR
tals!-are reaplng a harvest of trade dollars
and honors. Calomel and guinine have
gone up III price, and unprecedented value
is set upon those repulsive looking reptiles,
leeches: and daily is heard resounding g
through the length and breadth of the
land, the cry for the hot mustard baths,
lemons and ice. Aptopos de bottles, did you
ever see woman take uulnine pill, Or
have you ever been so fortunate as 10 assist,
as our French friends phrase it. at the in
teresting ceremony? Let me describe the
Wodus oy,eitt,acti.: the minutiae may vary in
some unimportant details, but the general
principle Is the same as witnessed IN a
number of cases. First of all, the unhappy
victim holsters herself up in bed. receives
the pill, round and white, from the hands
of her meek and patient attendant, makes
some disparaging remarks about the COM
FOUNDER Of this particular one, wonders if
she is expected to swallow a bombshell or
globe of the universe, is certain she
could, with less practice, make better look
ing pills herself if she were only upon her
feet: and after steadfastly surveying the
innocent g!Cbule. the unoffending cause of
her discomfort, for at least ten minutes.
finally declares that she cc11 not swallow it.
and there is no use to make the attempt.
Z" But the Doctor says you 1natst,' insists
the worthy successor to Jobs trials. vino is
verify patience on a monument" So
after much coaxing and having surrounded
herself with an array OF necessary articles,
such as a glass of ice-water, a slice of
bread, generous piece of ham, half glass
Of jelly and fig preserves-artIcles which
would have puzzled Florence Nightingale
to have found possible use for she makes
the attempt, cautiously grasplng the pill
between thumb and foretnger, as if it were
a dynamite explosive, she opens her mouth
until it resembles an oysters gaping shell,
and delicately inserts it between her palate
and esophagus, and there it sticks while she
convuisiyely rolls her eyes and gasps out,
"Qnick, quick, water, water!' but il is OF
no avail, all the water in tue ocean will no.
wash it down, and accordingly she makes a
second attempt, this time inciosing the
pill between thin slices of Jelly, and dex-
tro,sly capsizing it from a teaspoon on the
root of her tongue, but with no better sue
cess, for by some mysterious process the
Jelly slides GOWN nef tnfOaL SaIely. leaving
the offending bail adhering to her palate, if
it has not crumbled in her mouth. 81 told
you | couldn't take it" she cries out sput-
tering and twisting her face into a double
bow-knot. and so she doesn't, OF if she
does, she first wears out all her expediences
and then the temper OF her unhappy nurse,
ere the bitter drug safely reaches its desti-
nation. Itowever, it generally ends in
swallowing the quinine i'll coffee, and great
heavens, what q dose that is, to be sCre'
The juvenile son, brother Or nephew, as the
case may be, usually finds q never failing
source Of amusement in watching his femi-
nino relative take her medicine: indeed, he
has been heard to aver conhdentially that the
scenes enacted, every other hour, afforded
more real fun to the second than The pleas
ures Of a circus, and if / were III his place [
Go not know but what | would enjoy it as
much, bat as it is, ii fellow feeling makes
us wondrous kind, and quake and tremble
in direful trep;dation, lest my time should
come next to furnish forth /. spectacle
wherewith to delight that heartless. com
passionless creature-the eHtnnf terrible OF
the household. VILLEIIE.