Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1884-10-15
Tue ICE-CuRE.

an inexpensive remedy for the inde-
scribable disease known as "out- Of
sorts" when one feels limp, lethargic,
and lazy, and don't care whether school
keeps or not; when the duties of life
are irksome, and no pleasure can be
derived from either work or play. Ev-
erybody has been there more or less.
and those who are often troubled that
way need suffer no longer. Let them
60 to some hilly place where there are
woods to fill the air with oxygen (and
mosquitoes) and there sit in sunny
spot with narrow bag of ice on the
spine.
(Ouph!- -ugh!!!-Great Scott!!!-
Jeruselam!l!D
Never mind; of course it is cold, but
grin and bear it.
The learned NJ. ID. says that in a
short time the chest will expand, the
lungs will put forth all their power to
inhale, and you will labor under the
illusion of being youthful again. To
quote rerbatim, as being enticing
enough for anybody to read:
"a gentle warmth prevades all the
body; the sky looks bluer, the trees
greener; one is more alive to the exu-
berant JOY of the song bird, to the
brightness of the flowers, to the fra
GRANGE of the country and if the coars-
est fare were served at the next meal,
so sweet would it taste that he would
feel inclined to say grace after meat, in
hearty spirit. My advice to fashion
able women is to drop morphine and
betake themselves in rural solitude to
this ice treatment"
SO copiously is oxygen let in, that il
there be microbe, or trichina, or mi
croscope, or protoplasm in the body, it
must almost Immediately be burned
up, and the entire system is rejuvera-
ted.
Some of the cures performed by this
method are but little short OF miracu-
lous A lady who had not seen a well
day for ten years, and had unfortunate
ly become victim to the use of NOR
phine until she felt like dish-rag all
the while except for short time after
each days use OF that baneful drug, re.
solved to try the ice-cure, but without
any faith in its efficacy. The first APP
plication doubled her up into bow
knot, as though she had been eating
! cucumbers, but started circulation oi
blood in her feet. which had been like
icicles for ten lcng years, and after the
second trial she went home and did a
two weeks washing, just to work of
her superfuous energy. She now
weighs ITO pounds. eats like o hired
man, and can scold with the best of hel
sex.
Another case: Charles z, son oI
the wealthy banker on-street; be-
came . total wreck ON account of dis
sipation, late hours. corns, tight lacing
etc. The doctors had given him up
and he had lost all interest in every
thing except mite societies and camp
meetings. Having read of the ice-cure
he procured piece one day last June
drove out to the woods with q cheap boy
to take care of the horses, and applied
the ice as directed. II threw him into
q trance wherein he distinctly saw The
Greedy party suffering and dying in the
Artic region, and every particular and
detail connected Herewith; and &
strong was the impression 0made on hi
mind that when he got home he wrot.
to the Secretary Of the Navy, relating
his dream, and locating the place st
accurately that . telegram was immedi
Ately sent to the commander of tht
search expedition, who was thus enabled
to find the spot without any trouble
The result is already known TO tn.
world.
He began to gain strength and ambi
tion rapidly, and after two more appli
cations and the judicious use of duml
bells and Indian clubs, with . dali,
run of several miles, applied for AND
obtained the position of catcher in thu
celebrated Kinnikinick base ball club
with salary that in year or two vii
Hundreds Of similar instances could be
cited, but couple more will suffice
4 A bank cashier became debilitated
by too close application to business
the machine-like regularity Of certify
ing checks, counting money, saying
"You will have to be identified" etc.
was wearing out his life. He ate little
became bilious, and longed for rest in
the silent tomb, and yet had not the
courage to commit suicide. He could
hardly lift roll OF trade dollars. Aftel
one trial Of the ice-cure, he lifted Z
mortgage on his palatial residence, sold
il, and salted down the proceeds in hi
gripsack. Another application WA
even more surprising in its results, ),
on the next day he lifted all the cash
there was in the bank. and started ON
long and tedious journey, ria Canada
TO Syria and the Holy Land, carrying q
satchel that weighed ever f20 600.