Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1884-06-26
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Charmed circle 01 = PERSONS teetsl the
throat kicks. It puts mp the shutter
and closes the door It apparently de-
sires to go Out of business. The same
throat may take ia chunks of unchew-
able beefsteak as big as hickory Cuts.
and other stores for the interior depart
ment by the side of which pill of the
largest growth would be ass Insignia
cantaffair, but it draws the lineat pills.
It shuts up shop and says to you jslst
as plaln,as can be: you don't send
any pills past me if know it." This
action of the human throat in the mat
ter of pills is very curious and mysti-
! fyIng to the ordinary mind, and we
wonder that Matthew Arnold and 9TH
er great thinkers have not given it
more attention, asld sought to make
clearer for the rest of us the reason
why the human throat is tEasas .appar-
| emily SO unreasonable.
You get about eleven or thirteeR of
these pills, big, smooth fellows rolling
about in SOME sort of yellow powder,
and you go home and take one of them
according to the rules aad regulations
on the box. The whole family come
into the room to see the performance,
of course. They have taken pills in
their time, and they know there is fun
in pill performance when they are
spectators only. You probably say
that you are not goiAg to have any
foolishness with that pill; you are just
going to swallow it right down and be
done with it. Then you take pill out
of the box, open your mouth, throw
your head back, drop in the pill and
make seven or eight desperate sW'al-
lows. epill comes smiling and with
its yellow oyercoat and good deal of
its high flavor worn off on your tongue,
and you look n little disappointed.
Some one who has had wider ex-
perience than the others with pills will
tell you to try swallow of water with
it. All right. YOU'RE willing to take
advice i'll this your hour of need You
drop the pill into your mouth and hast
lily drink a half a glass Of water.
Where is the pill now?@Oh, it is snug
enough down by the side of your
tongue. It didn't go dowR with the
freshet. It is not travelling by water
this season. Try some grated apple, -
suggests the person with the advice on
tap. All right, bring the grated apple.
You are willing by this time to try
anything that promises to deceive your
throat to letting that pill through 1t
is covered nicely in the very centre of
aspOOnfall of grated apple, and with a
weak sort Of q smile you throw rYour
head back, put the contents of the
spoon On your tongue and swallow
all the grated apple. The pill fingers
for an instant about the palate, as if It
had Forgotten the password, and then
comes slowly up to the teeth, leaving
a good deal of its individuality all
along its track
Now bread is suggested for n Disguise
for the pill. This is good idea Why
didn't some one think of that before?
You chew up whole mouthful OF
bread. put thepill in the middle of it
and make the greatest effort of your
life in the way of single swallow.
But the result is not satisfactory. The
bread goes right along according 10
schedule, but the pill is side tracked
and held for further orders. BY this
time good part of your trste or a bad
part of the pill is away, and you feel
that you would know the rest of it by
taste at any future time in your life.
Further, there are the marks of bitter.
ness and woe and hatred of the inven-
tor of the pill stamped plainly upon
Your countenance, aud mayhap your
feelings are such that you cannot
with seemliness express them in
the bosom of your synIpathfz1ug fnnli
".
AT last, just as you are about to give
> up in despair, some one suggests thai
the pill he smashed up aud clothed ia
jelly. That IS the best idea yet. why
! wasn't it thought of sooner? The pill
is mashed and clothed III jelly, and il
? a moment It has passed tile guarded
4 precincts of your interior department
z II mas gone ~ lhsA, not III IT'S OTlg4nd
: form. bit as a broken package, ane
: when you realize that the performance
a is over, your face lights up like that o
the iinpeeunious man who. in the deaC
l of winter and at the driest hour of /
> mighty dry day finds tes-eent bit il
3 the pocket of y long discarded vest
2 To many of as there is not much fuI
3 in taking a Bi1!.-f Ati7d5etO1s Tran
> script.
? The soIloav;,0 Patents were granite.