The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1885-10-10
Mrs. Carpenters E4periment.

Mrs. Carpenters Experiment..
''Ies, | always save all the old linen.
it's so handy in sickness" remarked
Mrs. Carter, carefully removing the
buttons from garment andcuttlng it
into convenient sizes.
Mrs. Carter was a diligent woman
and a devoted mother. She was con-
tlnually planning for illness in the
family, and kept on hand a stock of
simple remedies and appliances ready
Tor use at a moments notice. She
gave herself with as much zeal to this
department OF her household economy
as to stocking the cellar closet with a
generous supply OF jellies and pre-
serves.
Perhaps it is not strange, in a home
with several children, an aged father
and feeble sister-in-law, that some
body was always ailing at the Car
ters'. But, singularly enough, Mrs.
Garter, who looked out so religIOusly for
a supply of all needful articles to meet
Just such emergencies, was never able
to give anything in the line OF personal
service without paying a severe penal
ty. 1t was source of real distress to
her that if Eddie had the Group or Susie
the humps an hours attendanceupon
them, or the loss of sleep for a single
night, would so react upon her system
that she would be compelled to 90 to
bed herself and let hired hands give all
the sweet and tender ministries in the
slckrOOm so precious to a loving heart
to render.
ooh, if only | could wait upon my
children myself" she moaned one day,
as | sat by her bedside, pitying her
sutferings from a neuralgia headache.
'4Ou might, if you chose" was the
thought witch | did not express In
words till some days later, as we sat
together and she was engaged in cut
ting up the aforesaid garment. Then
took an opportunity to remark:
Mrs. Carter your medicine closet
lacks one essential"
"Dear Inc? what is it L? A new water
bag? | thought ours leaked the last
time Nora filed it."
No" | replied, 'but it wants a good
full supply OF vital force"
Evidently she did not comprehend
my meaning, and | continued:
GAS a wise and provident mother
you will have a splendid equipment
for illness in everything except your
own physical condition. I've been
here a dozen times within the last six
months in the vain endeavor to lure
you out into the open air, but inva-
riablyyou are occupied in gettingready
for somebody to get sick. You spend as
much time and nervous energy in the
preparation for this as would be suffi-
cient, if properly husbanded, for you
to carry everyone OF the children
through an ordinary attack Ct mumps
or measles. As it is, however, you
furnish the tools and let somebody
else do the work which your mother
love Graves to do. Now suppose you
reverse this order of things. Hire
somebody to come in and cut up the
bandages and do the weeks mending,
and see that the medicine closet is
kept replenished, while you devote
yourself to laying up a stock of vitali-
ty which will enable you to substitute
your own loving ministratiOnS, when
members of the family are ailing, for
hired service. For a prudent woman
you are a fearfully extravagant one!
You use up every day a little more
vital and nervous power than you
manufacture. Nature dishonOrs your
draft when you present it for surplus
funds of strength. Now it Is perfectly
possible for you to lay up a reserve of
force. There is no necrOmancy or
medicine about it. You need not take
trip to Europe nor spend months in
a nervine asylum. know that Amer
leans, as a rule, do not believe in a
of TO- no
The highest idea of health is to run
along smoothly for awhile, then break
down for a season, be patched up and
begin again. A man or woman who
can keep up continuous work OF any
kind, within the household or outside
of it, is looked upon as an anomaly.
They take their recreation In a lump,
in a summer vacation, always eXpen-
sive and often disappointing, instead
of sprinkling it along all through the
daily life and toll. Now | claim that
YOU can so subsidize the forces OF ma
ture, wrapped up in pure air and wa
ter, simple diet, abundant sleep, prop
er exercise and recreation, as to make
yourself an infinitely greater blessing
to your family than you now are.
Pardon my plain speech, but you are
giving them things, and they want
yourself"
For six months Mrs Carter triec
the experiment Of living hygienlcally,
naturally and simply. With how
much success | leave the reader to
Judge, when | say that she carried SUI
sic through an attack of scarlet fever
without the help of a hired nurse, and
no warrior was ever prOuder OF a brill
liant military achievement.
In the Forest City.
Mr.. G. E. Bryan, No. 151 Putnam
Street, Cleveland, O., has naturally
much experience in sickness, with a
family OF seven children, and his doc
tors and druggists bills are heavy.