Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1888-01-13
A PLEASANT INTERVIEW.

The other day gentlemen,a stranger
to us, dro pped into our office, and after a
few passing remarks, spoke as follows;
81 came in to congratulate you he
said, ION the way you are taking this year
to get folks to subscribe for your paper.
AS a rule don't 90 much on premium
schemes, SO many of the things offered
are no manner of account; but this you
are giving away is a firstclass thing
something, really, that no family ought
to lie without,
You see | can afford to say this, be-
cause l speak from experience he went
on TO say.
IL live in Sioux City, Iowa, and last
year The Tribune there used the book
! just as you are using 1t now.
81 didn't think much about it, but my
wife saw notice of the book, and want
ed to get it, so subscribed for the paper
and got it for her. I'd always had a kind
of prejudice against The Tribune before
and so had never taken it, hut it went in
with the book, all for the same money, SO
| | let it come
well, when the book came, it surprised
US all, for it was so much larger and bet
ter than we had supposed it possible for a
paper to give as premium.
"Wife began to read it, and to learn
how to use it, and the more she saw of it
the better She liked it. till one day she
told me that it was the best thing of the
kind that she ever saw, though she had
several books of similar sort in the house
before. She said that the thing about it
that made It better than all the rest of
them WAS that it had Table of Symp-
toms in the back part. that told you how
to find out what the matter was when q
person got sick, and so let you know
whether it was necessary to send for doc
tor or not.
"Well, to be honest, didn't more than
half believe her, for the thing seemed al
most beyond belief; but it wasn't very
long till found out that the little woman
knew what she was talking about. and
that wasn't half as smart as l had
thought was in doubling what she said
you see, here's how it happened" he
went on, as he took match from his
pocket and reit his cigar, which had gone
out while he was talking.
zone night our oldest boy-hes thir-
teen, and a boy from the ground up-had
been out skating, and, just like boy,
when he rode home with his chums he
never put on his overcoat, and they sang
and hollered all along the road, Just as
boys always will.
when he got home, about eleven
o'clock, was sitting up reading and he
shivered round the stove for while, and
finally went to bed. | was afraid he had
taken cold, and about midnight | went
into his room to see how he was He was
| hrpQ hi lnnk n
mighty red. | walked him up and asked
him how he was, and he told me he was
hot, and that his throat was awful sore
inst at the tob of his breast bone-said
itwan't sore at the top of his throat at ALL
but only just deep down.
well, thought likely it wasn't any
thing but cold that he'd probably sleep
o before morning, but when | went to
bed | told wife about it, and says she,
George, you go and get that new doctor
book that we got with Inc Tribune. I'm
worried about that throat, tor it's SO diff
ferent from an ordinary cold, and maybe
| can find out what il means
81 went and got 1t, you bet, for when
anything gets the matter with my big boy
it scares me pretty near to death.
"W life sat up in bed, and held the
lamp, and the first thing she did was to
turn to the Table of symptoms, in the
back part Of the book. You see, things
are all arranged together there, so that
you can get right onto them without turn
ing through the whole book,
For instance and he came up to the
desk and opened copy OF Our Family
Physician that was lying there, and
turned to the part he was speaking about.
You see, all the diseases of the throat
and lungs are arranged together, and
wife turned right to these, as matter OF
course, The first thing she struck was
. Bronchitis you can see here how 1t is, "
and he pointed to page.
''Now didn't know any more about
bronchitis than COW does about her
grandmother and | thought 1t was all
/, nonsense reading under that head any
how, but wife began to read and here +
what she read Bronchitis commences
with chilliness fever, cough, pain, and
soreness at the upper part OF the breast
bone
We'll, YOU lust bet that hit me-struck
the thing the first time aud hit it square.
Wife went ON reading, and found that the
cause was talking or shouting III the
; open air, or letting very cold air strike
the throat just the case OF my boy eX-
, actly. 1t said, too, that the disease was q
! very dangerous one, and you know the ad-
vice of the book always is In case OF
!, dangerous disease. to send for Il doctor
e as soon as HOu can.
so lit out for n doctor, and made
time in getting there, you bet. 1t was
awful cold that night, and we live three
miles in the country, aud our doctor Is an
old man. | woke him up, aud he said be
wouldn't come unless it was case OF
necessity
"Wel, doctor, SAYS |, lisa case of
acute bronchitis, and | want you TO come
"'How do you know says the doctor.
Giles got high fever, and his throat
, Is awful sore, deep down, almost INTO MS
, lungs, says |.
"'Then there's TO doubt about it, says
the doctor for that's never failing
symptom of the disease, and the sooner |
get there, the better.
the doctor spent about two hours with the