The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1888-09-14
Too weak 70 bear enough medicine to effect

too weak to bear enough medicine to effect
thepurposa Finally suggested to her mother
the use Of buttermilk It was adopted al
once. Her first nights experience was NJ OF
comparative freedom from cough and pain,
and a pleasant slumber for several hourA II
was continued for q long time, with an IN
varying relief Of all her Distressing symptoms
and an almost perfect freedom from cough
for several hours after each draught of the
hot buttermilk.
Lingering at ON time for weeks from an
attack Of congestive fever, dosed with Gallo.
mel and q~uinine almost beyond endurance,
the writer began to desire buttermilk to
drink. The physician didn't believe in
humoring the whims Of patients" as he e1-
pressed it: besides, he commended that a
single drink Of the obnoxious fluid might
produce death, as acids and calomel were in
compatible jewellers in the same stomach.
But l was a good persuader, and my mother
was a susceptible subject The buttermilk,
fresh from the churn," was procured and
drank. No evil resulted; instead came a
'perspiration and speedy recovery.
Many years afterward / had missed my
usual noon meal. 1t was about Q or 3p.
m.-dinner. Of course, was over-when l
reached a farmhouse. Geak, tired, hungry,
and s:all out of condition" for active work.
Dinner was suggested by the housewife. mo,
indeedl" said ], mot this time; l am nearly
home. But If you have any buttermilk l
will take a drink Of that to stay my stom-
ach." A good, kind hearted woman, she
soon brought up a pitcher Of buttermilk
from the cool spring house, while / examined
my patients and prescribed for them. Perhaps
pint was drunk during the stay of nearly
an hour. For months indigestion had held
his unfriendly grasp on my stomach. From
that notable day forward his reign was
broken; my stomach was healed, and l could
ride all day, if necessary, without feeling so
woe begone from the lack Of food as before
the drinking of the buttermilk.
There are people, however, who cannot
use buttermilk at all, and some who cannot
use milk Of any kind, nor bntter; but to
others it proves both food and medicine
Dr.. s. F. Landry in Popular Science News.
The Destructlveness OF owe.
It is cruel that from b~eginging to end a
woman's part in love SO often is one Of self
destruction. 1t begins with the love making,
when the youth, fascinated with O novel
interest more potent than bicybleo or business,
outstays the moon in that long, lingering
talk which is SO sweet, but which breaks up
her beauty sleep when she needs it most.
For love is an upsetting thing to young
nerves, and sending q girl of with feet cold
and hands trembling and heart throbbing at
mention Of a name or sound of O voice is not
conducive to good circulation and sound rest
by day or night. The dreams, the uncertain
ties, the drain Of feeling all tax her nervous
system, till few persons can realize the strain
Of mind and nerve in which a highly wrought
girl can live weeks, months and years
Then the ~introductions to the new rela-
lives, the preparations for the wedding all
tell on the average girl, who takes more or
less Of her own responsibilities beforehand,
American girl fashion. All this counting
time he has been coming two, three, five
nights a week, on his idiotic alteration trips
The girl would be glad to be spared so much
Of his presence, but she hardly knows how to
tell him so, and isn't aware that six months
or SO Of such cou1tship is excellent prepare
ton for a stupid honeymoon. Married, a
can't realize that his wife Is not Just as
able as his fellows of the club to sit up till
any hour Of morning, keeping up bright con-
versation, playing whist, or eating suppers
at 1 q. m. There is almost nothing worse
than keeping a delicate young woman up
late, till her eyes shut and her sentences wan
der for very sleeplessness.
Oh, the pretty, languid eyed women I have
heard say: IF I only didn't nave to go out
tonight, to please Tom or Jack" Or it is:
1.-THE hardest work I have to do is to be
amusing all the evening to Arthur, and keep
lively talk, when I'm so tired with calls or
housekeeping or baby that l don't know
what I'm saying, and if I don't make his
home cheerful, and keep bright, he'll 60 of
to his club or where he can find company"
And a few years after l hear that woman is
utterly broken down, very likely a case Of
insanity. It isn't any fancy work I'm put
ting in here. I've seen too much Of life to
lave any use for that. But these ere some
Of the little, useless ways in which lover hus-
bands are cruel to their wives. And then
they come and lament and wonder why Irene
has gone off so, and doesn't take any more in
terest in her music es she used.-Shirley
Dare's Letter.