The Memphis appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1886-1890, 1888-01-02
A PLEASANT INTERVIEW.


passing remarks, spoke as follows;
II came in to congratulate YOU" he
said, ION the way you are taking this year
~ gct folks TO subscribe for your paper.
As u rule, don't go much on premium
schemes. so many Of the things offered aee
no manner Of account; but this you ara
giving away IL finst-class thing, some
thing, really, that no family ought TO be
without
"You see can afford to say this, be-
cause ] speak from experience" no went
on 10 say.
~ live in Sioux City, Ia, and last year
the Tribune mere used the book Just as
You are using il now.
81 didn't think much about IL, but my
wife saw notice OF the book, and wanted
10 get IL, 10 subscribed for the paper and
got II for her I'd always had kind Of
prejudice against the Tribune before, and
10 had never taken II, but it went In with
the book, NIL for the same money, b let
II come.
swell, when the book came, itsurprised
us all, for II was 30 much larger and better
than we had supposed II possible for a pa
per 10 give ~ a premium.
"Wite began to read IL, and TO learn how
to use IL, and the more she saw OF il the
better she liked il, till one day she told me
that II 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 II that made
II better than all the rest Of them was that
II had table Of symptoms in the back
part, that told you how 10 find out what
the matter was when person got sick, and
so let you know whether II was necessary
to send for doctor or not.
well, 10 be honest, didn't more than
half believe her, for the thing seemed al
most beyond belief; but II wasn't very long
till | found out that the little woman
knew what she was talking about, and that
! wasn't half as smart rs | had thought |
was In doubling what she said.
"iou see, here's how il happened" he
went on, rs he took match from his
pocket and rclt his cigar, which had gone
out while he was talking
Zone night our eldest boy--hc's thir-
teen, and boy from the ground up--had
been out skating, and, Just like u boy,
when he rode home with his chums he
never put ON his oyercoat, aud they sung
aud hollcred all along the road, Just as
boys always will.
"When we got home, about II o'clock,
] was sitting up reading. and he shivcrcd
round the stove for u while, and finally
went TO bed. ! WIS afraid he had taken
cold, and about midnight ] went into his
room Ia see how no was. lie WIS breath.
inc heavy and his face looked mighty red.
walked him up and asked him how he
wIus, and lac told me he WIS hot, and that
his throat was awful sore just al the top Of
his breast bone said twan't sore nj the
top of his throat at all, but only just deep
down.
"Well, thought likely IL wasn't any
thing but cold that he'd probably sleep
off before morning, but when | went To
bed ] told wife about ii, and says she,
George, you 20 and get that new doctor
book that we got with the Tribune. I'm
worried about that throat, for H. so differ.
ent from AN ordinary cold. and may be
can find out what II means a 10
81 went and got II, you Jag, forlAbon
anything gets the matter with my hg boy
Il scarcs me pretty near 10 death.
"Wifo sat up in bed, and held the
lamp, and the iint thing she did was to
turn Ia the table Of symptoms, in the back
part Of the book. You see, things are all
arranged together there, ~ that YOU can
get right into them without turning
through the whole hook.
"For instance" and he came up 10 the
desk and opened copy Of "Our Family
Physician" that was lying lhcnr, aud
turned Ia the part he was speaking about.
"iou see, all the diseases oi the throat and
lungs are arranged together, and wife
turned right Ia these, ~ a matter of course.
The firsi thing she struck was Bronchitis
YOU can aeo here how IL ia" and ne
pointed 10 the pagn.
snow I didn't know any more about
bronchitis than COW does about her grand
mother, and thought Il WAS all nonsense
reading under that head anyhow; Int wife
began To read, aud here's what She read:
'Brochilis commences with chillincss, e..
yer, cough. pain and soreness AT the uppcr
part Of the 6rca,lbonc'
"Wcll, YOU lust bet that hlt me-struck
the thing the Inst time and hit IL square.
Wife went ON nadinR. and found that the
cause was talking or shouting In The omen
air. or letting very cold air strike the
thruat'-iust the case of nv boy exactly
II Haid, too, that the disease was a very
dangerous one. and Won know Tho aJ,ic,,
of the book always is, In ease of a danger.
ous diacase, 10 send Tor a doctor ns soon as
YOU can.
ESQ III out for the doctor. and made
time ia getting there, You bet. II wis aw-
ful cold that night, and We live three miles
In the country, aud our doctor Is an old
man. woke him up, and he Aaid he
wouldn't come unless u WIS casc of no.
ccSsity.