Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1888-04-20
VOL. XVI.


consequence must keep your attention
very carefully on the necessity for change
in the air."
''But, auntie, if I kept opening and
shutting windows like that, l should
catch cold all the time"
Not if your body was properly pro.
tected by undergarments of wool. Wear
warm vests and thicker gowns and keen
your house cooler Never let the ther.
mometer get above sixty eight degrees.
BY keeping your house so warm you
make the contrast between the open air
and the house too great, and thus render
yourself in condition to catch cold.
There is another thing that will help you
to resist cold. Eat nourishing, plain
food, and let hot cakes and sweet trash
alone. Your body is not well nourished.
Your appetite is poor because you live in
unwholsome air. Take brisk walk
daily, rain or shine, and you will soon
get healthy desire to eat"
Anyone would think, to hear you
talk, Auntie, that health depends en-
tlrely upon ones own exertions," 4" said
Mary, laughing.
"It ought to-" replied her aunt,
merrily, "for certainly some people
think themselves sick by their own exer-
tions."
"Well," said Mary, rising, "I am GO.
ing to act on your order. If die of my
efforts you must consider yourself the
electric spark that killed men
ooh, you don't come of short lived
family" said Aunt Tabitha, as she made
| hnr " 81; l. I
Pd sooner live than exist"
With this the good woman disappeared.
They heard the front door shut with a
hearty bang. Aunt Tabitha was on her
way to Deacon Margrave's house to see
Mamie, who was down with nervous
prostration.
Mary left her place on the sofa as the
door closed on Aunt Tabitha. Then,
being woman, she went to the mirror
to find out if she really did look so for
lorn as auntie pictured in her extremely
personal remarks. The result was not
pleasing. Where had her good looks
gone! Her countenance was one which
depended on health for its attractiveness.
As she glared at her reflection, lack
lustre hair, hollow cheeks and eyes, she
| tersely exclaimed:
YOU'RE frightm
She was able to note that her whole
| appearance was forlorn. Her collar was
tumbled, and the shawlin which she had
wrapped her shivering frame was dowdy.
TO do her justice, she was not vain
woman, nor inordinately fond of dress.
But John was very particular, very. neat,
and certainly liked his wife to make her
self look charming.
Strange to say, the more Mary forgot
her pain and aches, the less violent did
they become; there is something in
mind cure" after all, as all sensible
folk well know from personal expert
ence. The day passed on, finding Mary
very busy doing variety of household
matters that had fallen into arrears late
ly. She found herself vowing 81 am
not going to be sick any more, if COM
mon sense can keep me WE'LL"
The clock struck six. 1t found Mary
In her room, in a pretty garnet cash
mere dress, fastening some dainty ruffles
in the sleeves. 1t found her, too, con-
sulting the glass little anxiously, to
see if she were still disagreeable to be-
hold. Aunt Tabithas scathing remark
81 hate to look at an unhealthy person."
required to her mind, as she. stood
doubtfully gazing at the mirror
John came in, bringing friend with
him. His CHEEKY voice was lowered to
a whisper as he said: owe shall find my
wife on the sofa asleep, perhaps"
"No, you will not, breathed Mary to
herself, noticing with keen pang the
detected tone of the speaker.
"She is not here. l am afraid she is
not so well as usual. I'll go upstairs and
see after her when l have lighted the
gas"
AS he turned to leave the room light
foot ran downstairs, and though the
owner arrived at the door a little breath
less, she was not more so than John.
Poor John He expected to see pale,
depressed creature, shivering under a
shawl, too inert to eat, or to talk with
interest on any topic but that of her
own ailments.
Mary gave him a little pinch as she
passed him to welcome Mr.. Vane, but he
continued to stare at the bright appari-
tion as though he had never seen his
WIG ioOh Cudl uiluS DClOlt.
"Why, Mrs. Bayne, John told me that
you were quite an invalid"
"Only cold,' said Mary, suddenly
overcome by terrific sneeze. "But
am much better"
"Whatm cried John, laundering some
what. "You told me this morning it
was in its worst stage"
Nonsense, John; don't you know
that is hours and hours ago. Come and
have some dinner, / think that is the
bell"
At dinner she forced herself to eat
and found that in enjoying Johns
amazement her spirits were rapidly i'm
proving.
She made herself so charming to Nh.
Vane thlt he enjoyed every hour of the
evening. She asked John to sing, and
/ played his accompaniments, to his great
happiness, for, be it known, that if a
man has voice he likes to show il off to
advantage.
Will, backed by common sense find,
way. Mary's enjoyment of ii
health" came to an abrupt end. Her
house was kept reasonably cool, her body
we'll nourished and sufficiently clothed
to enable her to withstand the eccen-
tricities of the climate. Last, but not
least, she daily took brisk walk, rain or
shine, and wore her dresses loose enough
to give her lungs free play.
John grew every year more devoted to
! his cheerful, healthy wife.
"Common sense versus drugs" SAYS
Aunt Tabitha. - Yankee Blade.
A Valuable Confederate Cent.
Hon. George II. Wright, of Chuluota,