The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1889-06-05
MY Mas Drug Store.
nv AMY CRTNCH.

When ever have torpid liver it flies into
my head, to use q drunken phrase. That IS 10
sry of course don't mean my liver goes
there, but the pains does, and have the head
ache instead of the liver-ache. That's what
has been the matter with me for the last Two
or three days and my Ma prescribed Two
| thirds Of her drug store for me 10 take J. re,
| fused 10 do it, and of course there was some
unplcasantncss in the family, but it wound
up with my taking all of it and getting pet
ter. My Ma is generally right but l never al.
sick but for q fellow to take two horse load
II medicines on top OF 1t is enough TO XIII
him.
IL was this liver trouble of mine that sug.
| scsted the idea of my telling you about the
| ,irug store. Perhaps you didn't know my Ma
was running one, but she Is, and she is propri-
| ctor and clerk both. She is also a fine doctor
and nothing quack about her. She has built
horses and chickens and her children:
| My Ma is very fond of her profession-she
had rather give medicine than anythhi,ng ise ese
| in the world than take 1t. II lived up
North I'd get her sulky and let her practice
among more people than her children, out
down here I guess she cant well do 1t.
| My Ma keeps her drug store in closet In
her room. us rare sight and the next time
you come to our house hope you will get her
10 show it to you. There is heap Of curious
and familiar old bottles In there that were
companions of my childhood and dear
| friends in time Of trouble.
| We have got some bottles that honestly
lont believe we could get along without, even
Now there the paregoric bottle-it became
| member Of the family about the same time
with my brother Bill, and has been doing
good service ever since. 1t has been filled up
| and emptied going on n thousand times.
There is the camphor bottle-it is big
| round one and my Ma inherited 1t from heI
| father, who was doctor ana nau SOoQ Htl
ny bottles.
Then there is the turpentlne bottle-that is
square and high, and the quinine bottle WIFI
Il bitterish look about it. And then there
| Ihc Salts.-she keeps them in an oyster can
| don't know exactly why.
| She has also got two or three hundred pills
in as many boxes, and material enough tC
make two or three hundred more. She don't
deal much is castor oil these days and I'm
| mortal glad of II. I'd as soon be Mormon OF
take two doses of this rigorous medicine
| The Saddest recollections OF my childhood is
when they forced that beverage down my
throat and then gave me boiled sweet milk tt
take the taste out of my mouth. always die
believe it was a relic of heathenisin anyway
I'm not very fond of medicine-it tastes te
vent some that would be little more pleas
ant. Samanthy Is just the opposite-she Is do
voted to pills and powders, and II she dom
get TO take two or three and rub herself every
! day, she feels completely lost.
| think she has got in the habit Of taking
medicine and cant break herself OF IT. AS fol
that Morandy-she says she amt a simpletor
ever expects her to be simpleton about any
thing. She says she takes medicine when u
is necessary and lets 1t alone when 1t Is not
necessary. AS for Jim, poor fellow !! he gets
into a Sight, of trouble sometimes-he has
never learned how to eat yet and occasional
ly he gets on the outside OF supper enough fol
three; OF course he wakes up in the middle o.
the night with terrible attack which make!
him feel like laying his feet along side or MI
head. The remarks he makes brings out the
whole family and most OF the drug store te
hic ruliaf I hnna hn will grow wiSef M
grows older.
The most remarkable bottle we've got II
"thc old rubbing bottle" Its older than thu
parcgoric bottle and came into the family in
fact before there was any. II is made up, OF ;
little of everything in the drug store, at leas
my Ma says there is chloriform. audimun
: turpenline, sweet oil, hartshorn and camphor
and n few others. She got the receipt frolI
some old woman who got 1t from somebody
else, &c.
1t has never been patented and ri have !
done myself under the name OF "My Ma
rubbing bottle" 1t is good for every pain ant
every ache and everything.