The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1891-09-24
:IT'S CATCHING. -

1t Is strange how your opinion of al
contagious diseases changes the minute
you have one of them at your own home
You may have been lodging for month
but the rest of the world, it seems, only
decided the thing should be avoided after
you got it. We make the most of every
thing we have as a rule, but humps
measles whooping cough, &C., are decided
exceptions, of these we make as little as
possible, latter we have caught theml.
Then we say, II took every reasonable
prec4ution, but l did not make a fool OF
myself like some people. The other fami-
ly thought you did, all the same. Your
motto is live and let live" You didn't
intend to spread this thing. It'll stay at
home and nurse the children" -''and
eat all the good things sent them"
1t begins in the kitchen-most things
debut nothing ever stops them, no, not
even cold victuals The cook says, Dat
white woman say, she amt gwine to make
no frock fer anybody who stay wild de
skarlit feaber," and that brother deacon
night The nurse says "she want feared
OF no feaver herself, but she hate to have
folks run from her on the streets liken she
was some wild BEASTS You are real
pleased at this for you know that no one
will hire these ladies ior a month, so they
can't!quit, and you will have the opportuni-
ty Of taking some of the kinks out of them.
You answer the door bell yourself the
first few days-tor variety. Want any
apples, potatoes or peaches p mo. .
DO you want the scarlet tever?' NO !;
I'll be burned if DO The third day you
find a jar o: corn meal Cruel with a note
on it that reads, You can keep the jar. /"
The children won't eat the Cruel and you
can't, so you stir III some more meal and
make poultice tor your horses swollen
leg. About the fifth day the children want
20 get up and run over the room. You
caution them to keep under the cover, and
or returning minute later, you find them
sitting on the edge OF the bed with both
feet hitched up with cotton strings, play
ing horse" Then you realize there is no
possible chance for them to survive this
attack, unless you can get away from them
few hours each day. So you go to paci-
flying yourself You don't know what will
kill fever germs, but you do know how to
prepare "polk>salid Rince in three wa
tiers, parboil and lay IN salt and water over
night. When you have finished with that
you must smoke yourself suspect peo-
pie who talk proper" would say ''fumigate
YOURSELF but think smoke yourself" to
say the least, sounds more wholesome
7 GU wrap in a clean sheet and GO in new
room. Take everything off the bed except
the spring mattress, discard the sheet and
lie on the mattress, if the room is cold
and wrap up in it. In a pan, burn under
the bed first some woollen rags and feath-
ers. then sulphur, then a celluloid comb
or cellar.
You put on your "other clothes and 60
down the street with look o. lust as l
am on your face and feeling OF Il
wish wasn't at your heart But you
have rather the advantage Of every one you
meet as you are more used to the smell.
An old maid, who was so busy holding her
nose that she failed to speak, sends word
next day, to palate her rudeness, Tor add
insult to injury that you looked so clean
she did not recognize you People to
avoid you 90 into stores, where they have
owed big bills. Horses shy from you,
dogs fly from you; cats cry Tor you; buzz
yards sigh for you and you grow desper>
ate and change your motto You take
that of the old dsrky's, Folks amt got
OuG OhC bthO W Vic lO HOW' Uu uStlCc
to rab this thing on somebody. The bar
Der is your victim, fortunately be is used
to onions and mean whisky, so he ONLY
takes the precaution to turn you over to
the boot black as his wife is mighty sick
just heard it, Oh, yes, sir, he can
shave you good as me" You are so much
encouraged by this, that you feel it you
can only reach the railroad you will 90
home before dark After this days ex>
perience you decide to ride In a few
weeks your religious feelings become
wrought up. You must go to church, have
a great deal to be thankful for, &c, &c.
You think you will experiment with prayer
meeting. AS you slip in one aisle the con
gregation steps out the other You will
go to church and sit right up in front.
This puts all the choir 10 chewing their
asatoetida bags so there is no singing.
You will sit way Oack-this sends the old
ballhsads, bachelors and dudes to the front,
making the church look like theater. So
you resolve that hereafter when contagious
diseases enter your home you will isolate
yourself, for it can't be any worse than feel
ing other peoples cold shoulders.
JAS. l.. SlBLEY, Market Gardener.