The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1893-08-22
NE HAD The SYMPTOMS.


nhs Editor Reads the Advertisement end
Answers Its Queries.
Look at the questions that some special
lsts fire at people through the advertising
columns of the great dailies.
"Are you nervousr
We can be on occasion. Sometimes our
Jaw wags without any apparent cause or
reason, and sometimes our right arm goes
out in front as IL we were hunting for
John L. Sullivan. Sometimes we kick high
and unceremoniously and are surprised at
the cobwebs and dust that come down on
us. We never knew before 1t was all due
| to catarrh.
Are you dejectedW
Sometimes. In fact, most Of the time
| This is a hard world in many respects, and
our path is often as stony as the Appian
Way in Rome. The laundry bill comes
regularly; board bill, too, and rent, and
subscriptions to the papers, and car fare,
and wages, ETC., while-but there is enough
in this world to make us detected without
having the catarrh.
"Is your stomach weakf"
Now II that is an invitation to have some
thing, count US in for deviiish weak
stomach. Weaki Well, we would smile
IL we could. Why, our stomach just now
wouldn't hold a gill OF rotten apple cider
It's too weak to rest our case on for relief
from the country board, and that's saying
a good deal. II somebody can make fa-
tai case of catarrh out of weak stomach.
he can't begin too soon for our comfort.
Have you lost ambtionW
Doggoned II we haven't. Hardly know
what it is. Don't even have the sand to 60
out after dark and shake fists at the moon.
But we had rather attributed 1t to the fact
that we have just come out of a campaign
in which we were carrying this city with d
whoop and hurrah and an overwhelming
majority-until election day, when it seem
ed as If we had been throwing all our in
fluence to the other fellow. If 1t were only
catarrh that takes away our ambition, W.
should be too ready and willing to confess
it. But it isn't. It's plain case of disap
pointment.
as your breath offensives"
Just come around and smell it, If you car
get close enough. But remember that W.
are nervous.
"Do you have roaring in your head?"
Roaringl Goodness graciousl That 1
no name for it. Why, when we actual.
begin to think and to pour out rivers o
: language the roaring In our heads is tire
mendous, 1t is appalling, and n good man
people call it rumbling, thinking an earth
{ quake is coming We have had roaring II
{ our head ever since we began to do think
ing for the masses Of the people and pre-
t sumo that is why we don't get rich-i
9 scares the prey away. But il this roarin
business is merely disease of the mucou
- lining of the head, throat and stomach W
want to submit at once to an operation tina
9 will remove disease and membrane at on
G sharp slash
e do you get confused in your ideasi"
Some people say we do, sometimes. Flo
instance, when one of our reporters foun
: that the Cinnamon were being inventoriet
and the compositor set it up being wet an
r dried" almost anybody would be safe /
9 saying that we do sometimes get confuse
! In our ideas, essecially SO as the reporter
i also the compositor, proofreader and edito
n in chief II it is catarrh that ais him, "
!, are willing to give him his discharge at an
I time if somebody will undertake to cuI
d the confusion. There are lots Of other que
! tions we might answer with equal affirm;
/. ton, but we have no right to intrude I'll
5 symptoms OF SO disagreeable disease q
our readers for nothing, no matter no
e many of them we may have.-Superior Ii
land Ocean.