Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1894-08-24
R-I-P-A-N-S.

R-I-P-A-N-S.
Soap, Salt, vaseline and 0unpowder.
~ Every farmers wife who boils
X her tea-kettle ver q fire Of
S maple or hickory wood. knowe
- that, by leoching the ashes and
adding any refuse grease at
SHH command, she may make q ser.
~ viceable soap. And yet, not.
Notwithstanding this, she finds IL
better to buy u soap made by
< improved methods. Some man.
~ ufacturers produce soapof such
MAJ peculiar excellence that people
- are led to specially d esire it;
4" and the makers advertise their
Vk product widely, and accumu.
- late fortunes by its sale. The
~ fact still remains that soap is Q
Vs. combination of alkaloid and
~ grease. Its manufacture is q
simple or artistic process, according to
the quality produced. Soap has been
made for thou ands Of years, but the
best soaps are the product Of nine.
teenth century methods.
Gunpowder is composed of charcoal,
sulphur, and saltpeter. Yet not every
VOID produces the best charcoal for the
purpose. Some sorts Of sulphur are OF
more value than others to the manufac.
turer of e%unpowder, and saltpeter must
be properly prepared to admit OF best
results. Given all of best quality, skill
in blending is still required, and al.
though it is possible for almost any one
to make an explosive mixture, those
whn hava roo fOr O~,,nnnw6an And IL nd.
visable to buy Of q manufacturer who
has gained q reputation for making the
best. The Ingredients r nc secret, but
the resultant combination Is of proved
effectiveness, and, although soma other
may be as good, it is risky to expert.
ment; consequently the trademark Of
q favorite brand of gunpowder is worth
a great sum to its owner.
Medicines are of less universal use
than soap, and more persons require
them than have occasion to buy gun.
powder.
Soap is a universal cleanser.
G%unpowder is the explosive In most
common use.
There is a certain form of prescrip.
ton in almost as common use among
medical pract .tioners, in their attend.
ance upon the sick, as soap is in the ev.
ery-day affairs Of the household. 1t
seems TO be needed on every occasion.
This application by physicians OF sin.
gle remedy for many apparently vary
ing ills comes about from the well
known fact that every illness results
from or is augmented by q disturbed
condition Of particular organs that
come in play in the conversion OF food
into muscle or bio d. or into power Of
action by limb OF brain. Whatever
aids Or stimulates those organs gives
life and energy to all others. 1t is not so
very strange that, out Of the experi-
ence OF generations, a formula should
as that used for making soap or gun
powder. The marked difference to be
observed, however, In tho case of the
medical compound of Rhuharb and So
da, and the few other ingredients equal.
ly we'll known that go to make up this
prescription, is, that the method by
which it could be prepared in a manner
to secure permanent excellence, and ad-
nit of transportation in a form ft for
immediate use, is q recent discovery.
1t is for That reason the compound has
only now arrived at the distinction of
having q name assigned to 1t. That
name is R-I-P-A-N-S, and each letter is
the initial Of one Of the constituent in.
gradients.
The preparation of medicines in tab
let form has only been rendered posi-.
bic in a large way by machinery in.
vented within q comparatively short
time; but the result has already worked
q material change in medical practice.
The physician to-day is supplied with
medicines In this form, and the maker
who produces best results the
trade. The apothecary is fast ceasinR
to compound tho physicians prescrip-
ton, but sells instead the same ingre.
dients prepared with a skill and nicely
that is beyond his own power to equal
with the facilities at his command. =
Physicians do not write prescriptions
for petroleum jelly. but put down, in.
stead, the word vaseline, and the en-.
terprising merchant who applied his
trade mark to o common product, the
great excellence and wide application
of which he had been among the first.
to discover. reaps q profit therefrom.
and deserves it by the uniform excel.
ience and purity Of tho article he sup
plies.
So, too, the manufacturers of RIP.
ANS Tabules, being the first to set on
foot careful inquiries concerning tho
myriad combinations of Rhubarb and
Soda known to be in such universal use
among doctors, and to search out the
particular prescription that a.
had acquired the greatest fame
and widest acceptance, and \
then to undertake the manu- -
%facture in modern tablet form. A
using the choicest Of selected VA1