The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1895-09-06
MR.. AND MRS. BOWSER
MIR. BOWSER'S NEW TONIC.

Mr.. 3owSer Is not a man OF hobbies
no husband is. He simply brings
home patent disinfectants, cough
cures, liver invigorators, new tangled
fire escapes, consumption remedies.
burglar alarms, fly killers, dandruf
cradicatorS, smoke-dampers, canning
syrup and mad-dog dodgers from a
sense of duty to himself and family.
He also believes In the efficacy of each
and every one from another sense of
duty. When he came home the other
evening, Mrs. Rowscr knew by the
important and triumphant look on his
face that something was up, and when
he carefully deposited parcel on the
table, she somewhat acdly demanded:
"IIavc you been buying some more
stuff to be thrown out Of the win
dow
Mrs. B0wscr," he answered, show
many doctors and drug stores are
there in this conntry?a .- ~.
II don't know"
or course you don't. 1t isn't your
business to know. IdoknOw, however,
and I'll tell you that there over two
million ductOrS-one to about every
thirty of our population. Just think
! 4 VNlnr, .lcn ,hnut
million drug stores, each one support
ed by about forty such people as you
arc :"
"Wcll 2" she asked.
"Well, it must follow that there is
mighty little sense among average
people to run to a doctor every time
anything gets out Of kilter. Think
of the money thrown away
"But nothing ever ais any of us
but Il headache" she protested.
"No, of course not. But why not
Simply because I'm prudent and far
seeing man. lock the stable before
the horse is stolen. In other words,
during the years we have been married
| have saved from ut least fifty fits Of
sickness, each one of which would
have cost at last fifty dollars in cash.
swell, have you been getting any
thing to-day?" she asked. "1f So
you might as well throw it out of the
window, for we don't need it,"
"Don't need it, Mrs. Bowscr-don'i
need it !" he echoed, as he stood up ant
waved a package aloft. "But we dc
need it--all of us need it--nced it bad
Do you know what season of the yea
this s?"
"Of course: it's summer"
"Well, what takes place in the sum
mcr?"
"Narious things"
"Yes. and one of them is sort o
collapse of the physical system. w
lose flesh We are splceny. We ar
bilious and subject to chiIls. We ar
in just that state to invite fever +
! seize npon us, and in nine cases out o
ten it would be fatal. Is it prudenc
to tone up the system or have Il fun
eral in the house ?"
$ "What have you there ~ she asked
avoiding a direct answer to his que.
tiOn. t.-
"Roots, Mrs. Bowser, roots Nj
ture furnishes man all the medicin
' needed when IL caused roots to grO'
in the same soil lie treads. Here
: burdock, sassafras, sarsaparilla, swee,
bud, blackberry and two or three 0tl
er kinds, each Il specific in itself-a
combined, sure panacca for ncarl
all the ills human flesh IS heir to-"
O"And you are going to eat them-a
Of must eat them?" she anxiousl
" asked.
~ "Wait and see !" he replied with
pomposity that quite startled here
= and in due time she saw.
), After dinner Mr.. Bowscr took po
- session of the kitchen to make h
i. root tonics. lie put the roots In Il
!, tea.kettlc, started good fire, and ;
y intervals of every five minutes |
y walked out to cool his face and say
m Mrs. B0wscr
doctors Drug stores Taught