The record-union., 1895-04-30
The Mistletoe
BOUGH.
An Erroneous Impression
In OIden Times About It.
SUPPOSED TO BE A HEAL.ALL.
What They Thought About the Bough
Under Which so Many Thousands
of Pretty Maidens Have Been
Kissed and Possibly Squeezed
Druidical Ideas About 1t.

NULET1DE WAS THE MOST RESPECT
L able of the Druidical festivals, and if an
cient history is reliable on the point the
Drufds used to carry boughs OF mistletoe in
their hands to be afterward laid on their
altars as an emblem of the salutiferous ad-
vent of the Messiah. 1t was chosen as the
emblem probably because they had an idea
that the mistIetoe had remarkable healing
properties, and, indeed, it used to be called
'AlEheal" by the people of that time. The
customs of these days were very picturesque,
and however far the war-Ike race were
'adT1tt' about the curative properties of
mistletoe, they were also noted for their rev.
erence and respect for the things which they
saw that were above their comprehension. 1t
seems that modern research and experiment
has found very little merit in the mistletoe
Except as a magnetic evolvent of the Oscu-
latory desire in the human being that cannot
be had in much greater perfection elsewhere,
and so except for decoration, and the pur-
pose referred 10 III the parenthesis above, the
mistletoe has practically ceased 10 be valued
Strange differences the years bring" say the
untutored but the fact is there is little to be
wondered at in the evolution which goes on
III the medical-botanical world. Ten years or
so ago who would have believed that such d
grand home remedy as joys Vegetable Sar-
saparilia would ever have been discovered?
Who would have thought that California
held in its vegetable resources a medicine
which put to very shame the most celebrated
blood purifiers that the world knows Of
Who credited the fact that in the year 1895
we should have the opportunity OF getting
hundred good doses of the only panacea
worthy the name for such small sum as one
bottle of joys Vegetable sarsapartlla costs?
Assuredly no one dreamed of these possibili-
ties. When this grand remedy was first intro
duced it was claimed for it that it would do
more good than any preparation of its nature
had ever done. And have the results justified
this claim? Aye, a hundred-fold! What has
1t not done for the weary women of this con-
tinent? 1t has given to them sound. refresh
ing sleep, when it had been no rest for them
TO lie down; it has sent to them a safe way to
make and keep their compilations and their
skins as pure and white as the immaculate
lily; it has enabled them TO become healthy
mothers of equally healthy children by puri-
flying their blood and ridding it of all taInt.
and it has compelled them, with one voice. to
rise up and call this family medicine
BLESSED. Read what they say:
This is the first time L have attempted TO
Write Tor three years. l have taken only two
bottles OF joys Sarsaparilla, but &I~ have
gained twenty pounds and feel like new
MRS. a. c. TILLMAN, Alameda, Cal.
For a torpid liver and foul stomach it
cannot be equaled."
MRS. F. ROMAINE, San Jose.
''I feel like new being since taking your
Sarsaparilla. and wish everyone TO know the
good 1t has done me-"
MIRO. GEO. DELBRIDGE, Butte, Mont.
II write TO admit that, notwithstanding my
TIiJ ri4 Il
ali That ou promised. 1 believe am perma-
nently cured"
MRS. NJ. FOWLER, Ellis street, ST
81 had been troubled for long time with
liver and kidney trouble and had tried ma nv
remedies with little or no effect but Your
California home remedy acted like magic on
me-"
MRS. NJ. B. PRICE, 16 Prospect place, S. F.
When these ladies went to get joys
Vegetable SarsapariIla they did not per-
nit any one to palm Off cheap imIta-
tIon on them.
If your druggist will not supply you with
joys when you ask for it, then decline to
deal with him. Honest druggists readily give
you what you want, and that is
joys
VEGETABLE SARSAPARILLA,
Not particle of mineral poison in it. Does
not give you ugly red ptmples, like other So
called sarsaparillas. It cures those plots on
your skin.
You can only cure skin disease by
eliminating the impurities ofIthe blood.
\ ou can cure skin diseases with joys
Vegetable Sarsaparilla.