The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1898-10-11
WHEN KISSES TASTE SALTY,
It's a Sign That Her System Hoiu'
Too Much Chloride of Sodium
lFrom the Chicago Chronicle.l


.r DONE know what in the world can
be the matter with my wife tnese
DAVIS" said a fat man TO ms "a
friend. They were taking hea'tne 20
glass of beer to cool off on very n.y.
day, in quiet corner OF a down t ~. -
resort known as the den OF the I've
I O'Clock Club. VOC tho
She's not sick abed, hope, was tne
sympathetic reply ,.+ .nd
| NO; she's around al ilsnI 90
seems to be in the best of health anu an,
! SHIRTS Rnt she's got so lately the
! salt Just simply oozes our OF Hei -,
/ time | get her angry or excited l no
/ ticed II first when / kissed her one way
not long ago, in making up a niue
spat we had" "a bis
The other fat man braced up IN ms
/ chair and showed the deepest lhter ~,
/ II know. | know" he broke IN Wy
wife has only just got over II. Ion
your wife's lips taste IKE TX rocA SUI
every time you kiss her! a-
/ Rock salt! Like saltpetef SOME
but that's when she's in a BAD
tenner. Ali the time though, she per-
80 much SO that it gets into her
ewes and almost blinds her.
'Tve been through it with my wlle;;
know all about it, The physicians can
| it hyperidrosis, but it's worse. I 1IOia
means to perspire too much; put tnlS
salty wife disease-and, by the way,
II is very ngerous-doesnt seem 10
| have n scientific name. 1t leads TO SUD
den death unless taken care OF raal-
cally" .,sau
The fat man with the salty Wire
incurred drained his glass OF peer heIV-
ously and asked the fat man Win the
cured salty wife to tell MIN all
about it. 4,,o
one whose wife was safely out OF tne
pickle. Sodium chloride, or common n,l
| salt. really exists in every animal us
| sue and fluid, and is present IN the
blood in tolerably constant proportions.
| 1t is introduced with the food, either as
| part of it or a flavor. Now, in the
| body there goes on constantly a phen-
omenon described as osmosis-a inter-
| i6g of the life fluids through the us
sues or membranes. The salt helps thls
acts as force. 1t also helps 10 keep
| up the solution of the albumenolds'
When the supply by the food is main
| tanned the salt is discharged through
all the channels of elimination in Ger
tain proportion If the salt supply IS
cut off from the food none passes away
| from the system. The blood holds on
to its diminished supply. This shows
how necessary salt Is to health. An
other funny thing, the more you take
| into you in excess of physical neces-
sity, the less you let go of, and the
less you take in, the more you lose by
elimination. Strange, isn't 1t?
| "Now, this salty woman disease is
not common, and the doctors don't
seem to know much about it, except
| that II is dangerous It seems to be
a phase of nervous disorder that causes
| the salt to leave the system without
having performed it's proper work
When the nervous system Is unduly ex-
cited-that Is to say, when you make
your wife hot at you or she gets out
of sorts with the children-all the
pores of her body discharge salt in
volumes. She gets so in time that you
can tell her moods by the difference in
the degrees of salty taste you get from
her lips"
What comes of this trouble?"
I'm time it causes anaemia, general
breaking down Of the nervous system
and death from heart failure"
Can 1t be cured?'
yes; you want to send your wife to
q doctor at once. He will have to ar
range her diet for her and give her
some medicine to loosen up the glands
of the system and get them to work
ing. Our physician gave my wife an
old formula Of iodide of potassium and
mercury, and a couple of days after
she started taking it I didn't get any
more salt in my kisses, although
touched her up once or twice to see If
her temper was also losing its bad
taste. 1t takes several weeks treat
ment to complete the cure"