Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1899-02-10
COUGH DROPS.
Many Varieties Of the Preventatives Of
Troublesome Threats.
Each Person Has His Favorite Brand The
Drop Eating Schvolmaster.


where the cause is made for the manu-
facture of more goods thereby giving
to more people and giving
The cause for the use of more material
in their manufacture. Thus the whole
world is affected by the sale of one lit
tie box of drops. for it is from the
whole world that the material is drawn
to be put together to be eaten. or
rather dissolved in the mouth of some
person affected with cold.
Every person has different idea
about the relative value of the diner
more brands of drops than there are
of cigars comparatively. and tha
greater par: are made out of the same
material. the same as all cigars are
made out of the same Material. One is
put up differently than another, win
certain additions, thereby giving it
different flavor and lighter or darker
color.
1t is hard to gather statistics regard
ing the number of boxes of cough
drops used in the United States. as
there are so many little firms that are
in the business. 1t would amount to
nearly as much probably as the pills
used which are numberless
1t is amusing to hear the people call
for their favorhte brands of drops in
the drug stores, and the best part of it
all is that they are in so very sober
earnest.
Please give me a box of those 'ToadS
in Your Mouth" asks the man who
has money enough to pay 10 cents for a
package of something to relieve his
organs of respiration and of vocaliza-
ton. Perhaps the druggist will sug-
gest that the little tablet he is manu-
featuring is better than the ''Toads, y
but it does not count in the young
mans case. ''No" he will answer. Il
used something like what you prepare
before l began to use these toads. and
they did not agree with me. don t
like the taste of them either"
1T is in the matter of the taste of
the drops where many people decide,
remarks = druggist Many choose Il
! brand that suits their palate
/ Others do the very opposite, so that
every one they eat is Il medicine in
, more ways than one 70 them"
will you please give me Il package
Of those 'Goody Coolest tablets?' asks
= little miss. and she carries off a
package made from a prescription Of a
local doctor that are thought by many
to lead all. The old 5. b. drop con-
tanning pareGoric and licorice. is prob
ably one of the most popular ones in
the market, and many concerns sell
more of them than any other they can
carry. Other people object to them on
the ground that the paregoric is in
furious TO them. Then the taste that is
so very pleasant to some is to others
unbearabe. All the same they seem 10
be the leading drop. The slippery elm
drops sell WELL and many like the kind
made containing anodyne. Some peo-
pie buy slippery elm bark and chew it
instead of cough drop.
Though there are 50 very many diff
fercnt brands of the little tablets for
the throat. the cough drop user seems
to know every one familiarly by name,
and can tell of the relative merits and
| dement's of each.
| 1t is a habit. in one sense Of the
word. to be eternally eating cough
drop when there is cold troubling
one. A man of an Augusta place of
business said, yesterday. he remem-
bered we'll that in the days of his boy
hood he went to school to teacher
eater of a brand of drops then well
known that We're noted for being pro-
ducers of sleep. They were a. dirty
| black drop and the mans mouth would
! be stained from morning until night.
| About noon he would begin to grow
drowsy. and throughout the afternoon
| he would sometimes fall asleep. Yet
every time one drop was dissolved in
his mouth another would be placed
there. All day long he sounded like a
pig as he smacked his lips and enjoyed
his cough drops.
Should it happen that he would run
short of the bits of medicine, he would
despatch Il boy 70 the village drug
store. a half mile distant
70 buy a fresh supply One
day the scholars thought they
would get even with him for setting
them so bad an example, and each
provided himself and herself with a
box of the CONNECTION. When school
commenced in the morning. each had a
black cough drop in his mouth and
was smackng away with his lips in
the same manner as the teacher