The Washington weekly post., 1899-05-30

smelling bits 9f Eristie. which he said
were the sinevs Of deer. Deer are ssry
feet ot foot and never are tfred so for the
tired feeling the sinsws were a remedy.
Then he put tn a handful OF reddish
brown pressed leaves. They are the leaves
of the Hsw Show Woo tree and are 20
make one feel young again Tie first
Haw Show Woo tree was gift OF the
gods thousands OF years ago.
LEGEND If Drug.
Chinese herbs usually have some legend
connected with them to Illustrate their
virtues, and this Is the story connected
with the "Haw' herb: HaW Show Woo
was a very good. very devout and very
old man. One day he was accused Of
stealing the affections Of his brother :
Vife and was sent TO prison for trial he
became very hungry and prayed TO the
gods as became man Of his great piery-
During the night bush sprsng up
through the floor of his dungeon. and in
the morning the Tamighed man ate the
leaves. Days went by while he was wait
ing Tor his trial and he continued 10
piece out his SCanty diet with the leaves
OF the bush. When he was taken into
court for trial the officers exclaimed :
This Is not the man who was arrested
old man; this Is a young man.
sure enough Haw haa become young
man TO ali appearances again.
They investigated the case anyhow and
discovered that Haw Was innocent all the
while.
Before taking the shackles of the pris-
oner they asked him il he was really
Haw.
Yes" he replied.
''Then tell US about this wonderful
oh Iu-
told him the story Of the little plant that
had grown UP in his cell and how ne nad
eaten the leaves
The officials dug Up the shrub and pre-
sented it 10 the Emperor His family Tor
many years was the only one that n3d
the privilege OF eating the sacred leaves.
But as time passed slips were cut from
il and sent through the kingdom, and
now the commonest coOlie may eat OF the
wonderful Haw plant and renew ms
youth If he possesses enough money
Besides these Haw leaves the druggist
put in some powdered bone or the elk
The elk has strong bones and the norm Is.
as IL were. the cream OF all ms bohes.
So powdered elk's horns Will take away
the ache in ones bones.
Then there were two dried lizards.
which the druggist cut in half with a
long scissors before he threw them IN
Lizards are agile and quick and acllVe III
their movements, 80 they are gOod 10
cure ifldN CHARACTERIZATION " wan W "4-'
60 to work The liyelier the lizard the
more agility you acquire by drinking a
broth of him. Then there were cucumper
seeds and watermelon seeds, because eN-
cry one knows how cooling are water
melons and cucumbers. They are TO COM
bat the 'igneous element and make il
retire to its proper sphere
Terrible Mixture.
4 handful of big brown beetles was
n hplHfX
or to take on more fat. The beetles are
fat and soft themselves. so increase those
attributes in her who eats them
4 handful of spiders went in. Spiders
are hungry. They eat and never have
enough. so spiders help 10 create an ap-
petite and make everything taste good,
even in boarding house.
He added the last ingredient. a handful
OF waters whicn looked and smelled like
parsnip but which he called wang tsing
or bright slave.
While we had been talking a messenger
brought in stick of wood shaped like a
knife. The handle part was red, and on
the blade were some black characters
He said ii was a notice for him TO attend
meeting o. his company. He tied up
the parcel, about six inches square,
tucked the folded prescription into the
bundle, leaving loop to carry it by.
Then Suey asked him for something
else, and he consulted his book of pre-
scriptions He made up another much
smaller prescription, but did not tell us
What went into II. When we had SAID
Sing Sing" and were on the street, Suey
told me she haG asked him to give her
something 10 make her hair stop falling
out. l was sure that / had seen some
dried rats go into the prescription, and
rfp, ~.
anything about rats before a Chinaman.
because he does not like it, | asked her
If she did not think the dose would be
hard to take
Not so bad as Sickness she answered.
Bad devils not like bad devils go aWay."
which meant she could stand it. bu; The
bau devils OF sickness could not and
would go away and let the melon and
cucumber SEEDS do their work and bring
harmony in her Sublime organization :"
Suey was 10 pour four bowls of water
over the medicines and boil them. When
the four measures of water had been
boiled down to Cne measure. about two
teacupfuis, she was to drink il as hot and
as quickly as she could
She was quite sure she would soon be
well, and / agreed with her when she
quoted to me the proYerb, "While the
medicine works the patient is under the
care of the most high one"
She told me another proverb the Chi
nese have which says. "A doctor has the
heart to cut flesh off his own thigh 10
give TO his patient. but never the heart
to deceive him" That would be quite as
true in English as Chinese.
Suey had been charged to bring home
sundry articles for her ncighbors. and
as the parcels OF medicine were large /
suggested 10 her to leave them in the
first shop she entered, as she wanted TO
go into several
She looked her horror at my ignorance
and then explained that around the rest
ing-place of medicine all the devils of
illness lurked. and any man would very
much dislike her to leave such a company
in his shop to destroy him and his bust
ness