Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1903-08-19
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The Family cure.AII.

1t Is the custom in some families to
keep bottle Of whiskey in the house to
use in case Of sickness. a
The variety of ailments which this
same remedy Is supposed to cure Is
amazing. No patent medicine that was
ever invented and sold at one dollar per
bottle is expected to do duty for so
many occasions.
III one of the children has q bad cold
1t is given little "toddy' to warm it
up and euro the cold,
If another child is stricken down with
fever it is given whiskey, notwithstand-
ing its warming qualities, to strengthen
the child, when anybody and everybody
knows that IL you was to givo it to the
strongest man in town when he is feel
ing at his very best 1t viii make his
knees wabble.
III the children have the toothache,
headache, sideache or any other kind of
an ache which flesh is heir to, they are
given a little of this universal painkiiier.
Unfortunately it is only o little they
are given at first, for IL they were given
much they would rebel and refuse to
swallow the fiery stuff, but when it is
mixed with little sugar and water they
win take 1t without much trouble, though
in nine cases out of ten the taste is disc
greeable to them at first. We have to
cultivate taste for some things. Few
people like olives and oysters when eat
ing them for the first time.
Do you ever stop to think what you
are doing when you are giving toddy to
a small childp Why, you are oultivating
taste for alcoholic drinks and if some
time in the future that child is drunk
ard you will have no one to blame but
yourself.
A thoughtful physician will not nre-
scribe opium for patient who has a
chronic disorders because he knows that
the opium habit is easily acquired and
they do not want the responsibility of
making an opium fiend. Why are we
not all as careful about giving alcoholic
drinks when we know they cannot safely
be trifled withP 1t is very easy to got on
without them if we are not accustomed
to their use.
One trouble about keeping them for
medicinal purposes is that they. have a
tendency to make attacks of sickness
more frequent among the older members
of family.
A story is told of farmer and his
son who concluded tia they were both
beginning to take drop too much"
After gravely talking the matter over
they resolved to let the stuff severely
alone in the future. Then the father
suggested that they keep a little on
hand to use for sickness. This was
agreed to; 80 they got a jug of whiskey
and carried it home, both promising that
they would not touch it unless seriously
ill. One day not long after this the son
decided that he was not feeling at all
we'll and that he would be justified in
taking drink from the jug. To his
great astonishment he found it to be
quite empty. He went to his father and
asked for an explanation. His father
replied, my son, have been sick ever
since that jug was brought in the house."
Instead of curing sickness it seems to
have been the direct cause of it in this
case.
Sam Jones certainly considers it
dangerous thing to have in the family.
He says he wouldn't risk giving it to a
woman unless she was dying-and he
wouldn't give it to woman until after
he was dead.' w. G. T.U.