St. Tammany farmer., 1906-05-05

Home Health
Club
D. nAvD d. lIEDER. n. D.. M
La Porte, Ind,
WARTS.
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WARTS.
Because Of such pressing demand
for something on the subject Of warts,
I have concluded to give you short
article on that well-known sfliction.
This is an affection with which all are
familiar, and most Of us from expert
ence. 1t is not painful, nor does it
seem to be directly or indirectly re-
sponsible for any particular derange-
ments. but It is disfguring! "Ay,
there's the rub. 1t Is entirely natural
to desire to be handsome, and he who
SCOTS at the assertion is either hypo-
crite or abnormal"
Many woman, otherwise beautiful,
Is distresaingly disdgured by numerous
repellant warts. They may be on her
shapely hands, around the smiling
lips, or on various other portions Of
her person.
presume that most of you have
heard ways of curing this trouble, as
there is scarcely a person who ever
had a wart that has not had various
ridiculous methods of cure proposed.
It is very amusing, indeed, t., hear
some person of accredited intelligence
tell of the magic cure for warts which
they positively know to be ef1cacious.
II would not have believed it If had
not seen It." To this last expression.
which Is used in about the same ca
pacity as woman's vindictive argu-
ment-~!" because think l should al
w.ys answer in the language of my
facetious uncle. Neither would l."
There was period in the worlds
history when superstition was the Or
der of the day, but time is supposed to
have eliminated 1t. It would seem,
however, from some OF the methods
of cure exploited by different people
that it still exists. Take, for example.
the period of witchcraft in our coloni-
al history. and note the methods en-
ployed at Salem, Massachusetts. Doubt
less all Of you are familiar with the
particulars regarding this period. For
the benefit Of those who are not, how
ever, l will describe one Of their meth,
DDS of determining whether or not a
suspected subject was guilty OF being
witch or not. The party to be test
ed was thrown into the river AMI If
she scrambled out alive she was ad-
Judged guilty and treated accordingly;
If she drowned she was thus proved
innocent. Thus 1t will be seen that II
a person was ever accused of being
witch, death was inevitable.
It seems incredible that people
should ever have been such barbarous
things as this, and yet when we hear
of some of the superstitions INDUCED
in to-day our credulity Is not SO over
taxed after all.
Not SO very long ago had an old
lady confide the following to me, after
impressing me with the unusual favor
she was conferring by imparting such
very valuable information:
To remove warts magically, all that
she claimed was necessary was to go
secretly to a neighbor's meathouse and
secure therefrom a piece of fat meat;
then leave the place without once
looking back, a la Lots wife with the
penalty of failure to cure in case of
dtsobedience to this part of the rule)
and rub over the wart, or warts, with
the meat, and then throw it back over
the left shoulder.
l have not very many comments to
make regarding this method of cure,
except to suggest that the subject
wear a coat-of-mail and be prepared |
for the worst. For it may be that the
particular neighbor upon whom you
have conferred the honor of being per-
mitted to supply the meat has been
rather Lored with this sort Of pro-
cedure, or 1t may be, would misinter-
pret your mission, and unchain the |
bulldog, or even employ horse pistol
or musket. repeat 1t, when you
are about to undertake this treatment, |
don coat-of-mail and be prepared for |
the worst.
Another method Of cure which I |
have often heard solemnly declared to |
be of particular merit Is the dropping |
of three beans down a we'll. I am of |
the opinion that the dropping Of three
beans (and a great many more) into a |
pot would be more generally satisfac- |
tory-and would remove Just as many
warts.
Still another method-one which my
own grandmother told me offs that /
of pricking the wart until 1t bleeds,
dipping seven sulphur matches into |
the blood and secreting them in sep |
arate places. was boy Of eleven
when my grandmother advised me to |
use this method of procedure to re-
move several seed warts which deco
rated my hands.
Grandmother supplied me with the
matches, for was forbidden to carry
them, | pricked the largest and ugliest
wart, and dipped each Of the seven
sulphur matches unto the bright red
blood then began to search for a
place to hide them. decided to hide
the first one in an old log house which
was then used for a sort of woodshed
and storeroom. my grandparents hav-
ing built them frame structure some
years previous.
held six Of the matches in my left
hand, and in my right the one which
l was to hide. ! began searching about
for suitable place, but was distract
ed from my work by paper lying un-
der some boards which contained
number OF comic pictures. pulled It
out and sat down among some shaw
ings, chips. old shingles, etc, to look
ut the pictures. This Is where did
wrong NV grandfather hax a.. L