The sun., 1908-11-01
GETTING OYER A VACATION
GROAN or TIE NAN VINO WAS
TOLD HE LOOKED ILL.
Then His wife ana His RIOther.in.Law
Gave Him Home AsaAe Remedies end
All His Friends Gave Advice end
at Last ne Developed Real Treubie.

Gave Him Home AsaAe Remedies end
All His Friends Gave Advice end
at Last ne Developed Real Treuble'
Coming back to town after q summer
vacation 1t was not cheerful TO bo crested
with the observation that fell from Schaf.
kopf's lips. ~.
iYou look 10 II you needed little
change. old man. When arO you going
TO dig out for q restfs ~.
II he had not been 90 serious and evt.
IDENTIFY 20 sincere what he said would
have made less impression. AZ 1t was
] could net help feeling worried over It.
Then when Wilson came along and met
me. with this: "what maiEes you look 20
yellow-sunburn wearing OF. or are you
biliousi' really was beginning TO think
there must be something the matter with
me. although had never known sick
day In my life. When one Of the men IN
the offioe remarked with evident sympathy
that looked better before went on my
vacation @ sort Of terror seized me.
'I've been thinking. myself. my
wife said when / referred the question
to her. -that you were not perhaps looking
10 WOh 90 yOu uouoiAy oo'
My nervousness made me sensitive even
to what she said. although knew per-
fectly well that women rcvel In sickness
and like nothing better than to appear
to discover the appearance Of sickness
in those they love. so went to q doctor.
He looked me all over. pounded my
back and felt my liver and told me
was as sound as q bell and had moth
ing the matter with me. went home
somewhat cheered up. but lost my appe-
tite for lunch that day when man In the
subway whom I know read from his
paper that there was so much sickness In
the city.
always Is in the fall he won't on.
people bring 1t back from tho country.
Bad water. maL.ria end all that sort OF
thing. They say every men ought to take
auinine for d monti after he comes back
to town to get the msiari. out OF his sys-
tenn. IL even wards on typhoid
typhoid! almost jumped In my
seat. he'd drunk water out OF mountain
streams and he'd never thought Of being
prudent ebout going out In the sun or
sitting about in the damp Gir at night.
I'd take quinine anyhow without a word
TO anybody. Il couldn't do Eny harm
anyhow. Tho stun made my ears buzz
and kept my mouth tasting 90 bitter that
| ate very little.
Il can't understand your loss Of appe-
tito said my mother-in-hw. Who was
making US . visit. -I'm going to mix
some OF my oamomile tea
couldn't eat because the qulnine kept
me sick and the oamomile tea combined
with it did not give sny appetite.
sneaked back TO tho doctor one day to ask
him about 1t and told him the combi-
nation had been taking.
1T would have kept mo sick.' he said.
while he examined mo ell over once more,
and it Ia wholly unnecessary. because
there Is nothing in the world the matter
with you. Cut out all that stuff"
was cheered and stopped the medi-
cine. Mother-in-law insisted. however.
tha. the camomile tea had not had q
chance and started to give me sassafras.
She discovered that I was not looking
as well as usual and was certain I must
have some stomach trouble Ny wife
added her corroborative detail and said
had confessed the men at the ONCE
thought was not looking we'll
Now. didn't they?' she insisted. Tell
the truth. You know they did.
Il think sulphur my mothsr-in-lsw
said, smixed with little magncsia is q
splendid thing at this time OF the year.
know some splendid stomach pills that
have those things together with q little
nux vomica. I'll get some
I took them all and almost began to
believe there must be something serious
the matter with me. lived on alternate
sips of camomile tea and brown pills.
They let me have no wine at dinner. and
nother-in-law was for stopping all to-
bacco.
Just TO think how suddenly Smith
passed OF, said the cashier Of our hrm.
sWhy, he was perfectly well eix months
AFRO, and you'd have given him thirty
years more Of life. Now he's gone. /
tell YOU O man must take care Of himself.
They tell me there's nothing like course
Of iron tonic at this time OF the year.
I got the pills on the way home without
saving anything about them. It seemed
70 me that ] ~aa eating le.s than ever
had before. for I felt uncomfortable In
INV stomaoh, whereas In the past / had
never hesitated TO cit down 70 whole
lobster and not have the slightest In
convenience. One day iunohed with
friend.
what's the matter with you. I take
ithia tablets, that Is all. About fve
grains three times o day. f.
I had a box Of hthia tablets in my
pocket before l got back TO my offioe.
One Of the neh saw me drop one In q
glass Of water.
They're no good he obseryed. oon-
solingly. They're Ike 90 much water.
make axe YOU oa drink & ne water. urio seidf
Then get some selol. That's the STUFF
II had anything Of that kind the matter
with me there was no reason why L should
not do ss other people do end try TO get
we'll. It was no use going to that doctor
again. He was certain there was nothing
the matter WITH me. Then didn't want
10 60 to another. i hated those people
who are jumping around from ono doo-
tor to another, especially as I had mover
been TO any but onoe or twice before.
So kept on with the iron, took the lithia,
added the salol TO that and never let up
on the home remedies. All the time !
felt perfectly sure that YVES getting worse
and not better. ys.
absurd to take ell that stun for. gout,
said one Of my friends who neard the pill
| 10 know what they were. You must
drink a good mineral weter with 1t. The,
IL natures remedy. III send you some
II nav have been splendid but Il was the
worst tasting Of all the waters ! ever saw
kept 1t at the ONCE and drank u during
the day. What trace OF appetite had iefl
climax came when ] went home one night
| 4 nd found that INV wife had for INV dinner