The Sauk Centre herald., 1909-08-26
HITS AND MRS

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We have received proposition iron
a Chicago firm to furnish us with all
the powdered lye we need FOR the next
year, at a liberal dicount for cash.
This lye comes in neat cans, perfumeo
to suit the taste. This lye is warranted
to be SO per cent pure, which is really
pure enough for lye. This lye has
shown up on various contesting plat
forms, and county fair race tracks
until it has secured and proudly car
ried off the name of Champion Pow
dered Lye, which easily gives it en-
trance to good society, and can be
used with a care to good advantage
in social and unsocial circles. 1t
may knock little, but that is to be
expected of lye, or its cousin with
the dotted i. The Champion Lye
company is running it's work day and
night to fill orders, which for this
season of the year are very heavy.
AS soon as the fishing season closes
up a new factory will be started to
supply the demand. 1t is considered
much better and does the work more
thoroughly than concentrated lye and
for political purposes is superior to
black or white lye and will work III
the dark, as we'll as in the light and
leaves it's victims wondering that they
didn't hear the whistle and get off
the track; powdered lye doesn't whis-
tie or carry lights. 1t could be used
to advantage where game is limited
and the ducks fly faster than the
eye of the shot gun. We don't really
know what use we would have for
it in the printing office, but it might
be we'll to have a keg or two on
hand. Anyone needing an article OF
this kind, should write the Champion
Lye people for further information.
1t may be good in a case of barking
dogs at night.
l made my first business visit to a
hospital last winter. 1 arrived about
1890 p. M, carrying large case OF
grip. 1 got my grip checked at the
hospital, which was my reason for go
ing. l felt like a red school house
pump froZe up during vacation, and
my eyes acted as though they had
been setting up nights with burning
down barns. You know how it is.
Like mothers slipper, you have felt
it. The lady showed me a room and
Immediately began getting into bed
for fear they would not think l had
come to stay. l wish at this place,
to speak of the hospital bed. They
are high up, like the top of the bur-
eau. 1t is good thing, too, the sea-
son being, namely, to-wit: If pat
lent rolls out of one of these So
tall-for-its-age beds while asleep, he
falls so far and hard, that it wakes
him up, and he can get back into bed
and not catch cold. There may be
other reasons, but if there are, they
do not appear on the minutes. l had
just climbed into my high bed and
shaken hands with the ceiling light,
when the nurse came in with seven
rubber bottles filled with hot water.
She tucked these in around me where
ever there was a vacancy and piled
on blankets as far as she could reach.
When she came back, the water in
two of the BOTTLES, was froze and the
rubber on the others, was frost bit
ten. / was not very warm number
when 1 made my first entrance into
the order of hospital patients. When
they turned the steam heat into me
later on, l melted, and when the
nurse took my temperature, she asked
me if 1 had ever had typhoid fever.
l told her l did not remember of hav-
ing it, but our folks had most ev-
>erything when we lived on Water
street, near the old cooper shop at
Northfield, Mimi One of the inter-
esting periods of hospital life is
where the doctor comes He throws
good cheer into you, tells the nurse
to push the medicine and report i'm
provement or death. Another pleas
ant period is when supper comes. l
heard mine coming up on the dumb
waiter Sunday night; the night be-
fore, felt it coming up, but l wasn't
very entertaining that night. This ia
the Deaconess hospital. I don't know
where it got its name, Deaconess, but
the name seems to be contagious as
number of other hospitals have
taken it. One thing is certain, it
stands A 1 with me during sickness
hereafter.
Thinking over the old days at Min
neapolis, my mind wanders back to