Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1910-07-29
HIS AUNTIE JULIA.
She Is Really a Wonderful Woman
In Her Own Way.
A GREAT HAND WITH YARDS.

She Can Brew Them into MEDICINE
That Hits tho Spot Every limo and
Is Better Than a Doctors Visit.
How She Made Old Pulsifer Jump.
'My Aunt Julia is really wonder
full woman" exclaimed the low browed
man. placing his feet on the managers
desk. "She hasn't any diplomas from
medical colleges. but when 1t colW to
curing a sick man she can give the
ordinary doctor start OF ten years
and beat him around block. Aunt
Julia has firm faith In yarbs"-
You mean herbs" interrupted the
professor.
81 don't mean anything Of the kind.
I mean YARDS. You go over to Aunt
Julia and mention YARDS, and her eyes
will brighten up and she'll ask you to
sit down and eat piece Of pie, but
If you began talking about herbs she'd
paste you one with her trusty sauce
pan aud knock off corner Of your
scalp. Aunt Julia Is pretty touchy
about some things.
"One day old Mrs. Doolittle blew
into the house to spend the afternoon,
and Aunt Julia happened to say that
something happened In Aprile. Mrs.
Doolttle thinks sbe knows more than
Websters unadulterated dictionary be
cause she taught school about 100
years ago. when she was young wo-
man. and she called my aunt down and
said that there was no such word as
Aprile.
You mean April, my DEAR says
she.
~ don't mean any such doggone
thing says my aunt. Il mean Aprile.
and If you don't like it, Mrs. Doolittie,
you can lump 1t, and be blamed TO
you. :,
"WelI. they famed away for i've
minutes or so. and their language be-
gan to make The shingles fall off the
! roof. and was thinking of sending in
q hurry call for the cops, when Mrs.
Doolittle left the house by way Of the
window and Jumped three fences with
out touching them In her haste to get
home. "A lot of saucepans and other
household utensils whizzed past her
ears and seemed to stimulate her.
That's the sort of woman Aunt
Julia is Now. If you want to go over
and talk to her about herbs ] won't
interfere.
IF there's anything my aunt delights
in ii is doctOring people. She hasn't
a bit of use for drug store medicines
She brews her own remedies. and she
doesn't think anything will help a
sick person unless IL tastes like the
royal palace Of Abyssinia A dose OF
her collie medicine will make Il mans
insides feel as though be had swal-
lowed a porcupine.
II had the colo last summer. and the
medicine she made for ME had smoke
on it. can taste Il yet. Sometimes
| dream that Aunt Julia Is handing me
a spoonful OF her collie medicine. and
j
IS an old FASHIONED woman She gath
ers her yarijS al certain stages OF the
moon, and when she Is brewing her
medicines she mutters lamentations
and makes passes with her hands and
does a lot of tricks thai make yonr
blood run Geld But her remedies hit
| the spot.
"Old man Pusifer. you know. was
a hopeless invalid for year He sal
in Il wheeled chair. and his wife fed
him with the fire shovel. and all the
| members Of the family were kept so
busy waiting on him that they hadn't
time TO wind the clock or prime the
pump He said he had paralysis of
the worst kind. and everybody believed
him. Aunt Julia went over there one
day and looked AT the old mans tongue
and poked him in the ribs and tapped
him with running fork and said she
could cure him up so quick II would
make his head swim
III you can cure that man so he'll
be of some use in the world. said Mrs.
Pusifer, I'll give you the silk crazy
quilt my grandmother gave me when
she was dying
Aunt Julia gathered a LOT Of YARDS
at the dark of the moon in the south
east corner of a graveyard and stewed
them over slow fire, and the broth
she made from them would have warp
ed the arnor plate OF battleship. !
knew by the smell Of 1t that il was
the real stingo. and you can't imagine
how glad was that didn't have to
take 1t. When she went over to dope
old Pulsifer she insisted on my going
along to help bold him down.
"The old man didn't want to take 1t.
Anybody could see that. He got a
smell of the stuff when Aunt Julia
took the cork from the bottle, and a
pale green sweat broke out on his
brow. But seized him by the top of
his head and pulled his mouth open.
and my aunt poured down about forty
kilometers of her redhot dope, and
when ii had sizzled into his stomach
he let out one warwhoop and streaked
out Of doors like professional Mara.
thon runner. When we found him a
couple of hours later he was standing
In the creek which was full Of ice wa.
ter, trying to get his vitals cooled of.
81 defy any regular practitioner to
make quicker cure than that. walt
Mason in Chicago News.