The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1910-09-10
MS AUNTIE Julia.
She Is Really a Wonderful Woman
In Her Own Way.
A GREAT HAND WITH YARDS.

bHe Can Brew Them Into Medicine
That Hits the Spot Every Time and
10 Better Than a Doctors Visit.
How She Made Old Pulsifer Jump.
"My Aunt Julia is really a wonder.
fii woman" exclaimed the low browed
man. placing his feet on the managers
desk. "She hasn't any diplomas from
medical colleges. but when 1t comes to
curing sick man she can give the
ordinary doctor start of ten years
and beat him around a block. Aunt
julia has firm faith in yarbs"-
"You mean herbs" interrupted the
professor.
81 don't mean anything of the kind.
] 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 aud eat a piece OF pie, but
" you began talking about herbs she'd
paste you one with her trusty sauce
pan and knock of corner of your
scalp. Aunt Julia is pretty touchy
about some things.
"One day old Mrs. Doolittle blow
into the house to spend the afternoon,
and Aunt Julia happened to say that
something happened in Aprile. Mrs.
Doollttle thinks she knows more than
webster's uDadulterated dictionary be.
cause she taught school about $50
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.
"r don't mean any such doggone
thing says my aunt. 4 mean Aprilc,
and IL you don't like 1t, Mrs. Doolttle,
you can lump it. aud be blamed to
YOU
swell. they famed away for five
minutes or so. aud their language be-
gan to make the shingles fall Off the
roof. and / was thinking OF sending In
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 whZzed past her
ears and seemed to stimulate her.
"That's the sort of woman Aunt
Julia is Now. If you want to so over
and talk to her about herbs ! won't
interfere.
"lf there's anything my aunt delights
in IL is doctoring people. She hasn't
bit OF use for drug store medicines.
She brews her own remedies. and she
doesn't think anything will help a
sick person unless 1t tastes like the
royal palace OF Abyssinia. A dose Of
her collie medicine will make mans
insides feel as though he had swal
lowed porcupine.
II had the collie last summer and the
medicine she made for me had smoke
on II. can taste IL yet. Sometimes
] dream that Aunt Julia Is handing me
q spoonful OF her collie medicine. and
then | always wake with a yell. She
IS an old fashioned woman. She gath
ers her YARDS az certain stages OF the
moon. and when she is brewing her
medicines she mutters incantations
and makes passes with her hands and
does a lot Of tricks that make your
blood run cold. But her remedies hit
the spot.
"Old man Pulsifer. you know. was
a hopeless invalid for year. lie sat
in a wheeled chair. and his wife fed
him with the fire shovel, aud 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 a tuning 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. TN 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 graveyard and stewed
them over a slow fire and the broth
she made from them would have warp
ed the armor plate OF battleship.
knew by the smell OF II that 1t was
the real -stingo. and you can't imagine
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