The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1910-07-09
HIS AuNTIE JULIA.
She Is Really a Wonderful Woman
In Her Own Way.
4 GREAT HAND WITH YARDS.

She Can Brow Them Into . Medicine
1hst Hits the Spot Every Time and
10 Better Than . Doctors Visit.
How She Eads Old Puisissr Jump.
my Aunt Julia is really q wonder
fui woman" exclaimed the low browed
man. piacir: his feet on the managers
desk. She hasn't any diplomas from
medical colleges. but when 1t comes to
curing sick nlan she can give the
Ordinary doctor II start Of ten years
and beat him. around a block. Aunt
Julia has tirm faith In yarbs"-
You mean herbs" Interrupted the
professor.
~ don't mean anything OF the kind.
mean YARDS. You so over to Aunt
Julia aud mention YARDS. and her eyes
will brighten up and she'll ask you to
| sit down aud eat piece Of pie. but
II you began talking about herbs she'd
paste you one with her trusty sauce
pun and knock OF corner Of your
scalp. Aunt Julia Is pretty touchy
about some things.
"Oue day old Mrs. Doolittle blew
into the house to spend the afternoon.
and Aunt Julia happened to say that
something happened In Aprile. Mrs.
Doolittle thinks she knows more thun
Webster's uuaduiterated 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.
81 don't mean any such doggone
thing says my aunt. i mean Aprile.
and If you don't like 1t. Mrs. Doolittie.
you can lump 1t. and be blamed to
you
We'll, they famed away for five
minutes or so. and their language be-
gan to make the shingles fall OF the
| roof. aud ! was thinking of sending in
hurry call for the cops. when Mrs.
Doolit1le left the house by way Of the
window and jumped three fences with
out touc hing them in her haste to get
home. A lot OF saucepans and other
household utensils whizZed past her
ears and seemed 10 stimulate her.
THAT'S he Sort OF woman Aunt
| Julia is. Now. II you want to go over
ard talk to her about herbs l won't
Interfere.
III there's anything my aunt delights
In 1t Is doctortn. people. She hasn't
| bit of use fOt drug store medicines.
She brews her own remedies. and she
| doesn't think anything will help a
inl. FNaAFs n tsp0f E0 hn
royal palace Of Abyssinia. A dose Of
her collie medicine will make mans
insides feel aS though be had swal-
lowed u porcupine.
u had the collie last summer. and the
medicine she made for me had smoke
on 1t. can taste II yet. Sometimes
| | dream thar Aunt Julia Is banding me
| a spoonful Of her collie medicine. and
then ! always wake with a yell. She
Is an old fashioned woman. She gath.
| ers her YARDS at certain stages of the
moon. and when she Is brewing bel
medicines she mutters incautations
and makes passes with her hands and
does lot Of tricks that make your
blood run cold. But her remedies bill
the spot.
'Old man Pulsifer. you know. was
a hopeless invalid for a year. He sa,
in q wheeled chair. and bis wife fed
him with the fire shovel. and all the
members OF the family were kept sc
busy waiting on him that they hadn'l
time to wind the clock or prime the
pump. He said he had paralysis OF
the worst kind. aud everybody believed
him. Aunt Julia went over there ont
day and looked ut the old mans tongu.
and poked him in the ribs and tappec
him with n tuning fork and said She
could cure him up SO quick 1t woul6
| make his head swim.
If 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 wbel
she was dying
| Aunt Julia gathered lot Of yarb.
at the dark of the moon in the south
east corner Of Il graveyard and stewet
Them Ovor a Siow Hro and rho hrotf