The watchman and southron. [volume] (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, 1910-09-28
HIS AUNTIE JULIA,
She Is Really a Wonderful Woman
In Her Own Way.
A GREAT HAND WITH YARRS.

She Can Brew Thorn Into a Msd;ein.
That Hits the Spot Every Time and
Is Better Than Doctor. Visit.
How She Made Old Puisifsr jump.
My Aunt Julia is really a wonder.
1ul woman" exclaimed the low browed
man. placing his feet on the mana ger'a
desk. "She hasn't any diplomas from
medical colleges. but when 1t comes to
curing a sick man she can give the
ordinary doctor a start of ten years
and beat him around a block. Aunt
Julia has flrrn faith in yarbs'-
You mean herbs" interrupted the
professor.
i don't mean anything Of the kind.
1 mean YARDS. You go over to Aunt
Julia and mention YARDS, and her ewes
Will brighten up and she'll ask you to
sit down and eat a piece Of pie, but
II you began talking about herbs she'd
paste you one with her trusty sauce
pan and knock OF q corner of your
scalp. Aunt Julia 10 pretty touchy
about some thingn
"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.
Doolittle thinks she knows moro than
Websters unadulterated dictionary be-
cause she taught school about lbO
years ago. when she was q young wo.
man. and she called my aunt down and
said that there was no such word an
Aprile.
"'You mean April. my DEAR says
she.
~ don't mean any such doggone
thing: says my aunt 4 mean Aprile,
and If you don't like It, Mrs. DoolittIe,
you can lump It, and be blamed TO
you
"Well, they famed away for Eve
minutes or so. and their language be-
gan to make the shingles fall of 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 20 over
and talk to her about herbs won't
interfere.
IF there's anything my aunt delights
IN 1t Is doctoring people. She hasn't
q bit OF use for drug store medicines.
She brews her own remedies, and she
doesn't think anything will help
sick person unless 1t tasteo like the
royal palace Of Abyssin1a. A dose of
her collie medicine VIII make a mans
insides feel as though he had swal.
lowed a porcupine.
II had the collie last summer, and the
medicine she made for me had smoke
on It ! can taste 1t yet Sometimes
] dream that Aunt Julia Is handing me
spoonful of her collie medicine, and
then l always wake with a yell. She
is an old fashioned woman. She gath
ers her yarbs at 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 q year He sat
In wheeled chair, and bis wife fed
him with the fire shovel, and all the
members Of the family were kept 80
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 tuning fork and said she
could cure him up SO quick 1t would
make Ids 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
guilt my grandmother gave me when
she was dying
Aunt Julia gathered q lot of YARDS
at the dark Of the moon In the south
east corner of graveyard and stewed
them over slow fire, and the broth
she made from them would have warp
ed the armor plate Of battleship.
knew by the smell Of it that 1t was
the real stingo. and you can't imagine
how glad ! was that I didn't have to
take it When she went over to dope
old Pulsifer she insisted on my going
along to help hold him down.
"The old man didn't want to take 1t.
Anybody could see that He got q
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,