The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1910-06-15
RHU5ARB AND THE
HUMAN RACE.

Chicago News: Not long ago a man
walked savagely into his home, mali
ciously upset the chairs in his way
and brutally kicked the cat through an
open window. He ignored his wife
when she spoke kindly to him, growled
like a bulldog at the children and
looked Indignantly at his grandmother
Send for some rhubarb," said the
aged women, speaking softly.
The next morning that family had
rhubarb sauce for breakfast. There
was rhubarb pie for the MONDAY meal
and rhubarb sauce again at nighr.
Two days later the same man sat with
his arms clasped lovingly about his
wife and the children played at his
knee. Every now and then he leaned
over. and affectionately kissed hts
grandmother.
Rhubarb comes along at this season
of the year like a gently spoken bene-
diction. BY rights it should precede
the mustered green's and the hog
jowl. When we have plenty of rhu-
barb we may dispense with tn" sas-
safras tea. Rhubarb even tax IS Ike
I,lace o. sulphur and molasses.
The latter mixture is for children
when they are young and entirely
helpless. Grown persons in possession
of all their metal faculties, and the
free use of their limbs do not take
1t. Not If they see it first. They
could not be induced to take it, yet
they prescribe liberal doses of it for
the little ones. Being busy at some.
thing else nearly all the time, the
humane officers do not always inter.
fere
The head of the family should take
sulphur and molasses in the spring. no
doubt, but who wants to handcuff
and gag him to administer the rene
dy? 1t must be admitted that there
is nothing alluring in the taste of sui
phur and molasses when they are mix
ed together. 1t is much better to feed
him rhubarb, which he takes with a
grateful smile, the result being pre-
cisely the same.
Rhubarb is the natural enemy Of the
divorce lawyer, and If taken freely at
this season of the year it assists in
giving the overworked physician a
much needed rest. 1t is poison to his
practice, but that is all. without rhu-
barb we are handicapped and unable
to appreciate all the beauties of the
glorious springtime. Until we have had
our share Of it we are inclined to wor-
ry when we should MARBLE
In the light of the foregoing facts Il
| is not difficult to understand why the
London physicians say rhubarb is not
beneficial as food or medicine. Per-
haps the subject came up for discus
sion ct a meeting Of their medical
society.
"Ows your practice?" asked one
eminent physician Of another.
Rotten, Hi mus say" replied the
other practitioner.
Only few of us can know the low
estate to which physician has sunk
when he is forced to admit that his
practice is not good. He is staring
starvation in the face when he does so.
When the admission is general among
physicians we may know that the pub
lie health is extremely good and the
death rate so low that the cemetery
| association think of going out of
business
Hi think this blarsted rhubarb's to
blame, don't We know" suggested an
other doctor. x
Thereupon the London physicians
make an attack on rhubarb, which in
this country would have amounted to
capital offense. Being one of our
fundamental institutions, closely allied
to our theory of life, liberty and the
pursuit of happiness, no such attack
can safely be made on rhubarb in this
land of the free and home of the brave.
| 1t is fortunate for London that /
am not there now, spending large sums
for oil paintings fresh from the smokes
house and otherwise helping to build
1 up the metropolis, as SO many, of us
do. should tell the London physicians
what think of them and then take
the first steamer for home, provided j
had the price of a steerage ticket
should take fast boat, / think, to get
back in time for the rhubarb pie sea
| son.
Some glory should attach to the Chi
cago physicians who are standing ur
for rhubarb. Their course indicates
that they are filed with righteousness
as well as rhubarb and in no way allied
to the lawyers who practice In this
divorce courts.