The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1911-07-06
IDEALS OF A PLAIN GIRL.
By Dorothy Mitchell in Charlotte OBJ
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There is one of my "kid qualities
which I have never outgrown, but it
clings to me even in my old age; and
that Is, the taking Of medicine. I
was demonstratively antagonistic to-
wards it when a kid, and / might now,
in case Of too much persistency, give
vent to a few kicks. | well remem-
Der that it used to take about four
to give me a dose; one to hold my
feet, n my hands, one my nose and
another to administer the poison. OF
course I am not so bad now, for when
convinced that I will not get well
without taking 1t, I will do 1t after
awhile, though / sit and hold it.
dreading to take it-until the hour
for the second dose has come. / am
rather proud of myself for being eco
nomical enough to make n dose do
for two.
I have known some people who
seem to take a delight in trying to
see how many different bottles of
medicine they can get in their medi-
cine chest, and seem to take a special
bride in telling how many bottles they
have taken as If IL were a badge of
honor or something to be exceeding
ly proud of. I know one old lady,
who will take every bit of the patent
medicine samples left at her door, and
make trips around In the neighbor-
hood among all the vacant houses
gathering up the samples, and beg
her neighbors who do not care for it.
She has taken stun for every con-
ceivable disease in the world and has
found each one to be an immediate
cure, but she still complains. There
Is something seriously wrong with
her to hear, her falkland there is!
eor the poor old soul has tried to
make an apothecrary's shop out OF
her digestive organs when they were
not intended for such.
She will close all the windows, pull
Down the shades excluding every par
ticle of sunlight-the thing which
kills all the germs-go to bed and
send for the doctor. He comes, looks
at little medicine-parched tongue
feels Of her pulse and mutters some
hing unintelligible, which doubt
myself If he understands-looks
thoughtful for a minute or two, pos
-tbly trying to thing OF some medicine
he old lady has not taken. AS there
: nothing that she has not taken ne
Mixes a few of them together and
leaves.
7 I'm not trying to make people
-hink less of the doctor. They have
mission in the world and are too
veil known for any person to try TO
>hange the opinions Of mankind. They
we're known back in Old Testament
Jaws as is clearly shown by reference
% II Chronicles 1918:
"And Asa in the thirty and ninth
ca of his reign was diseased In mis-
>aet, until his disease was exceedlne
~reat: vet in his disease he sought
Ut to the Lord, but to the physician:
"And Asa slept with his fathers"
AS I said before, I am not trying 70
size the doctors the black-eye.
ike them and think they are a bless
40 to the country. There r a lo'
e people who have lived too long
READY, and the world might be bet
if we have a few more active ply
sicians.
know a family who are always
lvine colds. They have them tn
car around, and you seldom see {
-indow raised. They even sleep Will
hem down during the hot. summe,
months, and If one is raised, 1t mus
O where the "air cannot strike them
~oey will not sit where the wind caT
elow upon them for fear of a cold
T certainly is funny how some PEG
lie are afraid of a little air. If the
rould raise their windows and TOT
ct that they could be lowered an
cot he afraid of the air, it would no
eUrt them. but it strikes them 81
seldom that no wonder they TAX
-o1ds. They kill themselves wit
care.
know another family who ar
cared to death of germs. They ar
-trict members of the church an
end a good amount of money yearl
- foreign lands to relieve the poo
n the sick; and yet n summe
hey let a poor man next door lie an
suffer for fresh water because the
-are afraid they might catch one G
re typhoid germs.
took dinner with them once, an
= heard such a learned discourse o
germs and the proper things to ca
Until I began to feel i'll at ease o
qnding myself in company with pee
7le who had acquired such a vas
nmount of knowledge. They said
was not good to eat this and tina
and among the "this" and "that" wei
come of the things I enjoyed mos
= became so conscious of germs an
!, bacteria that my dinner was a
pleasure at all, and the last morst
managed to swallow seemed a Oh
Germ which had gone forth to des
destruction to me forever.
I made up my mind hat L woul
never dine with those people again
and that-I would go on eating I'd
things that 1 liked and the thing
t which my natural appetite desire
without SO much debating as to tn
wisdom of it. For my part, I woul
~ather eat a few germs now and the
: 80 as to give the white blood cell
/, something to do. 1t is their place I