Daily public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1892-191?, 1912-11-16
INFORMATION WANTED
BY JULIUS CAREY.

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he approached the breakfast table
but Mrs. Sylvester, having troubles OF
her own, did not comment upon II.
Il believe ! must have a touch OF
rheumatism" she remarked, lifting the
coffee pot YEARLY.
Whatever that may bel" respond
ed her husband scornfully. "The
truth of the matter probably is that
you got all tired out running UP and
down stairs when you we're cleaning
the attic yesterday"
"Oh, it certainly can't be that" she
replied, because you know, the doc
tors say now that running up and
down stairs is the very best kind OF
exercise"
THE doctors!" he scoffed, trying as
he spoke to find a comfortable posi-
ton for his left leg. IF we are go
ing to do All the fool things the doc
tors advise, or refrain from doing all
the desirable things they forbid, we
shall have a delightful time of it!
1T grleves me to think" he contin-
ued, how many good things I've miss
ed because the doctors forbade them,
only to be told little later that It
didn't make any difference, after all.
| shall never cease to regret the rich
red beefsteaks l didn't eat during a
period when l fondly trusted in the
assertion of the doctors that red meat
caused rheumatism"
a'FThay'ua POnnd nDry ff'a
Strawberries said Mrs. Sylvester. II
was reading an article yesterday, by
a doctor"
No doubt you WERE" interrupted
her husband. IT'S Just the time of
the year that the medical fraternity
would choose for the publication of
an article denouncing strawberries
right In the season when they are the
most tempting. Why, had dish for
luncheon yesterday that made life
seem worth living again. So the doc
tors have combined to deprive us Of
the solace of eating fresh strawber-
ries, have they? Well, they can't
work it on me this time I'm a pa
tient creature, but my patience has
its limits. Not till I've forgotten the
long dreary winter, during which
abstained from eating raw oysters for
fear Of typhoid, only to read in the
first month of the year without an r
an article by some noted medical man
asserting that the percentage Of ty-
phoid due to oysters is so small as to
be negligible"
IT'S best to be on the safe side"
said Mrs. Sylvester.
The safe side, indeed" he exclaim.
ed. "Oh, certainly! You got a great
deal Of comfort out OF being on the
safe side when you used to- arrange
all the grape seeds so carefully along
the edge OF your plate. II you swal.
lowed a single one by mistake you
worried for weeks in fear of an at.
tack of appendicitis! l don't notice
you troubling much about grape seeds
in late years. And why? Simply be.
cause your feminine credulity has
been satisfied by the assertion OF
some doctor that grape seeds are not
the cause of appendicitis. after ALL"
Mrs. Sylvester began to look
alarmed.
I'VE have been exhorted to wear
fiannels and not to wear Gannels,"
he went on. We've been admonished
to drink water during meals, after
having been solemnly warned never to
do So"
They do seem to change their
minds pretty often" admitted Mrs.
Sylvester
Sylvester continued oratorically:
Each succeeding generation of doc.
tors since the days of Aesculapius, OF
whatever his name was, has pro.
nounced false the opinions of the pre-,
ceding generation"
His wife looked thoroughly fright
ened. Its perfectly dreadful" she
exclaimed Il really never thought
about 1t before"
"Ah-oo!" groaned Sylvester whs
had so far forgotten himself as to
draw back his left leg quickly.
What is it, Henry?" asked his wife
anxiously. "Oh, | don't know what on
earth we should do If you were to get
sick, with the doctors all disagreeing
and changing their minds every few
"Nothing's the matter with me-" he
replied. II was about to say, how
ever, that OF course, the doctors are
bound to hit it once in a while, and
there may be something, after all,
in that idea that strawberries cause
I've been having lit
tie pain in my left foot for a day or
two. and as I've been eating straw.
berries every day for luncheon, | don't
know but 1t might be a good thing to
stop in on my way to the train and
ask the doctor what he thinks about
It,"
Dol" exclaimed Mrs. Sylvester, So
interested that her own aches were
It's so much more com.