The Prescott daily news., 1912-11-18
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By JULIUS CAREY.

sylvester was lmplng slightly as he approached the breakfast table, but Mrs. Sylvester, having troubles of her own did not comment upon it. T believe I must have a touch of rheumatism" she remarked, lifting the coffee pot wearily.
 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 were cleaning the attic yesterday"
 "Oh, it certainly cant 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- tion 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!
 It grieves 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 1t didn't make any difference, after all l shall never cease to regret the rich red beefsteaks I didn't eat during period when I fondly trusted in the assertion of the doctors that red meat caused rheumatism"
 They've found out now that it's strawberries, said Mrs. Sylvester. T was reading an article yesterday, by 8 doctor-"
 No doubt you were" interrupted her husband. Its 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 pa. tient creature, but my patience has its limits. Not till I've forgotten the long dreary winter, during which l 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"
 Its 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 al. the grape seeds so carefully along the edge of your plate. If you swal. lowed single one by mistake you worried for weeks in fear of an at tack of appendicitis! 1 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.
 We have been eXhorted to wear fiannels and not to wear flannels," 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, or 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. T really never thought about 1t before"
 "Ah-oo!" groaned Sylvester, who had so far forgotten himself as to draw back his left leg quickly.
 What is 1t. 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 minutes!"
 "Nothing's the matter with me-" he replied. T was about to say, how ever, that. of course. the doctors are bound to hit 1t once in a while, and there may be something, after all, in that idea that strawberries cause rheumatism. I've been having lit- tie pain in my left foot for day or