Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1912-11-16
INFORMATION WANTED
BY JULIUS CAREY.

/ Sylvester was imping slightly as
/ he approached the breakfast table,
but Mrs. Sylvester, having troubles OF
/ her own, did not comment upon it.
Il believe l must have a touch CT
rheumatism" she remarked, lifting the
/ coffee pot YEARLY.
Whatever that may be-" respond
/ ed her husband scornfulIy. 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 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 60
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 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 it
didn't make any difference, after all.
/ l 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"
They've found out now that it's
/ Strawberries said Mrs. Sylvester. Il
was reading an article yesterday, by
/ doctor"
No doubt you We're" interrupted
her husband Its just the time of
the year that the medical fraternity
would choose for the publication of
an article denouncing strawberriGs-
right in the season when they are the
most tempting. Why, had a 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 caa't
work it on me this time! I'm a pa
tieAt 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
n bn co 70 oil a
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. If you swal-
lowed single one by mistake you
i 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
he cause of appendicitis, after ALL"
Mrs Sylvester began to look
alarmed
I'VE have been exhorted to wear
flannels and not to wear fiannels,"
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. 81 really never thought
about it before"
"Ah-oo!' groaned Sylvester, who
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
minutes!"
"Nothing's the matter with me" he
replied Il was about TO say, how
ever, that, of course, the doctors are
bound to hit it once in 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 a day or
two, and as I've been eating straw
berries every day for luncheon, don't
know but it might be a good thing to
step 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
forgotten. It's so much more com
Portable to be sure"