Sequachee Valley news. (Sequachee [Sequatchie], Tenn.) 1896-1952, 1916-02-03
Herrin, Ills.
So,eioIfo me Nt7os.

| Social 10 TIE NtTos.
Well, as it is such very rainy wealth
er, and | don't like to have rainy
days for cleaning days, l will just
write few lines today to the News
and clean up the house when the
weather fairs up, and it will show up
better then and stay clean longer, and
1 don't believe in unnecessary work.
You know I.got enough of that in my
younger days, but now ] am growing
old.
We'll, there has been II good deal of
sickness in our neighboring towns,
but not so much in Herrin. This
winter some have had malaria and
chills and nearly everybody has had
bad colds, but believe that is due to
the people not wearing clothes to suit
the weather, and not changing the
amount of clothing as the weather
changes, so that they are comfortable
at all times, and, too, by living in
doors too close with their homes poor
~ ventilated. l believe the main
thing that has saved a great many peo-
pie in Herrin this winter is due to the
pure city water, as they got the filter
er completed just at the right time to
save the people from having to drink
the old surface water, which they be-
fore have had to drink from their els
terms leaking. Now they can use the
city water. which is purified at the
big reservoir, supposed to be as good
water for all purposes, and as good a
water system as there is in Southern
Illinois.
Well, how is Dunlap by this time'
l hone the union mon will stand pat
with them until they have succeeded
In getting an honest dollar for every
honest hours toll. So. good luck be
with them, with only eight hours
work each day.
Well, have found the remedy for
pneumonia, think. | have helped
prepare it and apply it several times.
This remedy may fail, but l have new
er known of it failing, and hope it
may benefit. someone by publishing it
in the News. As soon as you have
any idea of person having pneumo-
MIA, take quilt cotton, place it on some
kind of thin white goods-a -four sack
is nearly always at hand and what /
use-cut out sleeveless jacket. cut
ting through cotton and goods at same
time, sew up vest and leave open on
one shoulder seam and under one arm,
stitch around edge and row or two
besides to hold cotton on goods. Take
the whites of three or four eggs, whip
them to stiff froth. Then take a
knife and spread this on the cotton.
Then have the patient in a good warm
place at the time and place this jack
with white of eggs on 1t next to his
naked chest and shoulders. Eggs must
cover back of vest across lungs as we'll
as chest. Then press this all down
on the body as soon as possible to stop
the chilly feeling, and put the patient
back to bed as soon as possible. Then
take five cents worth of plain vasaline
and put 1t in pan, place over fire
and shave up FIVE cents worth Of cam
phor gum and melt together with vas
aline. Then take from fire and pour
in 10 cents worth of oil of peppermint
and run your hand up under the cot
ton jacket. and rub this in freely across
the shoulder blades and in front over
chest. In fact, the rubbing and jack
ct, too, should reach within about
three inches of waist line, so as to be
sure to have this reach the bottom part
of lungs. Rub on the mixture every
half hour as hot as the patient can
bear Then give big doses of castor
oil, or some other good purgative, for
four or five mornings, and keep the
patient on very light diet for the
same length of time. And when you
decide the patient is about all right,
then begin tearing off a piece of cot.
ton from the jacket each morning I'M
til you have shed it entirely. Never
pull it off In any other way for fear Of
a relapse and maybe sudden death.