The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1921-01-06

Il In hsS mind. our lWhAp1, HToan
face (thump, groan) does fwhacl
groan) look (slsp, groan) fs-(thut
groan) -miliar" (swish, Eroan
"Oh, you remember me now, do you
Rrowled the rubber down, sAreastical
i ~. well, perhaps you'd l!ks TO sen
me TO Jail for six months again TO
nghtin'l"
| A travelling salesman visited
small town and sold the proprieto
Of its general store some merchan
disc. When the goods arrived The.
werc not rs represented and the mer
chant consequently returned them
The wholesale house attempted 70 col
lect the bill and drew > sight draf
on the merchant through the loca
bank, which returned the draft un'
honored. The house wrote the post
master about the financial standing
Of the merchant and the postmaster
laconically replied with an o. k. By
return mail the house requested the
postmaster to secure q lawyer To
collect the amount and received the
following reply: "The undersigned
is the merchant on whom you at
tempted to palm of your worthless
goods. The undersigned is the pres
ident and owner Of the bank to
which you sent your sight draft.
The undersigned is the postmaster
to whom you wrote and the under
signed il the lawyer whose services
you sought to obtain for your ne
farious business. II the undersign-
ed were not also the preacher Of the
church Of this place, he would tell
you to go to hell"
9 4 .
II am Of the opinion" said Old Bill
Misgiyens, "thnt the children Of the
present day have much easier time
than we did when ! was a boy, but
then we didn't really know that we
we're having a hard time and didn't
make as much fuss about as chill
dren do now. | must say that most
persons seem to me to live better and
cleaner than we did then. When !
was boy going to the district school
there was always at least one family
whose children had lice and usually
one that had the itch. What was
more, they didn't seem to be worried
any on that account and distributed
10Th the lice and itch with impartial
ty. | always got both and took them |
rome with me. My mother seemed
o have a prejudice against both lice
md itch. She would set me down on
he floor with my head held firmly |
between her knees and then she would
urn loose with the fine comb. The
way she plowed up my young scalp
vas something fierce. l think she
bowed up more than half the roots
# my hair so that they never got set
gain and just naturally died out.
hat is why lost my hair. But she
rot the lice. If | had only got them
nee during the winter it wouldn't
ave been 80 bad, but | just kept |
atching them and the combing was
regular nightly chore for my moth
r. When it came to the itch the
treatment was different. Mother
sed to make liquid by boiling poke
pots in water until it was nearly as
trong as I've and then dip me in that.
Inder the impression that itch was
blood disease, she also made me eat
llphur. / had to eat so much sui
hur that didn't dare scratch match
,r fear / would catch fire. Finally
other learned that there were a.
Gus ointments that would kill the
CHI and after that she sort of eased
|, on the sulphur. In those days ,
,ere were no such things as fly I
reens and when it came to eating
was fight. with the flies all thru
10 meal. Sometimes fly or two
ould drop into the coffee, but nobody
ought of throwing the coffee away
! that account. 1t was unlucky for
e flies, but the coffee couldn't be 7
asted. 1t was the same way with 7
e food; if fly got into 1t we Just G
ted it out and went on eating. 9
lis matter Of being squeamish ]
,out flies is all matter of educa- I
IN. According to modern ideas
, violated every rule of health and :
Of us ought to be dead, but some ,
W we went along taking all kinds
chances and filling ourselves with r
kinds of dangerous microbes and .
II remained ksait..S- and strong. a
is Of people lived to be 80 or 80 Il
ars old and passed to their final .
ward full Of microbes and hope =
4 glorious Immortality. II they "a
d been worried about what they
ght to eat the probability is they
,uldnt have lived more than half :,