Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1921-03-17
The Country Home
BY MRS. w. H. FELTON,
Stomach Trouble


What's the matter with him?"
Hardly know, some sort of stomach
trouble" How often do you hear the
answer to the inquiry. When you
recollect how we folks mix up
things in our stomachs, all sorts of
things, cooked in all sorts Of ways,
the wonder is that we have any
stomachs left to five us trouble.
read a story of Chinese doctor that
is well worth copying down in this
particular connection.
The Right Diagnosis
While travelling in the Pacific
Hall was taken violently i'll with an
attack Of acute indigestion.
Hearing there was a Chinese doc
tor in the town who was highly re-
garded by the citizens of the locality.
Mr.. Hall sent for him.
The physician came, felt of the
sick mans pulse, inquired briefly as
to his suffering and then entered
upon the following questionnaire:
You smokee sligalet?"
ooh, yes"
Cigar. too?"
Pipe maybe. eh?"
Sometimes"
You takee iii dlink some time
maybe col pop. coli soda, col milk
shakee, col linger beer, licy'eol, lem
onade, col slider, maybe some hot
tlea, hot coffee, hot chocolatee, lots
of sugar and cleam?"
Sure thing"
you eatee fast?"
'"I got to, doctor-always in hur-
ry-lots to do, you know"
You eatee hot mliscuit?"
you eatee fly ham, fly bacon, fly
eggs. hot cakes, lots molass?'
You eatee gleasy stuff-some fly,
some roast. some boil, some stew,
some blake-you mix 'em all uppee
same time, Ell? Maybe. some Jam 81 sad
Yes, everything goes with me-
you eatee pie?"
Pie? Pie is my middle name at
mealtime, doctor"
you cattle some pickle. some
cheese, some nut, some nice llcn
all uppee inside samet time, EN-"
Eyes, sir-that was the way l was
taught to eat at boarding school,"
you dlinkee lice water same
"Of course"
You chewee y up g., wood toothpick
IT "Usually do-sometimes I have to
use match"
Good n II I can no curee
We did not call it "acute indiges-
ton in my young days. They
called it collie. And I verify believe
what was generally termed "cramI
collie" was modern appendicitis. Ii
was "cramp collie" that finished you
when it could not be eased or cured
and nobody thought about cutting
five-inch slit into your BODY anc
pulling out your appendix in the
early time. The way we cram oul
stomachs nowadays is something
fearsome. We eat a plateful OF
greasy food and wash it down with
cups full of scalding hot coffee. Then
we wind up with frozen things. anC
also top it off with an after-dlnne1
cup of black, strong coffee. Between
the beginning and the END we eat al
sorts of vegetables from s. stul an er pGPr
pers to sour pickles, made generallv
of onions, peppers and cucumDers.
We pile in rich cake and all sorts
Of nuts, and then We must take SONS
soda after we get home to quiet the
trouble in the stomach:
An ostrich is accused or swalloW-
ing all sorts of things, such as nails
and Mandy DlCS VI Julin hAe'A - w w. -.
the ostrich could not cram It's stoIn'
ach like humans do ana long SURVIVE
the indulgence.
Then our men must have a smoke
and the woman are adoptlng Clsa
rettes. There was Travelled IauS
who made one of four at the Ponce
de Leon hotel in February. SAL
onposite to her at meal time. some
of the mattresses had chats apou'
her: said she smoked equal TO any
man. If she did so, it was atfer
had left the table, but 1T might naVe
been. They tell me it Is the haplI
of some extraordinary E9rop T;5L
women to- smoke after meals like
their. men visitors. How about it?
am clad 7 am too old to lSarn the
habit. ,o
Mrs. Emory F. Mckinney, or
Fairnoont west Virginia. writes
the following: 81 wonder If you car
help me to find out something aooul
nv fathers people. His name was
George Samuel Foster, M. D. He
was born in Kentucky, but moved
to Georgia. He died in AmerIcus
Ga, AZ years ago, when I was
"My grandfather was Thomas Eos
ter, M. D. He practised medicine
at one time in the town of Craw
fordsvi1le He settled in Walker
May 8, 1847"
Mrs Mckinney is librarian of the
Fairmont Normal school, West Vir
ginia.
If any of our readers can give
her the deserved information she
will be very grateful.