Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1921-04-01

veterinary COlleBe.
They are deserving people, and you
feel it duty to help them along, so
the first thing you know your mail box
is damned full of literature. Having
paid for it, you feel that you ought to
read 1t, and your life is ruined thereby.
when / was young, the magazines
tried to entertain people. They had
good stories and Poets Corner, and a
department devoted to timely jokes,
and another to household hints and do
meStic recipes. There was some sense
in reading magazine then, for it
sOOtled and sustained you. But now
adayS the magazine editors consider 1t
their duty to harrow your soul and
make your hair stand on end like
quilts upon the pOrkful fretcupine, or
words to that effect. They are always
viewing with alarm, and trying to con-
vince you that you take your life in
your hand every five minutes.
"They have lot of health special"
lists writing for them, and these health
eharps point out that pretty near ev-
erything you eat and drink is 81 deadly
poison. They didn't scare me to any
great extent, for | am q most intrepid
man, but they soon had my wife so
ratified she didn't know whether she
was going or coming.
II always was passiOnately fond OF
good cup of coffee, and my wife could
make the best coffee, you ever heard
OF. She went to work at it like
learned apothecary compromising
prescription. There was no guess
work about it. She took an honest
pride In it, and her coffee was reve-
lation to every consumer. used TO lie
awake at night wishing it was break
i:esf time, so / could have my morning
cup Of coffee.
but one morning when l went to
the table the coffee was missing. In
it's place there was sickly beverage i
had never seen before. / asked an eX-
PLANTATION. and my wife said that no
more coffee would be made in our
house. The wonder is said she, that
we still live and move and have our be-
ing. for coffee is rank poison. II you
read Dr. ZinkfOOgle'S article in the
Junkopoitan Magazine, you will see
that coffee contains large percentage
of tannin. which is so deadly that II
YOU place a drop on the tongue OF an
alligator, it will roll over, dead"
"I told her that I had no alligators
on hepremiseS, and consequently could
not try the experiment, but l assured
her that | didn't care anything about
the pOison. wanted my coffee at
regular hours. She said I'd have 10
keen on wanting. She thought too
much of me to send me to an untimely
grave. And, anyhow, she explained
DIR. Zinkfoogle had told how to make
substitute for coffee that was per1ect-
Nv wholesome. She had followed ms
instructions, and the result was before
me. Perhaps it didn't taste as good as
coffee. but it was wholesome. 1t W0uiu
Ill my veins with red corpuscies ana
restore hair to my bald head. liz was
made of marrowfat peas which nae
been carefully roasted in hot oven.
an order to get cup of coffee a1lei
that I had to make sneak 10 tht
chon house, and the kind dished VI
there made me old before my time MY
wife cut out all my favorite dishes De
cause DR. Znkfoogle or some othei
magazine writer denounced them, ahe
finally was living on roasted peas
coffee and boiled spinach, and con
rluded that if ] had to FEED IKE U.s.
cows I'd live like them, so came u
the forest Businesses.