The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1924-03-08

20 years ago. the only sure cure for
tonEllitla was 90 wrap your own
solled sock around your throat upon
retrlng7"
"aIy mother pinned her faith in
goose. grease. Cappyf"
You're both wrong" Eddie smith
struck IN "A slab OF sow.bolly that
melted when you stuck your head
under tho nine blankets and two
quilts your mother piled on you al
night has everything beaten"
Nowadays the doctors have folks
wcaned away from these timo.hon.
ored remedies" Cnppy continued.
They snip your ionalla out az a
charge OF from fifty dollars up
mostly up. Hut the tonsil,snipperu
arc going 10 have hard shedding
pretty soon There II rapidly de-
veloplnE a school OF medical thought
that regards tonsillils ms the expires.
sion OF tonslls unfit for publication.
and unfit tonslla are merely a symp'
tom OF something wrong lower
down"
Same think with appendices. A."
Mr. ltedell declared. when people
ate simple foods and ate them slowly
tho worst they ever had was a kate.
oninmmer the morning after. with
the advent OF modern efficiency. fac.
tory whistles and quick lunch rcstau.
rants We discovered our appendices. -
Well, nobody ever discovered
mine" cappy Dragged, II chow my
food and set up from tho table hun.
Ery. Unlike you boys who are only
half my age. my chest hasn't slipped
into my lap and there isn't a doctor
living who could carve enough fat
OF me anywhere 20 alleviate an old.
fashioned case OF tonsili,ia"
well. they do say that Is the
secret Of long life. cappy." Eddie
Smith agreed.
"Fiddiosticlss. cappy rnHped.
Who wants 10 live foreyorf The
Idea with me isn't TO outilye all my
friends and die OF Loneliness. ]
would rather live as years and live
every split second by Il than hang
on until ! was an old as tho Pyra-
mida and wake up every morning
quivcrlnE with fear because I had 20
face another day While I'm alive
! want 10 be able 20 sec n golf ball
na FAR NJ can drive II. and want
70 drive u a. fnr AZ I can. I want %
f'io my own thinking RICH, up 10 the
final good'byes and ! want TO think
straight. And. by tho holy pink
iood phophot. that Il exactly what |
am doing NJ the tender ago OF TO-"
All tho Blgcwatorites present
Krunlod their disapprovai. envy OF
disbelief. Finally Ulysses Grubt
said:
TIM, was fine haul OF medical
luaeka they made In Connecticut 70
Gently"
Wen. were they auacka7- cappy
demanded why not DO charitable
ana aiiudo 10 them a. back mum,
oers7 Twenty-Five years nxo those
boys would have been regarded an
tho whlEz.banEa Of the medical pro
fcssiou. They would have drivv
~ % tho patients house In an old
aide bar. plano.box buggy and a
gray mare. They would have been
wearing a set OF Secretary Hughes
whiskcta. n aiik hat and a Prince
Albert suit. and the sight Of them
alone would have sent wild thrill
o. hope thru tho patient. Then
they would draw up chair beside
tho p0tl.ass and feel his pulse
ils,en 10 hts heart beat. peel back
one eyelld and look AZ II. ask the
patient II his feet wcfo cold and n
he had had any night HweAta lately.
II the patient answered in the nj
firmatlve old doc would have nod
ded HIS head an II TO aAy! I knew
itF II tho patient answered in the
negative old doc would have nodded
and said; Well. you're not very
sick. Then he would have ordered
hot mustard fooihath and dose
~ castor oil. directed tho patient
90 stay In bed thrse days TO a week
slipped him some patent liver pliis
and gone away.
For the ordinary Ills Of man
kind that treatment In bound 70
improve tho patient, and an re
suit tho first thlng old doc would
know he would have a reputation
that could never DO dImmod because
once well. his patients would have
been too busy 10 hold caucus
and compare treatments"
cappy sighed. "fn those days
nobody Kavo boot whA, your
father or mother or grandparents
died from. II you were alex the
doctors dosed you and rested you
and II you got wen they claimed
tho credit n you died II was the
BRINGING Up FATHER