The coastland times. [volume] (Mnateo [i.e. Manteo], N.C.) 1947-1959, 1957-11-15
THE HIGHER
THE FEWER
There's Always Plenty Of Room
At The Top
By
NANCY j. MIDGET

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few times that people have miss
ed my column, so, not having the
Summer rush to serve as an ex-
cuse for weak flesh and some
times unwilling spirit, I am grid
ing up my loins and once more
producing a column. Heaven help
usl
p Now, of what shall chatter?
OF the article that read late the
other night perhaps, in which those
in authority to do so, said that
our bleeding system is all wrong,
at least for these modern times.
Now when / say b-system / don't
mean B-system as in England but
merely certain ability of our cir
culatory system whereby the blood
conveniently clots at injury to pre-
vent undue hemorrhaging.
This we'll organized habit is
apparently old fashioned, for we
no longer have wild bear, boar or
wolves nibbling at our heels on
the way home, neither do the
neighbors, relatives or passing
testers lie in wait for US around
the bend in the road, (not often,
anyway or Turk under the bed or
in the clothes closet, with a nice
sharp knife to do some blood let
ting. Somewhere there is an OPEN
ing for a new profession; do you
feel your blood system is sluggish?
Now is the time to try our new
way to easy flowing, non-lumpy
blood. Let our local representative
cali upon you with blunt instru-
ment, freshly honed knife or the
weapon of your choice-Let Blood
for Better Blood, Inc" can't use
the idea myself for l would eat
up all the profits SO to speak;
under dire need or stress of great
temper / might be able to put the
knife in but ! could never, no
never, pull it out again.
Talking of new ways to this and
that, there is the old saying that
there is nothing new under the
sun and in the not so very distant
past the treatment for almost any,
thing from fever to an infected
lance wound was a nice dose of
blood letting, some of the doctors
attaching a medicinal leech to the
wound to help the work along. /
often wonder whether they bother
ed to clean the knife by heat or
water before using it and whether
the leech was washed off before
use or just dipped out Of its nat
ural element, the village stream or
perhaps pond where the whole COM
rnunity no doubt did its wash and
goodness knows what else. No won
der that the majority of the pop
ulation died young and the age of
so years was really something to
be proud of.
In the same article re blood
there was a passing mention of
the appendix and its usefulness
having passed away, according to
some authorities at least. by our
change of eating habits, etc. To
this could be added the wisdom
teeth / suppose, for they are a
mere nothing when they come
through and speaking for my own,
they came in rotten and were
nothing but trouble from the word
go. / had my last one out in the
fall of 1910 when in Torquay,
Devon during the war. and went
home for the week end to visit
my sister, spent the night sleeping
on the floor in the hall of neigh
boris apartment on the floor be-
low ours because there was an air
raid on and went back to Torquay
with sore throat and temperature
that eventually turned into nice
dose of tonsillitis.
Next there will be the legs. If
we ride everywhere much more,
regardless of whether it is mile
or 200 yards that we are going,
fly when we don't ride, all live in
one floored houses where no strain
is put on the leg muscles to exer-
else them, eventually maybe We
will be left with nothing but flimsy
stumps or by then mechanical
device may have been invented to
move us from here to there. I have
heard it said, however, that moth
ing is lost in the works of nature.
What have we then to make up
for the obsolete appendix, the wis
dom teeth and the coagulation :?
Maybe the doctors know but GER
family don't ca I will inst have IN