Tabor City tribune. (Tabor City, N.C.) 1946-1991, 1957-02-20
Arthur
Says
By-Billy Arthur


Stumped for sure cure for a
cold
Long years ago l learned.
however, that there are many
ways to catch a cold but no
means to get rid of il. II the
house is too warm, / get
cold. II it's too chilly, the wife
gets a cold. II we compromise
by having the house just right,
both of us get a cold. And the
children, too.
The children relax and en-
Joy it. because II means the
daughter doesn't have to 60 to
school, and the son gets every
thing he asks for.
AS for me, | feel as did one
Timothy Hay writing in the
Wilmington Commercial in the
middle l8OO's:
Il don't feel much like ritcn
just now, for I'm gittin one CT
the all-fircdcst rolls that
ever had. My heads been feelin
like a schoolhouSe with polit-
ical meeting goin on and the
winderS all down. | feel like
! been hauled thru hole
four inhheS too little fur me
every way. swan, wish
SumtimeS Ide begun 10 take
the stuff the ole wlmmin folks
begun recommending to me
and as fast as they wonten me
too, for | know il wouldn't
been worse than all the bad
fcelinS ! had. but | don't like
the idee of haven a duzzen "
so wimmcn Sittcn on me ami
Swaren under other that l
outht to kill myself with sat
nep tea and inginturncpS, AMI
a bathen my fete in cold water
and my he'd in hot water ana
my arm in warm water and
taken forty fiSilkh and a hun
dred other things just ideas Of
ole wImmin folks who don't
know no more about docterin
than sum of the doctors due E. ..
Il don't know how a Teller
takes cold so sudden | knox
II warcnt wearin thin sold
ShueS like the doctors says the
wimmen folks is a killen them
helveS a doin-tho don't see
EN- a dyen any Eastern othc~
people its my pInion that a
Teller catches cold jist like he
takes a fancy to a gal; it jus:
comes SO, and nobody cant tell
nothin about II, ccpt that hes
got II and cant get rid of It
without tarnel lot o! doCt-
rln
The Rev. r. II. Whitaker.
who edited the Raleigh Lift
Giraffe later in the 10Th cent
ury had Il remedy. however.
Whit did we take for chills?"
he asked. why, BoncSet tea.
an ordinary looking weed that
grows in the low ground
1t is an antidotc for chills on
the same principle of fighting
the devil with fire.
You never took a dose OF
boneSet? | advise you not 10
unless the doctor tells YOU
tnaI 5 the last chance; even
then I'd hesitate for awhile.
No. l don't say it's the
worse thing in the world: put
do say it's The worst thing
ever took. A combination as
asafoetida, spirit of turpentine.
quinine, castor oil, ipeac, salts.
and JtruSalcm ok wouluno.
begin to approximate a dose Of
h"n"S"'. X IL GOES the work.
ns Ike setting fire to q brush
heap: IL wn De sure to run
everything else out. | don't
blame chills for leaving when
boneset pours in"
Every so-called friend we
nave possesses a remedy which
they'll tell you works better
than all the-sillins and-my-
Gins manufactured today. And
II you don't tell them immedi-
ately you'll follow their advice
they shake their heads AMI
warn you to make the next in
surance payment on time.
They want to look at your |
throat. 1t looks, they saw
worse than poor cousin Sallie.s
did the day before she died |
do you think the doctor really
knows what he's doing?" the, |
ask. 1--WE been told there's no
cure for a cold. You either pc, |
well or you die"
The big relief. however
comes when they go.
Ihcn ! take the advise OF
Arthur Talmadge Abcrncthy. q 4
late poet laureate of North /
Carolina, who rhymcd:
Folks ask me how TO cure a
cold
My answer is: do all vou,r,
told.
BE sur" 10 take enough cold |
pills
10 cure country OF its i'll,
Then butter your feet in mus
tard hot
And lr,..L-