The Huron Expositor, 1933-12-01, Page 2INDIGESTION
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The Other Half
of Helen Keller
(Condensed from "Anne Sullivan
Macy" in Reader's Digest).
Nearly everyone remembers that a
girl by the name of Annie Sullivan
went to Alalbanta many years ago
and set free the spirit of a child who
was blind, deaf, and duurtb. The de-
votion of these 46 years is not so
well known. Many people have ask-
ed for the story of her life, and An-
me Sullivan Macy has pointed to Hel-
en Keller as all the biography she
desires. But it is time now to talk
about "Teacher"—Helen never called
her anything else.
Because of the ,squarlor into which.
s'he was born •at Feeding Hills, Mast.,
Annie developed a destructive inflam-
. mation of the eyes so early that the
first words she ran remember were:
"She would be so pretty if' it were
not for her eyes." It was not only
Annie's eyes that dist,nessed her
mother, Annie was passionately re-
bellious in She way a child is likely
to he who is surrounded lby unhap-
piness. She can remember some of
her tantrums. Once in anger she
rocked her little sister clear out of
her cradle and gave her a cruel scar
on • her forehead. One winter after-
noon, a neighbor came with a little
girl in white shoes and white mit-
tens, soft like 'rabbits. Annie want-
ed the white mittens '.intensely, but
the neighbor hacl brought red mittens
for her. "I don't want them," she
cried and threw their into the fire.
When her mother 'died nobody
wanted half blind Annie nor her lit-
tle brother, Jimmie, who was born
with a tubercular hip. There was
only one place where they could be
sent,' the Tewksbury poorhouse. Their
ward .was filled with old wen
-tee,
aen, miss-
hapen, diseasend dying. "Very
much of what I remember about
Tewksbury." she says, "is indecent.
cruel and gruesome in the light of
grown-up experience, but it was all
the life I knew." And then. Jimmie
died. "I • sat down between my bed
and his empty bed, and I longed des-
perately to die, I believe very few
children have ever' been so complete-
ly left alone as I was. I felt that I
was the only thing that was alvie
in the world. Not a "ray of light
shone in the great darkness which
covered me that day."
Two operations in Tewksbury ap-
parently had done nothing for her
sight, and finally she was taken to
the,city infirmary in Boston. But
whethe doctors .there were through
with her, the eyes were still so bier -
red that sire could he classified in
public records only as blind.
The old women at the alms house
had told Annie that the most fam-
ous of schools where blind 'children
could he taught to read and writ
was only 20 miles away. "I want to
go to that F•chool," she' begged; and
at last, without a toothbrush, petti-
coat, hat, or coat, she entered the
Perkins Institution. That night, for
the first time in her life, she slept
in a nightgown. She was 14 years
old; Helen Keller was 3 months old,
At Perkins, the teachers had a
hard time finding a place for her.
Mat weaving was the orthgdox start-
ing point but she couldn't weave and
cursed the mat. The teachers tried
her somewhere else and everywhere
she went it was the same. Bewilder-
ed, rebellious. she fought her way
through classes accepting nothing o:1
the authority of the teachers. "My
mind was a question mark, my heart
a frustr;at•ion," she says. The follow-
ing summer a young doctor became
inteeested in her"eyes and after two
operations, l2 months apart, the
curtain was lifted. Delirious with
her new powers, she wept into book;
and newspapers, stealing them from,
the teachers. In 1886 she was grad-
uated from Perkins, valedictorian of
ler class of eight.
In the meantime, in Tuscumbia,
Ala., a serious illness had ,left Helen
Keller, then 19 months old, irrevoc-
ably blind, deaf and dumb. Day af-
ter day, her mother watched the lit-
tle 'girl slipping g s pp ng from her, yet try.
ing even as she herself was trying,
to hold the few strands -'of. communi-
cation left. A11 day long the little
animal tugged at her (mother's skirts,
strong, tireless, quick tempered, and
wilful, "You ought to put her a-
way," said lice n's uncle, "she is men-
tally defective." But an aunt kept
saying: "This child has more sense
than all the Kellers, if there is ever
any way to reach her mind." Mrs.
Keller never gave up 'hope that there
would he a way. She had read in
Dickens' American Notes of his visit
to the Perkins Institution 40 years
before and thought the child could he
taught. Her husband finally found
that the Perkins Institution was still
in existence and wrote its director.
So in March, 1887, Annie Sullivan ar-
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PRAYER
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that .we are altogether Thy children.
Tn Christ's name. Amen.
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S. S. LESSON FOR DECEMBER 3
Lesson Topic—Paul at Ephesus.
Lesson Passage—Acts 19s3-20.
Gdldeti "Text—Matthew 5:10.
When Paul in company of Aquilla
and Priscilla, left Corinth they sailed
across the Egean Sea to Ephesus.
Here he stayed 'but a short time
though he was urged to remain. On
leaving he said: "I must go away
now; but if it be the will of God, I
will come again to you." HoWever
he left his two fellow -workers there
while he made a journey to the
mother church at Jerusalem and lat-•
er to Antioch. thus completing his
second missionary journey,
+Onee again he decided to revisit the
scenes of his Iabors and in due time
*ached E hesujs where h estay stayed
more than two years. At first he
preached in•the synagogue but when
opposition arose he opened a preach-
ing place in a school room hired to
flim by a una.n named Tyrannus.
These separations . from the sy-na-
gogne Jews, though passed over light-
ly by St. Luke, must have given Paul
much pain for we must remember
that he, though a Christian, still re-
garded himself as a true Israelite,
and he must have felt, at least as
severely as' a Luther or a Whitfield;
`this alienation from the religious
•eennlmunion of his childhood. This,
new place of worship gave him t'he
ad'v'antage of being able to imeet the:
brethren daily whereas in the syna-
gogue this was only possible three
times a week. Then too he had;
greater leisure from tent making,
since he 'had been joined by Silas and
Timothy, who brought with them a
contribution from the church at Phil-
ippe.
(During the more than two years of
his missionary activities in Ephesus
his. fame spread abroad so that as St.
Luke says: "All they that dwelt in
Asia ieard /the word of the Lord
Jesus, both Jews and Greeks." •• Not
only this but in addition to his preach-
ing we read of unusual works of
power which God wrought by his
hands. "God wrought special mir-
acles by the hands of Paul. So that
from his body were 'brought unto the
sick handkerchiefs or aprons and the
diseases departed from them, and the,
evil spirits went out of them."
It was a common thing in Ephesus
to use all kinds of magic remedies
and curious arts. E.xorcism was a
practice 'which had long been preva-
lent among the Jews. St. Luke re-
lates an incident that took place af-
ter some of Paul's miraculous' cures
had been made widely known. There
was a Jewish priest who had seven
sons who wandered about from place
to place professing to eject demons.
Two of these impostors undertook to
use Paul's name on a particulait'
virulent case.
Addressing a raving maniac they
said, "We exercise you by Jews,
whom Paul preacheth ' In this in-
stance, however, the adjuration prov-
ed to be a hueriliaring failure. The
iTdriiae replied, "Jesus I recognize,
"
.and Paul I know, but who are you . ?
and then leaping upon them with the
/superhuman strength of madness, he
tore their clothes off thaeir backs and
inflicted upon them such severe in-
juries that they fled •in terror of
their Iives.
News of such an encounter spread
over the countryside. and produced a
remarkable beneficial result. It came
to light that some of the converts to
Christianity had not abandoned the
practice of magic. Conscience strick-
en they not only confessed but gave
practical proof...thereof.
They brought the expensive books
which had been the instruments of
their trade and publicly burned them.
This bonfire, which must have Iasted
some time, was so striking a protest
against the prevalent credulity that
it was doubtless one of the circum-
stances which gave to St. Paul's
preaching so wide a celebrity through-
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LIVINGSTONE IN AFRICA
By Rev. John T. Tucker, D.D., of
Angola, West Africa.'
Africans are keen judges of hu-
man character, and gg,ickly sum up
those who pees through their country
or settle mongst then. Every for-
eigner in entral Africa is given a
nickname derived from some trait.
Livingsto e native name was Mon -
are, meaning "he who has seen," a
reference to his keen insight into
human nature.
Livingstone passed through Angola
in 1854 on his ,journey across Africa.
Incredible hardships tw'ere suffered;
and, in spite of help afforded by
Portuguese traders in the interior,
Livingstone arrived at Luanda, the
capital of Angola, worn out with fev-
er and dyeentry. It was at Luanda
that Livingstone's knightly character
was specially manifested. The Mak-
ololo Chiefs had hesitated to give
their sons to the white man for his
long trek from east to west, for
.though they loved and trusted Liv-
ingstone personally, tliey with reason
feared for the safety of the party on
the return journey when no mission-
ary explorer might be with therm.
Livingstone gave his word of honor
that if sons of the Makololo would
accompany him, he himself would re-
turn with thein,
A alien of His Word
In Luanda harbor lay a rsritish
cruiser. The .captain pressed Living-
stone to come with hint to Britain.
"Yoe are ill," he said. ".You have
worked and travelled without rest for
fourteen years; all Britain will cheer
tc .see you. Come home, with us and
rest and see your wife and family a-
gain." Though ill, tired and lonely,
Livingstone did not hesitate, Hia
word was his bond.' He plunged back
:'`o the bush, trudging over unnum-
bered miles of 'blistering plain and
through tangled forest, across fetid
swamps and through crocodile -infest-
ed rivers. At Pungo Andongo, uncle:•
the shadow of gigantic rocks three
hundred feet high, the great explor-
er was graciously entertained by a
Portuguese planter, While' there.
news C'nre that the ship in which
Livinstone's journals had been sent
end in which he himself would have
travelled, he been wrecked in a
:on:rv,, Three months of steady grind
neve necessary: to rewrite his diar-
'es. Livingstnne then pushed on into
the interior, raising slave caravans
bound for the west coast; and though
assailed by warriors. delivered his
r
toys to their father -chief at Limyar.-
ti.
Stupendous Changes in 60 Years
Africa, indeed. iia 'been widely 9p.
Peed. Livingstone took many months
for his transcontinental journey which
had Luanda as its objective. • To -day
the journey can he made by train or
automobile in fewer days than it took
L'svingstone months. Or, using aero-
plane, the jeurnee "can be done in as
many hours as it took months.
A year or two ago a missionary in
Angola was bitten by a orad dog and
as no serum was available in' the
colony, a cablegram .was dispatched
to Johannesburg, which secured de-
livery- of the precious liquid by aero -
'plane within a couple of days.
Rt took Stanley two years to reach
Livingstone. who had been lost to
civilization in the heart of the con-
tinent. Stanley's laconic gr'eetin'g on
meeting Livingstone; "Dr, Living-
stone, I presume?" will he forever
remexhered. To -clay a radio station
stands near the spot where the two
men met, and a message' ca'i5-rbe re-
ceived from any part of the world in
a fraction of a second.
In Lieingstone's day barter Was the
one method of doing bus busiesesseseeNo
money was current. hence the travel-
ler would take with him quantities
of trade cloth, beads, salt, needles,
etc., in order to acquire necessities.
To -day paper money circulates ac-
cording to the respective European
sphere of influence. Recently in An-
gola commercial travellers from China
offering sliks have made their ap-
pearance. and a Japanese representa-
tive has been seeking orders for cot-
ton goods. In so-called Kaffir stores
in Angola, Matches and macaroni,
;made in Soviet Russia, are offered for
sale, The coming of nationals from
these three nations is significant. Old-
es•ta'hlished hciuses from Lisbon..Man-
chester, Hamburg and Amsterdam
have new rivals.
Spiritual Developments
No less marked •is the moral and
spiritual transformation which has
taken place in Livingstone's land. In
the old days fetish belief and prac-
tice featured native life. Charges
of witchcraft were common, and the
witch doctor's divination ceremony
would usually end in condemnation
of the accused, who would appeal to
the poison test. The witch •doctor
thereupon would prepare a concoction
and offer it to the person and say:
"Drink, a clean heart is never con-
demned." The poison draught would
be swallowed and almkst certain]
death ensued. Thousands of lives
were thus destroyed. To -day fetish
belief,•is weakening, and in parts of
the continent the poison test is a
thing of the past, thanks to the com-
bined effort of the governments °and
missions,
Africa is one of the great mission
fields of the world and thousands of
church members are being added an-
nually to the church. European
methods and manners are spreading
with great rapidity, and within mea-
surable time the whole of Africa will
come under the /spell of western civ-
ilization. It is for the Church to en-
ter the open door and to ensure that
what is best in civilization may be
made available to Africans. Above
all, it is needful to pass on the price -
lees heritage we have in the Chris-
tian Gospel. Civilization withou t
Christ is a doubtful blessing. — The
United Church (Missionary Monthly.
The most important natural har-
rier of the beet leaf -hopper in Cali-
fornia is rainfall.
lCork wool, o'bbained as a waste
product in the manufacture of cork -
tipped cigarettes, ica proving useful as
a (slid storage insulator.
rived in Tuscumbia.
It was Anni_q'�s plan to melee slow-
ly, first 'w,ini ing Helen's love. She
learned the following day that Hel-
en had always done exactly as she
pleased and intended to ;seep on.
Sometimes it was impossible'rfor days
to comb her hair; force was neces-
sary to button her shoes or wash her
face. Annie recognized inrrmediately
that her biggest prolblem was to get
Helen under solnue kind of control
without breaking her spirit. This
could not be done while Helen was
with her family, none of whom could
bear to see the child punished. Mrs.
Keller finally consented to their liv-
ing in a little anneir near the Kellar
homestead where the family visited
them every day. The experiment be-
gan badly. Helen was homesick and
would have nothing to do with An-
nie. Helen's father looked through
the window one morning.att.10 o'clock
and saw Helen sitting on the floor,
still in hen nightgown, the picture of
stubbornness and despair. With tears
in his eyes he said; "I've a good mind
to send that Yankee girl back to
Boston," but he was dissuaded.
Two weeks later, Annie wrote:—
"My heart is singing for joy. The
little Savage has learned her first
lesson in obedience, and finds the yoke
easy. It remains my pleasant task
to direct and mould the intelligence
that is beginning to stir in the child -
soul." By touching objects and by
finger movements into Helen's hand,
Annie began teaching the child to
spell. One day we went to the pump
house. I made Helen hold her mug
under the spout while I pumped. As
the colds 'water gushed forth, I spell-
ed 'w -a -t -e -r' several times. All the
way back to the house she was highly
excited, and learned the nature of
every object she touched. In a few
hours she had added 30 new words
to her encabulary." If this was a
niomentous day for Helen, it was no
less so for her teacher, for that night
Helen for the first time of her own
accord, snuggled into bed with her
and kissed her. The loneliness that
had tracked Annie (;ince 'Jimtnrflsf's
•cle'ath was gone now." I thought my
heart would burst, it was so full of
joy," she said.
Three months after her arrival in
Tuscumbia, she wrote: "I know that
Helen has remarkable ,powers, and I
believe that �I shall be able to de-
velop and mould them. She is no
ordinary child and people's interest
in her education will be no .ordinary
interest; but she shall not be trans-
formed into a prodigy if I can help
it.." (Hbw the Kellers felt • they told
Annie at Christmas, when the happy,
intelligent face of their child brought
keenly to m'ernory the sad.Christmas-
es of the four preceding years. "I
thank God every day for sending you
to us," • cried. Mrs. Keller; Captain
Keller took her hand but could not
speak.
'When Annie felt unequ to a situ-
ation she turned for help t the per-
ron who seemed best equipped •in all
the world to 'carry- her through. In
the case of Helen's voice she took
her to Miss Sara Fuller of the Hor-
ace (Mann School for the Deaf, in
Boston. At the end of 11 lessons
Helen wan able to say haltingly "I -
ani.' -not -dumb -now," For 40 years An-
nie and 'Helen labored incessantly
with Helen's voice and if Annie had
been able to devote her entire time
to teaching Helen to speak,• the re..
sults might have been more satisfy-
ing. But she and Helen both realiz-
ed that to have something to. say
was more important than to have a
beautiful way of saying it.
Annie never let pity' blind her com•-
mon sense. She demanded of Helen
what she --would have ;demanded of a
seeing and hearing girl, more in fact,
for it stook 'Helen twice as long to
prepare her lessons. To this Helen
owes the fact that she has been ac-
cepted on equal terms by the seeing
and hearing, and this is the greatest
pride of her life. •Annie never em-
phasized Helen's dependence upon her
tut Mark Twain once wrote 'Helen:
'You are a wonderful creature—you
nti your other half together—Miss
,Sullivan, •I mean, for it took the pair
rf y'ou to make a complete and per-
ect whole."
When Annie consented to marry
oh•n Macy in 1905, she reconsidered
o many times that Mr. Macy threat-
ned to printf "'Subject Ito change
without notice" on the wedding' invi-
ations. There were many arguments
gainst the marriage: Helen must
ome first, Helen was her child, her
ife. So, in •a house- jointly owned,
he Macys and Helen continued to
ive. Except for absences of a few
eeks, Annie has • been separated
rem Helen but twice in 46 years. In
616 when Mrs. Macy was ' ill in Porto
ico, Helen wrote- her: "How alone
nd unprepared I feel; thirty years
go you, a young girl alone in the
world, handicapped by imperfect vi -
len and want of experience, came
nd opened life's shut portal and let
n joy, 'hope, knowledge, and friend -
hip."
an 1930 Mr. Walter Pitkin listed
he Iiving Americans who, in his opin-
n, had achieved most. Helen Kel-
r's name 'was in the first group
which i'nclude'd only four names. Mrs.
acy, with ten others, was in the
econd, but ; Mr. Pitkin said: "A
rong case Aright be put in favor of
romoting this extraordinary woman
`i.e first group."
'Temple University invited 'Helen
nd Mrs. Macy to receive the degree
f Doctor of 'Humane Letters in 1931.
elen accepted, but 'Mrs. Macy wrote:
i cannot conscientiously receive the
egree: I de not .consider my educe -
un commensurate." But they want -
her to have the degree. Still she
as firm. In the Temple auditoriritm,
ter the other speakers had shower -
raise upon Helen, Dr. A. Edward
ewton asked all in the audience
o felt that the ,degree should be
nferred upon Mrs. Macy, by forces
necessary, to rise , Only one per -
n remained seated, and that was'
nne .Sullivan (Macy. When she re-
rned .a year later to receive that
e'gree, reporters - clustered around
elen. There was only one reporter
ho talked with Mrs, Macy, "Even
my coronation Helen is 'gaeen,"
e said proudly.
You will find Anne ;Sullivan Macy
-day in Forest Hills, gong Island,
th her dogs. There 'ave always
en dogs in her life. The Most not -
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flileult to make people oredit thi�it•--
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Mrs. T. P. ROSS
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AFORT
Library Hall, Tuesday, December 5,
Under auspices of Junior Women's Institute
Entries received Afternoon Program
10 a.m. to 1 p.in. opens at 3 p.m.
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or cake in the Five Roses County Baking Championship contest.
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layer cake with whatever filling and frosting you please. Bring
your entry to the address above. Bring with it a sales slip from
your grocer showing that you have bought 'Five Roses Flour from
him. This is , required as a guarantee that your entry' has been -
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In addition to judging entries to the
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FIVE ROSES COUNTY
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Mrs. Ross will lecture on borne baking.
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Trouncing: "Wah-ter,'.' Many report-
ers who saw and heard this necro-
mancy felt that they had enough on
their hands in making readers be-
lieve in Helen without adding the
story of the dog.
(Mts.-Macy is now nearly 76 and
there is only a dim flicker of sight
delft; but the old fires still burn high.
Not many months ago, friends, with
the greatest difficulty, persuaded her
that it was not a sane and practical
plan to have another pupil, to make
a little neglected deaf and blind child
a nieinfber• of her household. She still
likes the rich warm tide of life where
it strikes the rapids; not where it
runs smooth. She is anchored to
two great rocks of faith; one is that
obstinate belief in people which no
number of disappointtn'epis have ever
been able to kill; and/the other is
Helen. '
Could Annie .Snllivan have done
better by the world and in the world
if she had scattered her abilities?
She thinks not. If Helen Keller had
been nothing more than a good broom
maker, Annie Sullivan would have
eoncentrated on broom-m.alcing. She
would not have stayed with Helen
these 46 years; but one may safely
say that she would not have left un-
til she had taught her to be the best
blind '+brnt71 enea'ker. in the world.
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Each year, pneumonia exacts a
heavy toll from those who are in
the prime of life, at the age when
they are the greatest asset to their
families and to their country. Any
practical measure for overcoming
this tremendous annual loss of life,
with all such loss implies, is worth
of consideration by the individual cit-
izen and by the community as a
wh ole.
With the coming of colder weather,
after the heat of the summer, which
is sonietimes prolonged into the stut-
ters -1, we feel more energetic. We
put a snap itto our work, enjoy brisk
walks, and, altogether, feel a glow
of health. But with the coming of
colder weather, too many of us desert
the out-of-doors, and shut ourselves
into homes and work -places that are
overheated, and we live in closer con-
tact with other people most of our
working hours,
]Pneumonia is caused by germs, and
pneumonia belongs to that group of
diseases which are known as co'm-
municalble. By this we mean that the
germs which cause the disease are
passed, or communicated from one
person to another.
There is reason 'to believe that the
general fitness of the body has a
definite relation to the oecurr nce of
,pneumonia. It appears that fatigue,
"chilling, worry, lack of rest, dissipa-
tion, and all such occurrences, or neg-
lect of the body, resulting in what
we might describe as a rundown
state, favour .the genres' of pneumonia
and give them a better chance to do
their deadly work.
It is ir'h!portant to understand and
appreciate the relationship between
the comlmon cold and pneumonia. The
respiratory tract is continuous from
eche nose down to the smallest branch-
es of tlhe hfonehia,l tubes do the lungs.
A cold is an inf'eetion of the upper
part of the respiratory tract, and
neglect of the eomrmen cold is often
followed by an infection of the lower
part of the respiratory tract, which'
is pneumonia.
Preventing pneumonia means keep-
ing fit. Dress properly, and enjoy
some fornix of outdoor life the year
round, , Secure sufficient rest and
fresh air; do not •becomeover-fa-
tigued, and, by .dressing according to
the temperature and weather, avoid
exposure to cold and wet. Use some
green ,vegetables and fresh fruits ev-
ery day during the winter; Your body
needs them. -.
Shun coughers and sneezers. Wash
your hands before eating and keep
your hands away from your face.
Take care of a cold if you develop'
one. Keep away from sick people -
unless you are staring for them, an
then take the precautions that are
necessary in dealing with a commun-
icable disease.
Questions concerning Health, ad-,
dressed to the Canadian Medical As-
sociation, 184 College Street, Toron-
to, will be answered personally by"
letter.
Tardy Legislation
So far as the legislation for the
I rotection of sheep is concerned, we
ha:ve made little or no advance for'
several centuries, says Mr. J. B>
Spencer ,n "Sheep Rtsbandry irs
Canada," issued by the Dominion De-
partment of Agriculture, We find
that 'in 1648 .the general court of
Massachusetts' needle an order int
which the following. afrpears:
"If any dogge shall kill any sheepe
the owner hang his dogge forth-
with or pay double damages for the
sheepe, if ye dogge hath been seers
to ourse or bite any sheepe (before,.
t being sett on, and the owner .hatis
notice thereof, then he shall both
hang his dogge and ,pay for the
sheepe."
This old regulation was calculated
to protect the sheep in the same wayr
that our present galmfe laws protect:
the deer, while the sheep in many
municipalities are receiving a much
less serious consideration. In the
twentieth century it would appear
as though the dog industry receives -
greater consideration by legislature
bodies than that of the sheep.
Simple Remedy
For Bad Stomach
Gives Swift Rate(
No Need of Strong Medicines or Diet,
Safe and Simple Recipe Keeps
Stomach in Fine Condition
if you are a victim of Stomach
Trouble—Gas, Sourness, Paln or-
Bloating—you may have quick •and/
certain relief by following thlw
simple advice.
Don't take strong medicines, artl-
flclal digestants or pull down your
system with starvation diets. For
within reason most folks may eat
What they like it they will keen
their stomach free from souring
acids that hinder or paralyze then
work of digestion.
do this the
to best
devery mealawith
a teaspoonful of Bleurated Magnesia
—e. pleasant, harmless, inexpensive
prescription that promptly neutral-
ize abidity and keeps your stomach
sweet andgclean.
nne, wwhlohtan ogoodt drug diet on- a
su»lyy, should aulok1y oonvinee gout,
that S0 per oent,,of ordinary stomach
distress is absoluptely unnecessary.
Bs sure is get Sleurated Magnesia.
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