Show SAVED BY A ROOSTER A mexican remedy which proved ethea ciona in a faie of smallpox ata prominent lintel a few daya ago was a gentleman hailing from new mexico lie had been on thi frontier since boyhood and was regaling several friends choice bits of personal eagerly listened to by his finally says alie new york F legram drawing attention to the pitted condition condi Eion of his face which showed the of that dread scourge smallpox lie said yes I 1 had a dose of it in socorro alon about 1881 everyone gets smallpox down there from force of example you hardly ever see a mexican who is not scarred and yet they never go g o out of thair way to avoid it there is a peculiar superstition held by mexicans regarding the disease with them it ia i a associated wiach their religious creed it is this should one of them die of nall pox there is no grief manifested y his relatives as the cause of death is eg ardad as one of open sesame to the kingdom come the avoiding uny wait in purgatory or other stations on the route why they take their children where it is so that they will catch it when youna the fc ame as Aine rican mothers handle the chickenpox chicken pox or measles problem 1 I have a sister who was taken down v ith alie black smallpox when she was vat fourteen years old the ainer an doctors did everything they could ut finally decided the case was hope ss it was then that the mexican urse maria asked if she could dyher ry her and she explained the remedy and 0 pave assent what do you suppose suppo sr e did she went out and hunted round until she bot a black rooster sa with a white feather do would spoil the charm aliis rooster as decapitated in the and ne warm blood used to bathe my sis jr improvement began at once and 10 this day I 1 dont know whether it was the black rooster which saved my sister or the dropping of the case by the doctors |