Show Ogden Anecdotes Ailments merited home ‘cures’ chamomile tea they took immediately after By IRENE WOODHOUSE Special to Standard-Examin- birth er Ogden women like other frontier women had their own “cures” Patent medicines were for child- I saw the following notation written in pencil in an old cookbook: “A tub of water plus mustard equals a good bath for colds and fatigue” Still diseases came regularly Children brought measles mumps whooping cough chicken pox the chronic conditions and doctor’s prescriptions were itch and other troubles from school impetigo of unheard practically After each bout women scrubbed walls floors Women kept herbs and spices like thyme anise d and furniture with brushes and soluginger paprika dill and mustard to be used in the of tions creosote or Lysol treatment of ordinary colds stomach disorders After diphtheria typhoid scarlet fever and muscle soreness and toothaces They made little bags of asafedita for their children to wear in tuberculosis they burned mattresses and any bedodor would ding or item of clothing that could not be washed public hoping the strong garlic-lik- e with the strong homemade lye soap ward off disease Disease had a stigma beyond discomfort For more potent medicines they bought small Smallpox epidemics could wipe out whole towns amounts of chemicals from the druggists and made Survivors were left with terrible complications and their own potions were disfigured Nothing was feared like that disMany oldtimers remember the sickly-sweease smell of the cough syrup simmerYet I am always shocked by stories of pest of on the back the coal stove Some remember ing the coppery taste of homemade “canker” houses These were isolated buildings where smallmedicine Most women recall the fragrant pox victims were usually taken Yellow flags the recognized sign of smallpox were posted in the yard and on the building Ogden’s pest house was located in the area that now comprises Washington hard-bristle- et onion-and-hone- y Without advertising a terrible thing ARTISTIC happens Nothing Terrace When the pest wagon came up the street mothers kept their children indoors and pulled the shades HAIRCUTS T No one ventured outside until long after the old horse-draw- n carriage writh its two yellow flags behind the driver had taken its victim away flying COLORS-PERM- S After each trip the wagon was fumigated I believe the Ogden Pest House was maintained by the city There is a notation in the 1875 record book that Samuel Jost was paid $25 for the care of a man with smallpox But all stories are not so grim Several years ago I heard this one A FR AN HOFFMAN ' 399-252- 5 Problem Hair' A Specialty ' State House Building 2550 Washington'1 Blvd A certain local judge was required to visit the outlying communities to decide various points of usually stayed at a large house because he liked being the center of attention Also the woman of the home was of Pennsylvania Dutch parentage and cooked in that traditional way serving pickles and relishes with each meal It was a pleasant arrangement for host and guest The judge brought news from Ogden and the children loved his stories The good times ended one morning when the judge woke up with the mumps For the prescribed time the woman cared for him cooking bland dishes and trying to keep her children away from him A week after the judge left the home one child got the mumps Then each of the six in his own time came down with the disease For months the mother “fetched and carried” to the boisterous children who called each other “judge” and demanded special food In the spring when the judge came down the road the husband went out to meet him “Judge” he said “I just came to say that Mother and I both respect you and the job you hold and we’d never say anything but the highest praise for you But if you ever set foot in our house again Mother says she’ll leave us all And I can’t allow lawr He that to happen” The judge immediately understanding what must have happened since his last visit said he’d just go on down to the boarding house As Ogden grew more medical men came In 1876 an ordinance was enacted at their request This law required that all persons dispensing medicines — physicians surgeons aurists occultists must druggists and druggists’ clerks of to a an certificate examination obtain pass be and licensed the by city qualification That ordinance was the beginning of the end of home remedies Women began to buy prepared medicines from drug stores Nobody seemed to mind this least of all the women Mulligan Stew Sartorial spies skulking about in the shrubs seeking clues By HUGH A MULLIGAN AP Special Correspondent LADIES & GENTLEMEN GIRLS & BOYS ir-i- INTRODUCING FOR YOUR ENTERTAINMENT CLOWNS ELEPHANTS CHIMPANZEES TIGERS TRAPEZE ACTS ACROBATS PEANUTS POPCORN THRILLS JOY AND LAUGHTER SO PRETEND YOU ARE A CHILD OR BETTER YET TAKE A CHILD TO THE AREA'S MOST SPECTACULAR ANNUAL ENTERTAINMENT sashays around garbed like an Israeli tank or a British barracks in Northern Ireland The smart set both male and female favors cloth in shorts slacks culottes jump Once again undercover agents from the world of camouflage suits even cocktail and evening wear haute couture are hot on my trail trying to steal a The triple canopy jungle look is so with it in all the look at the next new trend in fashions right places that Kalman Ruttenstein vice I am sure I saw someone with a sketch pad dent for fashion direction at Bloomingdale’s presihas skulking about in the bushes the other morning as I warned of couture overkill made my way across the Boston Common to a “If you are going to wear camouflage prints” favorite lobster house Rutterstein cautioned the high camp crowd in the The style sleuths from the rag trade recognize me New York Times the other day “mix them with as a pace setter in the industry They know I was khaki For evening a camouflage chiffon into baggy trousers and safari jackets long before scarf on a silk outfit is a nice touch Butprint head to toe Oscar de la Renta Yves Saint Laurent and the no” other celebrated cloth snippers unveiled them at Well the senior vice president for fashion directhe big spring showings tion at Hardscribble House the trend-settinprose In fact on the same day that “baggies” made boutique from whence emanate these designer headlines in Women’s Wear Daily my wife said to paragraphs has news for Veep Rutterstein and all me at breakfast “Can I give those balloon seated the other senior seamstitchers and sleeve hangers corduroy slacks of yours to the Salvation Army? in the Garment District You look like a retired burlesque comedian” Journalist George McArthur and I pioneered Retired was the wounding word Still and all it camouflage chic at least a decade ago in Saigon must be difficult being married to someone so once called the Paris of the East now Ho Chi Minh outre so far out ahead of the fashion parade as I City am especially in these conformist times It is my George was then The Associated Press bureau burden in life to have been considered “preppy” chief in Saigon One day we went to Cholon the thanks to an old Harris tweed jacket that refused to Chinese quarter and haggled for a bolt of camouffade away when George Bush was still in Buster lage cloth in the open market which some moralBrown collars ists later disparaged as the black market I was under heavy pressure to get rid of a Armed with a copy of Gentlemen's venerable Shetland cardigan until Jimmy Carter Quarterly we called on Honorable Minh the Chinee wore one at his first television-sid- e chat And since tailor on Tu Do Street who had created the twin the Ronald Reagans bestified California casual my lapeled safari jacket known as the “TV Suit” for peppermint striped seersucker jacket is no longer Dan Rather the Kalb brothers and other corresponan endangered species dents with a critical charisma count Now camouflage cloth is all the rage in the better Minh stitched my share of the jungle cloth 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