Show K H THE COUNTRY COLUMNIST By 0 O. O W. W NIELSEN k H rr For your Christmas reading this year try reading the Book Dook of Luke Its It's in the Bible Dible Yes R R. L L L. we do think that a good clerk will tell the customer what the sales tax is when you pay your bill Lon Hansen brought out the best part of a fat beef No use trying to get even with that fellow It cant can't be done If sometimes you get pretty mad at your doctor because he making miracles come to pass fast enough to suit you try some of the remedies used in the good old days But first you'd better find out if you have got a whole lot of faith and maybe you had not been so very sick You wont won't likely find the herbs you should There any more that are easy to find In the other years Mrs Haddon who lived up near the end of first south street raised all kinds of herbs used for making medicine But that no more so maybe maybe maybe may may- be you'd best first find the herbs and then see if it fits your ailment Now if you have asthma fh Ji V li V V ili V ill V ill or consumption as it was called called called call call- ed you go up to Pea Valley Valleywest Valleywest Valleywest west of Mt Pleasant and dig up about a of wild onions crush them and put them in a cheese cloth bag and wear it on a string around around around a- a round your neck It was a asure asure asure sure cure If you had the jerks or spasms you first drunk tea made out of sage brush leaves or aspen bark Then you drunk a brew made out of slippery elm bark If U you died you didn't have to worry worry worry wor wor- ry and if you lived you didn't didn't didn't did did- nt have to worry none either Then if you were a woman and had everything in the old book wrong with you a tea made out of the roots of the swamp cattail was a good cure It isn't very likely that any anyone anyone anyone one nowadays has lice but in inthe inthe inthe the old days that was quite common among the grants This was the cure Either boil the clothes in a strong water or put the garments near an ant bed and you got rid of the pesky things For head lice bear beargrease beargrease beargrease grease or any kind of fat was used We dont don't know what the cure C was for people who just had a lousy mind |