Show EVERY DAME SICKLY AND UNSOUND of Pink hams S y a y n sniffer aSas WB was nn eife a n liffer 9 ff SANG GLORY OF LYDIAS COMPOUND H 1 PHILLIPS book by jean burton on lydia A pinkham brings back demor lea jos of a day when the prim face ot of that lady stared from billboard magazine and newspaper that was wag away back when old ir ar munyon father duffy bigelow healys healas kickapoo Klc kapoo indian Cas carets Al cotts kidney plasters paynes celery compound and lin ament were apt to be in every medicine chest mother 51 0 t h e r sills seasickness rills pills swamproot Swam frog ln in your throat anil and glovers alair re lie storer were in every drug store too it was the era when th they c were pioneer advertisers back when the bear in the bear rhuda da V ba god I 1 the cl T la e L ord h a th sa s ansly the mide a dawn the shade th he light wind t he the ile loans rain s th ft its C hours and for tile dew joyfully me and to VIC and then without then ll 11 th to vall at lack alq la nightfall nigh trall bi ds y them me 1 have lived at is feet that bring thera back WOr thil V IC inay see god scant grant I 1 jbf be deac A childs tang of hoart this the little brov ests 81 day IS wild bit aan ess in A n d 1 who A A they its play aal and go in so 6 ft Y why sho light uld P the I 1 hot of hear ts not I 1 A n stuttering StItT SA ering may and hold lobs for rne S no ant SS sh a C d thatis lave had T Y ya T GRACE NOLL CROWE 4 in mind slogan made an old time cereal famous when the winchester calendars were a must in thousands of homes and when the folks went for stick licorice old Battle axe cut plug snake oil bay rum sweet caporal cigarettes snuff and flaxseed poultices it was the period when mom gave the kids pumpkin seeds for worms tied a an n old sock around their necks fo for r sore eore throat and put an onion bag on their chests for croup the ago of medical specialists set in doctors were general practice boys who did everything tor for 2 win lose or draw but 2 could be an extravagance in those days if tho the patient was still conscious and the folks depended a lot on herbs potions oils and patent medicines As a child we got rubbed with so many things before the doctor was called that we were lini ment logged when he got there i lydia brinkham was for tho the hut but we remember it in III the advertisements and on the labels it seemed the only medicine nobody rubbed or dosed us with we often wondered about lydia there were songs about her one rant feeling low and wanna feel gledla lady take a slug of lydial 0 0 lydia pinkham tho the new book recalls was a lynn mass gal beautiful and with a perfect figure in the hourglass hour glass mode she was one ot of the pioneers in the equal rights and votes for women c campaign a m she was a student ot of medicine and for years gave her compound free it was not until her husband went broke that the she decided to sell it her four children peddled it from door to door first and it bring home the bacon until one son put a 60 ad on the first page of a boston paper from that time lydia Pink rink hams remedy became ono one of the greatest newspaper advertisers in history and what a believer in advertising lydia wasl out of gross for years she poured back into advertising jean burton gives the recipe for the tha compound telling how the var lous ious herbs and powders were per colatch in line fine spirits giving on an 18 per cent alcoholic content to the remedy A few shots of tj the ie compound and any woman felt better they were all familiar up around now new england in our b boyhood dybo od we can still in fancy catch the aroma 1 of kickapoo Klc kapoo indian kagwa florida water witch hazel still going strong from a base at essex conn porto rico bay rum bur burl 1 l gomont coment paynes celery compound and liniment good for man or beast ODE FOR SETE SEPTEMBER M BER september time is here anew abou ill take a 4 bowl ol of oyster stew again ill ask ash anil and ask aik how do the crackers always seem so low few Is 6 it has been a perfect summer for oysters the oystermen oysterman oy report 1 it seems that they thrive in a season when there are few storms andi anda little rough water still we are firm believers in environment and we think a summer like this has cost the oysters considerable character we prefer an oyster with a rugged upbringing and with a suggestion of defiance in its nature these 1949 bivalves may be such sissies it will seem cruel to squirt lemon on em cm A japanese industrialist has been arrested for picking pockets he explained that collections had been slow and that he had to meet a payroll A lot of american businessmen ness men knowing how it is think he may just be a little ahead of his time |