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Show Medicine by the Dlmeful. A man went Into n Now York drug tore and asked tho clerk for a remedy rem-edy for Indigestion. Tho clerk sifted a pink powder Into the scales. "Take a heaping dlmeful of this," he said. "It will bring yon around all rlgbt." "A dlmeful?" ojucululud tho man. "What kind of Bystem of measurement measure-ment Is that?" "It Isn't now," replied tho clork, "and It Is very simple. Just tako a dime and pile as much powder on It as will stick. That will bo tho proper dOBe. You couldn't got It any more exact If you measured for half an hour with scales and spoons." A man standing near" by sighed P remlnlscontly. "It makes mo feol about ten ears younger to hear you say that," ho said. "Thoy usod to mcasuro modlclno that way when I was n kid. I supposed modorn appliances had driven all thoso old methods out of tho mnrkot." "Not at all," said tho clork. "There aro lots of places where they still tako medicine by tho dlnioful." |