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Show The Forbidden Vine. Among the things to be avoided, when you stroll into the country, Is poison ivy. It clambers luxuriantly over walls and fences and trees and, late in the season, the old glossy leaves, each of which is divided into three lobes, turn to reds, browns nnd yellows. Its fruit is a small dun' colored berry. The flesh that touches it becomes inflamed and swollen and breaks into blisters that are -tsommu-nicated to other parts as the victim rubs them. Some persons are so sensitive sen-sitive to the poison that they cannot go near the ivy without being affected. The ivy is good to look upon, but It is bad to handle. A couple of years ago there was a project to organize a society to make war on this enemy of the human kind, but it seems to have disappeared perhaps with the disease from which its chief promoter was at the time suffering. suf-fering. In the absence of any organized organ-ized effort to destroy the poison ivy, it behooves every individual to look out for his own welfare. The poison ivy is the forbidden vine. Columbus Dispatch. . |