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Show IN THE SPRING TIME, NOW AND THEN. When the spring days arrived, mother brought out the sulphurand molasses and doped the children, but a better spring tonic is now recom-dended. recom-dended. Here is the description of the old spring doctoring as given by a physician: phy-sician: As the first warmth of spring brought a feeling of lassitude, the fanner's wife In older days would go searching through the woods for "yarbs" from which to make a bre as a tonic for the whole family. The city man, feeling the laziness of "spring fever" coming over him, brought from the corner drug-store a 49-cent package of "Old Doc" Some body's spring tonic, consisting of the same useloss "yarbs." a liberal dose of pure alcohol, and perhaps a touch of strychnin. But the doctor no longer recommends recom-mends the old blood purifier or any drugs. Ho says men have learned that the best spring tonics are the gift of a beneficent nature. A full breath of fresh spring air. a brisk walk along a grass-grown road, a plunge into the cool waters of the old swimming-hole if tho water is pure and cold or the morning shower it in the city, fresh green food, or the pursuit after a bounding ball those are real invigorators, true tonics |