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Show -"" --' u u 1. 1 n i m m nn j 1 1 m i i nmmtn "I.".". 1" - Rippling Rhymes 3 Qy WAlI MASON. S B '8! FACTS AND THINGS ! Our treasured landmarks disappear) in a surprising wa ; the thing that i was a iruih last year is but a fake to-' day. When I was young the village doc said ailments like the flu. which give the system such a shock, to causes plain were due. We sat in draught?, or wet our feet, and went to beds and pain, and called upon the name of Pete rnd that of Mike in vain. But now the doc, in sounding terms, another plat-j plat-j form springs, and all our ills, are due 'to genus, the doggone measly things. !ln fifteen years or maybe less, thatj I graft will look forlorn, and doctors, j then I make the guess will laugh1 lour germs to scorn. The rules of! ! health of yesteryear look now like silly! I fads, and scientists sit up lo jeer the ; wisdom of our dads. The doctor of the! olden times had whiskers long and! black; he couldn't hope to edrn a dime! , unless he had a staok. But now thci idoetor with a beard in deep privation1 ! so.uirms; ihc lan with lambrequins' 'is feared, for tliey arc fulls of germs.1 lt is a world of piftle, friends, yet let's retain our grinA; for when one streak i of wisdom ends, another one begins. i oo j |