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Show Spring is no time for winter ailment one of my favorite things My kids came along and as they were little and theS was liquid we were ok but they got big and had to toV S became a battle. Wsj Either they couldn't m , down and it would begin itod and turn nasty in their m that they spit it out or eke ft it down but gagged the whoK I don't know what was wo A little tiny pill is Jg. some of those big "horse" i difficult for an adult to gLf alone a child. Whycanlfe can eat a hamburger in tJ l and gulp half a quart o?Jr chug a lug, not swallow a pR khardformetounderBtandC I had the same problem iJ That is whylamamaad people pop pills or get addict , uppers and downers. How caTft swalllow that many pills?ltbaff my imagination. s Anyway, back to the ori thought. The swallows are he? they will begin building their nw and spring is surely here It not be true spring until June W this is better than nothing By the way, Happy Mother's),, to all of you out there who an mother or a grandmother (J bless ya! ' i By MARCELLA WALKER It must really be spring now lxcause as I looked out the window on Tuesday morning, a sunshiny morning it was, too, I saw the swallows had returned. - .. . I have been watching for about a week now and had actually begun to think that perhaps they were not going to come because they didn't think it would really ever be spring. I had doubts, myself, about spring this year. I came down with a cold over the weekend. I had already had my cold for this year back in January or February and I don't usually get one this time of year. My only answer was that perhaps my body thought winter was back again and it was time for another cold. The weather has not really been to spring like, we must admit. Colds are not one of the funnest things in life. If they are caused by a bacteria then they can be treated ' with an antibiotic. If they are caused by a virus, as most of them are it seems, then you have to live through it. We can drink a lot of water and juices. I tried that. I made myself -some orange juice and before I could drink it one of the kids came and snarfed it up. Then my hushand made me some orange juice a bit later and I took one sip before another child came along and gulped it down. I tried to holler out that I had already drank out of the glass and my germs were on it but it didn't phase them at all. They didn't even seem to care about the germs. It is like what ever we cannot see cannot possibly harm us. Yet, they have been to school and they know better. I used to like to have a cold when I was little. Mom always gave us special care and we got weak, warm tea or nice chicken soup. She rubbed our chests with Vicks and to this day I don't feel like I will get s ell unless I get some Vicks on that throat when I go to bed. So imagine my frustration when I couldn't find the Vicks the other night. I searched diligently but it could not be found. I had to go to bed without the Vicks. I laid there and felt that without those vapors I was doomed to an extended illness and I probably wouldn't even be able to get to sleep. I was mildly surprised to wake up in the morning and find that I had survived the night without the Vicks and my cold actually seemed to be somewhat better. Maybe the Dristan had something to do with that. . .. We are not a pill taking family. I've never been good at taking-anything taking-anything but aspirin and rarely take that. Fortunately, I have not been prone to headaches and neither has my family. When I was a kid I could not for the life of me take a pill. They just would not go down. My mom would have us wrap them in bread to try and get them to go down or she would buy chocolate covered ones in hopes that would help. My mom was a firm believer in cod liver oil. We took it in liquid form, we took it chocolate coated, we took it in pills but it never was |