Show the forbidden vine among the things to be avoided when you stroll into the country la 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 and yellows its fruit is a small dun colored berry the flesh that touches tou cheso it becomes inflamed and swollen andl bi breaks eaks into blisters that are communicated to other parts as the rubs them sonic some persons are so sensitive 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 3 ears cars ago there was a project to organize it 1 society to mata maket war on this enemy of the human kind hind but it seems to have disappeared perhaps with rith the disease from which its chief promoter was at the time suffering in the hie absence of any organized effort to destroy the poison ivy it behooves every individual to look out for ills own welfare the polain ivy is the forbidden vine columbus dispatch the chronic borrower has one redeeming feature nt at le least ast he never strikes a man that Is down |