Show ONCE OVER lydia E pinkham H 1 phillips book by jean burton on lydia APin A pinkham kharn brings back memories ies of a day when the prim face of that lady stared from billboard magazine and newspaper that was away back when old mr munyon father duffy bigelow healys healas kickapoo indian kagwa Cas carets Al cotts kidney plasters paynes celery compound and liniment were apt to be in every medicine chest mother sills seasickness pills swamproot Swam frog in your throat and glovers glovers hair restorer were in every drug store too it was the era when they were pioneer advertisers back when the bear in the bear in mind slogan made an old time cereal famous when the winchester calendars were a must in thousands of homes and when the folks went for stick licorice old Battle axe cut plug snake oil bay rum sweet caporal cigarettes snuff and flaxseed poultices it was the period when mom gave the kids pumpkin seeds for worms tied an old sock around their necks for sore throat and pu put t an onion bag on their chests for croup 0 0 the age of medical specialists set in doctors were general practice boys who did everything for 2 win lose or draw but 2 could be an extravagance in those days if the patient was still conscious and the folks depended a lot on herbs potions oils and p patent abent medicines As a child we got rubbed with so many things before the doctor was called that we were lini hill ment logged when he got there lydia pinkham was for the but we remember it in the advertisements and on the labels it seemed the only medicine nobody rubbed or dosed us with we often wondered about lydia there were songs about her one ran feeling low and wanna feel biddia lady take a slug of lydia lydia pinkham the new book recalls calls was a lynn mass gal beautiful and with a perfect III figure aure in the hourglass hour glass mode she was one of the pioneers in the equal eq ual rights and votes for women c a m laign she was a student of medicine and for years gave her compound free it was not until her husband went broke that she decided to sell it 0 0 0 her four children peddled it from door to door first and it bring home the bacon until one son put a 60 ad on the first page of a boston paper from that time lydia Pink hams remedy became one of the greatest newspaper advertisers in history and what a believer in advertising lydia was jean burton gives the recipe for the compound telling how th the e various herbs and powders were percolated in fine spirits giving an 18 per cent alcoholic content to the remedy A few shots of the compound and any woman felt better they were all familiar up around new england in our boyhood we can still in fancy catch the aroma of kickapoo indian kagwa florida water witch hazel still going strong from a base at t essex conn porto rico bay rum bur coment paynes celery compound and liniment good tor for man or beast ODE FOR SEPTEMBER september lime is here anew ill take lake a bowl of oyster stew again ill ask and ask how hoto do the crackers always seem so febi |