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cure talking in sleep, and other " vanityes of the 

 heade." An old Salem sea captain had this recipe for 

 baldness : " Take a quantitye of Suthernwoode and 

 put it upon kindled coale to burn and being made 

 into a powder mix it with oyl of radiches, and anoynt 

 a bald head and 

 you shall see 

 great experi- 

 ences." The ly- 

 ing old Dispensa- 

 tory of Culpepper 

 gave a rule to mix 

 the ashes of 

 Sou thernwood 

 with " Old Sallet 

 Oyl" which 

 " helpeth those 

 that are hair- 

 fallen and bald." 



Far pleasanter 

 were the uses of 

 the plant as a love 

 charm. Pliny did 

 not disdain to 

 counsel putting 

 Southernwood 

 under the pillow to make one dream of a lover. A 

 sprig of Southernwood in an unmarried girl's shoe 

 would bring to her the sight of her husband-to-be 

 before night. 



Sixty years ago two young country folk of New 

 England were married. The twain built them a 



Sun-dial at Emery Place, Brightwood, 

 District of Columbia. 



