48SS. 
“Dyspepsia, which is so prevalent in Amer¬ 
ica, is caused solely by a lack of saliva assim¬ 
ilated with the food, due to the fact that 
Americans eat too much and too rapidly. 
The act of chewing gum stimulates the sali¬ 
vary glands, and, by giving to the food taken 
its proper quota of saliva, greatly aids diges¬ 
tion and positively prevents dyspepsia.” 
Somebody in this great American civiliza¬ 
tion is going to have a good deal to answer 
for—and not least among these “somebodies” 
are the manufacturers of cigarettes and 
chewing gum—for popularizing habits which 
are destroying our youths of both sexes. A 
distinguished professor lecturing to young 
people, begins his address with: “Girls, if you 
would have plump and rosy cheeks, don’t 
chew gum.” He asserts that it is almost as 
great an evil to womankind as rum is to man¬ 
kind. It makes rosy cheeks hollow and sal¬ 
low, transforms dimples into wrinkles, and 
brings deep lines around once beautiful eyes. 
He says: 
“The constant exertion of the masseter 
muscle hardens it and removes the fatty sub¬ 
stance which conduces to roundness. Not 
only is the fullness of the cheek destroyed, but 
there is a great tendency to wrinkling of the 
skin, a natural result of the falling away of 
the parts beneath it. ” 
And now, girls, if you will positively give 
up gum chewing—such of you as are addicted 
to the habit—I will let you into a secret, and 
if you have freckles, tell you howto get rid of 
them. If you don’t have any yourself, try it 
on a younger brother. Wash your face with 
the rind of a watermelon from which the meat 
has been taken. Do this several times a day for 
a week, and you have the word of a Southern 
girl, writing to the Globe-Democrat, that you 
won’t have a freckle remaining.I haven't any 
myself, and so can’t vouch for it. The writer 
saj s “ No matter what is wrong with i he face, 
watermelon rind will rectify it and produce a 
clear skin. ” palmetto. 
GOLDEN ROD. 
Is there anything really beautiful about 
this “yellow weed” as the cynic calls it? For 
a long time I had a peculiar sort of contempt 
for sentimental city folks who were enraptured 
by this, to me, common-place old weed. A 
lady with her arms filled with golden rod was, 
it seemed to me, closely related to the woman 
with a pug, and both I considered fit subjects 
for confinement in some asylum. The coarse 
stalk and yellow flowers of the plant—if they 
are yellow—were like vice—“a monster of 
such awful mien, thattobehated'neededbutto 
be seen.” Perhaps the comparison is a happy 
one, for seeing it oft I have become familiar 
with its face and learned to pity “and admire,” 
if not embrace. 
Golden rod is plain, it is coarse, it is not 
beautiful,and,with some trifling exceptions, it 
is not fragrant; what is there,then, about it to 
admire ? It is hard to tell unltss it is its 
suggestive name and color. Can it be that 
parsimony, the love of gold, “glittering gold,” 
is at the root of our admiration and affection 
for this otherwise uuromantic weed ? Perish 
the thought! Those who like gold most, like 
golden rod the least. There is no money in it. 
It is absolutely worthless from a utilitarian 
standpoint. It is only a wild flower—a 
weed. 
I am inclined to think we love it for its 
humility. It thrives every where; it will live 
on the poorest soil or grow tall and rank on 
the richest, its peculiar mission seems to be 
the redemption, if not the adornment, of the 
waste places of the earth. There is nothing 
of pride or fastidiousness about it. It grows 
with other flowers more beautiful than itself 
or it grows alone among the plainer shrubs 
and vines. It is delicate, but not fragile, 
handsome but not gaudy, useful in adornment 
but, withal, independent and unpretentious. 
It is pi’e-eminently the flower of the common 
people. There is no home so poor that it can¬ 
not afford a bouquet of golden rod, no table so 
plain or so scanty that it may not be adorned 
with it. It beautifies the hovel and the palace. 
It is as free as air and almost as indispensa¬ 
ble. What would the hedges and plains, the 
lowlands and the hillsides be without its re¬ 
deeming grace? It grows everywhere and 
for everybody. It is cosmopolitan; it is 
democratic; it is homely, and it is beautiful. 
It is infinite in variety, yet it is over the same. 
There is no mistaking it. The golden solidago 
is totally unlike any of its sisters. 
There is surely no distinctively American 
flower that has been so celebrated in song and 
story. There is something fascinating in the 
air of romance which gathers around it. It 
was with us in our school days; we plucked it 
for our childish sweetheart, or she wore it 
and we admired it for her sake. As we grew 
older we risked all sorts of danger, even our 
very hearts, in our efforts to get the most 
beautiful sprays for the object of ouraljra 
TOE RURAL NEW-WRKEIt. 
tion. All these things have endeared the 
“yellow weed” to us, and we no longer look 
upon it as useless or commonplace. Its sig¬ 
nificance will doubtless increase with age, for 
it is emblematical of the “sere and yellow 
leaf” days of life. It is most beautiful, most 
brilliant, just before the destroyer comes with 
the frosts of the early fall. Surely the sturd¬ 
iness, the want of pride wh^ph cause it to 
rise above its fellows without diminishing 
their beauty, the beautifying of waste places, 
the independence of environment and the in¬ 
creasing brilliancy with age are qualities 
worthy of admiration and imitation. Surely, 
we may all learn some valuable lessons from 
the commonplace, wayside “yellow weed”— 
the truly aristocratic golden rod. j. h. g'. 
COMMON SENSE IN A FAMILY. 
“ Oh what a time for colds ! We all of us 
are just completely used up! Night before last, 
it was so hot that we left the windows open ) 
and after midnight it grew cold, and every 
one of us caught such a terrible chill! I ex¬ 
pect baby will have the croup again!” ex¬ 
claimed Mrs. Smalley, as she ran into her next 
neighbor’s to get some goose oil to give the lit¬ 
tle one ; for the young housewife never kept 
anything on hand; but Mrs. Haren always 
laid in a store of medicines, so that in case of 
an emergency, she should be ready to adminis 
ter relief without calling in a physician at ev¬ 
ery ailment in the family. 
“ Is the baby croupy this morning, Mrs* 
Smalley?” 
“ He is all stopped up, and is very hoarse.’’ 
About two hours later, Mr. Smalley rushed 
into the kitchen, exclaiming, 
“Mrs. Haren do come over quick; Anna 
says little Tot is choking to death!” 
Of course, the kind neighbor dropped every¬ 
thing, and started across the yard, but turned 
back again, and took a bottle of ipecac, and a 
box of yellow snuff, from the cupboard, and 
then went in haste to the rescue. Mrs. Smalley 
was terribly frightened, and was weeping and 
wringing her hands in perfect agony of grief. 
The hired girl was holding the child who was 
really quite sick, and only had on its night¬ 
dress. Mrs. Haren drew a quilt from the crib, 
aud wrapped it round the little limp body, 
and taking it in her arms drew a low rocker 
up to the stove, and asked for a bath-tub of 
warm water to be prepared as quickly as pos¬ 
sible. While it was being got ready by the 
father, she undid its wrapper, and as soon as 
possible put the little one in, taking care to 
screen it from the air. She rubbed it briskly 
and calling for a thick blanket after wip ing 
it dry, wrapped it up and handed it to 
its father. The mother was moaning, and 
crying, “My baby will die! will die!” 
Mrs. Haren prepared a little ipecac in 
sweetened water, and gave it to the little suf¬ 
ferer, and getting a piece of soft flannel rub¬ 
bed on it goose oil and yellow snuff and laid 
it across the little one’s chest. In a few mo¬ 
ments, a moisture started on its forehead, and 
the.breathing became easier. Turning to the 
poor mother, Mrs. Haren quietly said “ Baby 
will not die this time; try and be calm, so as 
to help take care of him! He is relieved al¬ 
ready, and breathes much more easily. ” In 
a’few moments the emetic operated and the 
phlegm was thrown off from his lungs. 
“You will have to take care that he does not 
get more cold, and I think the danger is over. 
The little fellow is so fleshy that he is more 
liable to croup than a slighter body would be. 
I see you have not got a black silk cord around 
the little fellow’s neck.” 
“Ob, I forgot all about it,” said Mrs. 
Smalley, sadly. 
“I would like to know what good that can 
do?” asked the father, with a smile of incre¬ 
dulity. 
“Well, I cannot tell you wherein the virtue 
lies, but one thing I do know, that a child 
who has one around its neck never has the 
croup, and it is a very simple thing to try, 
and an ounce of prevention is better than a 
pound of cure. I tested it pretty thoroughly 
myself,aud I have recommended it to ever so 
many mothers, and I never knew it to fail 
even with the most croupy child.” 
“I put one on baby, after he had the croup 
last spring, aud he never had another attack 
until now,” she said. 
“And would not now if you had one on his 
neck.” 
“What is it made of?” inquired Mr. Smalley. 
“Oh, take two narrow strips of black silk 
cloth and twist them into a cord and let it 
hang loosely across the chest, from the neck. 
1 never knew a case of croup where the child 
had one on. My oldest little boy was very 
subject to croup, and once nearly died. An 
old lady who was visiting in town sent me 
word how to prevent his having it again. I 
immediately tried it, only taking it off to re¬ 
new it,and he never was troubled any more. ” 
“Well it is simple enough to try; but I can¬ 
not understand what virtue there is in it,” 
said Mr. Smalley. 
“Neither do I; we have to accept a good 
many things in this world, the whys and 
wherefores of which we do not understand, 
but our common sense will tell us it is better 
to try things that are known and proved to 
be of use even if we do not understand the 
reason why they are so, than ito run the risk 
of losing our little ones by neglect. I think 
every mother ought to have remedies on hand 
to be used in case of sudden sick attack®, or 
accidents. Every family is liable to casual¬ 
ties, and quick applications often save a great 
amount of suffering and expense. 
“Yes, unless one has a neighbor like Mrs. 
Haren, that knows just what to do, in every 
emergency, and has sense enough not to be 
frightened out of her wits, and always has 
all needful medicines just where she can lay 
her hands on them,” said Mr. Smalley, as he 
stooped over the crib to look at baby. 
“Oh, sir,” Eaid Mrs. Haren, “you must re¬ 
member that I have had a long experience, 
have brought up a large family, and I would 
be a poor scholar if I had not learned what 
was needful to be done.” 
“Perhaps Anna may learn in time, but she 
has not improved very much as yet.” 
“Oh your wife has common sense, and she 
will be all right after a while.” 
MRS. S. H. ROWELL. 
GOLDEN GRAINS. 
Charles Kingsley said it is good for a 
man to be checked, crossed, disappointed, 
made to feel his own ignorance, weakness, 
folly; made to feel his need of God; to feel 
that, in spite of all his cunning and self-confi¬ 
dence, he is no better off in this world than in 
a dark forest, unless he has a Father in Hea¬ 
ven who loves him with an eternal love, and a 
Holy Spirit in Heaven who will give him a 
right judgment in all things, and a Saviour in 
Heaven who can be touched with the feeling 
of his infirmities. 
Chapin says that this is the most fearful 
characteristic of vice; its irresistible fascina¬ 
tion—the ease with which it sweeps away reso¬ 
lution, and wins a man to forget his momen¬ 
tary outlook, his throb of penitence, in the 
embrace of indulgence. 
Dr. Tullock says that everything yields 
before the strong and earnest will. It grows 
by exercise. Difficulties before which mere 
cleverness fails, and which leave the irresolute 
prostrate and helpless, vanish before it. 
Miss Alcott said that people don’t grow 
famous in a hurry, and it takes a deal of hard 
work even to earn your bread and butter. 
The Scientific American says that the 
best recipe for going through life in a com¬ 
mendable way is to feel that everybody, no 
matter how rich or how poor, needs all the 
kindness he or she can get from others in the 
world. 
Beecher said: “ Do not be a spy on your¬ 
self. A man who goes down the street think¬ 
ing of himself all the time with critical analy¬ 
sis, whether he is doing this, that or any other 
thing—turning himself over as if he were a 
goose on a spit before a fire, and basting him¬ 
self with good resolutions—is simply belittling 
himself.”. 
When God wants to work a providence, he 
does not think it necessary that he should 
whisper and say: “ Clouds, go down and rain 
on Beecher’s farm.” Hesays to me: “Sub¬ 
soil your land ;” and when I have done that, 
I shall have a cistern which will supply all the 
moisture that my crops need, without the aid 
of plumbers, thank God! and without any 
pipes. 
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The best remedy is Ayer’s Sarsaparilla. A 
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the blood through the natural channels, and 
speedily effects a cure. 
Ayer’s Sarsaparilla, 
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Price $1 ; six bottles, $5. Worth $5 a bottle. 
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