1903 
249 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
One of Aunt Asenath’s Cures. 
“Yes, Milly’s got a real pretty home 
in the city. Let’s see—it’s three years 
now, that she’s been married. It’s quite 
a change for a country girl, but she 
seems real pleased and happy there. For 
my part I’d rather be out here in the 
country where there’s room to live. 
“City life agrees with her health? 
Well, when I went there I thought it 
didn’t, but I found it was something else 
that was telling on her. She did look 
dreadful pale, and acted all kinder 
dragged out mornings, though she’d 
manage to brighten up consider’ble 
through the day. It didn’t take me long 
to find out what ailed her. 
“The second morning I was there she 
spoke about how mean she felt. ‘Why, 
Aunt Asenath!’ she says, ‘you step 
around as lively as a girl. You act just 
as if you felt like pitching into the work. 
Your eyes are bright, and you’ve got 
good color as if there was real red blood 
in your veins. Now I’m a good deal 
younger than you, but I feel all tired 
out. I hate to get up mornings, and it 
takes all my will power to drag myself 
around to do the work. I guess I’ll have 
to see a doctor. I don’t see what makes 
me feel so mean; it’s discouraging.’ 
“ ‘Well, Milly,’ I says, ‘folks that’s 
taking large doses of poison right along 
every day, can’t expect to feel real good,’ 
and then I went out into the kitchen 
with a pile of plates, so’s to give her a 
chance to think over that poisoning 
pioposition. 
“When I come back I see .she had con¬ 
sider’ble more color in her face, and she 
looked real put out. ‘Perhaps you think 
I’m taking arsenic pills for my com¬ 
plexion, Aunt Asenath,’ she says, ‘but 
I’m not.’ 
“ ‘I never thought of such a thing,’ I 
says. ‘Whatever put that notion into 
your head?’ I was kinder upset to have 
her take it that way. 
“ ‘You said I was taking poison,’ she 
says, and she was so nervous and un¬ 
strung that she begun to cry. 
•‘I just went up to her and put my 
arms around her. ‘My dear child,’ I says, 
■I’ll tell you what I meant. You know 
that there’s impurities in everybody’s 
blood, and the lungs throw part of it off 
when we breathe. It has changed into 
carbonic acid gas, then, and it’s dreadful 
poison if you get enough of it. If it’s 
real strong it will put out a lighted 
lamp. Well, don’t you see, if you have 
your windows shut tight you have to 
breathe this poison over and over. It 
ain’t strong enough to put you out, like 
the lamp, but it makes you feel horrid 
when you wake up in the morning.’ 
“ ‘Now you see I have all the windows 
in my room wide open all night, and 
then when I get up 1 take a quick cold 
bath. Then I’m ready for my day’s 
one window open a little to-night, and 
in the morning w'ash your face and 
throat in cold water, and rub them hard. 
Anyone like you don’t want to get into 
cold water all over. I don’t do that. 
Just a quick rub-down is all that’s 
needed.’ 
“Well, she did as I told her. She 
thought it didn’t make any difference the 
first night or two, but I see it did. She 
didn’t look quite so pasty, and her eyes 
wasn’t so heavy. She kept taking bigger 
doses of fresh air and cold bathing, and 
in two weeks you wouldn’t have known 
she was the same person. 
“She’d started in on her Winter colds. 
She told me she always begun in Novem¬ 
ber and kept having ’em till warm 
weather come round again. It wasn’t a 
very bad one when I was there, and she 
got all over it before I come away. 
“I got a letter from her to-day and she 
says: ‘Here it is the middle of March, 
and I haven’t had a cold all Winter to 
amount to anything, thanks to your get¬ 
ting some sense into my head. Not hav¬ 
ing colds is as great a blessing as it is 
to feel as if life was worth living when 
you wake up in the morning.’ 
“1 s’pose there’s lots and lots of folks 
that’s dragging around forenoons just as 
Milly was. It does seem so queer that 
they’re all so afraid of fresh air, when 
it’s so good for ’em and don’t cost any¬ 
thing. 
“What’s that? Hitting on you? Oh, 
he you one of the folks that’s afraid of 
air? Well, come to think of it I do seem 
to remember something about it.’’ 
SUSAN BRCKWN ROBBINS. 
With the Plant Doctor. 
Patricia came in with her Azalea for 
me to doctor. It was given to her at 
Christmas all full of bloom, but the 
bonnie rose-colored flowers had fallen 
off and the buds were not opening. Be¬ 
sides this the leaves were turning 
brown, and kept falling in a little show¬ 
er as she set it down on my table. 
“What is the matter with it?’’ she 
asked, so wistful and beseeching that I 
left my work and went to examine the 
plant. 
“Kiln dried,’’ was my verdict, and 
then I told her that the hot dry air of 
their living room had done all the mis¬ 
chief and that in all probability she had 
neglected to water it, and so it had be¬ 
come root dry. No care now could re¬ 
pair the loss, but a few of the smaller 
buds might open if kept in a moist at¬ 
mosphere, and given a proper allowance 
of warm water. She went out into the 
hall and brought in a small date palm 
that had been raised from a stone, and 
of which she had been justly proud. The 
leaves were yellow and dry, and as I 
turned one of them over it was easy to 
see the shell-like scale that was sucking 
its life. 
“lA)ok here,’’ I said, severely, “you 
are careless, these creatures need not be 
here, for you can wash them off if you 
only try,’’ and I took a little soap and 
v/ater and borax and an old toothbrush 
that I keep for the purpose and scrubbed 
the mid-ribs and all the little side 
leaves. Of course some of them were too 
far gone, and these were cut off, but the 
plant looked fresher for its bath and 
the trouble was arrested, so that it will 
thing, it was no doubt fresh from the 
florist, where it had been nurtured in 
the moist warm atmosphere of the 
greenhouse, and it did seem a pity to let 
it be kiln-dried in that fashion if you 
expected it to keep on blooming.” 
“But it is never too late to mend,” 
said Patricia cheerfully, “and I shall 
know better next time.” 
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“I talked with her some more about 
it, and finally I made her see how ’twas 
her having her windows shut tight that 
made her feel so mean. 
“‘Aunt Asenath,’ she says, ‘I’m going 
to send for a man to come and take off 
all the storm windows, and to-night I’ll 
have every one of them wide open, and 
I’ll have the water in the bath tub all 
ready to jump into in the morning.’ 
“ ‘And do you know what will hap¬ 
pen,’ I says, ‘if you do that? At the 
very least, you’ll catch a terrible cold, 
and most likely it’ll be pneumonia.’ 
“ ‘But you do it,’ she says. 
“ ‘Yes, but I’m used to it. I ain’t been 
in the habit of taking poison. Now 
s’posing you had been taking arsenic for 
your complexion. If you stopped short 
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