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Musterole — 
Just Rub it On 
An old fashioned remedy 
in a new-fashioned form— 
is Musterole. It has all the 
virtues of the old - time 
mustard plaster, without 
the fuss, muss or blister. 
And it is so simple and 
easy to use. 
Just rub it gently over 
the spot where there is con¬ 
gestion or pain. In a mo¬ 
ment or two, your pleas¬ 
antly tingling skin tells you 
that Musterole has already 
begun to take effect. 
Musterole is a clean, white 
ointment made from oil of mus¬ 
tard and a few home simples. It 
relieves —as did the mustard plas¬ 
ter—cold in the chest (it often 
prevents pneumonia), bronchitis, 
croup, rheumatism, headache, 
neuralgia, lumbago, and sore 
throat. And best of all, it relieves 
without discomfort. 
There is no burn orsting—only 
a first warm glow of skin, then a 
soothing sense of coolness. But 
way down deep underneath the 
coolness, the penetrating Muster¬ 
ole generates a peculiar heat 
which disperses the congestion 
or pain. 
For first aid in many illnesses 
never be without a jar of 
Musterole in the house. 
30c and 60c jars—$2.50 hospital size. 
The Musterole Co., Cleveland, Ohio 
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After Christmas 
There are many who find the Winter 
days after Christmas dull, but for me 
Winter is never long enough. November 
usually sees the last of the regular pick¬ 
ling and preserving, and is the Vermont 
farmers’ butchering month. That, with 
Fall cleaning to finish, and getting ready 
for Winter, makes November too short. 
December brought lie no snow to speak 
of, and there is a school tree and home 
tree to prepare, but with mild weather I 
couldn’t make the reef, realize it was 
Christmas until the cards began to arrive. 
After Christmas there are the letters and 
cards to answer, and of late we have tried 
to write a,s many letters to older friends 
as we can. During the rush of Summer 
perhaps we younger ones are excusable 
for not writing letters, hut I feel sure I 
am not the only one who has elderly aunts 
and uncles, a boarding mistress, perhaps, 
mothers of my friends who are partly 
shut-in during the Winter, who would be 
delighted to get a long, newsy letter. I 
think T never realized how much a card 
may mean until I asked a widowed farmer 
(not farmerette) if she heard from Dora 
often, her niece and my schoolmate, and 
I shall never forget how her face lighted 
up as she said. “Oh. yes! she alirays 
writes me a card every Christmas.” Her 
other relatives might forget, but one al¬ 
ways wrote, yet if Dora had know how 
that one card a year was prized she 
would have written a long letter every 
month. 
Then. too. reading is neglected in the 
rush of Summer, and if you haven’t the 
scrapbook habit, get it. There are not 
many papers worth keeping entirely, but 
nearly every one contains something 
worth saving, so clip and save and make 
a hook, or use envelopes or cards for the 
the different recipes. Then pass the pa¬ 
pers on. The It. N.-Y. asks. “What 
books are you reading?” To answer for 
our five boys, there are some books all 
boys should read : Hiawatha, Swiss Fam¬ 
ily Robinson, Uncle Tom’s Cabin. Green 
Mountain Boys. Tanglewood Tiles, Rob¬ 
inson Crusoe, appeal to both hoys and 
girls. Then there seems to come a divis¬ 
ion. and the Boy Scout Books please the 
hoys. One of my greatest regrets is the 
lack of Boy Scouts here. We have hoys 
enough near us for a patrol, but no lead¬ 
er, but every hoy should be familiar with 
their hand-book. The best scout hook we 
have is “Along the Mohawk Trail.” Then 
the hoys enjoy Thornton Burgess, Seton- 
Thompson. and William Long’s animal 
stories; Cooper's Leatherstockiug Tales 
are prime favorites. 
I gather from one writer that she 
dreads growing old. and really thinks 
others do. I wonder if that is true of all? 
Some way, growing old never troubled 
me nor gave me much thought until our 
teacher, a “sweet young thing” from a city 
normal, rubbed it in. as the boys say, that 
T was “awfully” old and I should think, 
according to her, past the age /of useful¬ 
ness or interest. I happen to know 1 am 
IS.years older than she. As I read I no¬ 
ticed what different magazines said and 
observe our older friends. Last Fall we 
entertained a schoolmate’s mother. Her 
occupation for visiting was tatting and 
lilet crochet, although she said she never 
had time to learn crocheting till after 
her husband’s death a few years ago, hut 
she was happy and interesting. A friend 
amused me by buying material for a 
crib quilt with designs for embroidery, 
for she said. “I haven’t time to make it 
now for my babies, hut I will make it for 
my grandchildren.” In my later years, 
after the rush years are past, I am going 
to learn tatting. 
One magazine contained au article on 
the age of woman’s greatest charm, and 
said in substance that while girls had al¬ 
ways something pleasing about them, the 
most charming women were those whose 
life grew sweeter, kindlier, fuller each 
year, often being at their best from forty 
onward. As regards the usefulness of the 
older women, one writer stated that the 
[best work was usually done by women in 
their later years, after forty. There were 
not the physical interuptions, and they 
worked more understandingly. So far I 
was encouraged, and wasn’t it Dr. Eliot 
who thought at SO he would he having the 
time of his life? Then came the poet 
Browning’s “Grow old along with me, the 
best is yet to he.” Dr. Van Dyke told 
me: 
“I shall grow old. hut never lose life’s zest. 
Because the road’s last turn will be best.” 
Then Longfellow tells us the achieve¬ 
ments of those past 00. In a book of 
selections copied long ago is a beautiful 
poem entitled “At Sixty-two,” and one 
stanza is: 
“For what is age hut youth’s full bloom? 
A riper, more transcendent youth; 
A wedge of gold 
Is never old; 
Streams broader grow as downward 
rolled.” 
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So teacher's words rolled off like water 
from a duck’s hack, and 1 thought, it rests 
with each one whether added years bring 
greater beauty of life or not. 
“On parent knees, a naked new-born child. 
Weeping thou sat’st, while all around thee 
smiled; 
So live, that sinkiug in thy last long 
sleep 
Calm thou inayst smile, while all around 
thee weep.” 
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