Democratic Sentinel, Volume 7, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 September 1883 — The Son of a Pill. [ARTICLE]

The Son of a Pill.

It is interesting to look back of the finery which wealth has put on the backs of women at the watering places to see how the money has been obtained. “Do you see that lady in a white Ottoman silk?” a correspondent was asked. “The one with the shapely figure?” he responded. “Yes, that’s the one; but her shape always seems to me like a certain bottle of bitters. Why? Because her fathers fortune came from the manufacture of a constituent of cock-tails. Over yonder, in dainty mull, is the wife of a facepowder; going down the hallway are the two daughters of a cough syrup, and the swell who drove past a few minutes ago in a dog-cart tandem was a son of apilh” The cheapest and simplest gymnasium in the world-=-one that will exercise every muscle and bone in the body—is a flat piece of steel, notched on one side, fitted tightly into a wooden frame, and, after being greased on both sides with a bacon rind, rubbed into a stick of wood laid lengthwise in a sawbuck.