Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 286, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 November 1912 — Wisdom of the Orient. [ARTICLE]

Wisdom of the Orient.

How much we may learn from the Orient with its centuries of tradition, already old and wise when Columbus first planted the seeds of all sorts of trouble by discovering America. Here, for example, is a gem of science that reaches us from Morocco and that tells us how wives may compel their husbands to retrace the footsteps that even in the home of the brave will sometimes wander from the straight and narrow path of conjugal felicity. As soon as the wife has received the Pinkerton report that tells the old, old story of who he was with last night let her draw a straight line of pure honey down from the middle of her forehead to her chin and collect the drippings in a spoon. Let her then rub the tip of her tongue with a fig leaf till it bleeds and soak seven grains of salt in the blood. Mix it all up together with the honey, add some more salt which has been carried for a day and a night in a tiny incision In the skin between her eyebrows. To this must be added a pinch of earth from the print of her bare right foot on the ground, and the whole dose should then be put into the erring husband’s breakfast food when be isn’t looking. The charm of the thing is its harmlessness and its simplicity. Like infant baptism, it cannot possibly do any harm, and it might dp good. And the women of Morocco say that It never fails, and they ought to know.