Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 166, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 July 1914 — WRONG KIND OF GARDENING [ARTICLE]

WRONG KIND OF GARDENING

Form That Patient Had Been Indulging in Was Not What Doctor Would Have Recommended. -J "Now comes the season when th» wife goes to the country and the hueband, in the words of the immortal song, shouts 'Hooray! Hooray!’” Thus Jerome S. McWade, th an af*£ ter dinner speech at Duluth began hl* response to a toast on "The Ladles.” “When the ladies are with us, w»-’ are safe,” he resumed, "but when they go off to country or shore, leaving u»;j in town alone, then Our troubles bo*;* gin. “A man one summer day called ©B a doctor. “ ‘Doc,’ he said, ‘l’m all run down.’ < ’ " ‘You look it, said the doctß| sympathetically. I’m not going to pi*- ■ scribe drugs for a man In your coaditlon. No, sir, what I’m going to prescribe for you is gardening,* "The patient started and bls healthy pallor turned to a dull bridLl red. "'But, doc,’ he said, 'gardening M the cause of all my trouble.* " ‘Humph, what kind of gardenlngF said the doctor Incredulously. 7 “ ‘Roof,’ the man