Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 283, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 December 1914 — NOT A SUCCESS. [ARTICLE]

NOT A SUCCESS.

A Dose That Disagreed as Soon as It Was Taken. i This jtory was told by an old physician' who had practiced for nearly fifty years in a small country town. One day he was summoned to a farmhouse where he found a woman in a hgih fever and evidently exceedingly ill. He said to her husband, who was the only other person in the house: “Your wife is very sick and must have nothing to eat except milk and beef tea, but I want you to give a cup of one or the other every two hours." When he came the next morning and asked about his patient the husband said: “That beef tea don’t agree with her, doctor. It certainly don’t. She began to feel bad as soon as she took it.” “That’s odd,” said the doctor. “You didn’t give her any little bits of the meat in it, did you?” “No, sir, I strained it first on account of the grounds.” "Grounds!” roared the doctor. “What did you make that beef tea out of?” “Corn beef and the best green/tea. I boiled ’em together all yesterday afternoon to get the strength 5 Out. But it don’t agree with "her, doctor. It certainly don’t.”—Youth’s Companion.