Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 50, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 March 1915 — A New Anecdote. [ARTICLE]

A New Anecdote.

Queer requests are often received for prescriptions, which might puzzle either doctor or chemist, far more skilled than the proprietor of the ordinary drug store. Here is one recently reported by Morris Wade: It is a note from an excitable mother, whose nerves were apparently as much in need of treatment as the digestion of her infant: "My little baby has et up its father’s parish plaster. Please to send an anecdote by the inclosed little girl."— Youth’s Companion.