Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 155, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 July 1919 — THAT DREADED SPRING DOSE [ARTICLE]

THAT DREADED SPRING DOSE

Who of Middle Age Forgets the Brimstone and Treacle of His Youthful Days? It stood on the kitchen cupboard, a bowl Of yellow pottery containing a sticky mass of the same color and strangely familiar. Could it be. the spring dose of tier childhood ? It was t Sulphur and molasses ! And the m!dVictorian woman had mixed it for her grandchild, remarks the New York Sun. “You take it three days running,

a tablespoonful before breakfast, and then omit it for three days, then take it again, and so on until you have repeated this three times,’! the creator of the dose explained. “No need to tell me; I was brought up on it,” the visitor said. “Without it I should never have been able to understand the feeling of the poor wretches of Dotheboys Hall when Mrs. Squeers fed them brimstone and treacle. Our was mixed in the same sort of bowl and mother always set it on the sideboard, lest we forget” ,

And she shuddered as she spoke. But' even at that she knew that the shudder was for effect. So strong is the force of tradition that she went home that very, day and mixed herself the childhood dose, deciding that if there were any virtue in the combination ,of spring and a blood purifier she might as well benefit by it At all events it could not hurt her.