Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 153, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 June 1920 — Rann-dom Reels [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

Rann-dom Reels

By HOWARD L. RANN

THE PILL TIE pill is a small, round object which 1s fed with the utmost abandon to patients who would rather eat something else. One of the best things that was ever done for the medical profession was when somebody invented the harmless white pill which could be sold at a 900 per cent margin. After a young doctor who is just out of school has fed n few tons of these pills to the people of his community, he can quit work and lie around a

summer resort In white flannel pants and a look of sweet content. Some people are very much opposed to the use of pills, and try to get along by use of the highly perfumed onion poultice, while others can never eat a full meal without Immediately attempting to conciliate it with a handful of pink pellets. Then there

are people who can never see anything go to waste and who devour ell of the pills left on the front porch In the way of samples, in this manner becoming as fragrant as a drug store clerk. Both schools of medicine, allopath and homeopath, prescribe pills when* ever all else has failed. It is considered better practice to prescribe an operation at the expense of the abutting property owner, but once In a while a stray pill will strike the right spot when the doctor Is not looking and effect a cure. This Is one of the sorest trials the doctor has to bear. There Is a strong suspicion abroad that if people would eat fewer pills and take more exercise, mixed with a semloccasional bath, they would live longer and have more money to spend on tires and inner tubes. Pills will not revive energy in a man who never had any to start with. (Copyright.) O

Pills Will Not Revive Energy in a Man Who Never Had Any to Start With.