People's Pilot, Volume 6, Number 36, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 February 1897 — “Where Doctors Disagree.” [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

“Where Doctors Disagree.”

There has been a great deal of disagreement from time to time about the therapeutic value of sarsaparilla. In the main, authorities deny any particular medical value to the plant. “It’s just an old wive’s remedy,” they Bay. And in the main they are right. There are about a dozen varieties of sarsaparilla, scattered through various countries and of this dozen only one has any real curative power. So a man whose experience might be confined to the eleven other varieties might honestly say there was little value iu them. The one valuable sarsaparilla is found in Honduras, ■C. A. Monardes, a physician of Seville, records the introduction of sarsaparilla into Spain as a result of the Spanish discoveries of the New World, between 1536 am] 1542. But the root did not accomplish much. But he fields, “a better sort soon after cattle from' Honduras.” It is this “better sort" that is used exclusively in Ayer’s Sarrapariila. Audit is the .Cise of this “better sort” that has given Ayer’-o Sarsaparilla, prominence overall other varitlcs by reason of it wdnd.wf.ul curto of blobJ diseases. 'Send

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Van Renaaala®* Chapter No, 267, Daughters of the American Rerolu tion of Rensselaer, Ind., has a membership of twentythree ladies all descendants of Revolutionary heroes. These, with their

husbands and sweet hearts, assembled on Monday evening at the residence of Mr. Alfred McCoy in honor of Washington’s birthday. The commodious rooms were tastefully decorated with flags and bunting in a manner befitting the occasion, and a portrait of Washington occupied the post of honor. The costumes of the ladies were typical of the Colonial period in our National history and, like the ladies themselves, were charming indeed. The powdered hair, quaint dresses and rare old jewelry worn gave to our modern daughters an ancient atmosphere impressing moilern man with the thought that he had been carried 4>ack a hundred years, to another day and age. Many of the costumes made for the occasion were elegant and beautiful. Several of the ladies, however, were attired in dresses that had been the pride of the feminine heart at about the time of our centennial celebration, and fittingly exemplified the revolution that is constantly taking place in modern fashion, altogether forming an appropriate frontispiece to the colonial story in which Washington is a solitary and striking figure; standing as he does in bold relief, typifying that strength of manhood and character that gave to our fore fathers their place in history, and that has called down the reverence, respect and admiration of men of all nations, founding as they did this matchless republic of ours, which illustrates to the world the

most liberal, free and perfect government devised by man. The early evening was [spent in song and instrumental music, rendered by some of the accomplished daughters. After the belated husbands and lovers had all arrived, several hours were pleasantly spent with progressive dominoes. The game waxed merrily until nine games had been played, when an elegant spread, such ab gladeneth the heart of man, was placed before üb. For the time at least, dominoes were forgotten. The flleeting moments having gone all too fast and the hour of midnight having arrived, the guests took their departure, mentally voting Mrs. Alfred McCoy a charming hostess, and the Daughters of the American Revolution a howling success. Guest.