Rensselaer Union, Volume 9, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 May 1877 — The “Celery Cure.” [ARTICLE]

The “Celery Cure.”

The blue-glass mama has scarcely shown signs of subsidence ere another claimant as a cure-all is waiting its turn tor the suffrages of the thousands who indulge in an excess of faith and credulity. No doubt a little industrious advertising will make as many cohverts to its marvelous powers as a health-restorer as' has been done with blue glass, provided those interested are as shrewd as the glaziers. This healthrestorer is—heed it, O incredulous reader! —the delightful vegetable that garnishes our winter*dipner-table under the name of celery. That mpn of good appetites and good digestion delight in this sweet, crisp, and juicy stalk—the tender white heart of the plant being the portion that the true epicure craves, and munches with infinite pleasure—all the world knows; and that would-be wiseacres shake their heads at the inviting dish, and in strange delusion pronounce it’indigestible, all of us have painfully witnessed; but few have supposed, we' imagine, that the much-prized plant has wonderful curative properties. Many readers will be surprised to learn that persons affected by nervousness, even when so seriously afflicted that “ their hands shake like aspen-leaves,” have, by a moderate daily use of the blanched foot-stalks of celery as a salad, become as strong and assteady in the limbs asother people—so a writer on the subject affirms; and not only extreme nervousness has been thus cured, we are gravely told, but palpitation of the heart has been effectually arrested by its use. Now let the gardeners emulate the glaziers, and hire some ingenious news-paper-men to set storieg afloat as to all the wonders of the celery-cure. Nervousness is so wide-spread an affliction in our modern high-pressure civilization that the patients will count by tens of thous anas. Celery as a “ relish” before soup; celery as a salad after meat; celery and cheese as dessert; celery-luncheons; cele-ry-salad as alight late supper; celery plain or dressed for gentlemen whose nerves are ante-breakf*st cocktails; cele-ry-chewing parties by young ladies and gentlemen; celery iu a hundred ways, and oh every possible occasion, is now sure to be the fashion. We hear, indeed, of a druggist, who draws from a sodafountain a hot exttract of celery, mixed with meat-e±tract, and serves the compound to waiting adores, who partake, and part with derves steadied and hearts fortified thereby. When the full wave of the mania rises, there will assuredly be “a corner” in celery. We shall soon hear of enormous consumption, and the struggles of the gardeners to meet the new demand; celery-beds will be widened and extended ; town amateurs will be for converting ■ back-yards into space for thefgrowth of the plant, and breathlessly studying gardener’s hand-books, as to, method and manner of cultivation: so that by the time of the next autumn harvest-season all the world will be either raising'or consuming the delectable plant, or else waiting and yearning for the next curc-ajl.— Appleton*' Journal. t • ' “ —-; : Fen real tercr-floitestyle the bumblebee takes the palm. He is as fat as the letter O, and a* moderate as a seidlitz powder. He wears a black and white velveteen coat and a pair of yellow corduroy t/otisers. He'dresses as b ell as a hotel clerk.—Oil City (Pa.) Call.