Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 39, Number 69, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 May 1907 — Goat’s Milk for the Twins. [ARTICLE]

Goat’s Milk for the Twins.

A young husband in the West end is the proud father of twins. The babies have been ill for some time and the young man has been greatly worried about them. He was preparing to bundle the mother and the twins into a south bound sleeper the other day when he met his old family physician, quite by accident, and told him of his plight. The practitioner offered a suggestion immediately which he said would eliminate separating the family and cure the twins. He told the young father to get a goat and feed tlie babies goat milk six times a day as long as they would take this sort of nourishment. That very day the young father ealled up a friend at National Stock Yards, 111., and, after chatting a few minutes about business, gave this order: “Send a goat out to my house; I want it for my boys.” The stockyards friend went mechanically about the order, and the goat was delivered within a few hours. That night the young father met his wife at the door with a kiss, to hear that the babies were no better. “But they will be all right soon,” he assured her. “Did the goat come?” “Yes, it did.” said the wife, “but. 1 promptly sent it back.” “Sent it back!” he exclaimed. “Why, we want it >for the boys, the doctor said.” “Well, you dunce,” wifle scolded, “It was the wrong kind of a goat.”—St. Louis Republic.