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Interesting To Farmers' Wives

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Parent Issue
Day
13
Month
July
Year
1860
Copyright
Public Domain
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Vi;j, :w Skin in tuk West. - We cali attention to the following from the Philadelpliia Ledger. Although it is not universal in iis application to the people of tlu; Wat, it is worthy the attent ion of a largo tribo of " Yollow Skins" found hero : ff uur Western friendo can in any way j teach thcfir wives daughteis, or OOOJCS, to ! koop the pearlash out of the bread, all llii? '■ yelluw poople, cspecially the yellow ehildron, who are supposed to be turned yellow bv the t'uver and aguo and billioua fevers will snon be turned white. It is a groat inistako to suppose that the yollow countcnances of the West come from bilt, when it is only the euormous quantitiea of poarUsh caten in the bread that is reflectod through tlie skin. Brend is the staff of lifo, it is said, - and so it is; - but it is the stafl" of death, too, in this country. Und l read kills about as niany people here as bad rum. So mauy pcoplo eat poisonous pearhish t'or broad that they die by inches. Dyspepsia, - that great monster disease of the country, that deranges the livor, brings ou costiveness, and thus finalljr kills tho human victim, - is half tho time " pearlash." Here, in the cast, - out of New England, - we have nearly driven off the pearlash-saleratus eooks, but not altogether. Pearlash Uves here yet in bread, but in oities and towns we have nearly whipped out tho murderer. In the distant western towns, bcyoud the good hotels of the lakes and rivers, pearlash, under tho name of saleratus, is king. It is pearlash for breakfast, pearlash (or diuner, and pearlash for supper. It is not any wonder, then, that the people of the cast turn yellow in tho west, and sicken : not of fever aud ague, billious and eongestive feveri, but of pearlash thrco times a day. ggicgau tflitsJ

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