What is a Man to Do?

Free Lance, Volume III, Issue 147, 25 April 1903, Page 15

What is a Man to Do?

He was a cheerful citizen., his simple name was Brown, And once he was the fattest man that waddled round the town ; His cheek was red, his eye was cleair, his hair was full of shine ; Ho looked a main who'd live to be a century and nine. One day he picked his paper up, and, reading there by chance, A health expert's opinions he encountered in a glance. He read them, and he staggered back, and gave a shuddering groan: Has faith in all his victuals now for evermore had flown. Poor Brown he lost his clear blue eye, has healthy, rosy huei The fatness from his oheek it fled and from his body, too. His eyes were hollow— in a week his ribs showed through Ms. vest • He was poor as droughty mutton and had lost his healthy zest. His friends observed with wonder he was dying on his feet tT^^ f& did ' ** m declined to take his daily meat. His daily bread he did discard, and "Nought on earth," said he, Can make me drink of wine, or beer, or lemonade or tea." They called the doctor in; the doctor looked him up and down And ordered him, for change of air to leave the dusty town, And take of fish, and flesh, and -.vine a qmite uncommon lot To nourish him. Then, Brown he slew that doctor on the spot. "It's come to this," he said; "I'm told liuat food is full of poisons that will slay you unaware, And now this wretch advises me to eat the blooming heap : He'd poison m©. Go bury him, and do it very oheiap ! "I know there's poison in the bread and in the fish and meat, In butter, milk, and eggs, and all the many things we eat, And so I've sworn to starve to death to save my life, dear mate®, Which would otherwise be forfeit to those horrid oarbonatesi!"

A little cough will take you off When you the least expect it, If you don't try to make it fly, But happen to neglect it. For coughs increase, and never cease, When once their footing's sure, Yet at the start they all depart With Woods' Great Peppermint Cube.