"Adeline, Countess Schimmelmann, whose portrait is here given, in a recent letter to the ---- company, (mentioning proprietors of nostrum) speaks of friends of hers who have been benefited by ---- (mentioning nostrum), and who first advised her to recommend it to her sick friends. "The Countess, as is well known, is a prominent member of the Danish court. Her coming to this country has been much talked of. Her real object is one of charity. She is stopping in Chicago, _and from there writes her straightforward endorsement of_ ---- (mentioning nostrum)." The italics are the writer's. The picture and the testimonial were cut from the paper, and sent to the countess, asking if she had so spoken of this medicine, and, if so, did she, a strong total abstinence woman, know that this mixture contains a large percentage of alcohol. She responded as follows:-- "Thank you for asking me about the enclosed. A white-ribbon lady came and asked me if I would do her the great kindness to recommend ---- compound (made up of the juice of celery). I said I could not personally recommend it as I neither use, nor want, medicine. But some very reliable friends of mine (_temperance people_, and _true Christians_) told me I would do a good thing in recommending it as they used it, and found it excellent. Then I wrote the following: 'I myself cannot recommend ---- compound as I do not suffer from any of the ailments it is said to be good for, but reliable friends of mine tell me that it is excellent, and I would do a good thing in recommending it to my friends. Adeline, Countess Schimmelmann.' "I will only consent to the publishing of this letter if you publish the _whole_ letter, and no extract from it, as the white-ribbon lady did for the ---- compound." If a white-ribboner played this mean trick upon this distinguished Christian worker she is unworthy of membership in the Woman's Christian Temperance Union. It is more than likely that the "white-ribbon lady," was a paid advertising agent of the patent medicine manufacturer, and wore a white-ribbon to gain the confidence of the Countess. Whether patent medicine manufacturers know how to doctor all ills to which human flesh is heir may be doubted, but that their advertising agents are skilful "doctors" of testimonials is very evident to any one acquainted with the facts. The Department of Public Charities of New York city in a "Report on the use of so-called Proprietary Medicines as Therapeutic Agents," says:--