=========================+=========+===========+=============== | ARTICLE | EDITORIAL | ADVERTISEMENT -------------------------+---------+-----------+--------------- Babies | 1 | -- | 11 Soaps and powders | -- | -- | 5 Beauty | 3 | -- | 6 Quack cures | -- | 2 | -- Tooth powders | -- | -- | 4 Household | 1 | -- | 5 Food and cooking | 1 | -- | 14 Clothes | 13 | -- | 5 Teaching sex laws | 1 | 2 | -- Medicine | 4 | 1 | -- -------------------------+---------+-----------+--------------- Total | 24 | 5 | 50 =========================+=========+===========+=============== Besides the classic patent medicines, such as Lydia Pinkham's Vegetable Compound, Castoria, Cod Liver Oil, etc., there are "Colds Cured in One Day," "Appendixine," health foods, massage vibrators, violet rays, Porosknit underwear, sanitary tooth washes, soaps, vitopathic, naturopathic, and faith cures. New ones appear every day,--enough to make a really sick person dizzy, let alone a person suffering from imaginary ailments. All seem to outline my particular symptoms. After they have flamed at me in red letters in the surface cars, pursued me in the elevated and underground, accompanied me out into the country and back again to the city, greeted me each morning in the daily paper and in my daily mail, each week or each month in the periodical, the coincidence of a familiar package on a drug-store counter seems to be providential and therefore irresistible. I know that I ought to be examined by a physician, but I am busy and not unwilling to gamble for my health; it cannot kill me and there is a chance that it will cure me. If there is nothing the matter with us, we may be cured by our faith. If we are taking a cure for consumption, the morphine in it may lull us into thinking we feel better. If we are taking a tonic for spring fever, the cheap alcohol may excite us into thinking our vitality has been heightened. Soothing sirup soothes the baby, often doping its spirit for life, or soothing it into a sleep from which it never wakes.