The Forerunner Part 26
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C A L E N D U L A
CHILDREN CEASE TO CRY FOR IT.
This is a gratuitous advertis.e.m.e.nt, benefitting
a) The Child; whose pain stops;
b) The Mother; who doesn't have to hear him cry;
c) The Nearest Druggist--a little.
CALENDULA is a good standard old drug--made of marigolds--in the _materia medica._ You buy a little bottle of tincture of calendula, and keep it on the shelf. n.o.body will drink it by mistake--it doesn't taste good.
Presently Johnny falls down hard--he was running--he fell on a gritty place--his poor little knee is sc.r.a.ped raw. And he howls, how he howls!
square-mouthed and inconsolable.
Then you hastily get a half a tea-cupful of water, a little warm if you have it, and put in a few drops of calendula. Wet a soft clean rag in it, bind it softly on the wound, keep it wet--and the pain stops.
Many many times has this quieted my infant anguish; also have I used it as a grown up. The effect is the same.
C A L E N D U L A TAKES THE PAIN FROM A R A W W O U N D
THE FORERUNNER
A MONTHLY MAGAZINE
BY
CHARLOTTE PERKINS GILMAN AUTHOR, OWNER & PUBLISHER
1.00 A YEAR .10 A COPY
Volume 1. No. 3 JANUARY, 1910 Copyright for 1910 C. P. Gilman
Forgive the Past--and forget it!--don't carry a grudge against graveyards.
Accept the Present--you have to--here it is.
Concentrate on the Future--still yours to make--and get busy!
A CENTRAL SUN
A Song
Given a central sun--and a rolling world; Into the light we whirl--and call it day; Into the dark we turn--and call it night; Glow of the dawn--glory of midday light-- Shadow of eve--rest of the fragrant night And the dawn again!
Given a constant Power--and a pa.s.sing frame; Into the light we grow--and call it life; Into the dark we go--and call It death; Glory of youth--beauty and pride and power-- Shadow of age--rest of the final hour-- And are born again!
REASONABLE RESOLUTIONS
The trouble with our "New Year Resolutions" is that they are too personal. We are always fussing about our little individual tempers and weaknesses and bad habits.
While we, Socially, behave as badly as we do, we individually can accomplish little.
Says the wiseacre--"Ah! but if each of us was individually perfect Society would be perfect!"
Not at all! You can ama.s.s any number of perfect parts of a mechanism--or organism--but if they do not _work together right_ the thing is no good.
And you can't learn to work together by trying to be perfect separately.
Can you?
We need collective aims, collective efforts, collective attainments.
Let us collectively resolve:
That we will stop wasting our soil and our forests and our labor!
That we will stop poisoning and clogging our rivers and harbors.
That we will stop building combustible houses.
That we will _now_--_this year_--begin in good earnest to prevent all preventable diseases.
The Forerunner Part 26
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