17-year-old Helena Muffly wrote exactly 100 years ago today:
Monday, June 17, 1912: I tried to play the sick cat this afternoon, but no one took it very seriously. In fact I really didn’t feel very extra anyway.
Her middle-aged granddaughter’s comments 100 years later:
What chore was Grandma trying to get out of? It isn’t fun to not feel well, and not have anyone believe you.
A Hundred Years Ago 
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“… tried to play the sick cat” … Miss Helena’s expressions are glorious indeed. Loved the illustration on “Wm R. Adams Microbe Killer”!!! Thanks for another fabulous post Miss Helena and special thanks to your “middle aged granddaughter” Sheryl 😀
Glad you enjoyed this post.
Looks like Grandma is suffering with a form of middle child syndrome.
Could be. . .
When I first read this I asked a similar question…was there anything she would ahve taken? My grandparents used to grow spearmint…we often had tea when we weren’t doing so well. I still keep it on hand! Thanks, Sheryl!
Spearmint could be used to make a nice calming tea.
I guess playing hooky wasn’t invented in the ’70’s. Here I thought I’d perfected it.
Kids have always tried to get out of work they don’t want to do. 🙂
It seems to me, looking at the cure-all of the day, it may have been a good thing no one blieved her and made her drink that stuff! Ugh!
How true–many of those patent medicines were bad!
My family had a bottle of this stuff for years! I don’t know if anyone ever took, but I believe they did. I even have an old, old photo of the medicine man who came around and sold it. It was before my time, but the old family enjoyed telling about it.
Really! It’s cool that you can remember seeing a bottle it.