Heaven, I gather from medical science, is merely a place that is free from germs." "We talk a lot about it," thought Mrs.Wilkins, "but it does not seem to me that we are very much better off than before we took to worrying ourselves for twenty-four 'ours a day about 'ow we are going to live.
Lord! to read the advertisements in the papers you would think as 'ow flesh and blood was never intended to 'ave any natural ills.

'Do you ever 'ave a pain in your back ?' because, if so, there's a picture of a kind gent who's willing for one and sixpence halfpenny to take it quite away from you--make you look forward to scrubbing floors, and standing over the wash-tub six 'ours at a stretch like to a beanfeast.

'Do you ever feel as though you don't want to get out of bed in the morning ?' that's all to be cured by a bottle of their stuff--or two at the outside.
Four children to keep, and a sick 'usband on your 'ands used to get me over it when I was younger.

I used to fancy it was just because I was tired.
The one Cure-All.
"There's some of them seem to think," continued Mrs.Wilkins, "that if you don't get all you want out of this world, and ain't so 'appy as you've persuaded yourself you ought to be, that it's all because you ain't taking the right medicine.

Appears to me there's only one doctor as can do for you, all the others talk as though they could, and 'e only comes to each of us once, and then 'e makes no charge.".