Comments on: She Had a Question, 1917 (3)

By: Diana

Diana — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 18:02:52 +0000

“Open the box of candy at any time most favorable to your friends and yourself.”

I love this. I want to put it on a sign–you know those ones that say things like Families are Forever and Love is Spoken Here? I much prefer ths quote. Good advice like this is hard to come by these days.

By: Mark B.

Mark B. — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 01:33:58 +0000

I’m just glad that Catherine Hurst was not a one-woman Supreme Court. The President must, in emergencies, have “supreme executive authority”???

I’ll take that, so long as it’s qualified by “to the extent not inconsistent with the Constitution.”

By: lindberg

lindberg — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 00:45:57 +0000

Thanks, TOC (#11). I don’t recall ever singing that hymn before, but sure enough, it’s #286 in the 1950 LDS hymnbook.

By: kevinf

kevinf — Tue, 17 Jan 2012 21:07:26 +0000

The Other Clark, that horseradish cure does give new meaning to the phrase “That girl Nellie is hot!!!”

By: The Other Clark

The Other Clark — Tue, 17 Jan 2012 20:27:38 +0000

Note that the gasoline referred to is the “white gas” or “mineral spirits” sold today as fuel for Coleman camp stoves and cleaning paint brushes, without the additives of automobile fuels, (dyes, octane boosters, anti-knock compounds, ethanol, etc.) Still equally flammable, though.

I was most repulsed by the freckle cure involving a horseradish poultice. Were freckles so embarrassing that it was better to smell like horseradish?

By: Ardis E. Parshall

Ardis E. Parshall — Tue, 17 Jan 2012 20:17:02 +0000

I think you’re right, kevinf, although it would have been completely awesome had that been the “prophecy” Catherine Hurst had in mind …

Okay, okay! I was going to clean my gloves with gasoline tonight, Researcher, but you’ve convinced me that it’s an idea to leave a hundred years in the past!!

By: Ardis E. Parshall

Ardis E. Parshall — Tue, 17 Jan 2012 20:15:04 +0000

Wonderful, lindberg — thanks for looking up the explanation of that response.

By: The Other Clark

The Other Clark — Tue, 17 Jan 2012 19:56:17 +0000

lindberg, that’s one of my favorite hymns. It was in the brown hymnbook, and is still in the current Spanish-language one.

By: Researcher

Researcher — Tue, 17 Jan 2012 19:46:56 +0000

No!!! Don’t do it!!

(Clean your gloves with gasoline.)

From a Findagrave entry I saw not long ago:

Eugenia met a tragic death [a few weeks before she was to be married in 1911]. She was cleaning a pair of gloves with gasoline and had placed them on her hands to dry. A short time later, forgetting or not aware of the fumes from the fuel, she struck a match and ignited the gloves. She received burns on her hands and arms and died … at Holy Cross Hospital where her uncle, Creighton S— was the physician caring for her.

By: kevinf

kevinf — Tue, 17 Jan 2012 19:30:30 +0000

I did a Google search for “wedding month prophecy”, and didn’t turn up much of interest except for a website that claims that Prince William, through his mother Princess Diana, is a descendant of Cain, and is the Anti-Christ. I don’t think that is what Catherine Hurst was mailing out to her readers. I quit looking after that.