David Heiller
Several people commented on my column
about Bag Balm: Mona Sjoblom, Sharon Zimmer,
June Christensen, Edwin Muse, and Fern Heiller, among others.
Here is
what they said. I won’t put the names with the comments. I like to protect my
sources. But you can have fun guessing.
One person said she uses bag balm on
her feet, but doesn’t have a problem with it staining the sheets, because she
doesn’t glop it on as thickly as I do. (You don’t know what you’re missing.)
Another
person said Bag Balm was good for two other uses: chapped lips and hemorrhoids. Fortunately I can’t verify the latter.
Another person called to thank me for
writing about Bag Balm. She said she used it for her dry skin caused by diabetes.
She buys it in 4-1/2- pound cans (that’s a lot of hemorrhoids), and likes to
give it away to her kids.
Another person wrote in a letter
which is printed on this page: “Then we used it for diaper rash. It was better
and healed faster than any of the other things we bought and used.”
Another person wrote this in a
letter: “I sure laughed at the Bag Balm article. Just the day before, I’d been
talking to Goldie about chapped hands, and we mentioned that.”
So the next time you see someone with
diabetes, dry skin, cracked feet, chapped hands, chapped lips, dry skin, diaper
rash, and hemorrhoids, and if they answer to the name of “Lucky,” do them a
favor and buy them a can of Bag Balm, the
4-1/2- pound size.
Α refreshing interview
My interview with the four elderly
Askov people about Danish Christmas traditions in this week’s paper was the
highlight of my week.
It’s always pleasant to learn more
about the old ways of Askov, and to get to know better such fine people as
Alvin and Marie Jensen and Louie and Margaret Clausen.
The story they told is far from
complete. There are as many memories on Danish Christmases past and present as
there are people with Danish blood. The traditions have been passed down to
many children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren. If you are one of these,
consider yourself lucky.
Hats off to Askov citizens who are reigniting
those old Danish traditions with a community celebration at 2:30 this Sunday at
the community center.
The only down side of the interview
was having Alvin and Marie confirm that they are indeed going to move to the
Twin Cities area as soon as they sell their house. Askov won’t be the same
without their birdhouses and birdfeeders and flowers and cinnamon rolls,
and most of all their friendship and
kindness.
Maybe we can forma group like Crime
Stoppers to prevent them from leaving. We could call it Jensen Stoppers. I bet
we’d get a lot of volunteers.
Praise the Lord and play the slots
Three
weeks ago in church during the offering, I took out four coins to give to each
of our two kids to put in the collection plate. I handed them to a friend to
pass to the kids.
My friend raised her eyebrows and
smiled wryly at me. One of the coins was a casino token. It had gone from an
Askov American customer to the broken teapot on top of the fridge, where we
keep loose change, to my pocket and to church.
I was
embarrassed, because I have never been to a casino in my life, and this was
church, after all, so I took the token back and put it in the tea pot, where it
is awaiting a happier fate.
The
sermon that day had been about the evils of gambling, after which the minister
announced that there would be bingo that evening in the parish hall.
Just
kidding, Owen.
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From Dutch Jones’ East of Bruno
column, December 21, 1995. Dutch was an Askov American favorite for many, many
years. She called ‘em as she saw ‘em:
Talk about
Dave Heiller’s bag balm. I
tell you, if it weren’t for it, my mother’s
back sides would of been raw. Not one blemish on her bottom. I couldn’t buy it
around Moose Lake so I went to Superior. They sell it in the drug store called udder balm and it’s listed in drug
companies as a medicine product. I use it under my nose. When you get a cold
and runny nose, it keeps scabs off. Come on now, I bet you have used it.
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