The Forrest City times., 1904-12-02
ABOUT TRYING TO GET WELL
Many Times It Results in Perpetu- ating the Ailment or Disease
 Which Affiiets.

Trying to get well is, in many cases, like trying to lift ones self by the boot straps. Trying to get well is self conscious process which keeps con tinually calling attention 10 physical states. and that is a very harmful con dition of mind, says Medical Talk for the Home.
 Anyone who has the soie purpose of getting well of some chronic disease. is generally doing the very thing which perpetuates the chronic disease. Thinking over his trouble in the morn- ing examining himself as to symptoms at noon time. breeding over his pros poets for cure in the evening.
 This programme is repeated every day.
 This is enough to make well man sick. and is not a very good regimen by which a sick man is made well. It is exactly like taking medicine A sick man takes medicine that would make a we'll man sick. And yet. taking such medicine, he Is hoping to get well.
 The way to get well is to quit think ing about your illness. Do something else besides trying to get well. Engage in something, however small or in- significant, something for the benefit of others.
 A rich banker once made his first start in getting we'll by trying 10 make hand-sled for his little boy.
 An aristocratie lady. who had never in fa eta Tt or on the high road toward recovery from seemingly incurable malady, by learning to do plain sewing and wash ing dishes three times a day
 Begin to do something which takes the mind off the body.
 We once saw doctor whose time was worth $50 a day. He was in ill health and had to quit h s business He tried to get well at sanitariums and by taking drugs. but got worse Then he went away. out into the country, and stayed with farmer This doctor, whose time was worth $50 day, began to help the farmer dig potatoes, He picked up the potatoes while the farmer dug them. Every day. a little while, he did something 10 help the farmer. He descended from the professional position of earn inS $50 a day to a chore Joy for al obscure farmer. But this cured him This made him well again. which wa! worth vastly more than $50 a day.
 Do something, if you want to ge we'll. Many grand lady is pinins in ill health, in her parlor, trying ir vain to find relief by the help of high priced doctors and expensive appli ances. Many a woman is doing these things, when if she would but change places with her chambermaid or cook little while each day. she would ge we'll
 To make an exclusive business o trying to get well is bad business It is an unwholesome business. It i. business which only sinks one deep CT and deeper into the quagmire o chronic disease
 Quit trying to get we'll ard begir trying to make some one else happy.
 Help some one with his work. Take your place by the side of some on, who is bearing burdens that ought tc be shared by some one else. This vii make you well quicker than anythine else. And while getting well a lessor is learned that you will never forget A good-for nothing idler does not de serve to be well, and rarely is very well.
 Quit talking disease Leave off men tioning your ailments and troubles Go steadily forward in some usefu employment. and you will have don, for yourself a greater work than an, one else can do for you.