The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1908-10-21
BENEFITS N DISEASE,
Typhoid, if You Pull Through,
Gives You a New Stomach.
GOOD EVEN IN RHEUMATISM.
That Painful Afflietion Keeps Other
Miseries Out of the System and Is a
Promoter of Long Life-Blessings Of
Colds and Smallpox.

| rTomoter OF Long Ire-biessingS OF
Colds and Smallpox.
TO be struck down by disease seems
n most undesirable thing, yet there are
many living today in the fullest en-
| joyment of very excellent health who
but for an attack of some disease
would have lived life of almost per-
| petual misery.
These people were, first of all, vic
tins of indigestion in its worst form,
and only those who have experienced
| 1t know what true indigestion Is.
Struck down by typhoid fever, they
came through the trying ordeal cured
of Indigestion, for one outstanding &C.
centricity Of typhoid is that If you
pass through an attack safely it gives
you new stomach. In fact after an
attack Of typhoid the victim is usually
left with stomach like an infant.
That is the grand chance offered to
one who has suffered, it may be, for
long years from acute indigestion. If
only he takes care, after an attack of
typhoid he need never know indiges-
tion again.
Be it remembered that any one trou-
bled with severe Indigestion is not ad-
vised to go hunting around for typhoid
fever. That might prove to be a disas-
trous course to follow.
A chronic cold is just one of those
things which none of us want. yet
even chronic cold has its good points,
more especially if you happen to be up
in years bit-not too old. of course.
People who are up in years and who
suffer from chronic bronchitis seem
to get remarkably well. 1t keeps the
blood in good circulation, for, of
course, the victims have to cough, and
that gives the heart jerk and sends
the blood coursing nicely through the
veins and arteries.
If the cold be not too acute, old peo-
pie derive considerable benefit. An
acute attack, on the other hand, may
cut off an old person in day or two.
1t is the chronic type only which yields
benefit.
Smallpox is a dreaded scourge, so
much so that if it be reported that a
case exists in a neighborhood a thrill
passes through the whole community.
Yet those who suffer from smallpox
and recover usually live to green old
age. 1t seems to renew life in some
mysterious way by thoroughly purify
ing the blood
If, however, you desire to attain to
a ripe old age, you cannot get on at all
without rheumatism. Consider the
hosts of old folks you encounter hob
bling about, grumbling all the day
about their bones and joints. In all
probability these old people would
have been in their graves years be-
fore but for this very rheumatism.
The reason is that If rheumatism Is
in the system it keeps other ills out.
1t makes grand fighting force and
keeps most other enemies of the hu-
man frame at bay, especially those Of
the germ type.
Very naturally If you have such a
grand friend at hand you have to pay
something for aid rendered, but the
pain of rheumatism, If shockingly Sc
we're at times, is not deadly, and that
Is why one gets so little sympathy
when suffering from rheumatism.
But the plain fact is that slight
malady always benefits you, even If
Indirectly. AS an example of that,
say very bad spell of weather comes
along, cold and wet, and you contract
a slight chill
what do you propose to do? Why,
to take the greatest care Of yourself
and make as certain as possible that
your cold gets no chance of develop
ing into anything worse. Now, did
that very slight cold not make its ap-
pearance and cause you to be ex-
tremely careful of what you did there
is no saying what might happen to
you any day during a spell Of evil, cold
weather. You might have exposed
yourself so much that severe chill
would have seized you, followed by
Inflammation of the lungs.
Accordingly slight cold may easily
save you from many worse ills.
In this way minor Affections act as
warnings that worse things are COM
ing along, but unfortunately many
persons quite neglect these warnings.
A man, for example, has Indigestion
more or less constantly, yet pays little
heed, always expecting that it will dis
appear one day. Now, If he had just
paid attention to the matter at the be-
ginning-heeded the warning, in short
he might not have been let in for a
severe liver attack later on.
Every pain, every ache, every head
ache-all these are warnings that
something else is on the way and will
be along shortly.-Pearson's Weekly.