Waterbury evening Democrat., 1908-09-28
BENEFITS IN DISEASE,
Typhoid, lf You Pull Through,
 Gives You a New Stomach.
GOOD EVEN IN RHEUMATISM.


 That Painful Affliotion Keeps oths, Miseriss Out of tho System and ls .
 Promoter of Long Life--6lsssinss oi
 Colds and Smallpox.
 | To be struck down by disease seems a 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 a 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 it know what true indigestion is Struck down by typhoid fever, they came through the trying ordeal cured of indigestion, for one outstanding ec- centricity of typhoid is that if you pass through an attack safely 1t 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, 1t 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. It keeps the blood in good circulation, for, of course, the victims have to cough, and that gives the heart a 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 of an old person in day or two. It is the chronic type only which yields benefit.
 Smallpox is dreaded scourge, 50 much so that if it be reported that a case exists in neighborhood a thrill passes through the whole community. . Yet those who suffer from smallpox and recover usually live to green old age. It 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. It 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 grand friend at hand you have to pay something for aid rendered, but the pain of rheumatism, if shockingly se- were at times, is not deadly, and that is why one gets so little sympathy when suffering from rheumatism
 But the plain fact is that a 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 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 a slight cold may easily save you from many worse ills
 In this way minor affiictions 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 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.