The Washington herald., 1911-12-10
A REAL MISSIONARY OF HEALTH
AND HIS BROAD CAMPAIGNS
Director of $1O,OOOOOO Fund in Sage Foun.
datiOn Is Big Man IntruSted with
a Big Task.

novels. 'SuCh novels IN IhOSe days, ne
took pains to explain, were morally
clean. The heroes were always doing
something in the way of killing griz-
zlies or rescuing captive maidens."
Blakeley's How to Get Strong" a book
on elementary gymnastics, came into his
possession. He swung on rings and per-
formed on a trapeze to cure himself of
periodic attacks of headache, inherited
from his father and grandfather. Right
there he ceased to be a missionary in
training though he did not realize it just
then.
Sawed Wood and PeddIed Books.
Il prepared for college," he told me,
at the high school in Hanover. New
Hampshire, paying my, living expenses
| by saving wood and waiting on table at
a summer hotel. Al Oberln University,
in Ohio, / cut lawns. took care of house
| furnaces, and peddled a book entitled
| What a Woman Can Do the same book
that was peddled by William S. Kenyon,
United States Senator from Iowa, whose
father also was clergyman. l made
plenty of sales, but the husbands of the
women wouldn't accent or pay for the
books when l attempted to deliver them.
Financially, the adventure was a fail
ure "
While student at the medical college
lick taught physical training, which he
had learned at Harvard, and ran a milk
route in Monmouth, y. J., getting UP at
! o'clock in the morning, milking nine
COWS and then driving from customer to
customer in a one-hOrse wagon. He was
married year before he was graduated.
I hadn't a cent" he said, land my eX-
| QenSes were $lS7 month. made every
| penny Of il, however, as l went along.
! After completing my medical education.
settled in Jackson, Mich, where became
| physical director of the Young Mems
Christian Association. l still meant to
be a medical missionary, but | became in
terested in my work and the father of
four children. all of which anchored me
permanently to what was, as I supposed,
temporary profession"
oh. Americans are becoming stronger
| instead Of weaker" DR.. Gulick replied in
answer to a question. Information re-
Ceived from different schools throughout
! the country shows that boys, city boys
especially, are larger than they were for
merly. City and village boys have al
ways been stronger. however. than cOun-
try boys 1t was shown during the civil
war that they could endure more hard
ships and march farther than hoys
brought up on farms. Persons living in
cities have better food and purer water
and air than those who live right on the
land l Travelled in South Dakota two
years ago. going from village TO village
and Investigating life on farms. AL
though it was midsummer. I found the
windows of all the houses closed at night.
During the winter windows in school
houses are nailed down. People who re-
side in cities. rich and poor alike, COM
monty sleep in fresh air.
Pure Air for SchooIhOuseH.
"Ventilation, nevertheless, remains,
hig problem l am working on it now.
Fresh air must he provided for school
houses in big cities and the rural dis
tricts. practical way Of getting it, I
am sure. will be found. Teach children
the value of fresh air, and when they
grow up the bedroom windows of VII
lagos and farmhOuseS in South Dakota
and all other States will he open a.
night, no matter what the weather may
be outside
is pure air cure for other diseases
than tuherculOsis?'
1t isn't a cure for anything. No one,
SO far as ] have heard, ever claimed that
it was. Its function is TO increase vital
ity and to help nature to overcome dis
ease. Consequently. it is good for
measles, typhoid fever, pneumonia. or
any other maIady. 1t might be called the
dramatic element in the treatment OF
TUBERCULOSIS, Inc element IN
that there is thought to he some hard
ships in sleeping out of doors and some
picturesqueness connected with living in
a tent The balance between going up
and down is finely drawn in such wasting
diseases as tuberculosis of the lungs
There is a struggle. Pure air. nutritious
food and peace Of mind are natures best
helTs. Worry is bad for anybody, how
over. Sometimes II is temperamental
More frequently II is caused by A torpid
liver The world brightens up amazingly
when the bowels are right and the liver
is behaving as 1t should"
What can the man who spends all Of
his six DAYS in an office or store do for
his health?'
There is no such man. Every man
man. he wastes it. little though it is
The lower kinds of work require long
hours. it is true. but even in such work
machinery is taking the place of hand
labor. All other forms Of work are done
nowadays in short hours 1t must be
so. A writer who began at O'Clock IN
the morning and drudged away until
late in the afternoon would degenerate
physically and Intellectually. Nobody
would read what he wrote. I use a
writer merely as ar Illustration. I
might have called my suppositionsI work.
man a merchant, bookkeeper, lawyer,
preacher, or physician.
How Leisure Time Is Wasted.
"Gradually time is being Topped Off
from labor. There is some leisure, per-
haps only few minutes in exceptional
cases. for practically everybody. How
Is IT used? Often in bed frequently
around the house doing nothing Men