Atlanta Georgian., 1913-10-05

people broken in health and spirit
Here they attain health and conse-
quent happiness. 1t is a restful,
lovely home where tired nerves learn
to relax, where ugly thoughts give
way to constructive, beautiful
thoughts and where one grows well
and strong because he lives natures
way.
The word "sanitarium" seems to
convey illness to many, yet they have
long since discovered that there is
much in the change of two letters.
'SanatorIum" always suggests sur
gerry, while "sanitarium" does not i'm
ply surgical measures in the least.
Webster long ago defined sanitarium
as "a health station" and it is such
that this one in particular has proved.
In quietHess and in confidence
shall be your strength-ISdidh err:
Is.
The Robertson -Blackman Santa
TiUm IS a health station with all the
hospital atmosphere eliminated. II
becomes an everyday matter to grow
stronger and to gradually forget all
illness. There is never the horrible
sensation of being doctored, of hav-
ing someone supervise each action, or
combat every effort
Mother Blackman is largely respon-
sible for this pleasant state of affairs.
The minute I entered this home
knew there. was a beautiful mother
spirit over it all 1t is Mother Black
man-she mothers the guests, moth
ers the cooking and mothers the
house-no amount of mothering could
prove beyond her.
Working in coordination with this
delightfus home-like atmosphere is
the broad philosophy of assisting ma
ture All means are used toward
this end, and the treatment is simply
sane, gentle elimination of bad
health habits and the substitution of
good ones. To gain health we must
not only learn to relax, to bathe, to
sleep, to eat and to exercise properly,
but even to change, in many cases,
our negative form of thinking.
Drugs have assumed their proper
are emergency toos-stimulants de-
pressants and hypnotics to be used
when the need is great In continual
use they cause an unnatural state
and the body does not learn to do its
own work.
It was only a few years ago that
Ellie Metchnikoff discovered that auto
intoxication caused large percent
age of illness. Toxins are manufac-
tured In the large intestine which poi
son the system from a degree of IA
tigue to actual. chronic illness and
stupef1cation resulting in death THAT
tired feeling" is often not a lack of
will, but a real disease, requiring
immediate and competent attention
You may think you are only patch
ing up the house a little so that it
l0iH be more comfortable to fUe in,
but tChGt yOu are really doing is i1t-
CitiBg good temper. cool judgment.
a happy heart and the jog Of life to
come and dtoeH NTH Franklin
Berry.
Turkish baths seemed the only
treatment for poisoned systems, and
were accepted as a wonderful discov-
cry. The hot steam room took much
of the patients vitality, to be sure,
but he had the satisfaction of believ-
ing that heroic, disagreeable cure was
a necessity. To faint away in the
fetid atmosphere, where he inhaled
the obnoxious vapors from his own
poisoned body, was not unusual. The
theory of elimination was good, but
the practice was faulty.
Secure In a bath cabinet, with heat
adjusted to the need and comfort of
the patient, while his head Is outside
to admit the breathing of fresh. pure
air. there Is no depletion of strength
nor discomfort. Auto-tntoxication and
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