The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-12-22
HOME HEALTH CLUB
endited by pr. David IF. Reeder. Chi

(Edited by Dr. David III. Reeder; Chi
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 Natural or induced sickness: There, are few conditions of illness that are natural The individual. his surround ings habits and food or drink can easily account for about 99 per cent. of sickness or disease. That means that the question of one's physical health is almost entirely within the | control of himself.
 TO admit that you cannot control your surroundings is to admit g. lack of sumption. Yes, you know what sumption means. It's an ugly word but I mean 1t. No one has compelled you to remain in a community where | the citizens will not live in a sanitary | manner. There are millions of acres | of fertile lands in various parts of | this broad country that are waiting | for the hand of men and women of | gumption to make productives pros porous homes upon them. Many thou | sands of acres of these lands can be | had for the asking and many thou 1 sands of acres belonging to wealthy 1 men, would be sold to you at very low prices and upon any reasonable terms that you might ask. If you are in a 1 crowded city or small town and the climatic or sanitary conditions are not conductive to buoyant good health. get out.
 
 about two men. One was sick and discouraged because he was shut up in the house during a cold winter when the snow was very deep. He wrote to the Home Health Club for advice and told him that from his description of his condition I thought he should be near the salt water in a. 1 warm climate. That pleased both | him and his good wife Their farm in the north was very valuable and they readily sold 1t at 8 big price and went south They have been living within four rods of the salt water for l about or years now and they are growing all kinds of grain and vege- tables that they grew in the north andAI besides they are growing figs, dates, oranges, lemons. grape fruit, bananas and peaches. They miss the big red apples, but they are so happy because they can live and work out doors dur ing the entire year and they are strong and well.
 Now about the other man. He was young. A great big fellow, but hed lived in a southern town where they had not yet wa.kened up after the dis l astrous civil war. On account of. in sanitary conditions, the fever had at tackled him and hookworrn as we'll Of the latter he was easily cured, but I head and a little ambition was about 1 all he had to take with him, but the energy of the northern climate soon. drove the fever out and ambition and energy took it's place. Today his big homestead is one of the show places Eof his country, but the health and Happiness afforded by a change to l conditions and climate that are nat | 1lzal for him are worth more than the I material prosperity.
 e Some people never have good health in the climate where they were born, but in a locality suited to them they l are well. happy and contented. In nature it is the same I know an old I apple tree which grew up as a seed- ling in Indiana. The fruit had a pecu- lia flavor and was liked by many, all I though the apple was not large or well II coIored. aScioIls were taken from it T to a nursery and new trees were II grown and planted in an entirely diff ferent soil and climate. The fruit is a splendid size, beautifully eo1ored and many times better in every way than in it's native State. A few years Il ago an enthusiastic man paid T5 cents Il apiece for a box of choicest of these apples and gave them to the president of the United States as samples of the finest apples ever grown.
 Your sickness may be natural to you as long as you continue to eat un- natural food in an unnatural way or to live in a climate that is not con- genial or amid surroundings that are not sanitary.
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