The citizen. [volume] (Berea, Ky.) 1899-1958, 1914-11-19
are occupied by inferior things.
Yours for advancement.
THE HEALTH MASTER
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10 provoke the Olu lduy iitV Vho W
those frequent verbal encounters
so thoroughly enjoyed by both OF
them.
IAN ordinary common cold in the
head. You know what | mean per-
fectly well. young man. The kind
you catch by getting into drafts
"Oh, thatl Well, you see, there's
no such thing"
mo such thing as n cold in the
head. DR.. Strong?" said Julia, look
ing up from her book. why,
we've all had 'em, loads OF
times"
And Bettina is coming down
with one now, il I'm any judge,
said Mrs. Sharpless. shes had
the SMILES all day"
Lets hope il isn't cold. Maybe
it's only chicken-pox or mumps.'
"Are you wishing chicken-pox
and humps on my babyT cried
Mrs. Clyde.
In the three years during which
DR.. Strong had been the Chinese
physician" of the household, earn
ing his salary by keeping his pa
tients well instead Of curing them
when i'll, Mrs. Clyde had never quite
learned to guard against the sur
prises which so often pointed the
Health Masters truths.
mot by any means; I'm only hop
ing for the lesser Of evils"
But humps and chicken-pox are
real diseases" protested Clyde.
"And you think that a cold, as
you call it, isn't?'
why, no." said Clyde hesitantly.
az wouldn't call il disease, any
more than I'd call sprain broken
leg"
: But il is. A very real, serious
disease. Its actual name is coryza.'
"Bogy-talk," commented Grandma
Sharpless scornfully. Big names
for little things"
mot a little thing at all, as we
should all realize If our official
death-records really dealt in facts.
"Death-records? said Grandma
Sharpless incredulously. People
don't die of colds, do they?"
Hundreds every year; all around
u.s."
well, I never hear Of it,"
Are you sure? Think back annc
recall how many of your friends
obituary notices include some sucf
sentence as this: Last Thursda.
evening Mr.. Smith caught a severe
cold. from which he took to hi
bed on Saturday, and did not leave
it again until his death yesterda!
morningY Doesn't that sound IA
miliary
80 familiar" cried Mr.. Clyde
, that believe the newspapers keel
it set up in type"
But the newspaper always goe
on to say that Mr.. Smith DEVELOPS
, pneumonia or grip or bronchitis
| and died of that, not Of the cold,
[ objected Mrs. Sharpless.
"Oh, yes. In the mortality rec
ords poor Smith usually appear
I under the heading of one OF Tn
, well-recognized diseases. 1t woul
hardly be respectable to die of
a cold, would itg'
! "He doesn't die Of the cold" in
? sisted the old lady. He catches tn
A cold and dies of something else"
IF take a dose Of poison IN
a Health Master mildly propounde'
q land fall down and break my nee
what do | die off"
q ITS no parallel" said Grandn
. Sharpless. And even if it is" 81
:, added. tacitly abandoning th'
:, ground, we've always had COLI
- and we always will have EN-"
70 Not with my approval, at least
remarked the Health Master.
II guess Providence won't wa
- for your approval, young man."
~ Then you regard cOryza as di
y lpensation of Providence? III
- Presbyterian doctrine of foreordln
- ton, applied TO the human nost
= smiled the physician. Were
~ predestined to the ailment, al
~ therefore might as well get out o
30 handkerchiefs and prepare to snee
:" our poor sinful heads of. Is tn
l., about it?'
" mo, il isntl This is a green ID
cember and il means a full churc
a' yard. We're in for regular col
a breeding season."
VI "Nonsensel Weather doesn't bre
'" colds"
What does, then?'
W "A very mean and lively lit
'ai germ. He's rather more pOlsono
u than the chicken-pox and mum
lie variety, although he hasn't as b
Ill a name. In grown-ups he prepaI
r. the soil, so TO speak, for 9th