Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-01-10
MAIL BRINGS MANY
| OFFERS OF cures
| TOCONG. BREMNER
Jersey Representative Finds
/: Humor and PatIiOs in Hun
I: dreds of Letters.
IFrom a star Correspondent


\ BALTIMORE, Jan. 1O-Congress-
.snan Robert G. Bremner is continuing
ITO improve. He has three meals per
,day His chief drink is buttermilk.
II In almost every mail there comes to
}Eoagressman Bremner in DR.. Howard
a. Kelly's sanitarium letters offering
him remedies and suggestions of cue
flor cancer The congressman has
s1Seen sense of humor which his Ill
,pess has not affected. and he reads
X he missives with enjoyment.
y A package of letters happened to be
brought in while the Washington
correspondent of the Evening Star
twas visiting him yesterday.
. One letter was from Utah. The
writer seriously suggested tnat
Fssure cure" would be effected II the
,,patient would take a bath in gasoline
..twice a day staying in the oily bath
yfwo hours at a time.
Il II wonder if he is an agent for the
3sStandard Oil Company" chuckied
ssthe patient He told the nurse TO
s,bring our some of the other letters and
sshe seemed to find considerable delight
ain listening again to the suggestions
81 Some of them were from quack rem
sedy promoters, extolling the certain
sresults to be received from the use OF
1.-The patent medicines. Some of them
gfwere so obviously intended for use as
FIXTURE advertising material that II
lprovoked Bob" to say:
- Its a shame that no eifectlVe
means can be found to rid the land OF
these people who prey upon the poor
and ignorant with their useless nos
trums.
"Our pure food law, in way helps
bnt these medicine sharks are ike the
loan sharks, they seem to find a way
to evade the letter of the law, While
s'they violate its spirit"
Z One letter was from woman on an
IOWA farm. That epistle the Con
rressfnan did not laugh at. 1t told IN
a plain, homely way of an old-tash-
toned home remedy that had been IN
I5he family for generations and had
been found effective for almost all the
ills that flesh is heir to. The SINGER
ity and simplicity of the writer
touched the finer nature of the Con-
gresham and he said: The dear,
old LADY," She wrote how she was
n grandmother, and the Congressman
said she was prompted by the highest
and unrest of motives in sending her
letter. her desire to do good He went
..on;
1T does me good even to be re-
minded that there are so many IN
this world always ready and willing
to help Others"
slsAnotber letter. a sample of many
like it. told how a woman of strong
religious feeling had been touched by
reading of the patient, and she wrote
to saw that she prays for him night
and day Some of the letters telling
Of the prayers being offered for the
Recovery of the congressman breathe
deeply of religion, and these evil
dences of thoughtfulness on the part
of people he does not know helps to
I7ake brighter the weary hours he is
.cfunpelled to remain in bed.
:. While Mr. Bremner is compelled to
+. 4 aain in bed most of the time he is
81 10 wed to rise occasionally and sit
al he window.
one day while the radium tubes
~,.er not in use he had the pleasure
al .ss \ automobile ride.
pr Kelly refuses to discuss the case
A. ,ormal manner He is credited
Tr;fT IS aying many things he has not
aakd He has contented himself thus
Cav BIZ saying that his patient has
si,osvn | steady improvement. But of
the nqo ;ress of the radium treatment
Re IeTss I ,ot gone further than that.
In ublic lecture here the other
v,iobY hse deplored the fact that he
did not have more of the valuable
mineral MS dlSposal, lnllnallnB
that II h,a had more of it he would
he able ia, make better progress in
the treatm ent of the Passaic con-
Gresham.
4 friend Of Mr.. Bremner declared
that AN an zeal would be made to
yohn D. Roc kefeller or Andrew Car
nerie asking that either or both con-
tribute enough funds to procure suffi-
Gent of the precious mineral to be
used in one no, spital for treatment of
those afflicted with cancer.