The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-09-03
HOME HEALTH CLUB

Grunters: The famous Doctor Holmes stated, many years ago. that the best possible insurance of long life was for a young man to be re- jected by a life insurance company. A young person is se1dom concerned about matters that pertain to health It takes a severe jolt to awaken him to a realizing sense of what good health means.
 A friend of mine, a near neighbor who had practiced medicine for over 50 years, who recently died in his 87th year, once told me that when he was 25 years of age consultation of physicians pronounced his case hopeless and told him that he must not marry because he would in all probability die within.s6 6 months and could not possibly live more than one year. kIe attended all of their funer-- als and his children and grandchiI- dren are all healthy, robust people.
 Here is little editorial from the New York Times that gives some very good illustrations along the same line:
 ''tThe battle for existence is not to the strong, as shown by the case of the woman of Trent, Pa, g. lifelong invalid, who died last week agod TOT. President Victor c. Vaughan of the American Medical association multi plies instances of great mortality among strong, busy men and women suddenly attacked by disease,- They are not prepared for it's. trials, they put forth their strength in sickn ess, and they are vanquished. Those who are threatened before they are stricken live long. They may even attain vigorous and lasting health. The case of Theodore Roosevelt, who was a sickly child, is in point. Horace Fletcher, @ prey to a complication of diseases, awoke to his danger when rejected for life insurance at 49, and by taking thought grew younger un- til Director Anderson of Vale gym nasiuIn pronounced him more strong and enduring than his young athletes. John D. Rockefeller who Seemed a hopeless dyspeptfc many years ago, has just rounded out his seventy-fifth year in good physical condition. The mystery of sickness is the mystery also of discerning health. Even the most desperate cases have ralied+ note that of the woman who a year or so ago pleaded that the doctors put her to a. painless death because she was doomed to lie, without moving hand or foot, a lifelong burden to herself and her family Press dis patches proclaimed the other day that she recovered and was no longer an invalid Life itself is reaction it, and a conversion Of those forces or part of them, into weapons of de- defense In such emergencies pluck grit, and coolheadedness count for much and when they have extrdcated their displayer, make his life still more useful to those about him."
 0 Courage is one of the grea& factors in the battle against weakness and the practice Of common sense meth ods of living is another. could re- fer you right now to a number of people who are living in comfort, c1o- tIaa doi1 fa azlxS h nd pleasure but whose lives have been gfv- en up by a council of physicians. Best of all the method Nof restoring them to health is of such nature that it keeps them in good health; merely complying with and observing na- ture's laws and using natures reme- dies, the good old fashioned herbs and roots with natural food, Afhe cleans ing and sterilization of the bowels and temperance in all things. Wont you to live in comfort and health to a comfortable and happy old age?
 CLUB NOTES.
 Dear Doctor: Would be pleased to have you send me remedy for the priclxly heat itch which bothers me much this hot weather. I thank you may care to give. w. c.
 PrickIy heat is an inflammation of the sweat fo11ic1es accompanied by very minute and red pimples upon the skin, which are much aggravated by heat, irritation, etc. A simple treatment which is almost invariably successful consists in a. light diet and the avoidance of stimrIants, with ire quent baths in water containing soda or borax WftchNIazel extract Is a very good external applications In many eases relief is quickly obtained and a Permanent cure effected by talk ing a teaspoonful of cream of tartar in tunbIerfuI Of cold water each morning for three days.
 Dear Doctor: -.~I have been much interested in your lectures also the questions and answers given from week to week, and now take the hb- erty to ask you a few questions. What can do to cure a cold in the head? I take cold very easily which always begins in the head and after a few days it gets down on my bronchial tubes. Last spring had 3, very se- were case of bronchitis and since then have, taken cold more often. Doctors til me my lungs and bronchial tubes are not affected. It. seems very hard for me to get rid of a cold when once I have contracted one. Have a, very hard one at present and have, no idea how I came by it. I also sleep with my windows open the year round. I am thin in flesh, do not think I as- S1n1Ia my 1000 as ought. Any help will be very thankfully received.
 MRS. R. J. c.
 It is very seldom that colds will de- velop when the organs of digestion and especially elimination are in per feet condition. If two people go sailing and get wet and if one of them were fn perfect physical condi- ton, had. no indigestion, his bowels moving regularly every day, and the other was constipated, there is a eer- tainty that the first party would es- cape a cold, while the other would