The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-08-27
HOME HEALTH CLUB

seldom that the investigation in start ed by 8. real desire to know the truth in order that the people may be bene- fitted Many of the Investigating com mittees are appointed purely for the purpose of giving a good steady job to number of politicians that must be taken care of. Sometimes spite or jealousy is at the bottom of the inves- tigation, but the result is frequently far reaching and quite beyond the expectation of the committee. or the man who appointed it.
 If you are in the habit of regularly reading the daily. weekly or monthly publications, you are sufficiently fa.- miliar with the various reports of in Vestigating committees that have cost the taxpayers of the country vast sums of money. Some of the reports are absolutely va1ue1ess, but some of them are worth many times the cost of them all
 Nows what has this to do with de- fectiRe children Just this. some of our pet theories about the big healthy country children have been 'sknocked into a cooked hat" and we are hardly able to get a long breath since reading only brief extracts from the reports Of Professor Thomas D. Wood of Co lumbia University and his committee.
 It is an acknowledged fact that the biggest and most successful business men of our country have been country bred, and we have been led to believe that therefore all country bred clxl- dren had a trmendous advantage over their city cousins. but the thorough and painstaking unprejudiced findings of this committee shows that taken as a whole, the city child is better nour- khed, more carefully. watched, better taken care of and better protected from disease and given a better chance in life than the child of the country q 10 If Ina to the city and makes good is one that had a real element of greatness in him, a naturally good constitution through good parental stock.
 The life of g. boy on the farm makes him alert and reseurcefuI. He has a. vast fund of knowledge of which the city boy is ignorant. At or near ma tufity he goes to the city and quickly masters all that his cousin can teach him. this with his knowledge of na- tural resources. supply and demand. gives him a tremendous advantage and he uses it.
 The finding of the committee is that the country child. taken as a class Is below normal, defective and in need Of careful and scientific attention by those who are skilled in discovering causes of defects and pointing out how they may be overcome and the child given a fair chance in life. It is shown that many. a beautifu1 and per fectly shaped babe both in face and figure pand with perfectly normal ia cultAes and brain ,capaable of complete and normal development, is by ignor- ance of simple laws and care1essness caused to grow up into a stupid, home ly child. stMorons'' is the new name that has been coined to suit these people,. Even after they have reached full maturity we find them still de- fective. They are usually poor and some of them drift naturally into the criminal class. Many of them have defective hearing. weak receding chins, protudfng front teeth and weak eyes.
 It is claimed that much of the orf- gin of defects in children that were originally normal. comes from neg Iected colds, catarrh, enlarged tonsils adenoids and kindred difficulties. Also of great importance, neglected teeth How many of the country children that you know, your own included, are taught to properly use a tooth brush, even on the baby teeth How many of even the older children and grown ups, regularly use a tooth brush or mouth wash
 I have found i'm my office people that had travelled hundreds of miles to consult me regarding their ailments Of long standing and which the family doctors medicines had failed to re-
 
 by decayed teeth and diseased gums. Proper care during childhood would have developed Q permanent habit of care and the disease and suffering would have been avoided.
 Diseased and neglected tonsils cause mental, physical and sense defects. Loss of hearing and defect of vision is an impairment of the five natural senses. These things come frequeIt- Iy from adenoids. polypus and diseased tonsils. Surgery is not always neees- sary in these cases, many of them yield readily to simple and harmless remedies. If. however, the case is allowed to run on Indefinitely without proper treatment, then surgery be- comes am absolute necessity Give your children fair chance while they are dependent upon you and their will be no complaint about a fair chance later on in life Don't hesi. tate to call on the Home Health Club if you are not fully satisfied with the progress of any child you are inter ested i'm.
 Dear Doctor: have read your many fnfomations pertaining to health and thought I would write you con- cerning our boy, an orphan, who has g. breaking out all over his body. It starts with terrible itching, then the skin gets red and sometimes it makes running sores; sometimes a scratch or a. cut or thorn in foot or any other place causes bad sore or swelling. He breaks out new every day, begins to scratch, gets worse to- ward evening and by bedtime has the skin broke uot terribly so the blood comes out. He is 8 years old has a good appetite. is not sick often. He has lived with us for several years and says he has been this way long before he came to live with us.
 Mrs. o. D.
 Impure blood is he main difficulty in your boys case. The fact that the. sores do not heal easily is evidence of that. The main thing for you to do is first to increase the activity of his elirnihating organs, paying special at tention to his bowels, kidneys and skin By so doing the blood will more easily become pure. Water is na- ture's great purifier and should be hi, ifra lor7rad [ h