The citizen. [volume] (Berea, Ky.) 1899-1958, 1914-11-12
THE HEALTH MASTER
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The HEALTH MASTER
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es her with a smile, Multiplying
half-cynical, while her two ragged
children, with hunger and hope in
their pinched faces, gaze wistfully
at the food in the glass cases. There's
the whole tragedy of a wasted life
in that picture. Her Last Dollarr
That's what the patent medicine is
after. A doctor at least tries to
cure. But the patent medicine
sharks policy is to keep the suff-
crer buying as long as there is a
dollar left to buy with. Why. a nos
trum that advertises heavily has
got, to sell six bottles or seven to
each victim before the cost Of catch
ing that victim is betrayed. After
that, the profits. Since you've brot
up the matter of expense, I'll give
you an instance from your own
household, Clyde"
Here! What's this?" cried Mr..
Clyde, sitting up straight. more
patent dosing"
Zone Of the servants,-Maggie, the
nurse. I've got her whole medical
history and she's a prime example
Of the Dupe's Progress. She's run
the gamut of fake cures"
Something must have been the
matter with her to start her off.
though" said Mr.. Clyde.
That's the joke-or would be if
it weren't pathetic. She started out
by having headaches. Not knowing
any better, she took headache-pOw-
ders."
zone for you, Myra," remarked Mr..
Clyde to his wife, in an aside.
bad heart action and difficulty in
breathing natural result-scar-
ed her into the belief that she had
heart trouble. Impetus was given
to this notion by an advertisement
which she found in a weekly, a re =
ligiOus weekly God save the markD |
advising her not to drop dead of
heart disease. To avoid this aw-
full fate, which was illustrated by a |
sprightly sketch Of man falling fiat
on the sidewalk, she was earnestly
implOred to try kinsmans heart !
remedy. She did so, and, OF course,
got worse, since the remedy was
merely a swindle. About this time |
Maggie's stomach began to act up,
partly from the medicines, partly |
from the original trouble which |
caused her headaches"
"You haven't told us what that
was, Strong remarked Mr.. Clyde.
Later. Maggie now developed ca
tarrh Of the stomach, superinduced
by reading one of old DIR. Hartman's
Peruna ads. She took seven bottles
Of Peruna, and it cheered her up
quite a bit--temporarily and alcO-
holically."
Then it was that | smelled on
her breath. And | accused her Of
said Mrs. Clyde remorse-
fully.
$50 she had been; raw alcohol,
Favored with a little caramel and
dOctored up with few drugs. To-
ward the close of her Peruna ca
reer, her stomach became pretty
sensitive. Also, as she wasn't &C
custOmed to strong liquor, her kid
neys were somewhat affected. In
her daily paper she read a clarion
call from DR.. kilmer of the Swamp
Root swindle (the real DR.. Kilmer
quit Swamp Root to become cancer
quack, by the way, which seemed
to her to diagnose her case exactly.
So she tanked up some more on
that brand Of intoxicant. Since she
was continually drugging herself.
The natural resistance OF her body
was weakened, and she got a bad
cold. The cough scared her al
most to death; or rather, the con-
cure advertisements which
she took to reading did; and she
spent few dollars on the fake fac
tory which turns out DR.. Kings !
New Discovery. This proving worth