Omaha daily bee., 1918-04-28

this character. My early tWenlies
passed, however, with no visible i'm
provement. | got on in business rea
sonably we'll, but ! was far below
real efficiency. | limited myself rig
idly as to pleasures and even as to hu
man contracts.
Every conversation with anothel
man every meeting Of every kind, in
wolves the expenditure OF certain
amount Of energy. There must bt
thousands of men and women in the
world who bear the reputation of be-
ing unsocial and unresponsive whose
fault lies in the fact that they simply
have not the health to be otherwise.
To See New Doctor.
As my income increased and ! be-
gan to have money of my own to
spend, the impulse would come to me
occasionally to try what some new
doctor might do. ! remember one
such impulse especially, because il
was born of a violent love affair.
met the young lady at summer re-
sort. We padded on the lake after
supper and talked of many things,
and among others of sports. She
asked me what games | played at
school, whether l had been good at
football, and whether ! didn't simply
adore golf. 1t was dark, but even
under the friendly covering of night
| could not summon up courage to lie.
l had to confess that / was not much
on sports, and the confession cost
me bitterness such as only youth can
know. At that moment l determined
that would be we'll if it took all the
money | could earn in a lifetime.
The following day | made my way
back to the city and started on my
prohtless round. | visited first doc
tor whose reputation was known
throughout the city as diagnostician.
1t was his business to find out the
hidden diseases that escape the prob
ing of less expensive men. told
him my whole story-how I had been
born tired" apparently, how, with
out being really sick, was never
wholly we'll.
He went over me carefully, I will
say that for him; and when he con-
cluded his examination, he said
sharply:
Nothing organic the matter with
you. You've overworked; you're
nervously tired; you haven't reserved
power enough to carry you. The
thing for you to do is to see a good
nerve man. A man like Coburg, for
instance. I'll give you a card to
him; he'll fix you up in short order,
if I'm not mistaken"
Hammer for Rehexes.
So i journeyed to Coburg. who
rolled back my eyelids and looked at
my pupils, tapped my knees with a
little hammer to see how my "re-
flexes" responded, asked me ques-
tions of various sorts, and concluded
by giving me prescription for two
kinds of tonic, and suggestion that
l see an eye man.
I felt a good deal encouraged after
my visit to that nerve man. He is
one of the two or three leaders in this
field in America; the prescriptions
which he gave me were very expen-
sive, which increased my faith in
their potency; and, finally, his sug-
gestion about an eye specialist
sounded promising. When the eye
man gravely informed me that he had
located q Slight astigrnatism" and
that / mus wear glasses, I could
have leaped for joy.
The hope that sprang into my
heart after my visits to these three
very great and costly men vanished
rapidly, leaving me sunk even lower
in the slough Of despond. Until then
there had been some possibility that
wiser doctors would discover trou-
Bile where the general practitioners
had failed. Now / had been to the
very best men, and they, too, had
found nothing. There was no use in
hoping further; the only thing left
was dull, dead determination to
stick it out and to do a man work.
with health or without it.
All the world, as someone has said,
is divided into two classes-those
who have rheumatism and those who
are going to have it. 1t was a year
ago last spring that I had my first
visit from the common enemy of man
kind. Only a preliminary twinge in
my right knee, but it was enough to
plunge me into gloom.
1t was while | was in this state
of mental depression that I ran into
a friend at the club who had been a
notorious sufferer from muscular
rheumatism, and was amazed to find
him apparently we'll.
What About Teeth?
, "Those baths must be great
things" | said, for I knew he had been
buried in mud for month.
They're all right" he replied; "but
it wasn't baths that did for me. 1t
was teeth"
"Teeth!" I exclaimed. "What do
you mean? Teeth cause rheumatism?'
Among many other things that
they cause, rheumatism is not the
least. There is hardly anything they
don't cause, as doctors have just dis
covered"
THAT sounds crazy enough to me-"
! said. why, look at me! | have
rheumatism, and I've been to a den
tist twice a year regularly ever since
| was years old"
Ever have your mouth X-rayed?"
he asked.
"No."
well. take my advice and go and
do it. Do it this afternoon"
l spent that afternoon in the office
of dental X-ray S pecialist who does
nothing but photograph jaws ali day
long. When about o'clock he
handed me the films on which my
oft-hlled teeth were pictured, he
looked at me with surprise mingled
with something almost like pity.
I've kept duplicate set of these
he said. II want to show them to our
dental society. To look at you, one
would supDOSe you are nerfect1y well