The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-06-06
Home Health Club
 Edited by H BREEDER, Chicago
Edited by DIR. DAVID IT.

RBBUILT:---One day about fifteen years ago a bright. energetic young man came into my office just at the time that one of the typewriting ma chimes was giving the operator q great deal of trouble. He watched her for few moments and | noticed that she got red in the face and finally left the machine and went to work at something else. The young man soodGed at me and smiled. Then he -old me that from where he stood he -ould easily see why the young lady could not make it work properly.
 Whats wrong with tt?" I asked.
 Several parts are practically worn out and 1t needs a thorough overhaul ing. in fact, what I would call rebuild ing"
 'who does than kind of work?''
 '-The usual custom is to send them to the factory but the manufacturers do not encourage 1t; they prefer to sell you a new machine, go they usually delay on one excuse or an- other until you are forced to buy"
 'Ddd you ever rebuild a ty7pewriting machine?"
 "Yes. my own.'
 Want the job of rebuilding that one7"
 Sure. I will do it <or you"
 He had the machine away from my offfce for several days and when it came back, 1t worked as well as the new one. His charges were very mod est, we thought. and paid him gladly.
 Why don't you make q business of that one thinE?'' I asked
 That was the starting point of q prosperous business that now reaches into many foreign countries. The young man saw the opportunity and seized it. He now buys any used machine, rebuilds and sells it. Incl dentalIy I must admit that I lost the operator for he married her.
 Now. you old Erunter with the lame back. sore toe and periodical head ache. do you begin to see what I am driving at? It was you that I had in mind all the time You wrote to me last week tale of sickness and s1f- fering that would almost make me weep but for the fact that without knowing it, you told on yourself. and could see from where I sat reading your letter that you are the one that is to blame. and know just how you came to be in such q rickety, run down condltion---your bearings creak and ache. your eyes cannot see so well. and you say. 'Eh what did you say?' good many times every day.
 Now, what you need is to be rebuilt and if you will do as told you in my reply to your letter, you will be "as good as new fin about three months cannot promise positive delivery of all repairs in three months. because I have found so many human ma chimes that have been neglected and so shamefully treated by the owners that 1t takes sometimes six months ana sometimes a year of carefully supplying to the ski1lful and efficient workman. Mother and Father Nature. the various parts for making the nec- eesary repairs.
 Let me Illustrate the process in an other way. Two friends of mine bought a neglected, rundown apple orchard. The former owner had died and his sons did not love and care Tor the trees as he had. They yielded but little fruit and that of a poor quality. They were glad to get ss, 900 Tor the land which they thought was no longer of value. The two young men loved fruit trees; they knew how to repair and rebuild them. Last week I saw one of them and he told me they had sold an average of s12- ooo worth of apples from the farm Tor five years. One seasons crop