The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-02-14
HOME HEALTH CLUB.
Edited by David H. Reeder, Chicago.

GOOD FIGHTERS: You know down deep in your own heart that there were lot of good fighters that did not go to war. Some of them meyer enjoyed a good fight in ali their lives, that is, they never got in to regular sknock-down fight, and fer that reason may at times have been called a coward, but were they?
 Do you know that some of the very best fighters In the world wear dress es, and sometimes they scream and jump on a chair when they see mouse, but they will face dangers and death many times without finch ing and seem to thing 1t Is part of the days work.
 Let me illustrate. Many years ago while at the head of a Sanitarium and hospital, was one day attacked by a crazy man. He was younger and more powerfully built than I, but drink and drugs had reduced his powers of endurance. I did not wish to do him bodily harm but I did nos have much time to figure out ways of subduing him and 1 knew that no help was near at hand. I had the advantage of skill and dexterity, my muscles were hard and responded to my will like lightning. I soon had him down with his arms so pinioned that he could do me no harm. He tried to bite, kick and he did curse me at terrible note, but that did me no harm. The struggle continued for over half an hour, when a young vi ho nd A to learn the cause. She was ready to throw herself upon the madman to save me. I persuaded her that I was safe, and sent her for a rope and help If she could find g. man. Later she helped me securely bind the mans arms and legs, but before we had the job completed, one of the men helpers arrived, and then the girl was ready to faint. A few months later she successfully nursed a des- perate case of scarlet fever, that the older nurses refused to handle.
 Many mother has while on the verge of physical collapse nursed her children or other loved ones when her only fear was that she herself might fail before the loved ones were out of danger. More years ago than most of you have known my own mother stood for 12 long hours with a loaded rifle in her hands and guarded four children of which I was the babe in arms from the attack of six drunken Indians. It Is probable that she never fired a gun In her life. She was young and beautiful, and Ixy{f11 my fo H. oneers of that portion of Minnesota near where the Indian massacre later occurred. Was she frightened? Yes of course she was desperate. Fear enabled her to roll & barrel of flour against the door and quickly threw the window bars in place. Deadly fear kept us children behind the cur tains of the big four poster bed upon which she placed us, but she was a | good fighter and whenever an Indian face appeared at the window and re- | peated their demands for whiskey | the rifle flew to her shoulder and the face would disappear.
 Fear of the arrival of white men finally sent them away before helI came.
 | Are you discouraged about you1 ! health Just realize that your men tai attitude has much to do with your success in regaining it. Be 6 | good fighter. Don't give up.
 The Home Health Club, is here tc help you, just as 1t has helped SC many others. I wish you could jus read the letters we get from a young lady that lives away out from town: and neighbors, and one visit to a fal away doctor told her that she had Pernicious Anemia- The doctor, al her family and their neighbor' thought she would die, but she was a good fighter and she wrote to tht | Home Health Club. and now she l! well and strong and happy. Are yor a good lighter or are you a quitter?