The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-05-08
HOME HEALTH CLUB
(Edited by Dr. David H. Reeder,
 Ia \

CEdited by Dr. David H. Feeder, LaPorte, Ind.)
 WHAT YOU THINK:-I could tell you some of the things that you think and you can come very close , to telling what many of your friends think about various things I could
 quote various and numerous famous
 sayings that are often quoted, some of them are none the less true be- cause not often heard but one of the most forceful of those, pertinent to the point is this. There is nothing
 good or i'll but thinking makes it so." There is more to that than the first reading will reveal; think 1r
 over.
 A very good friend of mine living
 in Utah frequently writes, prints and distributes in his outgoing mail little slips containing poems, advice or quotations. One of those that he sent to me started out. as I remem- Der 1t, If you think your licked, you are," and the next verse, ''Ir you
 think you're a failure you are,' and the next, If you think your sick you are"
 Now you can supply all the phil OSOphy you desire with which to fill
 out the balance of those verses but l believe with the person that wrote the verses when in the last lines he says in effect, that the fellow that
 wins is the one that keeps on fight
 ing when he is down. When you
 grit your teeth and grin, spit in your
 hand and fight like fury, you win. When things look the blaclest is the ! time to smile, trust in God and do your bit
 know a mother that has g. large
 family and sometimes has to work
 much harder than you or I like to
 work, but if you were to drop in any time and ask, How are you feeling today?" she will answer with a cheerful smile. Just fine. thank you, and I am so glad to see you
 looking so we'll" and before you , have time to tell her about the pain
 in your left hind foot or the ter ribIe headache that you had last i Tuesday, she will tell you about some beautiful flower that has just bloom ed and which you must come and see or all about the fun the children
 had the last time they were over to your house, and before you realize it, you forget to tell her about little Johnnys sore throat and how sick Mrs. Jones baby was night before last and what a terrible epidemic of
 flu is on again, and presently you
 go away feeling much better than you did and then you begin to think and 1t gradually gets through your thick skull that your talk was not
 about sick people and unpleasant
 things but about beautiful and pleas
 ant things. Then, and not till then,
 did you begin to realize why that
 dear mother had so many real
 friends.
 Now I hope you see the point clearly. It does not do your. sore
 toe a bit of good to tell everybody about it. In other words. don't do
 your grunting out loud and especial
 " don't try to entertain people by ! telling them all about the pains and , aches you have had since you saw them last. because they don't care 8 i Mexican paper dollars worth.
 They listen and as you think they are not properly impressed with l your suffering, you enlarge the story ] until after a while you think you i did suffer awfully and that you ney- i CT will get over 1t, never in the wide 1 world. You know deep down in you1 i own heart or mind that if you let 1 up in your tale of woe, your listener l will begin with a tale of his own and will tell symptoms very much like yours ana you dOn want 10 near II because you don't believe it and you know that he doesn't believe you.
 A little experience I had years ago taught me to right about race" ant start the days right by right think. ing. It was the morning after the night before when we had all beer to a dinner party and naturally fel grouchy. A mother and her daugh- 1 ter, my wife, both the picture O good health, asked me as I came 1T to breakfast, How do you feel this morning?" and I proceeded to relate to their sympathetic ears a long story of various symptoms and wher i l eased up a bit, they both claim d | to have been suffering in exactly the same way only a, week or so before
 I saw the point, which they did not l and laughed heartily. Then I told 1 them they were the most heartless and selfish people that I know and would not even let me enjoy my own l sympathy. They too then saw the point and ever since then, if any of us begin to describe symptoms, the 1 rest all claim to have the same thine and the laugh that follows "doeth i good Hike a, medicine"
 Tell your troubles to the police man, we have troubles of our own, ' was a splendid sermon condensed into a few words. Tell your syn1p- toms to the doctors, we don't want your pains" should be printed on