The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1921-09-21
Health Talks
 By JOHN B. HUBER, A.M;M.D.
A healthy cobbler is a better mai than sick king

A healthy cobbler is a better man than a sick king.
 GO FORTH AND WALK.
 oa Please adv advise e me what to do. aaa nave been a very hard worker (cobbler) since 14 years old; am now A. am getting weak, especially in legs and arms Suffer indigestion all the time; anything 1 eat hurts me. never any ap- petite, can stand only milk. An get ting old every day; tired, yawn, short breath and bad tongue (coated(' head ache, poor memory Gforget right away) l wish to die. Very ipochon- driac, don't get enough sleep; lost weight terribly, 40 lbs. in to years My back hurts very often, pains in the abdomen, in the left side, seems, to pinch a little. My hands shake. I had my stomach pumped but feel Just the same sThe doctor says need arsenic in the veins. Do I need a rest or shall l quit my job entirely?
 Answer-Though you write from an nuts you are a Britisher; and pounds to pennies you were born in London Therefore wonder how a British can talk n,isb Gf gbIying up the ghost s1eh such and It's dogged as does it. come more familiarfy to my mind- Now, My Friend, be advised by me. You are not to talk of dying for the next 4l years to come. But get yourself thoroughly examined, in a clinic if you can't afford to pay a doctor. If, as I believe, you will be assured that your constitution is well enough for a man of 41, then you make for your self a good stout (but not too heavy) pair of walking shoes. Wear these for a fortnight until they and your feet have become good friends, not irritating one another.
 Thus fitted up, begin a fortnight s vacation by going forth and walking. Go by yourself, for a fortnight at least a month if you can get away for so long. Go alone; and you will come back astonished to have become ac- quainted with such a good fellow.
 It is now September which, with October, are the two great walking months of the year. If you are unac- customed to it go very slowly at first. A couple of miles, perhaps the first day, five miles the second; after sev- eral days ten miles, and so to 20 the day. Soon you will feel like starting at dawn and not quitting until you are canopied by the stars. Go forth alone, I advise you, along winding roads, through wood and dale, and you will soon be feeling, as Enoch felt, that he was walking with God!
 What, you a BritiSher born and not a walker, like Dr. Samuel Johnson and Ollie Goldsmith and Lily Lang try, and Dickens, and Haz1ett, and all the rest of a long line of famous walk CTS. And have you known also of that wonderful Bishop who once a year took for a vacation, tramp through the SQenanOOan Nalley, where ne stopped o'nights and took meals any where, along the roads, chatting with the children, admiring the pigs and the calves, sympathizing with the poor people in their distresses-a vener- able man he was, with a white beard, who was pitied because appearing to have no means, he had to tramp through the country. He had plenty of money, all that goes with being a bishop; but being a follower of Christ this tramping was just his way of get ting in touch with the dear Lords people better than he could by just visiting churches.
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