The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-12-10
8. POPULAR INDOOR WINTER SPORT

u might not have carried him off but for scores of good friends who said why do you endure such distress when right here is my unfailing cure, thus making the end sure enough.
 Beginning in infancy, when the victim has no say in the matter, and terminating, thank heaven. In senility, when the old fool doesn't know any better, the mortality rate from cough cures remains at a fairly constant hign level for the whole population, except iew therapeutic agnostics. We therapeutic agnos- tics do not succumb to cough medicine pe- cause we do not take any. 4A
 Popular cough remedies, nostrums, propri- etary connections of nigh or low degree, the hgh-priced and hifalutin specifics of latter-day pharmacology are certainly doing less execu- ton to-day than these medicines did when you and were young Maggie. After all the scurvy tyick Uncle Sam worked on the public when he enacted the Food and Drugs Act in 1905 ana permitted the fakers to call 1t Pure Food ana Drugs has saved more lives in spite of the con spiracy between the government ana the crooks to fimfam the gullible public through the false security which that trick guarah- tee" offered simks folk who didn't suspect the government would pay the role or accompllce like that. The very fact that some such guar antee' was required tended to put more so phsticated people on guard. and few or these had microscopes or other aids to vision. so that they were able to discover the name or the morphine. heroln, opium or other dope m the very very fine print an indulsent Uncle Sam permitted the fakers to use Tn mentioning these ingredients on the label. You see, Uncle didn't want to discourage the business too much for he was getting cut in it, of frac- tion of n cent per bottle or package, in the form of a taX. It might cost Uncle sam as much as eleven dollars and seventeen cents to save some baby from opium poisoning Tn the syrup of white pine and tar which the cor ner druggist assured father was periectiy pure and safc-why, here was the government guar antee right on the label. At Una! ume there were plenty of babies in the country ana not enough cash in the treasury.
 It Is justfable to suppress some coughs py means of suitable narcotics opiates sedatiVes' it is actually beneficial to the patient cougnlns in some cases But the layman who monkeys with cough killers of any description IS Just plain idiot ,,. , which there is considerable annoying coughing for a day or so are converted into grave IT. nesses by the unwise resort to medicine whlc' suppresses or ''soothes cough. Instead or at- lacking the trouble in that bull-in-the emma fashion one should adopt scientlnc II not Christian policy of let-alone. or depend on such harmless physical measures as cola com nresses steam or yapor inhalation, cool moist air to breathe, the foot bath, an occasonal drop of glycerin on back of tongue to relieve tickling of throat. 1T you simply must c''a, mav medeine. try Ole Dr Brady's Foolproof Cough Remedy which will be described here present- iv or send a stamped addressed envelope Tor "' QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
 More People live Now
 ss,o.s. smy how fine present generation con,- uares with those 0f So or 100 years ago m re gard tO the average length or hie. smrS w. '
 Answer--I.ife expectancy now is several years greater than 1t was bO years or Inore ago. This is chiefly due to the fact that larger share of infants survive the first year, and [ | larger share of children nttain hduit Mss probablv people 50 years of age nave llttlo il anv better chance to attain old age thhn theii parents or grandparents had