The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1934-01-13
THE FIRST TWENTY YEARS ARE
THE HARDEST
Minnesota correspondent writes:

Minnesota correspondent writes:
Just few lines-I fear the auto
matte chucker and we all know you
plead for brevity.
I began reading daily your health
column when I was quite young
mother, 50 my three sons have been
Brady fans for years. Friend Hus-
band used to below like q wild man
when I quoted DR.. Brady as my au-
thority. But all that has
passed and he now accepts you with
good grace as one more Of the insti-
tutions Of civilization. Those were
days OF pioneer efforts.
A short while ago my eldest son,
now IS, reminded me Of time when
I had been quite i'll and things were
disturbing and he piped up Never
mind, mother, I will call DR.. Brady!"
But I want to express my apprecia-
ton. Yours has been service which
called for q pioneer effort. You have
given much to help your reading pub
lie understand vital facts. May YOU
continue
End Of quotation Now Or Doc
Brady will take the floor and do his
own boaSting.
Pioneer Is right. I am the first that
ever burst into the public prints-1
mean the first physician in good
standing who ventured to hold forth
in the papers merely because he had
something to say for the good Of
everybody. I have been at it now for
twenty years, and I am proud to say
that with all my antics and my clash
es with the big noises who think they
represent American medicine, my pro-
fessional standing Is today as good
as ever and ! defy any one to ques-
ton It.
It won't be long now until the chill
dren Of my fanster children begin to
ask me about their pimples and wor-
ries. This Minnesota mother doesn't
say, but between the lines we may
read that her three sons are healthy
lads. That's the trouble about this
health columning too. It Is just like
family doctoring. In either case the
better you are at your trade the soon
er you are out Of = job. XIII or cure
its all the same to the doctor
whichever he does to you, he gets nc
more trade out Of you. The nostrum
business ah, that's the ideal line fol
the doctor who yearns to make soft
living without any work or worry
Concoct q cheap nostrum, preferably
physic or a tonic, and plug hard or
it till the sucker buys the first pack.
age-after that he will have the habi,
and all you have to do is remind him
constantly Of your product, which
costs you only 20 per cent Of the take
The role played by father in the
Minnesotan's letter Is good enough 70,
him. Father is the original yes-mar
in American family life. TO save hi,
face he must do tolerable amour,
Of believing, Of course, but eventually
he acquiesces In whatever mother and
the children think and likes 1t. II
some housel1olders It may be or Dot
Brady: In ours there are other bones
Of contention. We fathers ought *
hold a great conclave sometime, al
BY ourselves, and get . few thing.
OFT our chests and draw up . code
I'd be glad to address the convention
Cat my usual rate) on the economics
Of the wifeS doctoring obsession
With inside knowledge and q littl,
tact 1t Is possible to save quite a little
| there and still annear Il, SfirtsIoovo,
IN the living room. Some fine day
I'm going to print Z testimonial from
q grateful father.