Show L The Cost Cost of Neglect t II i 1 By fly JOHN BLAKE An acquaintance of ot mine has just paid a repair bill billIt It amounted to twice as much as he earned in ina ina a I. I year sear It was not the result of or an an accident It was the r result of or neglect The The worst part of ot it is that it has not yet been bean all paid He lIe will have to keep paying pavin something every ery year on it for many many many- years ears perhaps for or the tie rest of hi life This man has hag no serious vices He does not drink to excess excess he he does not smoke more than ordinary men nen He lie does not keep particularly late hours But he Is Is' Is so interested in what he Is doing whether It is work worl or play that he eats u and too mich m and then after afler being temporarily temporarily temporarily tempo tempo- laid up with indigestion hurries hui back to hi his work or play without waiting till the damage has been repaired For fifteen en years his friends told him he ought t to have his system loo looked ed over bv hy a doctor once in ina a a while and his teeth inspected as often by a dentist j. j He lIe thought this would be a foolish waste ste of time I It If my system sets gets oats But out tut of or condition I KO go o to bed he sald said Th Then n nature repairs repairS' it In a fe few fe days But nature did not repair it He developed troubles that he did not understand under under- stand They b became me worse Instead of ot better His 1115 teeth got gol in bad Md condition and spread infection intec intec- tion fion through his system He lIe had them pulled out when they ached but never never tin till then x xA A year ear ago he went to his office sat down at athis athis athis his desk dool opened d his mail mall and then fell ward forward on his face Th They y can carrIed led him him t to a hospital where he wits wAs told that he would have to have three months months' rest then an operation then more rest That mean the loss of hta hi sal salary ry for far a year ear a great deal of money in doctors' doctors bills and the total extinction of a small business he was conducting of or his own and ad had just begun to make profitable Now he Is back with the bill paid paid and and his slate wiped wined clean clean including what he had saved for his old age age Moreover he can add to the bill ten years perhaps perhaps per per- haps by which his life has been shortened This mans man's case Is the case of many thousands of other men who Instead of pf regarding their bodies as ma machines which m must st be looked after as carefully as automobiles fancy that if tr they are arc left alone they will wUl make male their own repairs This the hey do to a remarkable re degree but never if they are wholly neglected Repair bills paid as you go cost extremely ly little But if the re repairs are put off they are almost certain to cost a ruinous price in the endA end A great many tombstones could be truthfully labeled Here Lies a Man Ian Who Didn't Know His BodY Was Vas a a. Machine Copyright 1926 by the Bell BelI Syndicate Inc |