| Show Wf Sy J HOW TO UVE J LONGER r JOHN CLARENCE FUNK A ka K K THE STITCH IN TIME MANY people have a decided misconception regarding the power of diphtheria antitoxin they eeck to think that a child suffering with this dread malady can receive this treatment and automatically be cured that because at this scientific weapon ohp killing power of this disease has been removed from the more enemies of childhood unfortunately this Is not true tor several reasons diphtheria antitoxin has saved the lives of many young people and will continue to do so but ta record Is far from having reached the satis factory point of offering an absolute defense to alie germs causing the trouble this Is not the fault of the antitoxin given even half a chance this preparation will develop a re mar Lable power against the and wage a successful battle hut a half chance Is what it often does not get parents will promptly admit that a plant must grow that a house must be constructed that many turns of the wheel are necessary to reach a destination but they seem loath to concede any such process where adlph therla Is concerned they are not to recognize the possibility of this disease until it Is full grown and that Is the time when antitoxin does the least good diphtheria Is a definite development and while its beginnings can be rols taken for less dangerous conditions that la no excuse for any person clos ing his eyes to the possibility of seri ous trouble any kind of a sore throat accompanied by fever should be sum dent notice to put every parent on guard which means immediately tak ing the child to a physician or bring ing the doctor to it the professional man alone can discover whether the throat condition Is of common or diphtheritic variety in most in stances fortunately he will be able to allay all fears hut in those cases that he cannot do so he can immediately put antitoxin to nork that Is the time when it gives a splendid account of itself it Is not too much to say that r most instances where antitoxin has been given soon enough it has won the victory it his amazing power at tills stage of the disease but its power wanes in proportion to the length of time elapsing before the case gets treatment take no chances on the possibility of diphtheria give the doctor and antitoxin n fair opportunity both of them will give splendid accounts of themselves P S A gentle reminder don t con fuse antitoxin with toxin antitoxin the former Is treatment he latter prevention have your child am with toxin antitoxin if this advice la followed it will be unnecessary to put antitoxin to the test THE SILVER LINING ONE can be healthy and sick at the same time thousands dem on strate this fact dally by harboring the mental leech commonly known as worry and while worry Is life s dark cloud happiness Is its silver lining happiness Is one of the most potent drugs it Is also one of the most essential the man or woman who does not cultivate it and the spirit back of it Is desperately reducing his chances for long life mind over matter Is a too well es tact to be discredited its existence Is proved dally in many ways for example it Is a summers night suddenly out of the darkness a revolver Is stuck tn your face with the command hands cupl what of the seventy degrees temperature now lour hands are cold and you shiver all over merely mind over matter 1 since suggestion plays a part in our activities why not recognize the tact and govern ourselves accordingly but there are limitations to be con it Is one thing to look on the bright side and quite another to be fanatically optimistic if one Is merely to smile will not be enough to deny the existence of germs and pain by calling them something else Is distorting the silver lining and may eventually snuff out your life happiness that attempts to allm binate cold facts isn t happiness at all one who Is engaged habitually in that kind of bliss lovers lunatics and poets excepted are plowing in the wrong field and sowing thereto the wrong kind of seed it ta the sensible type of the prod act that now Is being urged ness properly applied Is one of the greatest protections extant for gener al well being and health its power lies in its effectually blocking its mor tal enemy worry therefore cultivate the sunny side of life and life in turn should be sunny for you for a long long time 1929 union |
