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Show GENTLE JOLT FOR SWEENY Possibly There Are Others Who Might Benefit by Reflecting on George's Observation. Frothingham Dodge, the Boston municipal reformer, in the course of an address to Harvard students, said : "Man wasn't made to loaf. The minute he begins to loaf he takes to drink or hypochondria I don't know which is worse. "There's a loafing hypochondriac named Sweeny who spends all his lime talking about his health. He's always ailing, and usually when you go to see him you find him in bed with a headache or rheumatism or dyspepsia or what not. "Sweeny was tottering feebly down the street one day when he fell in with a burly friend named George. " 'George,' he said, 'I'd give anything any-thing to be as strong and healthy as you are. What do you live on?' " 'I live on fruit,' said George. "'Fruit, eh?' said Sweeny eagerly. 'That sounds good. I'll have to try it. What kind of fruit, George?' " 'The fruit of labor,' George answered an-swered significantly." |