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Show THE LONGING FOR HOME. Nostalgia Recognized by Physicians as a Dreaded Foe. Nostalgia that is what the doctors eall it. In ordinary phrase it is known as homesickness. It is a real disease. Strong men die of it in the Philippine Islands. To all ordinary diagnosis they are welL No organic trouble is apparent appar-ent The patient is literally sick for home, and unless he is sent home he grows worse, and often dies. Officers of the army, private soldiers, civilians, old, middle-aged and young all these are subject to the illness. It is no boy'a malady. The American in the Philippines is like a fish out of water. Edward Everett Ever-ett In his "Man Without a Country" hows us how hardly an American can give up America. There is so much here to get homesick for. |