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Show I GRATEFUL PATIENT BUYS RED CROSS SEALS Tell Why He Supports Great National Red Cross Christmas Movement "Personal cxporionce means much In one's attitude toward the Soals. Will you let me tell why both gratitude for tho saving of my life and a desire to holp exterminate tuberculosis makos me buy and use Hod Cross Christmas Seals?" This Is a request In a lottor from a cured patient in one of Wisconsin's Wiscon-sin's County Hospitals for Tuberculosis, Tuberculo-sis, who says: "I was shocked to learn In 1910 that I Mad consumption. I thought that was the end of me. Fortunately for me tho National Tuberculosis Association Associa-tion and the American Ilcd Cross had taken up the task of informing the nation that a pulmonary tuberculosis, can be arrested and perhaps cuied by a combination of fresh air, good lood, perfect rest, and freedom from care. In course of time this good news had reached Wisconsin and tho Wisconsin Anti-Tuberculosis Association was organized or-ganized to carry tho message Into every ev-ery corner of the state. Through this propaganda sanatoria were established In various parts of tho state. So when tho dlscaso became a very personal matter to me, there was an Institution near at home to teach me how to breathe, cat, rest and think, so as to llvo with tuberculosis, and at a price within reach of my moderato purse. This was all tho result of tho philanthropic philan-thropic propaganda of theso national organizations and tho Wisconsin Antl-Tuberculosis Antl-Tuberculosis Association, to whom 1 must always bo grateful for my present pres-ent health anil strength." What Hud Cross Seals havo done In Wisconsin they have done nnd aro doing do-ing In every other state In tho Union. All but ten per cent, of tho proceeds, which Is used for expenses, remains In tho stato whero tho Seals aro sold to bo used for tuberculosis work. |