| Show t 1 Dit i Ul JOHN JOHN J JOSEPH SEPH GAINES M AR M D 3 t CARE OF THE 1 HE AGED At Ai this writing writing- I have eight people under my care who al' al are arz over eighty S years eaf s of age six age six men and two women All but two of them are on foot one woman has had stroke a stroke but can get about and help her her- self She is 85 The other is p past st eighty and has a sprained sprain sprain- ed d cl hip using crutches to go about her house One old oId man 86 its is a of the civil war another will be 88 at his n next birthday It is interesting to watch these old boys and girls who have somehow come mighty close to living the right way else lse they could coul not have achieved ed d all these years with suc such success I meet many of hal drages who really complain l more than they do r. r Arid r-Arid rid they know just a litt little littlemore l. l e wore more more- ore about what is good fo for them hem to eat than I do do- doI I never put them on a diet except to sk them to cat eat what agrees with them If I caught one I old fellow eating salted and topping off with ice cream I would not stop him If one has I do not by any means cut off a a- reasonable amount of sugar from his bis diet diet- ary I have always been a stickler stickIer for letting well veIl enough alone One of them just them just went vent on out my door this moment moment has has a leg ulcer I keep DRY dressings dressings dressings dress dress- ings applied while it heals nice nice- ly He laughs over the situation situation situation situa situa- tion not at all like a much younger man would do And my mJ old people are so ap ap- they make one love lo lov them They have lived a l 1 these y years I tl have ve no doubt doub on that very principal principaTo T c fellow who is eternally fault is in a poor way vay to lit IP u out a long and nd beautiful e exi exir- exir if tence fence because he burns up the b good within hi him m. m We Ve younger ones may learn from this |
