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UncleWali’s1THE USE OF S1CKNES§CfflJ VAXVj is the most wonderful bonk if L over offered the said 1the agent v.-ffli enthusiasm. “It is en tilled M'syehnlogy and lUsense.’ and every pogo lias nil astounding revelation. When this book is uulver.-nliyrend and ^understood. there won’t • lie any disease in the world.” '“Whieh i-iefjniv* ■silent to ssiyin-j ’ that when the: pica nre flying, a in it n with Hip 'rheumatism will get a job sis con tortioidst.” said Mrs. Curfew. “I have listened to agents for insin years, and have iiesird nil hinds of silly talk, hut yours Is the worst yet. Vou can't convince me that the day will ever come when a man with the jumping rheumatism, sueh as my husband is ufllietod with, can sit downand cure himself by rending a book, even if tne book is endorsed by eon* grevsi.ien smd justices of the peace and oilier dignitaries without number.“If disease ever is baldshed from the world. 1 have no doubt that something worse will come to mice Ha place, f believe Hint everything In this world Is Imre J'or si good pitrjio.se, even if it doe-rfTl look thsit way at first glance.'Thirty this spring there was an epidemic of measles in tills neighbor-hoodi and of course my little grand-daughter had to come to visit me. She never comes when tlm health conditions nre all that could he desired, but just sis sun* sis them Is smnijpox or seven year It eh or some oilier contagious disease rampant, tlinf angel child comes to spend si few days With her beloved grandmother, and slit? catelies everything ihrre Is going.“She hadn't been here two days before she was down sick. She hail more measles than I ever saw in one collection before, and her face was a sighl to be seen, i was inclined to flutrmur and repine, for I was Just doge with my liousocienning and \vu* to tired J felt sis though I’d like to lit ' down and sleep for six months, and (here I was with si sick child in tin house, nml ) wsis to he up night andiln.v seeing Unit she didn't enlcb cold, for if si child eat class cold when sin-has that disease, sumo of the measles are sure to strike in. smd then slit goes blind or loses her hearing or bo* comes no idiot.“J was complaining to Mr. Curfew and saying harsh, bitter things, whena boy csmje to the door with a telegram. It was from Cousin Susan, and she said she was coming on the night train with her three children to spend a week with me. She invites hersult that way about once si year, smd J always dread her coming, for her children sire holy terrors, and there is no pence where they sire.“J never had a good excuse for head* Ing Cousin Susan off before, and she had become a nightmare to me. I5ul on that occasion I had an excuse all mjiiy inside. I sent hack a telegram Maying that my granddaughter was in the Jmii-se with an aggravated attack oi measles, and the house was fjiiar-nhiineil. smd a policeman with asawed-ofl shotgun was guarding I lie approaches la llie Jiouse. Of course I did::1! use exactly those wonts, hut that was tin* meaning of my dispatch, smd Cousin Susan had to tala* her offspring and unload them on her Aunt Maria, who had never suffered si visitation of that sort before.“This shows that diseases have their use, and even si few measles in the bouse are a wellspring of pleasure. when we regard them properly, with ; determination to realize .our blessings. So Ji have no use for any book tlsal shows bow to abolish diseases, and now must: disperse, Xoy I iiuvo it hundred things to do.Arabs Suffer From Famine.“The Jrit.ners of Sunshine.” as the Arab shepherds cull themselves, are ou i the verge ol starvation throughout Al- j germ, and unless \vlieai is imported jroui America it may have nothing but ilt; sunshine as u steady diyt during iilie \Winter. iThe threatening famine is the re- i suit of a year's drought. Ij.Seventy-five per cent of the sheep in Algeria have died as u result of Jthe drought, and the Arab 'Thinkers ] ot Sunshine.*’ dreamers and pliiluao- -phers, incapable of any work but that ^ ot guarding their flocks, are lu due •Kfniiis.
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Bonham Daily Favorite
Bonham, Texas, US
Fri, Apr 29, 1921
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