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GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE 



Dec. 1 



ers; but those customers would be our boys, 

 and they would not only learn to drink beer, 

 but to do things a thousand times worse. 

 May God help us in our efforts to banish this 

 whole iniquitous business from our great 

 cities. My opinion is that this whole thing 

 has been connected with the saloon. With- 

 out drink to stupefy the conscience of both 

 victim and victimizers the traffic could not 

 go on. May God be praised that the govern- 

 ment of our great nation has taken hold of 

 the matter, and has been able to secure the 

 services of such good and faithful men as 

 Attorney Sims and Assistant District Attor- 

 ney Harry A. Parkin. 



Health Notes 



DEAFNESS, COLD-WATER CURE, ETC. 



After my attack of the grip fever on my 

 return from Florida last spring my deafness 

 was very much v/orse. I consulted an ex- 

 pert, and after a few questions he told me 

 that my trouble was caused mainly by my 

 recent sickness, and that in a little time, 

 when I had fully recovered my strength and 

 vigor, I would be able to hear just as well as 

 before the attack. He did not prescribe any 

 medicine nor recommend any particular 

 treatment; and, by the way, he has not sent 

 in any bill as yet. But I would a hundred 

 times rather pay a physician for giving me 

 advice and telling me I did not need any 

 drugs or medicine than to write out a pre- 

 scription for me, to be taken to the drugstore. 



Well, notwithstanding this expert advice 

 I kept reading the advertisements in the 

 various periodicals for the cures for deafness. 

 One in particular attracted my attention, 

 from a doctor— at least he called himself a 

 doctor. He begged the privilege of sending 

 to any one a month's treatment free of charge. 

 So I wrote him, describing briefly my case. 

 In response I got quite a box of medicine and 

 apparatus; and I must give him credit by 

 saying that most of them were sensible, and 

 seemed well adapted to the purpose. The 

 most I objected to was that the correspon- 

 dence was all printed letters purporting to be 

 real personal letters. The Sunday School 

 Times says it is always wrong to use decep- 

 tion. Oh how I wish the great business 

 world could grasp this magnificent truth! 



Well, I finally became disgusted with his 

 printed correspondence, and said if there was 

 any real doctor at the back of their institu- 

 tion for the cure of deafness I should like to 

 hear from him. This brought out a real let- 

 ter, although a brief one. Now, his box of 

 medicines and instruments did not help my 

 deafness a particle, so far as I could see; but 

 one single paragraph in his instructions was 

 worth something. It read something like 

 this: 



"Be sure to wash your face and neck and 

 ears with cold water every morning — say 

 with water just as it comes from the pump 

 or well. After a thorough cleansing, using 



plenty of cold water, especially around the 

 ears, then take a rough towel and rub brisk- 

 ly around the neck and ears and head until 

 you get up a brisk circulation. Do this at 

 least once every day, and two or three times 

 a day would be better. In order to restore 

 to health any part of the body that seem.s to 

 be failing, this cold water and brisk rubbing 

 will often do more good than any medicine 

 or any kind of treatment." 



The above brief sentences were worth 

 more to me than any thing I had ever gotten 

 hold of for my deafness. I do not think I 

 read that part of the leaflet until I had had 

 the remedies for nearly a month; but I consid- 

 ered this simple suggestion worth so much 

 that I sent him $.5.00, and considered it a 

 good investment. As I said before, his med- 

 icines and implements did not seem to dome 

 any good — at least I was no better after a 

 month's treatment. But after the cold-water 

 massage, as outlined above, my hearing be- 

 gan to improve. After I had used it for 

 about two weeks I was surprised to find one 

 morning, when I opened my eyes, that I 

 could hear the ticking of our electric clock 

 very distinctly. When I recently visited 

 friend Terry I gave him the above in sub- 

 stance, when he said right off, "Why, Mr. 

 Root, you have got right square on to the 

 great truth that I have been laboring so hard 

 to teach; but you want to apply it to your 

 whole body instead of just your head, neck, 

 and ears." Then he took usdov/n cellar and 

 showed us his cheap home-made arrange- 

 ment for taking a cold-water bath. Right 

 near his furnace in the cellar for warming 

 the house there is a depression in the cement 

 bottom, and in this depression is an outlet 

 for the water into a tile drain. While he has 

 a modern bath-room and bath-tub upstairs, 

 he prefers to take his cold-water morning 

 bath down by the furnace. All that is need- 

 ed in the way of a bath-tub is a good-sized 

 wooden tub. He pumps this full of water 

 right from the bottom of the well, close by 

 the house. By using this water right from 

 the well he gets water, winter and sum.mer, 

 of about the the same temperature — I think 

 about 50 — he really prefers it as cold as that.* 



When I first began washing my head and 

 ears with water right out of the cistern, there 

 was quite a temptation to take a dipperful of 

 warm water out of the reservoir right close 

 by the sink; but after a few weeks' use of 

 the cold water I greatly prefer it; in fact, I 

 should feel lost just now if I did not have my 

 cold-water wash every morning; and Mr. 

 Terry says he enjoys this cold bath so much 

 that he looks forward with pleasure to the 

 time when he can take it. 



Now, you might say this is all right for a 



* T. B. Terry, in one of his writings, has said some- 

 thing- like this: " You can, by drinkintr a cup of strong 

 coffee, get up a certain kind of-enthusiasm and energy 

 for a short time; but after the stimulus of the coffee 

 has passed away you are in a worse condition for any 

 kind of work than before you took the coffee. Now, 

 you can get up a much better kind of energy and en- 

 thusiasm by cold-water baths, such as I have describ- 

 ed; and this kind of stimulus is never followed by are- 

 action. It not only pulls you up to your best condition 

 for work, but it keeps you there." 



