THE ARMY CURE.

Taranaki Daily News, 29 October 1918, Page 2

THE ARMY CURE.

■ ■:■;.! ' "l fe-W f l-,, ,-,■<■■. i,,,, ■ ■ ir/].., , London,. A U S-. I L.-i.'Pxinraic ~.Victor v/ho, before going.ta M V for Colno Valley in the House 6fj Commons,-lias ui'uritctes'fcuig story Wj Reynolds'. Weekly. Newspaper of lira W itetpient m llie^^y-ZeatoV'AW^'aa* iiiirajning.'ta a '^] d l et 'l'.' : „", '.'.' Wiieii' I. \v&lfced^*ith>ptfM ,i ia«*'*»<* weiike'iied %;yeaiJS' , of*ilh • : heali?i-3uto ' ''the ''offi«o|4t :(SrMc]wrc|i; .3s*. •littMcift* I wa?:latocji?ris! w*tf» ; up-; previ'oufi'jr f''ha'ff'tb bfe-e»P-ported "across my Be'drooinvaud-my wife, bad; iwle .aJauglung wiger-that tbey would ."teilme to "rim h6nie m g° to .bed " I confess 'that I : litwln?t a ghost of a hope that they ■ would pass rae, or tliHt I would be of any use to the army if -they did. Thcsd- -fears were reduced to certainty when' J.'saw the brown, tough, brawny specimens of Xe\v Zealand farmers, etc, who stripped for the doctor's inspection. Sonic he rejected for varicose veins, others lor tang and heart trouble, and still others for Cat feet I bad undressed, but was extremely shakv when my turn came The doctor sounded, me with, a ruthless thoroughness. , i i "Had a baa' nervous breakdown, i *oe!" he remarked, and I assured him that the best doctors of six countries had failed to do me anv ?ood. "It's tmj for the Av •>:•' he said, to my astonishment. "We'll cure you!" J And tbey did.