Talker
R. H. B. TURBOTT is a New Zealander who can talk. I admire Dr. Turbott. I see him rising from a sound sleep with doors and windows open, breakfasting on one-third of the day’s Balanced Diet, but no wheat-germ or molasses because these are unscientific fads. I see him walking to work, to save his limbs from becoming atrophied, and on his arrival at the office flinging wide the window to dispel the fug which offends his mucous membranes. He does not smoke, or eat between-meal snacks, When he has a cold he goes straight to bed and stays there until he is no longer a menace to the community, drinking lemon juice but nothing from the medicine cupboard. He has no medicine cupboard, for he knows that health cannot be drunk out of a bottle, that a firm step and supple arteries are the reward for a sensible and orderly mode of living. He therefore neither worries nor overworks, nor lets himself be involved in the crises or tangles with other peoples’ problems which may drive careless folk to exhaustion and phenobarbitone. I don’t know Dr. Turbott personally, to my sorrow, so this picture may possibly be a figment of the imagination. But not of my imagination.
R.D.
McE.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 35, Issue 890, 24 August 1956, Page 20
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211Talker New Zealand Listener, Volume 35, Issue 890, 24 August 1956, Page 20
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