HOW TO GET STRONG
"But I desire to bear tribute to Dr. Broadus specially as a friend. He was beloved and welcomed in our home. Our social relations, which were delightful, continued through many years to the close of his life. Our children knew and loved him from the earliest recollection. and came to cherish for him, in common with all the members of our household, the profoundest respect and veneration. With all his great qualities of mind and heart, Dr. Broadus was a Christian gentleman of the highest type; charming and beautiful in his character as guest and friend. While we lament the irreparable public less; his death comes to our home as a personal bereavement.
"New York, April 1, 1895."
These men, and others like them, each faced and dealt with their own situation, with such light as they had; driven by a man's sturdy will. But they did not, in this line, approach in knowledge to these three masters of the art of body-building; who have given their whole lives to it; and have found a wealth of knowledge denied to all who have not labored as assiduously in the same field.
No men are more beloved in our land to-day than its physicians. Able, skilful, brave, tireless; going straight into contagion and danger, from which all others shrink and flee; allowed no rest, at church; at home; at social gathering; in bed even; but hurried mercilessly to duty; and always going. It was a high tribute to their nobility, when Ian Maclaren, in his visit here, was told over and over again, in many parts of our land, that when his lion-hearted "Doctor Willem MacLure" risked his life so often to save his patient; loved in that simple Scottish glen as no one else was loved—and who won all American hearts too—"That's just the way our doctor does!" What is sweeter to any
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