Now he says it wasn't the starving that helped his colds, but the trust in the starving, the mind cure connected with the starving.
I shouldn't wonder if we finally became firm believers in Mind Cure.

The next time papa has a cold, I haven't a doubt, he will send for Miss H---- the young lady who is doctoring in the "Mind Cure" theory, to cure him of it.
Mamma was over at Mrs.George Warners to lunch the other day, and Miss H---- was there too.

Mamma asked if anything as natural as near sightedness could be cured she said oh yes just as well as other deseases.
When mamma came home, she took me into her room, and told me that perhaps my near-sightedness could be cured by the "Mind Cure" and that she was going to have me try the treatment any way, there could be no harm in it, and there might be great good.

If her plan succeeds there certainly will be a great deal in "Mind Cure" to my oppinion, for I am very near sighted and so is mamma, and I never expected there could be any more cure for it than for blindness, but now I dont know but what theres a cure for _that_.
It was a disappointment; her near-sightedness remained with her to the end.

She was born with it, no doubt; yet, strangely enough, she must have been four years old, and possibly five, before we knew of its existence.