14 I was a very bad stammerer. I then attended the Bogue Institute,
where I was completely cured in a few weeks. I then secured a position
as saleslady in one of our leading stores where I have been called upon
to handle as many as one hundred sales in a single day. I have never
stammered once. My cure has been absolutely perfect for the past ten
years. It was certainly a lucky day that I walked into Mr. Bogue's
office the first time."

Another excellent proof of the permanency of the cure, is the
subjection of the cured student to tremendous mental and nervous
strain. Many of our former students were in the Great War, numbers of
them right up in the front line where the fighting was stiffest and
where the nervous and mental strain was terrific. Even under this test
(which was enough to make a normal person become a stammerer--and many
of them did) the results of the Bogue Unit Method held them to normal
speech. One young man writes:

"I completely regained my speech at the Bogue Institute in 1915. I
enlisted in the army and was sent overseas in the spring of '18, and
went through some of the hardest fighting the 42nd Division was in,
that being the Division I was transferred to, and am happy to say the
speech trouble has never come back on me. I was wounded by a fragment
of high explosive shell. One hit me under the right arm, fracturing two
ribs. Another struck my shoulder and a piece ranged downward into my
right lung, which now remains there. I developed tuberculosis in
November, in all probability from exposure as much as the wound. I was
evacuated to the U.S. early last winter and sent to this place, where I
am rapidly regaining my health and expect to be discharged about
September 1st.

"With all the hard experience I went through, stammering did not come
back to me. I have never regretted the time I spent with your
Institute, and I have only the highest words of praise for the work
being done in the Bogue Institute."

Another severe test of a cure of stammering is an illness such as may
have brought the trouble on in the first place. If the stammerer, for
instance, can undergo an attack of influenza or pneumonia and come out
of it without difficulty, it proves beyond all question of a doubt that
the cure is permanent.

For that reason, I wish to quote the letter of an Illinois boy who says:

"I am getting along fine with my speech. I am sure I will never stammer
again. I was sick the week after Christmas