| Show COLD WEATHER A TONIC WEATIER I Brings Wit It a Renewed Sense of Strength and Vitality t Louis GlobDemocrat Many persons regard the inter sea reg son as an unfortunate visitation I f considered bath uncomfortable to the body and harmful to heaith This is a error Cold Is a most potent agent far the restoratlan ad presenaton or normal nor-mal activity on the part of the orgg of the human body It Is a wise plan of Providence which gives us a change gves of seasons The winter cold comes asa as-a tonic to repair the Injuries done by the enervating heat of sUmer Summer Sum-mer It Is true has may wise uses in the matter of health It Induce outdoor out-door life rids the system of poisons through copious perspiration and through the scorching rays of the sun destroys gen life WInter is the great bracer Of the system sys-tem I stimulates activity in every org or-g When cold attacks the surface of the body the blood is set Into more free circulation as a means of bodily I warmth I i through the cIrculation of the blood that the human anatomy Is kept In state of repaIr When the food has been digested and converted into liquid form It Is taken up by thd blood and cared the round of the system for the pure of repairing the waste places Ten the cold causes Increased In-creased circulation It also bring abouf more perfec nutrition Through increased In-creased demand far nutrient matter whIch quIckened cIrculation causes there is improved digestion The entire repair machinery Is stimulated to renewed re-newed industry Wintry air as Is well known brings with It a sense of renewed strength and stngh vitality The restorative power of cold is well Illustrated in the case Of the dash of cold water In the face of a fainting person When a person is in a faint there Is practical suspension ot life for the time yet a application or cold water to the face promptly restores re-stores circulation and renews life This same fact Is Illustrated by the cold face bath on rising from bed in the morning The Indians who if not now In former days roamed our western border practically without clothing o shelter their bodies became through long exposure so Inured to the cold that It gave them but little discomfort Mans face and hands illustrate how weatherproof the body becomes when exposed to the all Continued activity In circUlation on the surface caused by the all coming In contact with the skin tends to nourish and thicken thQ skin Thus mans skin grows thIcker In winter just as animals are supplied with a double coat Of fur to resist the cold When springtime returns mans skin becomes thin and the animal sheds Its top coat of fur The savages who dwell bareheaded in the open all arc seldom if ever known to be afflicted with bald bOnds while with the civilIan civil-ian who shields his scalp from the dir I baldness i prevalent A sure preven tlve of diphtheria croup qr similar maladies among children is to bring about such vigorous circulation and vitality vi-tality through means of COld baths as will render chdr immune from the attacks dIseases of the germs which cause these |
