Show P U TO 1 1 AND TO CURE IT If Simplest of Remedies Is Dem Oem Demonstrated Demonstrated I on Live Model i for Women COBI ON O N PREVENTION I OLLY OF EXPOSING LEGS OF CHILDREN CHILD NTO TO THE COLD 0 New Hew ew York April 9 A young oung girl In sailor suit PUtt who was pretty even with her ber head thrown b her r mouth Wide open sat eat at on the of the au auditorium of the of o Medicine o eater afternoon Over her stood Dr William Kelly Simpson who teaches the euro cure of or noso nose throat throats and ear maladies In tho thu College of or Physicians and Surgeons Dr Simpson held aloft a pint bottle half haIt fills tUl d merely with warm water and halt half a of or salt To Io the bottle was a rubber r tube Dr Simpson placed aeed the tube in the smaller nostril of the tha pretty young girls nose One nostril k is 18 i well ell known Is always a little larger than Utan the tho other In almost every human buman be betag beng tag mg ng Then he be proceeded to show snow four hun bun mothers wives and sisters who had llad gathered feathered a f the academy to watch the demonstration how easily they could cure themselves ct and their of common old cold olds and most of the other ailments to which the sensitive membranes of or the th those bose ose ear and throat are subject ot one on person In a thousand knows the JUie ii proper roper way even to perform such suon a commonplace act as blowing ones nose Dr Simpson said It is very dangerous iu to o pinch ones nose hard and blow both at ones onro Particles of ot Infection tore ure re liable to be blown up the tube and cause auie earache Always blow one nostril U t ft a time When children havo have earache Parents have also a horrible way of put putting putting putting ting household remedies sweet oil para par gone gure and the Ute ln the childrens ea oas Ola s The surface membranes inside Ute ear arent able to absorb them and they the dare lare are likely to collect Inside and make the rear Pear ache much worse As for common ordinary colds they fere ne e caused mostly by y drafts There are three bones one oJe right above another In the upper recesses of the ear They are supplied with an usually large amount of mucous membrane This mem m m brane can expand and contract When we wet get t into a draft the membrane protects the e lungs by swelling Thus the nose becomes closed If you OU want to avoid colds olds douche out the nose every morning Do o to your children what I am doing to this young oung lady This cleans the mem brane rane and keeps the microbes from In it Before Dr Simpson told how to cure COllIs the venerable Dr Abraham JacobI Jacob whom Chairman Rosalie Slaughter Mor Morton ton Introduced as having practised In this city for fifty years told the mothers wIves and sisters how bow colds may be How Colds Are Arc Caused Colds are aO caused by br a sudden surface or the tee skin sian ne be saw sate makes the of the skin con can contract contract tract When the skin blood vessels con contract contract contract tract the blood vessels In other parts of or orthe the body become congested This state of congestion permits the We microbes which In 10 every very person gradually collect on the outside of the mucous membrane to got get In n deeper and begin their mischievous work When tRe tP membrane Is normal there Is 1 a lot of microscopic cells which keen the germs from entering the circulation circulation lation But as soon as the membrane becomes Irritated these microscopic cells are swept away and the membrane Is un unI Unprotected protected I Dont Donl Don soften and weaken your own and your childrens tissues by too much warmth Strengthen the tissues by gradually habituating them to cold air and water Rub them with coarse tow towels towels towels els every morning Mothers who expose the calves of their legs to cold by making them wear silly sUly nether garments are not women th yare y are ladies ladles who should never have toad bB 1 any children at all the venerable physician People also catch cold by putting their hands bands In their pock pocket pockets et ets and exposing their wrists I catch cold eold every time my feet get in a draft chest protectors benefit chief chiefly chiefly ly the people who sell them The philosophy philosophy phy hy of ot dress Is to remember that im un immovable Immovable unmovable movable air is a bad conductor That ThatIs Is why we have double windows in lit our houses That Is also why two pair of thin socks are warmer than one pair of Jf thick socks Drafts by contracting the skin kin akIn sometimes cause facial paralysis and stiff neck While taking cold bath and rubbing down lower the window even If l you have slept with it open all night If your cold bath b th followed by the glow blow of at reaction temper It next nest time timeS Cold feet are a sign some sometimes sometimes sometimes times of a small heart Adenoid Operations Too Frequent Dr JacobI said that adenoids were oper operated operated operated on o too often nowadays Most opera operations performed for adenoids could be avoided If It parents would only douche the childrens nostrils and ear passages with haf a teaspoonful of salt and a cup of warm water morning and evening While Thile taking It the patient should sit straight up the head back open the mouth and draw the solution through the smaller nostril Colds and even snoring ing ng and restless sleep could be prevented In this way Dr Emily I Levi evi told the mothers that colds cods might be caused even by gastro gastrointestinal gastroIntestinal gastrointestinal intestinal Indiscretions and great mental strains The blood vessels are controlled by tho the nerves nerses nerv s and when some blood ves yes vessels vessels sels sets arc are forced to contract and others to expand uj the bacteria are not thrown off oft she explained to them Dr Th Mary Mar McMillan said that common colds would be b uncommon In the next generation because In days to come moth mothers lets ers will make malte their children douche their uses noses and ears with salt and warm water after the tha manner described by Drs JacobI and Simpson Just as mothers mako their children brush their teeth and wa wash h their hands |