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Show 'Colti d1up.ec baths harden the skin end help to make one immune from cold.. J ffiffiMtiBH jJ - , f By Lina Cavalieri. DON'T acquire that protracted unpleasantness, a Summer coid. To best understand how to prevent a coLJ. let us perfectly understand its causes. I say causes, not cause, for an authority ou the subject has recently said that, there are four conditions con-ditions that bring about the annoying annoy-ing and dangerous cuadltiou we call "a cold." I There must be lowered vitality. In other words, a person may be in thnt state we describe as "run down " When we are run down or "seedy, " as they say In England, our resistance is lessened, we are like a besieged town whose walls are falling. fall-ing. In this unprotected state we have little chance against, a cold. A similar condition is fatigue We are more; prone to catch cold when we are tired, becauso the pood white corpuscles in tho blood, the body's defenders,, are lessened by wearl-f wearl-f ness. Also fatigue creates an excess of certain gases in the body, carbonic car-bonic acid gas among others, and I these self-poisons weaken the body i and open the doors to cold. Now, how to prevent a cold. Keen your liver active If it becomes lazy take plenty of exercise to stir it into i activity. If the liver Is torpid, the poison It should take care of is cast upon the mucous membrane, irritating it and causing catarrh Be sure that your digestion is the best and that, the intestinal tract is kept clear. Unless you do this there may be an irritation of the lining of the intestines that will cause all of the alimentary tract to become ca tarrhal. This, in turn, will extend to the nose and throat. To avoid indigestion, indi-gestion, be careful that you eat only nourishing foods. Tuberculosis is more common in the poorer quarters of every city, especially of London and physicians have concluded that this is not because thoy do not have enough to eat, but because they eat too many starchy foods, as pastry and potatoes, and too many sweets, as candy. Prevent a cold by activity. Why do you catch a cold when you lie down without any covering except the garments you are wearing? Because Be-cause when you are inactive your body is relaxed and the temperature Is lowered. Exercise much, keep the blood flowing briskly, and you will generally avoid colds. But be not satisfied with avoiding I stagnant blood. Avoid stagnant air. Keep the air circulating in the room you occupy. Try to keep a stream of fresh air flowing through your room. I At any rate, keep the window open I two or three Inches at the top, no matter what the weather. Cold plunge or shover or sponge baths harden the skin and help to make one immune from colds, but before beginning to take them ask a physician's advice. You may not have enough vitality to endure the ordeal. If you have your physician's "O. K.," tho best time to begin is in tho Summer. Avoid coughing when you can, for coughing is sometimes merely a nervous habit. Besides, a cough irritates irri-tates the lining of ihe throat- The old-fashioned remedy for a cold, of swallowing a mixture of equal parts of vinegar and molasses, Is as good now as it was when our grandmothers dosed us plentifully and effectually for hoarBeness. A. pleasanter and perhaps more refined remedy is the plentiful use of honey. Use It freely on bread or with rice at table and swallow a tablespoonful of it whenever between meals you feel the tickling sensation that precedes pre-cedes coughing. Gargling with strong salt water 'llH '.$11 'SktHI often clears the throat, wtttflP' of violent coughing. A good method, and a llnkBkl of relief from violent ecughiafS place upon the chest hot dHaV : ' lewed by cold ones, then cold, so alternating manytlma -re-establishes natural cir:uldiBl rest-red circulation meini from cold. wt'' |