Show HOW TO ESCAPE COL COLDS DS not by coddling but by becoming aue able to endure necessary MOs exposure ure it is not always sufficient to point out a danger it is often of even greater importance to show how the danger maybe may be averted most people properly recognize a cold as avoidable and think they are greatly to be commended for the prudence they exer exercise else in protecting themselves but if they did but know it i they are really doing all they can to make themselves susceptible to colds cold S by weakening their resisting powers A german professor prof E or once wrote a long treatise treatis e with a learned title on how bow to avoid catching cold after tracing the history of of colds from the earliest ages studying their causes and symptoms and cataloguing catalo guing the remedies which have been used by the most eminent physicians of all times he concluded with a short chapter on prevention ills his plan was waa to inure the back of the neck to drafts by having some one direct a current of air upon it from a bellows three times a day the writer had the correct idea although its practical ca 1 aepli application ca tion was clumsy and he was a long time in reaching it the best and only way to escape colds is to meet the causes that produce them and not to run from them let the body be hardened by a cold esponge bath or even a cold plunge followed by brisk rubbing with a scratchy towel every morning let the clothing be adapted to the season though always as light as possible but keep the neck uncovered no turned up coat collar no muffler no boa never let the temperature in the house rise above 70 degrees in the winter air every room systematically every day no matter what the outdoor temperature may be always have fresh air in the bedroom there is nothing poisonous in I 1 night air popular belief to the contrary notwithstanding in a word dont bo be always afraid of catching cold dont coddle but meet set cold and wet and changes of temperature like a man or rather like a horse and you will then run a better chance of being as stron strong 7 as a horse of course you must strengthen your armor where it is weak but if you recognize in yourself 70 a weak place a cold spot dont cov cover er it up with more clothes clothe but toughen tough it and toughen your entire body until it is ono one homogeneous resistant whole youths youth I 1 S com |