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Show - Health and Beauty j By DR. SOPIIIA BR1JNSON HOW TO AVOID A CRIPPLED HEART children by seeing that they play every day in the sunshine and fresh air. They should be protected protect-ed against sudden changes of the weather. Give the children plenty of plain nutritious food. Do not allow them to munch crackers and sweets between, be-tween, meals. If you do, thoy will come to the table and refuse to eat what is good for them. They will j not obtain sufficient vitamins or ! building materials to protect them ' against maladies, that may ultimately ulti-mately lead to disease of the heart. Prevention is our business. Once estalished you may ameliorate but you cannot cure heart disease. "Growing pains" is a tearm that is used by the ignorant, who "poo poo" the complaints of the child complaining of painful and stiff joints. Even though the child may be listless and tell his mother that his throat hurts also, she has been so imbued with the false doctrine of the growing pains of childhood, that she instructs the little one to "run along and play", saying "you will forget it, and soon feel all right." Such children are usually suffering from rheumatism. St. Vitus is a manifestation of the same disease. There are other forms of rheumatism beside the acute, in which there is fever accompanied ac-companied by severeswelling and pain in the joints. If all cases of rheumatism were like this, there should be no doubt about the infection. The child would be instantly put to bed and every effort made to discover and remove the cause. We would not have so many damaged hearts, as we have at present if every child who has the manifestations of some form of rheumatism was properly treated. In fact, one of the chief causes of diseased hearts is due to some infection which existed in childhood. child-hood. It may be many years later lat-er before the discovery is made, and then no treatment whatever will cure the trouble, the crippled lart must remain so until the end and it may be an untimely end. The valves of the heart are very frequently damaged from rheumatism rheuma-tism and other infections. They become curled and retracted which causes the heart to leak. Diseased tonsils, infected teeth, adenoids, sudden and severe exposures expo-sures predispose the rheumatism which may cripple the heart. The chronic alcoholic, the gormandizers gormandiz-ers likewise are sure to go to their end and prematurely through diseased dis-eased kidneys and hearts. Parents should safeguard their |