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Show Health and Beauty - By - i DR. SOPHIA BRTJNSON CHILDREN'S COLDS ashed, many dangerous iui.. -bacteria can be demonstrated by the microscope in the secretins. Often the apparently innocent cold develops dangerous symptoms due to the presence of pus and poison-forming germs, such as pneumocci and streptococci. It is a common occurrence for the child to develop sinus or middle-ear middle-ear infections which may cause serious and far reaching effects Even pneumonia, meningitis, and other ills tread upon the heels of a cold. , Remember, ' the small child catches cold very readily through being kissed, fondled or otherwise exposed at close range to one who is suffering from a cold. If your child wakes up in the morning with a cold, do not bun-where bun-where he will infect other child-die child-die him off to the kindergarten, ren. Keep him at home and give him proper treatment; his recovery recov-ery will be hastened and he will avoid complications . See that your child spends the requisite number of hours in sleep. Give him a well proportioned and body-building diet. Do not keep a proper amount of sunshine and the rooms hot and close. Give him fresh air. Keep the little ones away from picture shows. Then first and last, guard against infection. .Doctor, please come tc . see the baby, she has had a dreadful cold ?o - several days, and has Jugh fever now," said a distressed voice over the phone. Where did the little one acquire ac-quire his cold?" queried the physician, phy-sician, when he saw six-year-old Mary's nose was running and sne was hovering over the hlpless infant in-fant kissing him. "Oh I don't know, the rest of the children had them first, but they were not so sick as the baby, the servant let the cold wind blow on baby, and he caught an awful cold." A cold is always an infection. A baby has acquired no immunity born, they are entirely free from as have adults. When children are bacteria, which are found in the noses and throats of sufferers from cold. If they were kept away from these germs they would never nev-er develop colds. The Eskimos of the Arctics were strong, healthy people who did, not know what colds were until the white men invaded their territory and carried them various infections, including the cold germs. Their physical resistance was lowered, many of them died from the effects of colds ,and other oth-er diseases carried by the traders. Denmark for years did not allow outsiders to enter Greenland in order to prevent the entrance of diseases from which the natives were free. The cold organism is so small that it will pass throuhg the finest fin-est filter. Once the cold is estab- |