| Show I Dt By Lulu Jj t l lJJ t I I J H O LICE I You needn't be so ashamed P. P for having attracted a n. brood of Anyone Is liable to have have such a thing happen under certain circumstances The disgrace disgrace disgrace dis dis- dis- dis grace would be in not getting rid of th them m as soon as possible Many of us who did overseas work during and after the war are well acquainted personally with most varieties I 1 know I am My It makes me me squirm when I think of It There are three varieties of lice that may infest human beings beings- head louse clothing louse torum and the pubis the type which Invades the hairy re regions regions regions re- re gions of the body They all aU spring from the same family tree Nits or the eggs of lice are small smaIl shaped pear-shaped hard shiny bodies which fasten themselves onto one side of the hair and are very difficult difficult I cult to remove Are you Interested to know that lice do not bite They stick their I noses technically as hos- hos telli into the hair pits in the skin j I jand and suck their nutriment nt In this way This causes no little Irritation irritation irritation tion and the itching and scratching cause the eruption which may be beof beof of ot an eczematous type with large pus like blebs from a secondary germ infection This with the Irritation and poisons of the lice may cause enlarged lymph glands in the regions attacked The body louse vest vesti- lives lives' In the seams seams seams' of clothing and lays its eggs there The favorite habitat of this type is the seams at the back of the neck It dwells in both linen and I clothing and in bad cases In bed clothing also When hungry It takes a stroll for Its nutriment from the skin and leaves a small smaIl flat fIat hemorrhagic spot as a memento I These spots Itch Intensely and the he victim usually scratches with all leaving long parallel parallel parallel par par- four nails at once I scratch marks The spots spatE ant the nail four scratches are quit characteristic The pubis also as the crab louse loulie on account of f lt it shape is a greater wanderer that char the other varieties and may be me nei with on any of the hairs or of thoI tho thi often otten it infests t th thI the I body But most f I I pubic regions It Is 15 the least common com corn cornmon mon variety This type is sometimes sometimes sometimes some some- times hard to discover r for it is al almost almost almost al- al most transparent It attaches Itself Itsell h head ad downward and close to th the skin often with the head in This I little beast when it sucks the blood apparently disgorges some of it Its saliva superficially beneath th the skin giving rise to dark spots the size of ot a pea Tomorrow Ill I'll give you the treatment treatment treat- treat ment meat of ull A LITTLE RECRUITING LETTER About two years ago I sent for tor your million dollar booklet on Pe- Pe as I was almost dead with high blood pressure what what do you think of that I weighed pounds which I had been accumulating hating lating for thirty years 1 I am ani 65 years old Just a few v pounds a year My doctor would not give me any medicine said all I needed was to reduce Well I reduced to five fifty five fifty pounds pounds and and I feel Just fine I take exercises in bed each moraine and do not have an ache or pain I am the mother of often often ten children children Mrs W. W Cause and effect Thank you for writing Mrs W. W Those of you who wish the reducIng reducing reducing ing pamphlet may have it by sending sendIng sending send send- ing 10 cents In stamps with a fully self-addressed self stamped envelope We also have an article on Blood Pressure which you may may have Allow two weeks for their receipt Tomorrow Treatment Tomorrow Treatment of culi Copyright 1926 by the George Matthew l Adams S Service v |
