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Show of his own. Never wipe the baby's innocent nose with his mother's handkerchief. Think of the common cold as a real disease, easy to catch, hard to cure and sometime affecting a life time with its results. CORRAL COLDS EARLY; THEY ARE DANGEROUS The common cold is a contagious disease, and should be treated at once, according to Miss Charlotte E. Dancy, dean of women and assistant professor or nursing at the tUah Agricultural Ag-ricultural College, Logan. "If we could corral the germs of common colds, we could do away with most of the other diseases mankind suffers from," says Miss Dancy. "Nearly all the disease germs enter the body through the nose and throat. I.! these cavities are in a perfectly healthy condition the germs vill in alomst every case be destroyed there. In a community where contagious disease is prevalent, it is probable that every child receives some of the germs in his or her nose t:nd throat. Some children have sufficient health to resist infection and to cast off the disease without manifesting any signs of invasion. "The worst enemy of nose and throat health is the common cold. It lowers the vitality and destroys the protective power of these regions re-gions and so prepares the way for the successful invasion of the other germs. Common colds never turn into in-to other diseases, as people sometimes some-times think, but they do make the attacks of other germs successful. Tonsilitus and resulting heart lesions, rheumatism, and St. Vitus dance can be traced to the devitalizing effects of the cold. Infections of the nose, tonsils, and ears, etc., follow the cold. "Every cominon cold, therefore, should be treated as the deadly enemy. ene-my. it is. It spreads its germs quickly. quick-ly. The child, or' adult for that mat-or, mat-or, who has a cold should remain at home until he is cured. Be careful of the pocket handkerchief and be sure that each child has a clean one |