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Show BEAUTY TALKS SB By MARJORIE DUNCAN TO PREVENT INFECTIONS A TINY scratch may, through neglect, neg-lect, cause a great deal of trouble. trou-ble. Precautions should be taken to prevent infection when the skin shows any cut, scratch, sore or abrasion. Such precautions should become as much a habit as locking your door against thieves, or eyeing traffic before be-fore crossing a street. The time to prevent infection is before the trouble starts. Be at least one step ahead of the treacherous little germ which might sight the abraded skin, decide it was a lovely spot and stake his residence resi-dence claim. Beat him to it by disinfecting disin-fecting and sealing all sore spots. Then forget them everything's safe ! The bathroom medicine cabinet of every home should contain a bottle plainly labelled disinfectant, conveniently conveni-ently placed. If you have only one room or are boarding, give the disinfectant disin-fectant an honorary place among your toilet preparations. A scratch, a pinprick, pin-prick, a pimple touch them with disinfectant dis-infectant before using powder and rouge. When iodine enjoyed Its prestige as the great and only, one would often stake chances rather than sally forth brown-spotted. Today there are many effective disinfectants stainless and oderless. The good ones cleanse and seal, having both disinfectant and astringent astrin-gent elements. Your disinfectant should do both. An application which seals without disinfecting is very dangerous. dan-gerous. Fever blisters and sore pimples should be touched with an astringent disinfectant1 several times daily. Sore nostrils resulting from excessive use of a handkerchief when suffering from colds should receive the same treatment. treat-ment. In fact, handkerchiefs should not be used under such conditions. Use soft, cleansing tissues instead. And don't rub inflamed nostrils, blot them. It may seem drastic to use a stinging disinfectant instead of a gentle gen-tle salve, but the discomfort is only for a second and the cure is far more rapid. Every physician knows of cases of simple little injuries which caused grave trouble because the patient was either ignorant of first aid methods of preventing infection or neglectful. Don't put off for tomorrow the treatment treat-ment of a fresh sore or cut or scratch. Do it now. Tomorrow Infection may have set In. Mothers should teach children to come for treatment of cut fingers, sore knees, splinters and scratches. Children should learn such precautionary measures at a very early age. It should be just as much a matter of habit to disinfect a bleeding bleed-ing scratch as to take an umbrella vhen it rains. ABOUT THE SPINE I AM sure you all know what an important im-portant part the spine plays in the proper functioning of your nervous, circulatory and muscular systems. In every organ cell, hair, nail and pore of your entire body. For each bone in the body, each part of the body is directly di-rectly or indirectly connected with the spine. The thigh, leg and hip bone are connected with the spine by the pelvic arch; the arms, shoulders and ribs are so connected. The skull, which houses the delicate brain which is you and determines just what you are and will be, is connected with the spine at the neck. The brain Is the powerful sending send-ing station. The nerves are the transmitting trans-mitting wires. They all run through the spinal column to each and every part of the body. Can't you see for yourself how very important it Is that the spine be kept pliable and resiliant in good working order? If It Is stiff and cramped it affects the functioning of every part of the body. The nerves are too tense or too slack and the heart action is changed from normal, the lungs do not take in fresh air deeply and powerfully, power-fully, or expel the vitiated air so promptly and completely. The blood does not circulate so vigorously and perform its duty as carrier of vital food matter to the organs. The marrow mar-row of the spinal cords grows anemic. Of course, you have often been told to "keep a stiff backbone." But that Is a figurative expression which applies ap-plies only to mental courage. As paradoxical para-doxical as lt may seem, you cannot have the stiff backbone of courage unless un-less you have the flexible backbone of physical health. You may have It for a while, through sheer will power. The average young person of today I keeps a flexible spine swimming, golf, tennis, dancing. This era of sports is wonderful from a health standpoint. It Is the middle-aged woman, or the too-much-stay-at-home woman who needs to give serious thought to keeping keep-ing her spine flexible. Especially those women who are not doing housework. And the women and girls who sit at desks throughout the working day. Those who follow sedentary occupations. occupa-tions. Do you find yourself avoiding stooping stoop-ing to pick things from the floor! Do you dislike doing this or that because your shoulders or your neck or your hips seem stiff? Then it is time for I you to commence exercising your j spine. j . Bell Syndicate. WN'U Service. |