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Show HOW T0MJ)ID TAKlf COLD. Plenty of Good Pure Air One of the Main Requisites, GOOD COOL BATH EVERY HORNING. - "Cold" Nature's Attempt to Effect n Cure People iihjlood Health Never "Take Cold." , The time has arrived wlicu many people peo-ple will bo troubled wlMi.colds Some will not be. to any extent There Js "a good reason why they will not be, as well ns why others will suffer These things do not cotno by chance. All trouble In this line can be avoided, practically. It it merely a question of whether you will listen to and bo governed gov-erned by common sense, or whether you will go on in tho old careless, thoughtless way. The truth is simplo and easy to understand Error blinds and mystifles tho simple fact and truth, that colds do not come without easily prcyentable causes, fuMamental causes. Remove these causes and they will not trouble you. What are some of the main causes? Probably breathing impure im-pure air comes first. Yon need the amount of oxygen th-is in pure, out of door air to purify yonr blood in tho lungs properly, Air'bi enthed over and over again in a closejroom does not nosier no-sier the -purpose.- Thtu almost every one eatB moro food than is needed to support the body. Thus, poorly digest ed food gets into the circulation,- put-tlpg put-tlpg more than tho utual work, onto tho organs that would purify the blgod, Or one eats unwholesome fpo$ orj-'SSj not take tlrao tohef"t,in owl VwWh trotiblcrwmfh eflitetm, of doors, most of the time. SliutiuBMn Impure afr, thjisj lessen Ing the ability of the, lungs tO'throw ofFiropuriite'a, yiHrcold may soon come. And lack limine usual and sufficient exercise, whieh helps to use up food, will hurry thetcold along. If you do not cat stach food, and take such exercise as to cause the bowels to move freely nnd regularly-",! will assist about bringing on a 'Vj. If you do not keep the skin clean and active and healthy by proper batlilng and rubbing your chances for having colds are in- nrnnorl A ntn Imtli K.,.fv mnrntn(f. creased. A cool oath 'every morning, followed by brisk rubbing Is very helpful help-ful along this line. You cannot keep the slcln perfectly healthy and active If you dress too warralyforhaye clothes lit too snugly, thus checking full deep breathing. In general, loss of sleep, Irregular habltB of any kind, or sudden and great changes In I your habits, or anything else that lowers you vitality, may help about bringing on a cold. It should be known to all that simple exposure ex-posure to cold, going, aijt without your overcoat, say, the wind blowing on you etc., will never bring, on a so-called cold unless thero hasten something wrong in your way of .living before that. To use my old illustration again, a lighted match will -cause tho gas which is formed from gasoline under certain conditions to explode. You may light mutches until a end of time and there will be no explosion if thero is no gasoline around. Th,us the exposure to cold Is simply the lighted match, harmless harm-less of itself; if tho 'conditions of the body are what they should be. Advocates Advo-cates of the germ tho'cry should remember re-member what is a well known fact, that no germ in existence, can harm a person iu good heaHJi, - Whon a cold goes through a family, nr a neighborhood, neighbor-hood, the conditions thaf bring on one ease are present wlUtlm others. These may bo Impure air imthe homo, butchering butch-ering time, when toojnmeh meat has beou eaten, coinparauviiUetiesa, etc.. If thoro are such things as germs that can bring on 11 coldjRjey And In tho whole family, so'met' proper feeding feed-ing ground? Hut nar(!fflf there is one member of the amllyvwtfo gives reasonable reason-able attention to theofiittuV. ho or sho will bo practically eSjjjjSL' from theso colds thatgo througfflBffifamtly. A cold Isslraply nature's eljSjEtb throw off Im purities that have accumulated in the system because y nuJhgSl breathed Impure Im-pure air, ale too nAngVc, The regular regu-lar organs became WCil and were no longer- ablejBofco this. You have often been cxposeMo severe cold, f wind, otc, and no harm resulted. Tills wt-n because your system was all right. V011 had been living fairly in accordance accor-dance with nature's laws. She allows quite a little 'latitude, but abuse her too much and she rebels, and you can blow your nose, hayo your eyes un and cough until the excess has been removed. re-moved. A cold is always a curative process. It is better to avoid tho cause and not have one. Hut If you do not and one comes on, you will surely got over It quicker by breathing only air as pure as it Is out of doors, by not eating a mouthful for some tweuty-four hours or until you ar real hungry, by bathing bath-ing and rubbing the skin, by taking nn I injection, to cause thu bowels to move freolv and bv drinktntr alt tho pure water you havo the least desire for. ,He moderate, ot course, in all changes in air, bathing etc.i oven when they are for the better. It is terribly unwiso to coax a person who has u cold to eat. You are simply adding to tho trouble. It will tako naturo longer to set things right. She plainly Indicates what you should do by taking away tho appetite, generally. Feed a cold and you will bring on more fever and may cause serious se-rious trouble. Under such circumstances circum-stances it is awfully wrong to coax tho appetite ot tho ailing one with some tempting dish. Thousands havo gono to their gives ns a result. Trouble need never comes from a cold if It Is properly treated. When a person becomes be-comes real hungry for plain food, all right. Nature shows that she Is ready for it then. Hut because you do not eat, by no means stop drinking wncr. l'uro water, so far as yon havo any desire de-sire for It, helps to carry out impurities through the kidneys. Food is a hindrance hin-drance to recovery, water a help. T. H. Terry In Practical Farmer. |
