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Show "Colds" And Germs. .Now is the time when people shut up their houses and try to live on air that has been breathed over and over again and to suffer fiom the "colds" thai are the result of hicalhing this Impuie air. To keep a house properly , ventilated In winter time, and yet not freeze the family to death, is a serious problem -one requiring much thought and constant watchfulness on thcpait of the house-mother but the best air obtainable should be had throughout the house at any cost, There are still many people who do not know that "colds" are caused by breathing impure air, by lack of pioper bathing, by lack of exercise and by too warm clothing, preferring to believe that the ever rampant germ Is responsible for all the ills which call out pills and doctor's bills. Of all discoveries made by science It certainly seems that the most disheartening dis-heartening discovery Is that of germs. "Mlciobes snatch at us from every corner." says a well-known writer. "Wo can get on the good side of a dog by patting Ids bead, and we can please the cat by scratching her under the chin (If she doesn't scratch first). Wc can tameother animals by giving them food or oy putting the weight of our bands on them. If they won't be petted or tamed, we can pick up a rock and let them have It between the eyes. Hut when a creature has no tall to wag and nothing to purr with, how can we pet it. If It comes to exterminating exterm-inating them, what chances have we with a creature that every two hours breaks into two pieces, each of which Is a perfect organism, ready In another two hours to break In two again, and each of these two halves to break in another two hours, and so on until In three days tbo progeny of ono single baeterlnm numbers 4,772 bllllons."No one can keep up with this rate of increase, in-crease, so why not drop the germ as too great a proposition, and do those sensible things calculated to preserve health during the winter months. Do not sit In a room that may be spoken of as "air tight." Let one window be down from the lOpaud take the rug away from the crack under the door. This will help some. Do not overheat your rooms. Bven though very busy and in a hurry, do not rush from a heated room out Into the open air until you arc properly protected with wraps. I Young people becoming heated at dances should bo careful to wrap up I well before venturing Intothe pieicing l weather. ' I See that the feet are always warm. ! Do not penult yourself to get so busy that this Is neglected. "Keep the feet warm and the head cool," Is an excellent excel-lent maxim. In matter of diet, a prominent authority au-thority says: "If you would be entirely freli fiom "colds" do not eat much meat, butter, sugar. cream, buckwheat lor white flour, or If you do cat those things, or must eat them because jou can get nothing else, then 'ifset the effects of so doing by getting lots of fresh air and by eating plenty of apples oranges, grape-fruit and lemons." ! The us.- of ordinary common sense ! will In many Instpnces prevent sickness and It will always prevent "colds". |
