MUTT AND JEFF
By BUD FISHER
13-30
HA,HA! FOOLED YOU THAT TIME! YOU THOUGHT I WAS GONNA FALL THR --
-OUGH!
A PAGE FOR WOMEN
Eat Iodine Foods For
Authorities tell us that hair is very dependent upon jodine jn the blood stream if your diet ncludes sufficient fouds containing
odine your
hair will keep its beauty and health, and its rulour, it too many years of vitami de- ficiency has not already robbed it of its colour.
The best source of judane 177 food is from th Cam
cort Je ol, babbut, Job ters pure mysters, Salmon and slamup al! hould be meluded in your mentis Other fish too contain iodine The next best source is from goat mull. indused salt senaveed pow der, kelp and some vegetables and fruits. Barley, green beans, brata, carrots, cherries Port. loganber- mes, oals and spinach contain fair amounts of iodine, and surprising as it may seem, sea air furnishes sume LES you breathe it in. That is why persons who lack jodine usually feel better +1 they gel down near the sea
Generous amounts of fish should be eaten at least three times 21 week and your daily menus shouldi contain at least two of the other foods mentioned above.
Your physician will tell you that certain nervous disturbances, specific cases of overweight, low- ered mental activity and enlarged thyroid glands are also due. In
part at least, to a deficiency iodine in the blood stream.
Used Also In Shampoo Rinse
of
If you find your hair pretty life- less and falling out you might de- termine if you are lacking iodine. A routine blood test, or metabol- ism will indicate this. Some doc- tors prescribe a drop of iodine in one half glass of water daily until enough iodine foods are consumed to meet the deficiency, but your physician will have to be consult-
ed about this treatment.
Hair Beauty
Joan Lesile counteracts the effect of tight hats and stuffy rooma
on her lovely red-gold hair. She takes her hair brush out to
the back yard of her home and brushes up and out, from roots
to ends, letting it blow in the breeze as she brushes.
iodine in their last rinsing water and feel that it is beautliying to the hair. To two quarts of rin- sing water add not more than five dropper. Mix it well before pour- or six drops of iodine from a glass
ing it through the hair.
Of course keeping your scalp meticulously clean and massaged. and your hair well brushed, add greatly to hair beauty. Most wo- inen require a soap shampoo every two weeks. but one every three weeks is sufficient if your scalp is cleansed scientifically with tonic and brushing between shampoos. We are to'd repeatedly by medi- Some women use several drops of cal men and nutritionists that our
Proper Diet Essential
physical beauty is most dependent upon a balanced diet. Too few women know the meaning of "a balanced d'et" and do not trouble
combinations, the body to learn which foods, and in what requires
to keep healthy to give beauty to skin, hair, teeth, and eyes.
It would be wise for these wo- men to start a beauty notebook now, writing down that iodine foods assist in keeping hair lovely!
Grow Strongly Beautiful
One wonders how many women to those "niceties" which are re- men putting in grilling hours of could pass a physical examination ligiously adhered to by fashionable hard work, bearing up under hor- if all were called to enlist in the ladies-one must not carry bun- rifying conditions which we in service of our country.
dles, let the stores deliver them; this country cannot even imagine, Newspapers tell us that an alarm- one must not be seen walking to and discovering they not only ing percentage of American young an appointment, one must arrive have two reserves of strength but men between the ages of twenty in a taxi or a car; one must not three, four and five, one and thirty-five cannot meet open a window or a door, or lift physical requirements. If male any object of weight if a man is We must grow strong and by youth is so far from being nor available to lift it; one must not growing strong we will grow mally healthy I cannot help but be seen carrying a suitcase if a more beautiful. The woman who wonder about the physical fitness coolie is about; one must be assist must walk to her appointments, ed in and out of buses, cars and who does carry her bundles, who taxis by one's escort; one must carries her own bags is better off There are many contributing have an amah for one's child; in than her pampered sisters who reasons why this has happened, fact one must not do but it is none the less alarming to which would rob one of an expen- weak in body. Of course there is anything have grown weak willed and find physical unfitness so preva sive, pampered. lent in the age group which should halo! Such a feminine code is not begun to tap the energy we have clinging-vine a limit, but many of us have never "be the strongest. Perhaps if man only unhealthy but it is degener- waiting for use."
of women.
is to be healthy, strong and happy he should be denied those luxuries which we consider essential to our everyday living. And that brings me right to a point.
Women Are Weak Willed
very stupid, social code has many women. I refer
ating!
Meeting A Challenge
A wise prophet once horrified a world by loudly stating that war would always be a necessity be- cause man grows weak and ill When major catastrophies strike when he has nothing left to fight us we learn how much we can for. But there is some truth in take. Just look at the women in his statement for too many England, Fortunately for them they luxuries are crippling, class-con- have never 'softened' quite as sciousness is degrading and un- much as have Hong Kong women. used bodies grow unhealthy. War They now are doing the work of Is a challenge to strength,
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