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-And Here's HOW
THE Common Cold season
to Prevent It:
But before considering the actual cautions you can exercise * has opened. From now to save yourself from cold this until next spring every other autumn and winter, it is as well a few general facts person will have at least one to know cold; more susceptible people about the Common Cold.
To begin with, a Common Cold will average four colds.
Already, with the sudden is a large term that covers a multitude of. germs. Not even slight the medical profession have an cooler spell, there is a
exact definition. They call it an epidemic.
Made himself swent 'profusely b
running,
then stood in a draught for
fifty-four minutes; Pat on a wet shirt in a cold
draught;
Went all day in sort shoes; Hented then chilled different i
parts of his body. And he suffered no
Avold spliting or blowing your nose carelessly...
If you have a enid, don't kiss or breathe on anyone.
Avold dust-Inden plaçes.
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'Keep out of draughts, but give yourself lots of fresh air.
was
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colds For overy person who goes to infection of the mucous mem- whatsoever, though in several bed as the result of an accident brane of the upper air passage of the experiments he he probably could not prevent, (your nose and throat). twelve will go to bed as the re- sult of cokls they probably could prevent
NOTES OF THE DAY by influenza.
shivering with cold!
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"Limit the cold to where It started: nose, or throat, or chest.
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balhe "Exerese regularly. regularly, brush your teeth, bathe your nose and eyes.
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*Make sure your adenoids and tonsils are giving you na trouble.
That definition includes every- thing from sneezing a few times THIS school points to the hardi- one day and feeling fine the next ness of ship captains who to being laid low for six weeks never get cold on deck, yet shout for a porthole to be closed if they are in a draught below decks,
They point out that the rea-
dislike the draught is obtaining wonderful results to- in Great Britain, and that it is son we
feel un- From Dublin comes an amusing responsible for greater loss of not because of catching cold but day.
Finally, an ounce of preven- Recount of the reception of Mr. efficiency and working time than because it makes us
comfortable to have one isolated tion is still worth a pound of de Valera's Bill to enforce economic any other disorder.
part of the body, such as the cure. sanctions against Italy. Even Mr.***
IRISH SANCTIONS
ferro-silico
What doctors do know is that the Common Cold is by far the most prevalent form of disease
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INNERS
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From the Office Butts
You can't buy horse sense, even
A year of steady progress, marked by the overcoming of
de Valera's supporters smiled broad- That is its main danger-not neck, suddenly cooled while the ly when the text of the Bill was mortality. For the Common rest of the body remains the numerous difficulties, is recorded
the annual report of the circulated in the Dail. The smiles Cold of itself is not serious when same.
But directly opposite to this BULLS AND in
bidden Irish exports. These in-plications of pneumonia, bron- view are the learned Pickelt- Chinese postal service for the were inspired by the list of fur properly handled. It is the com-
1934, clude mules and camels, bauxite, chitis, tuberculosis and diph Thomson claims which prove, period ended June 30, which has just been issued. rubber, vandanium,
manganese, and methyldichlorar- theria that are dangerous, And among other experiments, that suspension of postal
sudden cold Kill fish, birds, in- thren camels in these you can easily avoid. sine. There are The
that in the Three the Dublin Zoo. The other items pperations
The most susceptible age of sexts, plants, trees, and the University Eastern Provinces was offset appear only in
are catching colds is under four; the point out that if exceptionally, with a stable dollur. the laboratories. Even stranger by the warfare in
It was only to be expected that North and in Szechuan being the other sanctions to be applied least susceptible over fifty-five, strong people can resist cold, At Mr. de Valera's suggestion the When you have passed your normal city dwellers cannot re-
time by the forelock! settled, and by the subduing of Free State undertakes not to supply thirty-fifth birthday you are sist it and should not be exposed the "China Clipper" would inke
activities in several Italy with vessels of war, afreraft passing the cold years. Ex. to it.
C Sir Leonard Hill, with his bandit provinces. In all regions re-carriers, mlaes and torpedoes. The treme old age is susceptible to
spartan crede, would surely pro-
It's no fan being a new Gover covered, postal services were Free State's only naval possession bronchitis,
duce hardier Britons: but I be nor when you may have your salary MOST Common Colds start in lieve that he would fill our cut soon after you arrive. immediately resumed, facilities is an obsolete gunboat. were extended in many areas, non-postally-served places were
Somebody stole a fur coat the ∙connected by new mail lines, and additional establishments
the nose, the pain of swallowing, drives the blood from the sur-other day." The skunk!"
0 o were opened wherever neres. sary. Of particular value, and
Whatever may be the ultimate the loss of voice,. the running face of your skin too quickly,
There's no truth in the rumour indicating the growth of effect of sanctions, it is becoming eyes of the ordinary cold to the causes it to congest and germs motor transport, schemes for increasingly clear that their im-headaches, fever, body pains to collect, being unable to be that the new Peak Tram Station The Pearly as is to be known the construction of new roads in position will stimulate Italian in and prostration of influenza. carried off fast enough.
But if chills and draughts are Gates." various provinces made great ventiveness. At the first threat
In olden days we had no iden
D O strides, resulting in an increase! Signor Mussolini culled up his
dangerous, at least Sir Leonard of more than eight thousand chemists and Inventors, and ordered what caused these painful symp- Hills is right in advising you to
Drinks may have gone up in a combined effort to find substitutes toms, After 6,500. years of kilometres in the total length for articles which hitherto Itais medicine we still believed as late avoid stuffy, overcrowded places.price, but they still go down.
The reasons: they are over- of highways built.
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Mail matter
SANCTIONS AND
"INVENTIONS
the nose; about one-third graveyards in doing so. get to the chest. They need no One reason you get cold when describing:-from-the-blocking-of-you are chilled is that the cold
for places connected by these has been forced to import. Already as in the reign of Queen Anne heated, you go out into cold.
bus.
of
air
thousand kilometres.
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We wonder what these steeking less flappers will hang up?
Spaghetti, like children, should.
COLDS .. Actual germs,
be seen and not heard!
are
and sprend epidèmics are started through
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Many people will go on light diet roads is all carried by motor-wool which is said to be three times that colds came from poisons
streets; people are blowing their when the flaming puddings are from overworked
noses and breathing germs on served.. Another important de-as cheap as ordinary wool, It is overflowing
you if they are already infected; vėlopment has been the growth reasonable to suppose that they will brains!
Sanctions And il It is re- have further successes,
was to curb these and because overheating causes air mail traffic.
mode o have always stimulated
man's in-rheumes and humours" that a'disturbance in the normal flow corded that this
Not Infrequently transportation has become more ventivenear.
of the saliva and mucous of your popular and the total length of their imposition has resulted in the the use of snuff came int
To-day we can classify the throat and nose. lines has been increased extinction of an existing industry. during the year by some three The Great War showed what man causes of colds under the follow- three can invent under the impulse of ing more predominant honds:---
cotton necessity. Deprived of
1. Infections, nearly three and a half million the British blockade, Germany
such as the perma streptococci
Lots of hen-pecked husbands will packages were transmitted by found a substitute in the 'common
and pneumococci, which are weakened person catching tell you that there's nothing really tar products air during the year, and free nettle. Barley and
more or less in the nose and cold from the above causes new in this "managed currency" use has been made of connec-provided an alternative to coffee.
throat at all times, but which east wind should be avoided idea. tion with the French, Dutch and | Dr. Konustein, the German-chemist, British air services to Europe..
substitute for nitro- which abound in natural reglycerine. But the classical in- stance in beet sugar. During the sources, the extension of the Napoleonic wars the British Navy postal service has been pushed had est off France from all imparts forward. Due to the inadequate of colonial goods, including sitgur. means of communication and Like Mussolini, Napoleon mobilised
them res frequent bandit disturbances, his inventors, promised most of the people have beenwards. In 1810 beet-sugar was In- living a difficult life, and vented. business has been stagnant, but
In the North-Western provinces, finged the war for a year by i
a
NEW AIR FIGHTER the Government has adopted an elaborate scheme to develop
these frontièr areas. Various The new 300-m.p.h. Interceptor.
quin a "hold' whca poa ure particularly, likewise fog, the weakened;
such germ
one because it is colder, the
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Looks as if Italy is quite ready
2. An inborn lack of immunity to other because it prevents air for peace so long as she's allowed
3.. Chills and exposure to cold, circulating fast enough to carry to win the war.
draughts, etc., which in turn off the normal pollutions in the weaken you to the attacks of city atmosphere-and then In- the above forms, athers;
among fecting other people.
What you should do to stop 4. Bad ventilation, overcrowding; colds:
. Intestinca and irregularities;
1. Keep warm, but don't worry about changing to heavy under"
6. Fatigue;
7. Nervóna conditions;
Aside from spreading the Wear, Moist underwear, from
The
Japanese
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monarch in Manchukuo, Presum- ably, a HUP into Hopdi will see a KING in Peking.
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It just wants Italy to follow perspiration, causes far more Japan and Germany out of Geneva
ing a similar policy by the open-has a lead of 100 m.p.h, over the draughts and bad weather principally water, lemonade or four.
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actual germ infections, which colds. Tested experiments have now, and it'll become the League types of reconstructive, work fighter which Sir Philip Sussoon we shall consider later in gen- proven that extra clothes do not of Resig-nations. ᄆ have been carried out, and many said earlier in the year would be eral preventive methods, the help prevent colds.
2. If you have gastric cataith Looks like someone's put two and other plans are under considera-ready this winter has completed its most immediate question is: tion. The Post Office is follow-first test fights. The new fighter To what extent do chills and or cold in your stomach, drink two together and made one and ing of new mail lines and latest Continental bombers, but it affect me?
thick soup. MINION additional establishments ȧt is unlikely that this lead will be
3. Go to bed, and stay in bed. Counterfeit five. and ten cent coins are hurder to detect now that these far-away points. In re-ent for long, as bomber speeds are THERE are two great divisions constantly rising. The fighter
of medical thought on this It's quicker in the end. gard to finance it is shown that must always be faster than the
4. Todine, camphor, quinine, counterfeiters don't have to make expenses have been reduced to bomber and must be able to climb subject. a minimum, with the result that to a higher altitude, and climb One, led by Sir Leonard Hill, aspirin, belladonna, bicarbonate them ring, These days it's not a by simultaneously reducing more quickly. Only thus can. It claims that colds come not from of soda are all helpful. Like- bit of use looking for the silver payments and increasing re- dive on the bomber. The main cold but from heat and over- Wise good are a number of rubs, lining.
inhalants, vapour and patent ceipts surplus has been re- problem of the air defence of a crowding.
medicines offered by your Canton is disgruntled because corded during the fiscal year, great city like London will continue
One of his followers, the fam- chemist. It is always worth Shanghai has a finger in the to be the time. factor. The, 200-
service ple compared with deficits of several m... bomber can reach London in ous Austrian, Dr. Chodunsky in while explaining to him just Canton-Hanol air million dollars in the two. pre-15 minutes after dressing the South his efforts to prove how harm what sort of a cold you are suf- Hanol-ed? ceding years. All in alla Coast: If warning is not received less cold and chills are:
fering from Naturally, the satisfactory position is shown, at headquarters until the invaders Stood naked in a cold draught for type of germ differs with each
one hour after a steaming hot tub; person.
LTD. reflecting once again the are seen at the coast the fighters
value of a properly-controlled have only 15 minutes to take off and Hand administered branch of the reach the height from which they
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Did the same thing after a cold 5. Diathermy and ionisation, both electrical treatments, are
tub:
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