Your
Weekly
Health
NEW
EPIDEMIC
A Physician Explains
ACK of sunshine and, a bad winter
A have been blamed for most of the in-
fective 11ness that has been rife lately.
One trouble which
has been so prevalent
SINUS
Affections
of late as to be almost in the nature of an epidemic is in connection with inflammation of the anuses, or canal: which run through the bones of the tare
These nuses are fairly easily ut fected when inflammatory conditions spread from the nose and thront.
The one that passes across the fore hend the frontal sinus-runs just be- low the eyebrows, and inanimation from the nose may travel up into it. Painful Pressure
The result of infection in this area I acute pain and tenderness an pres- zame over the flamed canal. Probia. bly much of this pain is due to the fact that the bone cannot expand and the pressure inside at Umes becomes well-uigh intolerable.
Applications to the inside of the nuse give relief. but sometimes when the immallon becomes enrenta ar EC- curring 16 la necessary to have recourse Lurgleal treatment and have the ainus opened 155.
No home remedy doea much good in these cases, and it is wise to neck medical advice.
The antrum is another of these fir Passages that have been so frequently nifected during the past winter and spring. This cavity is in the upper jaw. Just behind the cheek hones, and has a communicating channel with the nasal passages.
When Infection geta to this arva there pain and tenderness to pres- zure of the fluger on the outer skir f the nose and cheek bone.
Inhale This
There is fin a considerable du charge through the nose like that which comes after a cold has reached the thick, study sing. This discharge is much worn when the bend is bent downwards.
When the nutrun la affected t often pucesonry to open it up and wash' it out, but under cases sometimes clear up by using a simple inhalation like Friars Balsami.
A teaspoonful of thin added to a pint of bolling water gives oft rather pirn ant fumes The best way to use ft L to put a towel over your head, covering the jug or bowl at the same time, and Inhale slowly through the nose for three minutes.
It is staffelent to do this three times a day. Hut, like most other troubles ofis nature, you should consult a dactor.
the back of the thront where vou?
can't see it because its open- ing is above the soft palate, there is another passage way leading to the inside of the car-the Eustachian tube.
Quite often is the seat of catarrh which may have ćome either from the throat or from
the nose. Catarrh swells up the lining membrane, and when trant happens deafness frequently resultat Air cannot enter the tube and this stops the drum froin vibrating properly.
Discare may spread up into the middle ear, and when the latter is acutely affected there is intense earachs The drum pidly becomes red and the flamert and. if surgical treatment is not available In the early singer, the drum perforates and there Jas discharge This in the typical" running ear" which has been so common lately.
A still further compleation takes place when the dinase spreads to the bone behind the car- the inaisteld, where it is not uncommon to find that an abscess has formed i that area. This often requiner zurglent treatment to prevent extension of We machtef elsewhere.
Buoning cars and inflammation of the mastoid are essentially conditions for
a doctor care.
You are Inkleressary riska by try to treat these troubir's on your +1527,
Hor, when the acute stage hus passed and the ruuning „st routines, you can do mach in hasten healing by mym rat attention to Hygiene of the outer CAR passage.
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Heart shaped wooden buttons trim this scarlet wool tunic with puffed shoulders.
FALSE GLAMOUR. Minnie Pallister on
◇ one can be surprised at the bitter- ness in a corres- pondent's letter. Bhe says: "I should like your opinion on the subject of a friendship between a married man of Dity and a single air of twenty-five."
Here we have the eternal triangle, and the eternal problem, The wife, objecting to the fact that her hus hand spends als spare time with the younger waman, and buys expensive presents for her, although he can never afford prestils for his own family, r accused of being jealous.
Is this honourable towards the wife who has devoted over thirty years to 1 home and comfort?" the writer concludes.
Love Knows No
I two people, whether married or angle, suddenly fall in love, it in dim- cuit for them to be guided by considera- thus which should weigh with them.
If, however, the younger woman is .not really in love, I ne feels the allahtest clation in taking a man who Is married to someone else, then she is beneath erstempt,
In the large majority
these enses,
the solution rests with the younger
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worn he cannot help being attrac tive, certainly the older woman can. not be blamed for feeling aggrieved. although, unfortunately, long years of married Ho cannot in themselves ensure a contlaunace of affertion.
The man who finds that his atten- Hons are ccepted is strongly tempted to carry on the friendship. It is up to the younger woman to refize to nerept them.
The man might ask whether he is pinying the gante" with a contade who hus freed Hfe with him,
The wife might reared her own, heart and ask whether she is all he might be to her husband, or if she has
1To-day's
Recipe.
Dule Gingerbread -
CITONE somę dates, weigh four ounces after stoning and chop them. Mix a tea- cupful_of_dark_treacle_with_
al
a quarter of a pint of warn milk, add four ounces pure all-vegetable fat, blend t
ether well, and add a n șinall
bicarbonate leespoonful of soda. Put 4. fund of flour into a bowl, add the dates, of brown sugar, eight ounces and half-ounce of ground in- ger: mix well together, stir in the treacle mixture, and then two beaten eggs, Beat well. pour into a bolting-tin which has been well greased with vegetable fat, and bake in a Imoderate oven for an hour.
Note to
you,
MODERN
HOUSEWIVES
The Eternal.
A Triangle &
taken him for granted and crused to tanke any effort to keep herself attrac live
But the only peron. It seems to me. who can really solve the problem is the ZOMAN Woman. If the thinks a moment the must realise how unfan and dis- honourable her conduct is, when strapped of its false glamour.
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7 What one steps on on steps,
8 With outward show of wealth,
10. After all it signifies O.K.
11 Our Scala is a mild form of this
feast.
12 One who takes the air, and,
possibly, a rest.
You will find this, a drain.
15 Not right, and, consequently, not
taken.
10 Surgeons never
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appendices.
199-part.
remove these
last of the legends.
24 Become bent:
26 Really a horrible thing that
might be the work of 32.
29 This is probably shady, anet
there's a bore in it, too!
30 Thinks of Mrs. Ade.
31 All of a piece.
32 Though wrongly fined, yet a
dreadful person.
DOWN
1. Form of art feeder nut now popular in the British Isles (hyphen, 4, 5).
2 A tax on trimming? On The contrary, it's cut very severely. 3 Would one call him a food
Inddist?
They like people lo "say it with flowers."
5 Harm.
6 Cheerless,
150
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#String bar opening.
13 Dash!
16 Assuredly not the "open hand. 17 Assertion.
10 Reduced rather tile a
letter.
21 1is aeber (unnig))
folded
123 Stayed connected for the greater
part.
26 As far as the moon cari get nway
from the earth.
27 Rough,
28 Just Yankee impudence between
opposing sides.
Yesterday's Solution.
SO THREEL EGGEDEM
TANGTER UPRIGHT ADEMECE A TRIPS TÁ, I DA LAMB TENCUITO SER L EUGENIC ENTITLE
AS
BOARINGTREPLICA
A BETER EN SARAP
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HN LEGERDEMAI
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October. Alongside the bathing cap is sketched the latest device for the well- turned-out tennis player. This is an eye-shade and bandeau In one. Made The design of the apparatus is in pretty flowered voile, it is simply put on at a becoming and, if you like, pleasantly simple, and would fit in slightly rakish angle, and the scarf ends tied in a knot at the back. Prac- with any type of decoration. It can tical and very effective, for the handkerchief piece at the back keeps all Le had cellulosed in a number of one's stray curls in place and the peak gives adequate protection for the colours.
oyen.
This type of apparatus would un- Another advantage is that, when not in use, the stiffened peak lies doubtedly make an invaluable ad- completely flat and so can easily bo packed--a point to be considered in dition to the modern home.
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THE
BUTLER IN
THE KRACKER
MANSION BIDS SAM COME IN, SIRI AND HE LAMPS IMRS POLLY KRACKER FOR THE FIRST TIME
IN HIS
YOUNG
LIFE!
WHY, SODUS KRACKER!/ YOU DEAR LITTLE
SCAMPI
HEY!
(WOT THA-?
·ROT!
Sam Figures It
Out.
By Small
(CH-ER-UH, PARDON ME!|| YES! ONE DAY, MANY
I FORGOT MYSELF! YOU YEARS AGO, THE COACH- LOOK JUST LIKE MY DEAR}} MANU, TOOK, SODUS INTO TOWN IN OUR HORŠE NEPHEW, SODUS!
AND CARRIAGE -AND- HE NEVER CAME BACK
TO ME!
YEAH?
MEBBE THEY'RE STILL LOOKIN' FER A PLACE
TO PARK!
HAR!
HAR
SNIFF
SHIFF
SNIFF.
mei, S. PAT, OFFA:
♣ BY MEA BERVICE.
!