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Removal Of Tonsils Is Not
A Routine Health Measure
By H. N. BUNDESEN, M.D.
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should our system-the throat and back of extremely vulnerable to infec- out?" This is one of the
tion. most frequent and impor- It has been noted that many tant questions a physician children has
who
have had their have Inter to answer concerning tonsils removed
suffered fron lung infections and children's health.
bronchitis. Some authorities should
believe that these disorders may unless be
due
destroying this definite indication, barrier against infection, such as an infection, that thei should be done.
Tonsila and adenolds not be removed at all there is a
The removal
of tonsils. In particular, should
not be considered a routine
health measure,
ta
Certain Conditions
In spite of the fact that. the lymph tissue at this point is se important in fighting infection, from time to time we find cer- which require tain conditions the removal of the tonsils or adenoids, or both.
-
Best Ago for Removal When there is evidence of de finite infection,
the best age, according to many phayalclans, to have the tonsils removed As a result of recurring in- tonsils and adenoids (tonsillectomy) is in the fifth or fection, ixth year, if it is possible to grow in size and fall to return moor to normal. One of the wait until then,
Neither tonglis nor adenoids urgent indications for removing
them
is seen when these en- should ever be removed while
inter- the patient has a cold or other larged growths actually
fere with breathing or swallow- ing. Adenoidy may also impair hearing by blocking the tuber
infection
The tonsils and adenolds, it is believed, protect an infant white
he is building up his resistance that lead from the iniddle ear to to infections. A newborn child, the nasal portion of the throat, inherits from his mother cer- Other serious conditions arise tain defences against disease, when these growths continue to but rapidly loses them, It takes harbour infections which may him. Somo time to build up his become active when the body
resistance by reacting to
realstance is low. It is neces- infections in his environment, cary to remove the tonsils wheu cluronic Infections bring recur- Function of Lymph Tissuo
Tonally and adenoids are made ring attacks of tonsilitis
abscesses of the tonsils, Chronic
own
or
of lymph issue, Apps sinus infection, due to oversized function of this type of tissue is
to localize and combat infec- or infected pdenolds, also calls tions throughout the body. The for removal of these growths, lonsils and adenoids have
strategic spot in this defence
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"EYE APPEAL” IS IMPORTANT. WHEN YOU'RE SERVING FOOD
AT luncheon in the cafeteria dining room of the University of Hawaii we saw students of more than Reven nationalities eating happily together. The foods were all simple and inex- pensive. but appetising,
glamorous
even
pearance.
"We and
in
ap-
By IDA BAILEY ALLEN
Dinner
Tomato Bean Soup Chop Suey with Vegetables Rico or Flaky Potatoes Tossed Green Salad Pineapple Pie
Coffee, Ten or Milk All Mensuramente Are Level Recipes Sered Your
Chop Suey with Vegetable
..
(Adapted) ̧
In a heated, largo heavy frying
min., when the vegetables should be "tender to the teeth." Add 2 tbsp. cornstarch blended, with e. water and 1 tbsp. soy sauce. Cook and stir 3 min.
STULK-
Pineapple Pie (Adapted) Line a 9" ple plate with pastry. Sprinkle over and press in 2 tbsp. lne dry bread crumbs to the crust crisp, Small-dice keep cnough tinned, or frosh ripened pineapple to make 2% Add c. sugar, if pineapple is that the students pan measure 2 tbsp, salad oil and tinned, or 14 e. if it is fresh. choose and enjoy colourful, 1 top, salt. Add 4 lb. lean fresh Add 2 fino-rolled soda crackers beautiful looking foods," re- pork (any cut). Slow-cook until and 1 unbeaten egg. If tinned marked Elsie Boatman, Director lightly browned, about 7 min. pineapple is used add c. of the Transfer to the crust- of Food
have Add & c. mixed fresh vegetables Juice. Service. made many
alled plate. tests of the in- cut in thin strips-such as celery, filled
Cover with a top portance of eye appeal. Arrange green beans, bean sprouts, car crust: Press the edges together o display of crisp
with a fork, Slash the centre. green salads rots,
peppers, green
young round οπίσεις, and they'll pass them up-but anlons,
white Brush, with whole milk. Bake Gecorate these same salads with turnips, and include green peas, 10 min. in a hot oven, 400 F red beets, radishes or tomato and fresh or quick frozen. Add 1 c. Then reduce the heat and bake
25 min, at 375 F. they're a sell out!
mushrooms. (optional). Come into aliced the kitchen to meet Chef Four in 6. hot water; sprinkle
Trick of the Chof Oshima, He made that chop. in 1 envelope broth powder. Add top, powdered basil to suey you enjoyed."
Cover and steamcook briskly 10 tomato soup.
The Needlecraft
Straw Place Mat
MBRE STRAW., a
Dow Jarn that's 100% rayon but has ideal the texture of straw is for making the bright-coloured place mats you'll want this summer. The one shown at right is easily crocheted; made perfect
By GRACE THORNCLIFFE HERE is a nice dress-up job in the two-piece manner, designed for the trim, pretty young lady. The fabric is acetate taffeta, with black dots..ta a set, proves the
gilt for any occasion. and rheumatic disenses. Ton-The blouse has cuffed, cap sillectomy may therefore be in- diested in these conditions, but only if the tonsils are definitely infected,
Many doctors believe that
1 chronic tonsil Infection may
cause
certain, kidney, heart,
The doctors will deelde in each case whether or not the tonsils should be removed and, if removal is necessary, when
tonsillectomy should the
performed.
be
Bed-wetting
stitch (es) clip
.... slip stitch
ABBREVIATIONS
st (s) કા
51 st
ch
in-
C
a c
this
sleeves, a pert bow at the neck and jet buttons down the front. The skirt has wide pleats all the way around and an verted pleat centre front. A black velvet belt com- pletes the costume.
Due To
Psychological Factor
By G. C. MYERS, Ph.D.
OCCASIONALLY bedwet-
was
that the
chain
single, crochet double crochet
symbol indicates
directions
imme- diately following are to be repeated a given number of times in addition to the original.
*SIATERIALS: BERNAT OM- bre Straw (144 'yd tubes) — 2 for each mint, . 1, bone crochet hoolt No. 5/T.
GAUGE: 2 V ats:1 inch, 2 rows:1 fach.
PATTERN STITCH: ROW 1:
1 d e in 4th st from hook, ch din same et, sidp 1 st,
When our youngest son
he came into my1d in next st, ch 1, 1 dc in
came study and said: What are you from across row, ch ting in a child over four about nine,
st (V it madej," repeat
3 turts. or five has a physical cause doing, Daddy?" "Weiling fathers ROW 2: Work 1 d e under
causes.
Corner
same
needing medical attention and others about their problems next ch 1 space, ch 1, id e in and fasten off. Work in pate under next dc, repeat saino space, repent fromto ter st until pleco measures 15 from along che long edge of It might be well, indeed, for with their children," I replied.
Inches..
mat to next corner, 8o e la Then he wanted to know what and of row, ch 8, turn. Repeat EDGING: any bedwetting child to be
20-in Work ac in corner, picot, the some of them problems were, and Row 2 for pattern stitch.
corner, ch 3, st si in base of ch corner, sc in next st on carefully checked by
I read him a letter I was answer-
DIRECTIONS; Maken ch 13 3 (picot made), 2 s e in same short end, picot, *** 1'9′′e 'la physician. But most bed ing from a mother worried be
seven, was still inches long. Work Row 1 of space, ** 1 c under next de cach of the next 3 sts, picot, wetting has psychological cause her son,
wetting the bed occasionally. The pattern st across 12 inches of 1 picot, 1 se under same de, 2 repeat from *** to corner, re
and ch. Cut ch 2 sts from werk se under next d e, I pleat, 2 peat from around, mother revealed that she Lots of attractive adults whom the father had often grown vexed you and I have admired for with the lod over this matter. their culture, reinement, and "We think he is big enough to achievement often awoke in wet know better," she said. beds when they were children, even after they entered school, in spite of all you have read to the effect that bedwetting causes warped personalities,
,
My Bittle son replied: "That's nothing to get worried about. The boy doesn't do it on purpose. He's asleep when I happers, Why don't you tell her to put a rubber
Unhappy Emotions theet under his regular sheet
Bedwetting in itself hardly and call him up onse or so a could harm personally. But the night, or get him an alarm clock unhapppy cerations connected the way you did for me? with it because of parents who: don't understand the child and manage their own emo-
can't tions,
Excited or Worried
PROFESSIONAL CLEANING HINTS
PERHAPS the easiest decora- tive device, and certainly one of the most useful and least ex- pensive, is the mirror.
By ELEANOR ROSS.
inix
To make these marks conte clean, as it were, dissolve ono Here is a hint borrowed from
professional cleaner that part of sodium citrate in sik
water and might be of use to you as it has purts of Today there is so much use of been to us. First, remove finger thoroughly with an equal quan-
marks and spots from tho y of glycerine. Mix a por....... beautiful mirror glass in panels, mirror by sprinkling ofety tion of this solution with pow. - as well as in various shapes and
drops of household ammonia
that is just "thick enough to can do no ond of harm. "Maybe the boy has an accid-alzes, that every room in many a moist cloth, and rubbing the dered whiting to form a parte
Then, dipa Avas house is literally mirrored in blurs with
a thick Many a child from four to tens or ent after a day when he twelve has for years boon res exalted or worried about some loveliness. We use mirrors not large-size cloth, one entirely spread on the stain in
lint or dust, in coat. Leave this to dry na bakel, punished and shamed for thing. I think that is what wed only on the walls and over the free from wetting the bed, and angrily re- to happen to me. When it did living room dreplace, but os discerine. Rub the surfaces gens process that usually takes a few minded by his mother of the ex“ bapa dry clothes, •· and M 3 frvom there are mirrored!alooves, 17 polishing with a second cloth replaced by a new layer of the tra work he has caused her, fool-
I would just get up and table tops as well. In the bed- tly but thoroughly, then finish days), after which it should be get sorne ing himself surrounded by a couldn't end them, Mother or full-length viewing mistors and glycerine that remains will help than of more of the glycerine- or chamole. The slight film of paric, or softened by the addi- cloud of disgrace..
you would help me find them mirror-top dressing tables, How can he feel he is loved as 've had no accident for
to prevent the Alm and blurred containing liquid. Severat-op- plications may be necesary, Bul But mirrors are definitely not look from forming again. ha would'ilke to be loved? He years or more, but if it should, Just
won't get a normal amount happen again it wo
wouldn't Car
be decorative aseets unless they are. From the sume source comes a the results usually do warrant of approval and affectionate com anything for anybody
And it la suggestion for treating those the effort, to C
and panionship. And if thère are
Вора worth that extra bit of effort to rust stains that sometimes ap-tar
results may
other children in the family, he Jack count to top keep them go. Mirrors often pear on the cement floor, of the Quicker
they are. This increasing Jealousy
you can do
will be sure he is less loved than t mother une better metust, contruct a stubborn fim, parti- garage. Usually one, scrubs achieved by using ammonium and insecurity renders him the Of course, I tried to help my cularly during the etion of and scrubs but to no avall, for citrate, but this may fofura more unstable emotionally the son goo that I shouldn't scold artificial heating, a fire that is these marks and stains are par polished surfaces to some extent. vory best condition for furthering cats, as they usually say to not enait removed with soap, ilcularly stubborn and seem to So it is ballet to play, mate and hie bowõllung.
stai colaje «paka- do what they suppose is treat, il and water.
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