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HOME AND FARM MAGAZINE SECTION Notes on Health and Sanitation Our 1915 Record Service Innovation. Hearing and Selecting Records at Home HOW TO KKKl" n:ix. WHILE it is necessary for every body to guard bis health, it 18 especially necessary (or the people who are located on farms several miles from a doctor. Not only is there danger of delay In case of need, but the extra distance calls for extra tees. Barring most accidents and una voidable contagion, the larger portion of slcknecs from which we suffer Is preventable provided fcood common sense Is used. The point is to know the right course to pursue aud then to pursue it. Many a farm maid alnrs to dress like her foolish town or city cousin, who In turn blindly follows fashion, forgetting that Paris styles are not adapted to our rigorous Winter climate and that thin hosiery, peek-a-boo waists and light weight gar ments are unfit for town wear in the Winter, not to mention for the cloth ing of the country girl who must ride to and from her church or shopping trip. Of late years thin Winter under wear is worn by many of the younger people and head coverings which ex pose the ears sadly. A prominent physician who has been a valued State Grange lecturer Is authority for the statement that both health and hearing are bound to suffer soon er or later from this undue exposure. Changing With Seasons. Then there are people who change their Winter underwear fhe first day of May regardless of the climatic suitability, and not infrequently, al together unnecessary colds result. Many times these a re the beginning of serious lung trouble. The clothing should be suited to the weather as it Is, not as it is sup posed It ought to be. If it remains cold defer the change to lighter wear until discomfort calls for action. When warm from washing or cook ing, do not go out of doors into the chill, fresh air, especially without a warm wrap. Belter to wait until a normal temperature of the body has been reached than to contract a cold or pneumonia. What if the basket of clothes does wait or the dinner is delayed. Better so than a delay of mouths and perhaps the cost of a life. Attend to (lie Teeth. Many people will call a doctor when necessary but will defer having necessary dental work done. Often unhealthy teeth are the cause of ill. health, Indigestion, malnutrition, nervousness and debility; medicine is taken when it can do little good because the cause remains. Poor teeth, especially decayed ones are a fine breeding ground for dis ease germs and so the owner is more liable to contagion than his neighbor with a healthy mouth. Poor teeth prevent thorough masti cation and poison the food taken into the stomach, causing indigestion and preventing assimilation. Headaches often come from teeth in which the nerves have died, caused by the ab sorption of unhealthy secretions. Use a tooth brush once at least, during the day and on going to bed. Use a good tooth powder or paste aud rinse the mouth every day with a solution of soda water. It sweetens and neutralizes the acids which de stroy the enamel. New Diseases Caused lly New Products. The list of new dlt-eaiies seems to keep step with the list of Inventions. One of the very latest of these path ological newcomers is a disease (still too young to be properly christened) which attacks the work men engaged in making artificial fer tilizer to compete with the natural Chilean saltpeter. The symptoms of this disease are described technically as follows: "The head is flushed, the limbs shiver as if with cold, there is dysp nea, and sense of pressure on the chest. . . . The attacks last an hour or two and are followed by great prostration." The new fertilizer Is made In an electric furnace, and differs from the Chile saltpeter in being a product of calcium instead of potassium. It Is known as cyanimid of calcium. So "cyanimid poisoning" has now been added to the official list, of industrial poisons. t It is not absolutely necessary to have elaborate fittings and accessor ies In order to keep clean. The farm man or maid may have the softest and purest of water, abundance of soap, towels and a small zinc bath pan that can be purchased for 50 cents. This is ample If no other con veniences are at hand, to keep sweet and wholesome. The hands should be washed before every meal as dangerous germs are often couveyed to the mouth by means of soiled or half washed hands. Individual towels really make no more work because they do not have to be changed so often. The kitchen sink wash basin should be scalded after each meal and not allowed to collect a collar of grime. Pore Air and Water. Neither cost money, but both cost a little effort. They are worth it. A yello-w dry skin and dull eyes are the price of sleeping In a close, stuffy room. Drink plenty of pure, fresh water and keep the liver active. As soon as the whites of the eyes show a yellow tinge or you get up with a dark brown taste in the mouth, It is time to eat plentifully of onions and take something of an hepatic nature. Tired out, grouchy people are never efficient in the highest degree. Do something for somebody. Plan a long anticipated visit. Go to church and get some new ideas on your duty to yourself, your home, and your neighbor. Avoid late hours, excesses of 'any kind, and cultivate a spirit of cheerfulness. Then indeed need you have small thought of the black cloud of sickness resting. upon the home and crippling its inmates. Let us hasten the day when good health shall be as catching as disease and disease a reproach to any house hold. Sanitation and Wealth. There is a direct connection be tween cleanliness and prosperity, aud between filth and poverty. The farmer who keeps his hogs wallowing in filth has every right to dread the coming of hog cholera into the neigh borhood, while he who has every thing spick and span around the place, with hogs in good health through proper feeding, has little to fear. There is a doc tor in California who has consumed by mouth and has In jected into his blood the germs of all kinds "of disease and never been sick from them. He challenges the medical world to find a disease germ that can hurt him. Why? He is in perfect health, which goes to prove that the body, in perfect health is proof against disease. Every hog raiser knows of cases where one man loses by supposed cholera and the neighbor across the wire fence does not lose a hog. The hogs rub noses through the fence, and the filth of the diseased herd may wash for a time upon the land of the other man, yet by proper feeding and sanitation the one prospers without loss and the other suffers great loss. Whatever may be the outcome of the debated vaccination question, one thing must always be borne in mind, that filth tends towards disease and cleanliness towards health. And of almost as great importance is the proper feed aud feeding of hogs to Insure health. These two things every hog man can do and by do ing them he increases his chances of avoiding loss by sickness. Same Here. Little .Tack Stout was visiting a ranch and was out at the barn one morning watching his uncle feed the horses hay, It troubled him to see them given only dry hay and oats. 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