Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 191, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 August 1915 — Health Notes [ARTICLE]

Health Notes

If a woman or a man faints put her or him flat on her or his back, give plenty of fresh air and sprinkle with cold water. For opium, morphine and laudanum poisoning give strong coffee and a hot bath and keep the patients awake and moving at any cost. If your hands perspire too freely, add a few drops of tincture of myrrh to the water in which you rinse them after washing. Then dry thoroughly and dust with boracic acid or oatmeal. Common baking powder Is one of the best remedies for the removal of warts and corns. Bind on wet and moisten the soda several times a day. The warts and corns will quickly disappear.

A way to protect yourself in buying Is to trade with somebody whose honesty you have tested. If you know that a dealer Is honest, be satisfied with that assurance and don’t humiliate yourself and him by measuring and weighing his goods on every possible occasion. The best way to protect yqprself from dishonest dealers is to lend your aslstance to every effort that energetic women —and men, too —are making to put through legislation that insures fair treatment on the part of the housekeeper from the tradesman. Legislation to Insure purity, fair measure, good conditions of labor —all these are a safeguard to the housekeeper and, help to “secure the cask.**