Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 250, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 October 1919 — RED CROSS NOTES. [ARTICLE]

RED CROSS NOTES.

' Mothers, guard your children from having colds. Cold are infectious or what you call “catching.” ~ Colds are due to a variety of causes; bad air is the most common cause. Night air is always bad air, so open a window and let it out. Other causes are unclean surroundings, lack of baths, improper feeding, overwork, Wet feet and undue exposure to cold. Colds pass quickly from _pne person to another, so in order to prevent the whole family from having a colei, remember the discharges from the nose and throat are like deadly poison in their certainty in spreading the disease. If a child has. dry feet, godd, nourishing food, plenty of sleep, good air to breathe and is not associated with others who have colds, there is. little chance of him contracting the disease. ——Children who have -one- cold after another develop adenoids, throat in•fections, middle ear disease, and have a lowered vitality so that they are good subjects for every known disease of childhood. The women who keep their children well are the greatest physicians in the world. NETTIE B. JORDAN, American Red Cross Nurse for Jas? per County. They say a dollar don’t go as far as it did, but hear me. it goes a darn sight faster. The only thing Ja man can do nowadays is to pull ‘buty'ffie. stinger and sticif somebody else. However, there is no “stinger” to a Franklin. —Hugh Kirk.