Jasper County Democrat, Volume 22, Number 58, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 October 1919 — RED CROSS NOTES [ARTICLE]

RED CROSS NOTES

Mothers, guard your children from having colds. Colds are Infectious or what you call “catching.” Colds are due to a variety as causes; bad air is the most common cause, night air 19, always bad air, sp open a window and let it out. Other causes are unclean surroundings, lack of baths. Improper feeding, overwork, wet feet and exposure to cold. Colds pass quickly from '■one person to another, so in order to prevent the whole family from having a cold remember the discharges from the nose and throat are like a deadly *polson in their certainty tai spreading the disease. If a child has dry feet, good, 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 Infections, middle ear disease and have a lowered vitality, so that they are good subjects for every known disease t of childhood. The women who keep their children well are the greatest physicians In the worId.—NETTIE B. JORDAN, American Red Cross Nurse for Jasper County.