Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 22, Number 93, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 August 1901 — Colds Cost Money. [ARTICLE]

Colds Cost Money.

A leading Insurance journal says somewhat pathetically that colds cost the life insurance companies a million dollars a month, according to a writer in the Saturday Evening Post. What they cost those who catch cold is, of course, quite beyond cavil or reclaim, but the paper goes on to warn the careless who happen to own policies how to be able to keep on paying premiums awhile longer. The gist of the advice is to avoid exposure, keep out of draughts and tight a cold from start to finish. “The grave Is still very hungry,” it adds. “Besides, the life insurance companies would like to save a million a month.” The highest medical authority ii> journalism gives the following: “The philosophy of prevention Is to preserve the natural and healthy action of the organism ns a whole and of the surface in particular, while habituating the skin to bear severe alterations of temperature by judicious exposure and natural stimulation by pure air and clean water and orderly habits of hyglen# and health."