Evening Star Newspaper, March 6, 1925, Page 39

WOMAN'S PAGE. Benefit From Hot and Cold Baths BY LYDIA LE BARON WALKER. There are many reasons for taking baths other than that of cleanliness. This naturally is a prime reason, and for whatever other cause baths ar indulged in, this onec should never be glven minor consideration. When we op o think, however, we soon real- e that many elements beneficial, curative and enjoyable, enter into ac- count. For instance, baths may be aken purely for invigoration. The may be employed to soothe and re the nerves, which is exactly the re- o of the first aim. Baths may be n for the purpose of reducing weight, and again to relax muscles. Bathing bumps and wounds, where the skin is not broken, tends to re- HOT BATHS ARF RESTFUL; COLD STIMULATING AND ING. ARE INVIGORAT- duce inflammation and to prevent blood settling and causing brulses. la fact, water is a magic remedy for many ills. It enters as a powerful agent into medical treatment. Baths | are but one form of its beneficial use. A cold plunge on rising in the morn- ng or a cold shower or sponge bath creases the circulation of the blood| d is just the thing to animate cer- | cole | will do, though nowadays cold water is to stand such rigorous treatment as a dip into it. The temperature of the water should be modified somewhat, not enough to prevent its being ac- tually cold, but to temper it, so that it would be comparable to that of Midsummer ocean water into which bathers so delightedly plunge on hot days. There should be a healthful and glowing reaction after the plunge or shower. Cola Baths. It should be remembered that cold baths are not taken for cleanliness, but for invigoration. They must be supplemented with frequent warm baths, when plenty of soap is used and the skin is well rubbed and washed. There are many people who annot stand such cold baths, just as there are many who find sea bathing does not agree with their constitu- tions. For them other forms of bath- ing are necessary. I may add that sea galt in crystal form, that is sold at drug stores, may be added to elther cold or hot tubs to increase this idea of salt water bathing, and also to provide a further stimulant. ‘When Hot Baths Are Best. Hot baths are most frequently taken on retiring. Since they are relaxing and soothing, this s an ad- mirable time to enjoy them. More- over, the heat opens the pores and makes susceptible to colds a person who ventures forth after taking such a bath. If a hot bath Is taken in the daytime, it is advisable to follow it with a cold or nearly cold shower just as a preventive against taking When a person is nervously wrought up, a hot bath will be found soothing, because it relaxes the muscles and the nerves, which are always at a tension when one Is annoyed, worried or dis- tressed. This is such a simple rem- ody nearly always available at the time, or within a reasonably short period, that it is surprising more peo- ple do not take advantage of it. Hot Baths Reducing. When & person wishes to reduce, ex- tremely hot baths are recommended. Remaining in them quite a while each : is essential. Persons will find the results accrue if, after getting out of the tub, they wrap themselves in rubber sheets and stay so wrapped for a while. This also induces perspira- tion, which is responsible for the loss of weight. Always after such treatments the persons must guard against draughts and sudden change of tem- perature, or they may take cold. Showers of cold water will make them immune. Turkish bdths are wonderful in their ability to remove impurities from the system, and also in the mat- ter of reducing weight. Emergency Remedy. If either a child or an adult has a fall or an accident that promises to result in bruises or sore and tender places on the body, there is no better emer- gency remedy than bathing the injured spot with water. Cold water or hot generally preferred. Intermittent ap- | plications of hot and cold water are best | of all, however, when the object is to | reduce swellings or prevent brulses. The cold applications should be longer than the hot in most instances. It | often happens that this treatment is all | persons. This does not mean at the water should flow from the p just as it comes from the outside | water supply, if the temperature is freezing or even extremely cold. It would take a marvelous constitution | PERSONAL HEALTH SERVICE BY WILLIAM BRADY, M. D. - Noted Physicia No More Diphtheria. All of the nurses in Durand Hospita ©of the John McCormick Institute fo Infectious Diseases in Chicago havi been Immunized against diphtheria. Every nurse has been tested for sus- ceptibility to the disease by the test called the Schick test; every prospec- tive nurse is so tested and immunized if found susceptible to diphtheria. The Schick test consists of injecting into, not through nor under the skin, one-fiftieth of the minimum lethal dose of diphtheria toxin for a 250 gram (about % pound) guinea pig This minute dose ia first diluted with everal drops of normal salt solution }f the individual is immune to diph- theria no reaction is observed: if the individual is not immune and there- fore presumably susceptible, redness appears gradually at the site of the injection and remains as a hive-like €pot for two or three days. The re- action depends on the amount of anti- toxin which is present in the indi- vidual's blood, and every one of us who s not susceptible to diphtheria has more or less antitoxin in his blood. How come? Old Dr. Nature * manufactures it for us. If he didn't, most of us would succumb to diph- theria. When onec has diphtheria the blood begins the intensive produc- tion of antitoxin as soon as the first waves of toxin are thrown into the blood stream from the focus of in- fection. If the toxin is not produced by the diphtheria_germs in too great quantities, the blood may keep up with the demand, antidoting every it of toxin the germs throw out with a unit of antitoxin, and the pa- tant makes a natural recovery But if the germs get the jump on the blood, 50 to speak, and produce diph- theria toxin (toxin means polson) faster than the blood can produce the necessary neutralizing antitoxin, then the patient is doomed unless a sup- ¢ of antitoxin can be found ready de for him. Now if that isn't per- fectly clear and the plainest horse sense—I beg your pardon, please £o ~ round to my other e: Oh, yes, to be sure, where do we get the antitoxin when some must be borrowed to s @ lite? Why, it doesn’t matter mu where If a kind friend who has re- covered from diphtheria within a few years will contribute a pint or so of Lis blood, it will do, though it is not 7 very concentrated antitoxin we can tget In that way. Or if the kind friend is a borse, we can treat him well and train him as an expert or rather a specialist in the manufacture of toxin, and most antitoxin is cont uted by our friend the horse. We really ought to point out once ‘'WASHINGION.D.C. Children like it because it ¢ likes it because it is ready to fry, bake or broil Accept No | superstitions that is needed. | The remedy for many things is| found in the correct use of hot or cold | water baths, and positive beneflt, if not actual cure, is possible. The remedy is pleasant and the cost nothing. n and Author | more the absurdity of most of the of ~uneducated folk bout the effects of antitoxin and the evolting cruelty that too often grows out of such erfors. I retain no more | harrowing impression from a rather checkered career in private and hos- pital practice than the memory of a wistful little child belng poisoned to death by inches because her misin- formed, headstrong father refused to | permit the use of the antidote—tor, you sce, the man had been told that some other child who had received | antitoxin was “not bright.” But let us rejoin the ladies, as they say after dinner, in the best books on etiquette. By means of the Schick | test and toxin antitoxin immuniza- | tion the diphtheria rate among nurses at Durand Hospital has been reduced from 13 to 0.53 per cent. In that hospital the very best modern princi- Dles of asepsis are used. This stamp- ing out of the diphtherla menace is therefore a signal triumph for the scientific purpose and common sense of antidoting diphtherla with anti- toxin. (Copyright.) e Sausages Baked in Biscuits. Sift together three times three cup- fuls of pastry flour, six teaspoonfuls of baking powder and one-half a tea- spoonful of salt. Work in two table- spoonfuls of lard. Add three-fourths of a cupful of milk a little at a time. Knead the dough on a floyred board. Pat with a rolling pin and roll into a sheet about one-third of an inch thick. Cut out in rounds with a saucer. On each round of dough place a sausage, fold the edges to- gether like a turnover and fasten with toothpicks. Bake for 25 minutes in a moderate oven. FIRST AID T0 BEAUTY AND CHARM Nothing so mars an other- Wwise besutiful face ss the 5 inevitable lines of fatigue gy and suflering caused by tired, aching feet. ALLEN'S POOT-EASE the Antiseptic, Healing Powder, insures foot comfort. 1t is a Tol- Jot Necessity. Shakeit in your shoes in the morning, Shop all day— Dence ontains no bones. Mother {and the bad, between what they get out of it and what they miss. | ambition in those in whose hands he has put the torch of life, he has a b PuE 13 CENTURY BEGAN WITH Auoum " URDPE BETWEEN ENGIAND AND FRANCE . ',’:AE.. PHASE WAS CALLED 'QUEEN ANNE'S WAR." YHE FRENCH WITH THEIR INDIAN ALLIES RAIDED THE NEW ENGLAND FRONTIER IN 1704 AND RETUR £D TO CANADA WITH MANY CASTIVES COmVRIEHT IILE B Pt beat DorothyDix We Would Be Far Happier if We Entered Mar- riage as We Do a Business Partnership, Not Expecting Unbroken Prosperity. Bays We Ezpect Too Much of It Why Marriage Is a Fadlure JPERHAPS the real reason why marriage is 50 often a fallure is because we idealize it too much and expect too much of it. It is literally true that the average man and woman expect their own marriage to be perfect, and believe that when they are married they are going to live happily ever afterward, as the fairy stories say. More than that, they actually belleve that matrimony works some sort of miracle in the characters and dispositions of those they marry, so that their faults and weaknesses are corrected as by magic, and thenceforward they are flawless human beings, without any of the cantankerous ways and general cussedness that make ordinary people so hard to live with. And when they find that the matrimonial myth is pure fable; that there is no absolutely happy marriage; that there are no perfect husbands or vives; that marriage is more apt to intensify faults in men and women than it is to correct them, and that living at close range with people doesn't blind us to their defects, but, on the contrary, turns a spotlight upon them, why, there is tearing of hair, and beating upon breast, and a general howl that marriage is a failure. It is the wail of the stung. It is the bitter cry of those who have invested their all in a gold brick. It is the lament of the disappointed and the disillusioned, but these mourners by the River of Tears that flows through the holy estate have only themselves to blame for their misfortune. They were self-deceived. WIith their own hands they built up their palace of dreams thgt has crashed down about their ears. e oe 0. OR matrimony is no more an utter failure than it is a state of absolute bliss, and if we would go into it on the same profit-and-loss basis, as we do_into any other venture, very few marriages would end in disaster. When a man forms a new business partnership he does not expect the firm to have unbroken prosperity, with no anxlety or worry. On the contrary, he is prepared to take the good with the bad, the lean years with the fat ones, the losses with the profits. Nor does he expect perfection of his partner. He knows that there are bound to be differences of opinfon between them, that there will be times when they will see things from opposite points of view and that each of us has little ways that get upon the nerves of those who are brought into daily and hourly contact with us. But he knows that the good qualitics—the brain and brawn and energy that the man puts into the firm—outweigh his faults, and so he is prepared to make the best of the situation And the business is a success where it would have been a failure if the man had given up in despair because he found that it took more money to finance it than he had anticipated; that it called for harder work than he had expected to put in it, and demanded sacrifices that he never dreamed he would have to make for it. And it would have been a failure if he had not tried to get along with his partner, and if he had thrown up his hands and quit because they did not think alike on every subject. Very few marriages would bs failures if men and women entered matrimony with the same reasonable expectations with which they o into business, and if they were as fair in striking a balance between the good But they don’t do it. They expect the impossible, and when they fail to get perfection | that they would not think of demanding of anything else on earth they | chuck the whole thing into the discard or sit down and cry like a spoiled child for the moon. MAN looks at his flat pockétbook and groans about the expense of | matrimony and the upkeep of a family, and he says to himself that matrimony is & bad deal, in which he has lost out, and that he would be a | rich man if he had all the money he had spent on supporting his wife and children. é | But if he were honest, he would say that the game has broken at | least 50-50 for him, and that in the love and affection of his wife and | children, in his interest in the young lives about him, in his pride and | happiness that the mere possession of money could not give him. A man looks at his wife, who has got fat and middle-aged and homely, who isn't perhaps a thrilling companion, and he says that marriage s & failure because she has not remained young, and beautiful, and slim, nor kept his fancy perpetually enthralled. But he would not feel that way if he balanced his account fairly and admitted to himself how much of his prosperity was due to her thrift, how comfortable she had made him, and how restful was the knowledge that her love and faith were as a warm garment covering him, and that if all the | balance of the world turned against him she would still be at his side. A woman thinks that marriage is a failure because her husband has not remained the perfect lover, because he is sometimes grouchy and cross and has ways that are hard to stand; but she would not think so longingly of a ticket to Reno if she would put his good qualities against his bad. For many a man says it with fine houses and limousines. Many a poor husband is a good provider, and many a man who can give his wife only bread and cheese for her body feeds her soul on ambrosia. The unduly optimistic fail in marriage as they fail in busine only the reasonable, who do not expect too much, Who are ever satisfled. DOROTHY DIX. (Copyright.) B S — Lentil Roast. Lentils are among the most nour- ishing of all the dry vegetables and are particularly adapted to be used as the basis for a vegetable roast. They should be soaked several hours and cooked until very tender. Mash them through a strainer and see that it is of a consistency that will make it possible to form into a firm roll The addition of cracker crumbs ma. be advisable in order to attain th consistency. The mass, however, should be kept sufciently molst to | insure a palatable roast. Form Into | a large =ausage shaped roll and place in a dripping pan. Pour around it a sauce of tomatoes and bake slowly part of the time covered. Do you make coffee in a percolator? THEN you want coffee roasted and especially for percolators—Chase & Sanborn’s ground Seal Brand Percolator Coffee. It is just the right grind for percolators—develops all the deliciousness of Seal Brand flavor by this method of making coffee. And Seal Brand Percolator Coffee is clear in the cup. Since 1864, Chase & Sanborn’s Coffee has met the critical tastes of coffee-lovers, from Salem, Massachusetts, to Salem, Oregon. The flavor is unsurpassed and, equally important, it is always the same. Chase & Sanborn’s Seal Brand Perco- lator Coffee is identical in quality with regular Seal Brand. Trade supplied by Chase & Sanborn 200 High Sln.zl. Boston, Mass. Chase&Sanborn's SEAL BRAND Substitutes Sold by Your Grocer (Write Us for Free Receipe Booklet) ! COFFEE = - 175 Aner-| [BIN ARMY OF NEW ENGLAND TROOPS, AIDED THE NAME OF THE TOWN WAS CHANGED TO ANNAPOLSS, N HONOR OF QUEEN ANNE,AND ACADIA BECAME AN ENGLISH POSSESSION. N YES, MY DEAR I AM AN UT WHY DO PEOPLE 1 BRAG ABOUT THEM, AUNT MARY ? i o o 4 0 5o 0 i, -2 (I 2w ;///” Jfl'axwiy" corvmianT-192¥- B3\ 171 A BRITISH PLEET, CommanDED BY ADMIRAL WALKER,SET OUT FROM BOSTON TO STRIKE A BLOW AT QUEBEC,BVT IT WAS WRECKED ON THE ROCKS OFF THE MOUTH OF THE STLAWRENCE — TEN SHIPS WERE LOST. VERTICAL 1 -MALE PARENT. Z -SAME 3-TO GO ON SHORE. 4-A HUGE STONE 5-TO TIRE & -MAINE (AB) 10-A VESSEL. 11 -HASTENEP AWAY FROM. 1Z -PREFIX Maoning THREE. 14 -TITLE OF RESPECT for o MAN ) [ATHE 15 -MYSELF HORIZONTAL | -ONE of the FIRST SETTLERS. 7 -An AUTOMOBILE ASSOCATION 8 -MINERAL SUBSTANCE. 9 -SKILL 13 -MORNING (AB) 15 -MYSELF 16 -EPUCATER by TRAINING SOLJTION T0 PUZILE /Y53 My Neighbor Says: A cloth saturated in vinegar and rubbed over brick tiling will make the tiling look like new. An onion and green pepper and a tomato stewed together and put through a sieve, then stralned and chilled and added to well-chilled mayonnaise in equal quantity make a Russian dregsing superior to that in which Chili sauce is used. ever try to whip fresh cream. Try to have it at least 12 hours old and as cold as pos- sible. Set the dish containing the cream into another contain- ing cold water, then beat at first very slowly, increasing the beating as the cream begins to thicken, and never add sugar until it is stiff. And the flavor- ing_the last thing of all Chicken fat can be used for all kinds of cooking in which the finest quality of butter would be ordinarily used. ONE OF THE HOW MANY /) Do You kNow? A7/ picked tomato with the taste of onc picked a weck ago? ‘Tomato Ketchup is due to the fact that less than a day elapscs from the tomatoces on the vine to the tomato ketchup in the botte. FEATURE SPRINGTIME BY D. C. PEATTIE. Another Early Visitor, The skunk ge—despised Tiff- | raff of the plant world, with its ill smell and its lowly place in the ditch. 1d yet 1n these gray days it finds a sudden welcome. P 1y glad to find it looking humbly up at us as we skirt around a marsh or low mucky place. or surely it is beautiful to its purple spatches push up in earliest Spring, when even the crocus dares not venture forth. Out of the mud and muck the bronze hood pushes its way. Big as a man's fist, or bigger, are the opening spathe leaves which are as thick as chamois leather and almost as tough Purple or bronze in their base color, they are mottled white or sometimes green. Inside them a globe-shaped body stands, be- traying the plant's kinship to jack- | in-the-pulpit, for the tentlike spathes | of skunk cabbage correspond to Jack’s “pulpit” and the globose spadix to Jack himself. Along the spadix,| densely crowded, are the inconspic- uous flowers | Only a little way the skunk cab- | bage ¢cmerges from the soggy ground | in which it grows. Most of the| spathe remains underground, close to | the thick rootstocks. Only when | Spring is here to stay do the flowers | die and the thick, light green, vein leaves shoot up and gracefully un-| furl. And then the strange fruit ripens, the whole heavy spadix thick- ening until it resembles .a rough- surfaced club in which the seeds are deeply embedded. Do not, then, wholly scorn the poor skunk cabbage. It may not be pleasure to pick it, but it is r a handsome thing, left in its na home. And what other plant is there | that comes up out of the ruin left | by Winter and dares to show its head and cheer this dreary month bravely? Codfish Omelet. Have ready mashed potato and savory crumbed codfish to flavor the potato’ nicely. Stir together the two until the whole is of & consistency to spread evenly in an omelette pan | Grease the pan and brown the cod fish mixture carefully on one side. Fold over and slip on to & platter {and serve very hot. GOLD STRIPE CHOCOLATES M\N ENTERED THE WAR AS AN ALLY OF FRANCE AND IN 1706 SENT A FORCE 10 ATTACK CHARLESTON .~AFTER A BRAVE DEFENSE BY GOVERNOR NATHANIEL JOHNSON AND HIS ISGUTH CAROLINATROOPS THE SPANIARDS FLED. TOMORAROW ~ THE CLOSE OF QUEEN ANNES WAR. . Stuffed and Stewed Steak. Choose a piece of steak from th round, about one pound and a half in weight. Pound flat with a wooden mallet or potato masher and sprea with the following s ful of br n | fuls of ¢ ful &po fourth te rind morn Y of sal t ve beaten g roll, tic in hot this on the th two steak and cook hours, barely When dor to a hot dish, thicken the th flour, flavor with tomato « or meat sauce and pour over the steak befors serv- ing. stock for z it to remove the strii si steak stock w Become Hairless If you want beautiful, g all me; get rid of it will starve your it i you don't. It doesn't do m to brush or wash sure way to g is to dissolve it entirely. To four ounces o arvon; apply it a plenty of silky thick do by andruff, for hair and ruin h good to try tout. The only rid of dandruft then vou destroy o this, get abou ordinary liquid ight when re- moisten the and rub ly with the tips, of your gone. or three destroy eve more applications d entirely 113 too, that all itching and scalp will stop, and your = e = ! 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