The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-01-14
HOW TO KEEP A COLD
 FROM CATCHING YOU.

It is not we that catch a cold. It is the cold that catches us, If one comes your way. let it go by It is settled by physicians and microscopists that colds. grip and influ- enza. call them what one plesses are caused by microbes afloat in the air. We breathe them in. we swallcw then sometimes with our food. The wretches who expectorate in public places spread the influenza mi crobe most widely.
 Women especially look awful when they have a cold look even worse than they feel with their swollen noses. red weeping eyes and blistered lips. They ought to try by all means to prevent the microhe from ssizing them. It must be remembered that ened in health.
 Therefore let maintain the general health.
 To begin don't believe half the rubbish you read about sitting in overloaded rooms" The crank who enjoys freezing himself and making everybody about him uncomfortable with his eternal Temperature of SO is plenty warm enough" generally has a cold the winter through. A temperature of TO in rooms in winter is the one Ameri- cans generally thrive best on and enjoy. It maintains without lessening the natural heat of the body. Nothing gives a human being cold so quickly and surely as sitting for hours in a cold room. If one ts moving about and working actively. the case is different but your low temperature crank would impose his own misguided notions on everybody around him at all times.
 So keep your rooms comfortably warm and dress rather lightly indoors. rhen put on warm clothing when you face the outdoor atmosphere. and if you have habituaIly kept your skin clean and uncloEged. your stom- ach fin good condition by eating moderately of wholesome simple food. If the warm air in your home is at the same tina pure air, the chances are that. with or two more ifs" mentioned in the next paragraph, you will not he caught hy a pnld
 The other fife are: If you maintain con- constantly good, cheerful temper and a clear conscience. and If you don't let yourself worry yourself into low. weakened condi- tion of nerves. Disordered tempeF and wor- ry dry up and knock out the proper nerve stimulus-no nerve stimulus; no power in the body anywhere YouF body is lowered and weakened in tone: consequently is less able to resist and destroy microbes that fas- ten .t
 dash of cold water over the skin of the whole body Is an excellent preventive of cold taking The skin must be rubbed dry immediately.
 Then there are the precautions as to sleep ing and sleeping rooms. Everybody should sleep alone. The two and three in he'd custom started in America because the pio- neers had not sufficient house room or fur niture for each member of the family to en- joy the luxury of separate bed Now. however, 1t is different Even if two per sons must sleep in the same room. it Is bet ter for their health to have separate beds.
 Unventilated anG unclean bedrooms arc 2 dire cause of cold taking. If vou enter In the morning a room in which any person has slept al night with closed windows the mir will be "enouEh to knock you down." as some one has said. And colds will con- stantly catch the person who thus sleeps. Let the pure. sweet winter air float through your room and wait you into gentle slurl-. Der. Open your windows at the ten or if you have only one. open that little at both top and bottom. Waste water TO ceptacies must be closely covered Outing flannel nightrobes warm and soft. Un- der no circumstances wear any of your dey clothing at night Change from the skin out.
 MARY GoruD LITTLE