Arizona republican., 1910-03-09

and keep that resolve by rest, exercise and change. The afternoon nap. if for only five minutes of oblivion should be strictly kept to. Ask the Well-prc | served mothers of large families and see how many of them take this daily | much needed relaxation Exercise is another important requisite. House work is good and wholesome exercise. But it is done with q sense of effort and strain. Exercise for rest and re- cuperation should be out of doors with no sense of strain IL must be with ease. rcposeful. calm. and then q sense of rcstful peace comes over the body. These things are essential to calm. steady nerves And more especially
 are these things necessary when wo man is in the midst of rearing her ! family-also the time when it is hard | est for her to get it. Change is the last but by no means least important thing for a woman to have. The av craze woman has too little of it. \ mans business is so changing. so of ten full of diverting and unusual detail that he cannot comprehend the dull monOtony of a wOmans life. pr Woods Hutchinson in recent maGa zine article writes convincingly of this need of play for women.
 Let us not think such destructive thoughts as disease but rather of it's prevention. Illness is the doctors pre- rogative. It is woman's to prevent it. and there is not d real doctor whose ! ideal is not that of health for the com munity. But he knows only too well that as long as humans are human
 he'lI have all he can do. The mother Is only responsible for preventing dis ease and maintaining the highest de
 gree of health. It is imperative that every woman should know how to count the pulse. take temperature. and she should know at least q few of the primary symptoms of the most com 'mon diseases. especially the contagious ones. where the lack of early recogni- tiOn and isolation may imperil the health or life of others Fever means condition of poison or something wrong in the bodS. probably outside the province of the mother. the degree of which, if accompanied by sore
 throat. may mean diphtheria. If q
 mother knew d few of these things
 there would be small probability of
 her walking into d doctors office with
 sick child with sore throat in her
 arms and the cast of Death already stealing over it's features. This is an other indirect plea for better prepara- ton and education of our girls
 Where there is cleanliness. there is
 health. It must be so for where real cleanliness exists. disease germs will
 have no place to be cultured What
 then is real cleanliness? Cleanliness in homes will mean fresh. pure air with
 no dust in it. for dust is one of the
 most competent vehicles for carrying
 diseases. Occasionally the germs of
 diphtheria. pneumonia and catarrh
 may be in dust, but by far the most
 common of the dust carried germs is
 the tubcrcle bacillus. The germs of smallpox and scarlet fever may be
 dried and blown about, and measles.
 and possibly whOoping cough can be contracted from the air But in the main the diseases that are spread by dust are respiratory diseases Dust is one of the few Hampers on the enjoy
 ment of life in Arizona. And since so many persons come here laden with
 
 very strenuous means should be taken to keep them out and to keep the dust down indoors and out. Indoors this means vacuum cleaners, or where these cannot be afforded sweepers used on the carpet first and then swept with the long stroke of the broom which raises the least dust. The dust should be allowed tO settle an hour or two and then removed by wiping off the surfaces with an oiled cloth into the cloth and then the cloth boiled for dis infection. The dust taken from the floor should be burned. Outdoors. also the strenuous measures should be talk en to keep them out and to keep the dust down by sprinkling. When 1 see q sandstOrm my soul shudderS and quails at the countless disease germs getting such thorough circulation. But there is the consolation in face of all this fact that the intense heat of sum mer easily kills them so there is a clean start every year.
 Cleanliness means great care in the disposal of human waste and the dis posal of these wastes is one of the greatest problems in sanitation. Wo- men should be thoroughly aware of it and conversant with the best means of it's disposal. A sewerage system is the best because of the germicidal power of a large enough volume of running water This was proven by pr. Jordan and his helpers of Chicago University when the city of St. Louis sued the city of Chicago for turning it's sewer age into the Mississippi rather than Lake Michigan. When there is sewer age system allowing sinks. hand basins or bath tubs and closets. these pipes should be regularly disinfected once d week by lye. washing soda. carbolic | acid and chloride of lime or any com : mon disinfectant. It is a good plan J