The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1908-19??, 1916-11-17
HEALTH AND APPEAR
ANCES.


Now that the political horizon mas
been cleared from the quardrenhlal
spasm, there is time for Afternoon W
matters more personal and perhaps
less patriotic.
Florida is peculiar, different from
other sections of the United States
in the fact that horticultural eXer-
ton with the hoe and rake and other
garden implements may be maze ol
the land. Flowers bloom some
where in Florida the year round fo-
liage hands on the trees the winter
through and never is there here the
desoletc forlornness that cold Wea-
Their brings through the northern VIM
ter. These are advantages that
should be stressed both for the bene-
fit of Floridians themselves and 1of
their winter visitors.
The connection between health and
appearances may not loom up big, but
it is Il real relationship. No person
attracts attention by good looks I'M
less lie is all right inside. 1t is the
bloom of vigorous health that makes
the beautiful face or form. And
the same is true of the city or village
or the home and its surroundings.
If the streets are carelesaly kept and
Uttered with rubbish, if the lawns are
scraggly and the foliage untrlmmed,
something is wrong with the mental
works of the authorities or with the
homekeeper or owner. The clean
illness which is next to goodness
doesn't stop with the bath and wash
ing the front windows"
In Florida, as everywhere else, life
is one continuous scramble to keep
what we have-health as well as the
other possessions, and the other pos
sessions arn't worth much without
the health. In time of peace pre-
pare for war. In winter prepare to
make TIE fight for health little
less strenuous next summer. After
YOU have made the home and its sur
roundings so beautiful that the casual
visitor will stop in his rankings to
admire them, get busy inside the
house and do some things that may
not show, but that will count later
on, just the same.
Sometimes we are surprised in the
dead of a Florida winter to hear the
buzzing of a lionel y mosquito. We
are surprised because we weren't eX-
pecting such a visitor, but the chances
are that there are more where that
one came from. For the mosquito
and he or she, is here to
start next seasons crop. She hides
in dark closets or other comparative
ly warm places and is ready to go into
the breeding business with the coming
of warm weather next spring.
Then some kinds Of mosquitoes car
rv the germs of infection for surpri-
singly long periods. Experiments
under artifcially favorable conditions
have kept the yellow fever germ alive
in the MOSQUITO for so days. While
there is little probability that the in
sect will carry active infection through
the winter, the pest does live from
season to season, and the winter is a
perfectly good time to rout her out of
her hiding places and get rid of her.
Because cooler weather is coming
or is already here is no reason why
our energies against the fly should
be lessened One out of the way
now means a thousand or a million
less next summer When we will
realize fully that the fly is the most
persistent. the most filthy and about
the most destructive companion we
have and almost the most intimate
and realizing it act, as if it meant
something to US, we will have solved
in a practical way one of the great
est health problems. And this fight,
to be successful, must be a continuous
performance. We can't take vaca-
tions from it in winter.
Health and appearances 90 hand in
hand; to neglect the latter is to
threaten the former. And appear
ances are rather dependable sign
of prosperity. Poor. careless dress
in~ indicates the lack of prosperity,
and whether it's the clothes or the
yard or the street in front. let them
al show our winter visitors that
Florida is both prosperous and heal
thy-State Board of Health Bulle-
tin.