The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1917-04-24
10y William Brady, N. d.

The average dryncss. or relative hui |
Nudity, or Death Valley for the sum-
lner of 1891, when weather bureau OBJ
scrvations were made, was % per cent.
That is a pretty dry climate. A man
wouldn't care to live there, IL he could
avoid it.
But most people go to a climate as
dry as that every winter, and imagine
they are doing the best thing possible
for their health. The winter resort of
the average WELL to- do American
which means about everybody now
adays-is as dry as Death Valley. No
wonder people are nervous and run
down and grabbed and irritable.
In the January bulletin Of the Kan
as State Board Of Health there was
an article by S. D. Flora of the fauna
Of Kansas, a Z. S. weather bureau OBJ
server, in which the author describes
the "aridity of living rooms in cold
weather." You'd think he was de-
scribing the Desert of Sahara, from
the way he states it in his article
Flora measured the humidity of the
indoor air in Topeka in the winter
time, for period of 40 days, using
standard sling psychrometer such as
government observers generally EN-
ploy. Observations were made at
a. m. IL m. and p. m. indoors and
out. The room was heated by steam
radiators, at an average temperature
Of 72 degrees (Which is about six de-
grees too high for health. The aver
age relative humidity indoors was 90
per cent-the same as that Of Death
Valley in the summer time. The av-
erage outdoor humidity was 50 per
cent.
National Oelusion.
The average relative humidity in the
driest month of the year in Yuma,
Arizona. is 80 per cent; in Santa Fe,
New Mexico, 20 per cent, and in Pu-
eblo, Colorado, SO per cent. So it is
plain that the arid conditions in the
best households o. Kansas are some
thing fierce--but Kansas has no mo-
nopoly on aridity. The same state of
affairs prevails all over North America
where people labor under the declusion
that the way to preserve good health
is to keep good and warm.
Since the outdoor air in Kansas is
just as salutary and humid as the
best grade of atmosphere anywhere in
the country. the aridity of life there
OF anywhere else would be materially
diminished by the simple eXpedicnt of
keeping the home fire burning just a
wee bit slower, say somewhere around
81 degrees for ordinary living rooms.
Run Down Condition.
have a run down condition and
have decided to try olive Oil. but some
friends advise me one should not take
T. without a doctors advice. Is that
necessary? I am an office worker,
aged "a. Miss A. w. b.
Answer.-Why, no; olive oil is a
food which any free citizen may cat
without consulting doctor. 1t is not
quite SO nourishing as butter, nor so
appetizing as gravy, but it has that
atmosphere of mystery which patients
crave. Taking a few spoonfuls of olive
oil a day Is doing something--like taking
cough syrup or nerve tonic you know
"cIc young woman Ill Il run
down condition I should take olive oil
or not as I pleased. but l certainly
should try to run down the cause of
the run down condition before the con-
dition had time to run me down too
far. And this-alas-ths would take
me straight to my doctor for a thor
ough physical examination.
The Corn Kill.
Will you kindly print the formula
for a corn cure which appeared in your
department some time ago? OR. h
Answer.-Salicylic acid. 80 grains
flexible collodion. " ounce.
Soak the foot for Is minutes in very
hot water and then apply the medicine
to the corn only. every night for a
week or SO, when the corn vii drop
out-ki't. as you might say. but not
cured. To cure a corn you have to
reform your habits, and wear shoes
which fit your feet, instead of wear
ing feet to fit the shoes.