The Cordele dispatch. (Cordele, Ga.) 19??-1971, 1918-11-26
WATCH YOUR HEALTH


among the doctors. Despite that fact
the situation is so critical that
none want to laugh. But there are
many things in the daily routine that
will help to save you from serious
suffering. So many people suffer from
the things they do or fail to do be-
cause they are scared to death.
Influenza and pneumonia are with
us till spring,-in degree unlike any
thing people of this day have ever
seen. That need not excite you. It is
not so intended, but it is true and you
| might as well accept it as true You
will be easy to take cold this winter
remarkably easy. 1t will astound
you at times and surprise you, the
rapidly with which the severity of a
cold will gain. Then you can well
afford to be careful 1t is a time when
health precautions will pay.
The Dispatch wishes TO urge you to
watch the progress Of a cold. Strike
at it the moment you see it is coming
Wait for nothing. The winning of q
fight against influenza and pneumn-
nia,-and death is in the early start
you make. Ask your physician about
the Importance OF attacking cold
the moment you feel it.
Some one may he ready 10 call us
fool hardy for saying it, but in ell
kindness let us be assured that these
deaths we are daily. recounting are
all unnecessary. They will contine if
we fail to take the precoutions,-th
simple precautions against colds.
Now for our own good, let us re-
count Some of the safer things. Keep
bI warm bhoes,-shoes with good,
heavy bottoms Don't wear high tops
when you are out on parade in the
streets and then try to keep warm
with low CHARTERED shoes at home.
Cont change from high to low and
from low to high shoes during the
winter months,-dont do that. What
ever you do, see that good bottoms
are on your shoes, and keep your feet
and legs warm and dry. You will be
fortified rigidly and strongly for IT,
fled against cold, if you will observe
This one health law Don't wear thin
bottomed shoe,-anywhere, even in
the house 1t makes you too easily
susceptible to cold.
One more thing you will GO well to |
observe: You are fortunate if all YOUR
winter clothes are of the same weight |
you connot wear thicker. heavier |
suit this week and a lighter one next
week and get away with it. This an. |
plies to both men and women. Some
people cannot stand even the differ |
ence between the thickness of an old
and new suit of unrerwear. You NAV
not know it, but there is a reason for
every cold None of them come by
accident. Your human system obeys
laws that are immutable as nature it.
self. You only ought to know that
law One of the best things you can
do during your long winter nights is
10 get hold of your boys copy of by
gene and PHYSIOLOGY that he uses at
school and read it through carefully
Many a thing is written in that book
You ought to know.
But back to the clothes. Try to keep
the apparel fitted to the temperature.
Too much clothing is more danger
Gus than not enough A child clad in
ginghams will withstand the winter
cold much better than one wrapped
with two or three thickness of flannels
if he is permitted to take the win
ter as it comes. Try to keep them
moderately clothed and keep them
from playing in the cold earth. Re-
member, the earth is already as cold
as you will find it in February. That
one thing adds greatly to out sucepti-
oility for pneumonia. Don't let the
little ones play in the sand any more
this winter. If you do. it will be at the
risk of their lives.
Eat all the apples you can get.
Learn to like prunes, and dispIace