The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-05-01
THE TIRED HOUSEWIFE

This |, the season when the tired busiaess man yields to the tired house wife: In the spring M a liver pills and eke the good old spring tonic. Cross my heart, when was young tyro III prac-
 we used to lay in spring tS orsrs 1on,S m at some proft-when they paid cash ana no srSa. loss if they were deadbeats: As reconect it .me connection generally contained dash or & nux yomica or something ever more bitter lthe grandmothers wouldn't give cents Tor sprlnk tonic that wasn't bitter as it could be without being an actual emetic), and a little dandelio9 extract hydrochloric acid. and one tning ana another according to the market; we naa ,sWsr Wa learned such therapeutics in medical schooi. NO, indeed It was all snappy new stuff imparted to us by the travelling salesmen who visited us reg
 drnrslsts latest offerings If the salesman told the young doctor that Old Doc s'nithers twho s
 had the biggest ride in the coun2 pougm. hnnef en,I
 could scarcely let slip the opportunity to try
 couple gallons of 1t.
 Long ago I ascribed the pale, salioW. anemi1
 tired dizzy, headachy condition Of the house
 wife in the spring to her long winters connne. ment in more or less darkness and bad air stiIl the country, but in the towns where gas is used more or less for heating and for cooking we Know
 now that mild chronic carbon monox,ae poi1o nonr
 health in the spring A winters exposure to leaky
 gas fittings and faulty gas burners ana rusted or
 broken fue pipes or. worse, portabie or occasom I
 al stoves or heaters without any fue pipe at all.
 leaves the poor woman pretty sallow ana mlser- able in the spring. Besides being saliow. pale.
 anemic tired all the time, dizzy subject to head ache. without appetite. sometimes actually
 nauseated. unable to sleep soundy ana, wi.m , any the poor suffer all sorts Of strange ana unaccountabe symptoms from the dope they take in the effort to find rene1
 This being a health column we must dwell on the preventive treatment. It is much easier 10
 avoid this spring fever than it is to cure It. Cal a good plumber gas filter and let him put all burners in order and install suitable stovepipeS where these leaky or lacking. In many kitchens there is no proper provision e, tba me
 air. Even if the range has hood ana venu'ator oi
 over it. if the kitchen is kept tightly cosed tne cook is certain to suffer more or less carpon
 monoxide poisoning. For comfort and satety ai- ways keep a window or door open in the kitchen
 Photographer's "hypo" (sodium hyposulphite | or sodium thiosulphate) is comparatively harm-
 less and 1t is reputed good remody Tor teaa
 spoonful of 1t with water every day TOT two or three weeks.
 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS How To Catch Q Train | go to business five days week and am sup. posed to catch the 7:45 car get plenty oi s,eSp and yet 1t Is always very difficult for me to wake
 ,,orn,~ m ,e Gan xo" suggest something for me to
 take SO can hold my job? tMiss IT, FL | Answer-IIow about taxi to save time getting
 might ride rid as far as I the station in my Rolls | Royce if I should ever happen along that early | and in that make of car.
 l The Only Stove That Needs No Flne I've oftcnc noted your caution about having a
 chimney to connect the stove with the Hue.
 want to get some kind of pipc for minc but my | husband insists 1t Is not necessary to nave one | on m electric range. (drs D. M R. | Answer-For once husband is right. An elec- tric stove or heater burns no fuel and therefore produces fumes combustion products Every other kind of stove should have stoyepipe l or vent to carry the combustion products out of | the house. no matter whether the fuel be coal.
 wood, gasoline, kerosene; oil. gas. Do not be de- ceived by assurances of certain dealers Tor some burners Consume all the fumes' or any. think like that. Wherever any fuel Is burned
 combustioh products must be disposed Of | FIstuIa
 | would like sometime to read . chapter on
 Rstula and the relative value of surgical and med
 ical treatment (S. c. D)
 Answer-Fistula is an opening which remains
 unhealed long after an abscess or boil has brok- | en through the skin. Sometimes 1t may be per-
 suaded to heal by patient medical treatment.
 though in most cases 1t demands surgical treat ment. | Special Delivery
 l Which Is more dangerous to take at cIiIdbirth. ether or cIlIOrofOrm? Could cbirOpOdist at any
 time take the place of Q medical doctor? (I+ Y. lGD
 | Answer--Ether Is generally safer than chloro- | form, though in childbirth many physicians con- sider chioroform safer. Tn an emergency chiro- Ipodist would be a better physician than . person without any knowledge or training do not un- lderstapa jurt what your question means,