The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-02-10
PLEASE CUT THIS OUT, DON'T BOTHER ME
 BY ASKING WHAT TO DO FOR CRI.

Honestly I do not believe it matters whether you stuff or starve it, whether you drink a glass
 of water every hour not at all, whether you have little fever or just a mild chlness. know that when have cri myself I pay little heed to those conventional rules laid down by | the doctors and health authorities. Now really like to get lots of letters from readers and the | more varied and difficult the health problems or
 questions readers submit the better like it, but
 candidly it just gives me a pain. .oh-oh, | forgot orders. Well, what I mean to imply as politely possible is that here is the advice I offer any one who has the cri. and if my treat
 ment does not satisfy you-tell your doctor. 1. Be fair and call it cri (kree) and not "cold." Nobody knows what "cold" is Cri is | any of the Common Respiratory Infectons-you
 can be reasonably sure it is some such ailment | from the first, and you put the proper label i on it later when it develops into plain coryza, | measles, meningitis what have you. Meanwhile your frankness in contessng that you believe it
 is one another respiratory infection gives your | friends and associates a break. If you conceal disarming name slight cod' you are playing q dirty trick on all who may be compelled to come within your conversational spray range. 2 It is your moral duty if not yet a require l ment of law, to keep away from school church. | theater, shop, or public gatherings, if any, and | to keep out of public conveyances when you | have cri. If justice were done you should be | thrown out of such places on your ear if you in-
 sist on your right to be there in spite of what you consider just "cod"
 5. In your own home you must take particu-
 lar pains to avoid giving your cri to others in the household If any one must venture within your conversational spray range (which is up to five feeD you should don suitable mask over nose and mouth-a screen to catch the moisture spray.
 4. These precautions all apply with greatest force in the stage of onset invasion, for it is then that most of the recognized respiratory in- fections most communicable The greatest damage is done in most cases before the indis- position illness develops sufficiently to demand treatment of any kind.
 D. Besides immediate and voluntary isolation and the disposal of all nose threat secretions as though you knew the illness were diphtheria
 or scarlet fever infante paralysis, it is usual
 ly beneficial to have hot bath, better, if pos sible hot mustard foot bath in bed and then remain in bed for the day.
 6. It is usually advisable to have free SUD- ply of fresh cool moist air to breathe and not to breathe overloaded and excessively dried out air. It IS mistake to breathe vitiated or warmed over air merely for the sake of external body warmth. Use hot water bottles and the like for that.
 z. If ache or pain fort prevents sleep then one may resort two of aspirin, but otherwise it is / to leave all medicines to the judgment oI physician
 s. If you're young take all the cold water or frult juice beverage you want, sweetened if you
 like. If you're old better take your liquid hot
 g. If you are at work play usual, don't
 try fasting. If you remain at rest in bed skip
 at least meal or fast for "A hours. except fruit
 juice drinks.
 10. When hoarSeness cough is a symptom
 this Fool Proof Cough Medicine is at least harm
 less and, believe, beneficial in many instances:
 Steep a heaping teaspoonful of whole flax seeds in pint of water for half an hour Strain and add one ounce of citrate of soda, ounce
 of glycerin the juice of lemon and two three drops of wintergreen peppermint. Dose for infant or child teaspoonful every two hours for adult tablespoon every one or two hours Some sugar may be added for sweetenng if desired.