The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-01-27
WE WARMLY RECOMMEND SOME REMEDIES FOR COLD FEET

Early in December New Jersey reader sub mitted this timely and homely suggestion, and while I haven't tried it personally I mean to when I get old enough and meanwhile heartily recommend it to all our readers who suffer with cold feet. In my own the suffering comes on along toward 3 a. m., and at that hour fellow is reluctant to make any commotion at all more than he makes accidentally while creeping to bed in the dark. especially if he has been read ing the latest mystery yarn. Let our New Jersey friend carry on
 "Since cider and vinegar are commonly sold
 in glass jugs holding gallon, these jugs are
 available everywhere and are commonly
 thrown away when empty If old people, cold
 people and sick people will fill such jug with
 hot water when about to retire, they Will find
 that warmers these glass jugs beat any rub
 Der or metal water bottles, and will keep a bed until noon the next day, first be- they hold larger quantity of water water near the boiling point Such hot jug anywhere in the bed makes the whole bed snugly It is fine, too for bellyache and for stiff joints I am we'll, but to climb into ice
 cold sheets makes me feel like an icicle and l
 just curl up and shiver and stay cold and mis-
 erable, being afraid to straghten out and relax.
 But v.;th my good old water jug, and with my
 feet moe and warm I enjoy the blast of cold
 air coming in through the wide open, windows;
 This is from old admirer who has tested
 many of your iconocasms and can testify that
 your health science is o. k, and would rather
 read you than all the rest of the things in our
 newspapers to-day Q. Do
 Another feature about this New Jersey idea that appeals to me is that the gallon jug at one s feet would solve that other grave problem, how to keep the weight of the clothes off your toes. Even when you can manage to get your feet warm bv other expedients-which we will eluc- date presently-there is always the baffling prob lem of keeping the blankets tightly tucked in around your neck without pulling them up from their anchorage at the foot of the bed or dragging down tautly upon your toes. Youngish and middle aged people who suffer about great improvement-not quite so promptly as the gallon glass water bottle perhaps, but boo body who fits the symptoms and we'll send you the particulars and directions for taking your iodn ration--if you spare US clippings, ask for what you want and inclose a stamped envelope bearing your addresse.
 Mature persons who enumerate cold feet among the divers little factors that prevent them from getting asleep nights, should make it an in- variable rule never, never to go to bed nights without saying their prayers and infating their bellows Six eight 10 slow, diaphragm fus of air. when you first ease yourself under the | covers, all done as though you had not chest at | all and only very elastic and unspoied belly
 will reduce the high blood pressure, equalize the circulation and warm the feet and distinctly fa- vor relaxation and sleep. When doing this lie on | your back with knees fexed and both palms resting your belly; pretend your upper chest is paralyzed; all breathing through open
 mouth; strive for slow. even rise and fall of belly l without jerky movements and without stranng or too much effort The only effort is in the in- | flation of the bellows; defation purely l from elasticity and calls for no muscular effort | at all.
 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS | Nutrition Determines State of Teeth Parents of young children, teachers, guardians | and particularly prospective mothers, should I " | the Teeth which am glad to mail to any one | who asks for it and incloses stamped envelope | bearing his address. It is question of nutrition | essentially, and not of the brand of soap the | style of scrub brush you prefer. Diabetes Specialist
 I decidedly disagree with your opinion that it | is not necessary for the diabetes patient to be treated by specialist. The general practitioners may know something about the nature of the dis ease and have some knowledge of the way to l treat it if had come to Dr - (noted | authority on dabetes) three years ago I might | have escaped much mtStreatment bv | but totally incompetent doctors (J B. S) Answer-You may be right about your case. was guided, when l made the statement, by the | teachings of the very man whose patient you
 now are. Some high priced doctors are not good I of popular credulity.
 | Kids Who Should Keep Their Tonsils | Dr R. B. Canfeld an authority tonsillec tony, says that a certain type of child is quite | likely to have unsatisfactory result from re-
 moval of tonss, especially when the operation | is done in the child's first three or four years Such child is spindle-legged, thin, freckle-faced | blond, with thin skin and veins that show | through the skin of the temples. When the large tonsils of such child removed it is usually | not long before new masses of lymphoid tissue develop in both the adenod and the tonsil re- gions. The child remains, or becomes even more ! susceptible to upper respiratory infections. Otter there a persistent cough. I am heartily in syEs. pathy with your crusade against tonsil snatching | (F: M. M., M. D.. F. A. c. P.)
 Answer-Thank you, doctor. do not see how any doctor who is sincere and reasonably wei educated in pathology cen fail to approve my teachings about that believe large part o the "tonsil snatching' may be credited to the tir doctoring perpetrated on the peasant class bj big business interests and certain public health and school boards. By ''tin factoring" I mean the practice of medicine by school teachers nurses, social service workers and the like under , the sponsorship of their employers.