The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-01-28
WE WARMLY RECOMMEND SOME REMEDIES FOR COLD FEET

Early in December a New Jersey reader sub mitted this timely and homely suggestion and while 1 haven't tried it personally I mean to when I get old enough and meanwhile I heart fly recommend it to all our readers who suffer comes along toward 3 a. m., and at that hour a fellow is reluctant to make any commotion at all more than he makes accidentally while creeping up to bed in the dark, especially if he has been reading the latest mystery yarn. Let our New Jersey friend carry on:
 Since cider and vinegar commonly
 sold in glass jugs holding 9 gallon, these jugs are available everywhere and are com
 monly thrown away when empty. If old
 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 rubber metal water bottles, and
 vii keep a bed warm until noon the next
 day. first because they hold larger quan-
 tity of water and second because they may
 be filled with water near the boiling point.
 such a hot jug anywhere in the bed makes
 the whole bed snugly warm 1t Is me too'
 for bellyache and for stiff joints. am well.
 but to climb into ice cold sheets makes me fe like an icicle and I just curl up and shiver and stay cold and miserable, being
 afraid to straighten out and relax. But with
 my good old water jug bed is the warmest
 spot I know and with my feet nice 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 conolasms and can
 testify that your health science is O. k" and
 I would rather read you than all the rest of
 the things in our newspapers to-day
 Another feature about this New Jersey idea that appeals to 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 rect warm by other experimentation We will elucl- date presently-there is always the bafling problem of keeping the blankets tightly tucked in around your neck ears 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 with cold feet often find an iodin ration brings about great improvement-not quite so prompt y as the gallon glass water bottle, perhaps, but say after the first months ration. Write in, everybody who fits the symptoms, and we'll send you the particulars and directions for taking your idoin ration-if you spare us clippings, ask for what you want and 1nclose stamped envelope bearing your address.
 Mature persons who enumerate cola 1eel among the divers little factors that prevent them from getting asep nights should make it an nvariabe rule never, never to go to bed nights without saying their prayers and initiating their bellows. Six, eight or 10 slow, even dla- phramfuls of air, when you first ease yoursell under the covers, all done as though you had no chest at all and only very elastic ana un- spoiled belly, will reduce the high blood pres sure equalize the circulation and warm the feet and distinctly favor relaxation and sleep. When doing this lie your back with knees fexed and one or both palms resting on your belly: pretend your upper chest is parayzed' all breathing through open mouth; strive TOT slow even rise and fall of belly, without 1erky movements and without straining or too mucn effort The only effort is in the imitation Of the bellows defation occurs purely from elasucity and calls for muscular effort at all