The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-10-07
THE INCIDENT OF NocuoUs DEsUETUD1

An, ah, children. Mustn't skip this. Some day you are going to graduate from the pri- mary department so you should get into the habit of checking the spelling, pronounciatio lon and meaning of unfamiliar words by referring first class, up to date unabridged dictionary in your homo? oh, wel turn back to the comic strips. Maybe they are adapted to your intel
 Recently I enjoyed an hour of conversation with 0 college professor. It was embarrassing the number of subjects on which the man con- fessed ignorance-yet in the course of the hour learned many things 1t would have taken a lot of study and reading to learn otherwise. Ig- learn is--well, aren't we all pretty ignorant of | many things? But ignorance In one who does not care to learn is a repu!sive thing. So say | and not some tawdry premium or bargain book. deserves place in every home. Members of the household may have many delightful dis cusslons of tho origin meaning, spelling or pro- | nunciation of words, with the dictionary to set- tie all bets In such family quarrels every participant gains something.
 Just as there arc many ignorant folk who seem to have no desire to learn, so there are desire for rehabilitation. refer particularly to those vho are moro or less disabled or crippled by neglected or unessential adhesions or by ne- glected paresis or weakening of muscles from unduly prolonged wearing of braces, splints props, supporters, or from i'll advised uses of such orthopedic appliances.
 Not only frankly ignorant people, but also wseacres quite commonly achieve nocuous de- suetude by deliberately subjeeting themselves l without benefit of medicine.
 Trouble with the wiseacres conception of the doctoring art Is that 1t is half century behind A lady suffered fracture in an automobile accident. After sufficient length of time in splints the fracture or break was knit or that supports be left off longer and longer day by day, and that the patient use the injured member in certain exercises increased day by day. But at this juncture her wiseacre hus- band. versed in what was perhaps. standard practice 50 years ago. no. only failed to en- courage the lady to follow the doctors instruc- tions but actually discouraged her from doing so, as he, MT Wiseacre, did not feel the in- jured member was strong enough. TOT the use use doctor was one of weak personality or char acter and he permitted MT Wiseacre to get that MT Wiseacre is disgracefully crippled from an injury which should have left no permanent disability. She is cirrpled by adhesions which proper exercise, as the doctor prescribed, would have prevented, and from paresis or weakening of muscles which would have regained their normal strength and resiliency with early use of the injured member.
 Dew of Sahara . I'd like to tell your correspondent J. T. O. cosmetic), applied immediately after bath. a relief for that intolerable dry itching. (Nirs w. A. S.)
 mend proprietary products. The following cipe has been used by many sufferers from itching dry skin with grateful effect:
 Tragacanth powder ............1 dram
 Phenoi .....''.''''''.....5 crops
 Glycerin :...............b drops
 oil Of bergamot ..............5 5 drops
 OIfve Ol A ounces
 Water enough to make one pint of lotion.
 Directions: Shake into an emulsion and apply a very little to skin after bath, or once day whether you bathe or not
 Black and Blue
 Subject to black and blue spots all over my body from triflinx er 10 apparent cause. Miss c. V. S.l
 AnswSr--Do no harm to take course of call cium gluconate, say 10 grains twice daily after food for six or eight weeks.