The Nome daily nugget., 1937-04-15

way to feel at that
 time. And in the
 fall Is there a pc riod when. if you have neuralgia or rheumatism, 1t aches worse than ever, and your eyes, for no apparently ac- countable reason, seem so weak that you wonder whether you shouldn't go to an oculist for glasses? And you have touch of melancholia-yOu know. "the melancholy days of fall are here" attitude? That again is quite the proper reaction.
 We can't any of us avoid being part of .he tremendous change that goes on in all nature the two times in the year when the sun reaches its exact period of twelve hours above the horizon. All animal life feels that change; every cell in our body feels it.
 All the visible forces of nature seem to awaken from a resting period and become active In the sprlngtime. Flowers, grass. trees, birds and ami. mals all take a new lease on life. The hibernating animals arouse from their winter sleep. Seeds of the vegetable world begin to undergo some internal changes that initiate germinaton and sprouting. The sap begins to rise in trees. followed by the appearance of buds and leaves. Man changes just as much as the plants the trees. and the other animals during the transition pc riod from winter to summer.
 The body seems to respond with greater ease to many disturbing influ, ences. Eczemas and itchings of the skin become aggravated. Tuberculosis Is usually more active as disease process. People suffering from certain types of goiter become worse. and great many types of asthma and hives are aggravated during the spring months.
 Spring weather stimulates us. It is natures way of causing period of housekeeping. We burn up and get rid of useless accumulations. During the summer and fall we enjoy good health and well being after this reno vating and rejuvenating sprngtime. But during the cold and depressing winter months we again have so many sluggish and alternating cells with their slow and lazy response to our usual demands that by the time spring comes around. the freshening up proc ess has to be repeated
 These seasonal changes in the func- tiOn of man are of maj jOr significance from the standpoint of public health. We have no more control over these factors than have any of the other liv. ing cells in nature. The forces of na ture cause us to become good soil at one time and poor soil at another time for disease production. The season of greatest hazards is the cold winter season.
 When spring comes we should clean out our bodies. just as the housewife feels the urge to clean house, and men get out the rake and gather up and burn the winters rubbish before they start planting. and school children joy ouSly enter on clean-the- city cam paigns. Spring is a cleaning out proc. ess; that's why symptoms of disease become more prOnOunced-Our body forces have a fare.up of stimulation
 We all have an urge to eat green things at this time Our grandmothers thought calomel and sulphur and mo lasses were called for But they also anxlOusly waited for the first rhubarb to become long enough to cut and for the asparagus to push itself up. and dandeliOns were cooked or made into a salad with vinegar and hard cooked egg. It was really these things that refreshed the body. and not the sul phur and molasses. Today with re frigeratOr cars that bring Us spinach and fresh fruits from California and Texas and Florida all through the win ter months. we do not have the same urge for diet change that our grand mothers did. But still, psychologically IS well as physiOlogically. we do crave greens at this season of the year Tears of joy run down the southern CTS cheeks at the thought of pot lik ker" and greens-mustard greens dan delion greens, sorrel and thistle shoots. Even the confirmed hater of spinach will eat spinach in the spring time.
 It is natures way of getting our in. testinal tract in order, for summer is the time of greatest incidence of ty- phoid fever and of diarrheas of various kinds.
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