Thursday, November 28, 1918.
THE BREVARD NEWS, BREVARD, N. C.
The Government
waMs tin
So hereafter sjII three brands
©f I'VwS'SLEY’S will be wrapped
in pink paper and Iiermetically
sealed in wax.
Look for m the
pink-end package and take
your clioice of the same
three popular flavors.
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get
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for quality
and because
Letters from our boys in the trenches and
from the women in canteen and other
war work, all bring to us the same mes
sage—SEND US NEWS FROM HOME.
World news is all right, but OUR BOYS
want NEWS OF THIS TOWN. They want
the home newspaper. Publishers are prevented
from sending their papers free to anyone, even
boys in the service. Consequently a national
movement has been started by Col. William
Boyce Thompson of New York, who is acting
as President of the Home Paper Service of
America to give the boys what they are calling
for. Every community is joining the movement.
L«t us see that our boys are not forgotten.
Send to the publisher of this newspaper
whatever amount of money you can—5
crnis or $50.00. We will publish a list
fach week of those contributing, and the
aifiounts contributed.
Every cent received will be used to send
this paper to our boys at the front. If at
t^e end of the war, there is any surplus, it
wil! be turned over to the local Red Cross
Committee.
There is no profit in this to the publisher—
even in normal times, subscriptions are not sold
at a profit. With war prices prevailing, and the
hi>Th rate of postage on papers sent to France,
our cost will scarcely be covered by our full
subscription price.
Remember that over in France, some brave
noldier or sailor from this town—perhaps even
some splendid woman working within sound of
the guns—is depending on you to “KEEP THB
HOME LOVE KINDLED.”
HEALTH IS WEALTH
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^HYGIENE
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STATE BOARD OF
OUKSTIONS ON HCALTH. NVGIINI AND SANITATION OP OCNEMAL INTCRKST TO OUH RCADEII* W X M ANSWERED IN TNMI
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A Humidor For
Your Sleeping Cave
Have you stuffiness of the nostrils?
Do you “take cold” every time any one
sneezes at you? Is your throat sensi
tive? Have you a dry, irritaling
cough at times? Do you snore? Are
you a mouth breather when asleep?
Do you wake with a dry mouth? Have
you tiwenty dollars—‘but this isn’t a
mail-order diagnosis blank, come to
think of it. Keep the twenty or buy a
bond with it. What you need is a
humidor to humidify your bedroom,
and you can make one yourself which
will do the business a whole lot bet
ter than any apparatus you can buy.
Trouble is, you’re a mollycod. |3
and you don't know it. At least you
<lidn t until you read this. Y'ou have
tlie great delusioii wh?«h all molly
coddles have all the tine. You imag
ine that the way to keep warm is to
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STOP BEING A MOLLYCODDLE.
Sleeping in a Sealed-Up Room is Just
One Way of Siiortening Your Life
and Making Your Lessc.r.ed Years
Considerably More Miserable.
keep warm. Well, you're wrong. The
way to keep warm is to keep cool.
Hippokrales says so. I say so. Hip-
poknitt's and I agree preUy well on
ino«t subjects. Hipprokutes snid
2200 years ago: “Cool water warms,
and warm water cools.” People wh('
take morning sponge, plunge or show
er baths knew that Hippokratos and I
are right about ftiat. The cool bath
warms you up. stimulates your circu
lation, inv^reases your metabolism,
, nakes rou burn fuel f;u;ter. The
. warm bath, on the other hand, re
laxes, &-OWB down metabolism, tend*
to make you chilly, at least does not
'warm you up like a cool shower does
Oh, you can’t get aiway from my
friend Hippokrates! He and I hav«
studied this thing all out. Just sub
stitute air for water, and the resuls
are qualitatively the same, not quan
titatively. It takes much cooler aii
and much warmer air to produce sim
ilar reactions. But the air will do ii
just as water does.
Now, I feel sure that the mollies;
mollycoddle that reads this column
realizes that “colds” and so-called
“catarriiai troubles” are strictly and
cJiaracteristically indoor ailments and
not ailments of people who live muoli
in the open. Why? Becausje it is to<
warm indoors most of the winter
Huh. It often gets up to 80 or 85 de
?.rees P. hereabouts in the summer
time outdoors! True, but look at the
humidity. Old General Humidity it
famous for his mid-summer drives.
You can’t leave the General out ol
this question. But in the winter time
the General digs in. At any rate he
is conspicuous by his inactivity in
doors. Heat the nice fresh wintei
air up to 65 degrees indoors in the
winter and you make it dryer than th«
driest Sahara Desert climate, by ac
tual test.
An excessively dry climate is nc
place for a person with chronic nose
throat or chest trouble to sleep
nights.
Open up all ttiree bedroom win
do-ws, as high as the lower sash wili
go, and put in screens made of un
bleached Piquot or Black Rock mus
lln. That puts Gen. Humidity right
back on the job. It keeps out rain,
snow, whid, drafts and dust, but 11
lets in the fresh, moist night air
Damp night air. That is fine for sick
ly people. In olden times they used
to say just dam night air. They were
mollycoddles, the old folks.
With these Todd screen.s in th?
bedroom windows your indoor air wil
have about the same humidity as th(
outdoor air, and it doesn’t cost a cen
to keep the humidor working all night
A FACT WORTH KNOWING. !
Scientific observation has showi
that carbohydrate food — starches
sugars, glucose, etc., as in bread
fruits, vegetables, cereals, syrups—1:
rather more sustaining for hard worl
than is protein food. There is m
waste of energy in useless heat pro
I duction from carbohydrates. Hiii ^
I fact is worth keeping in mind Ltiesi
I days when conservation of meat is s
patriotic matter and the uvilization o'
garden fnu-k, corn products and th«
various other su'ostitutes ®or wheat ii
a pati'iotic duty. |
|S;^HEAl‘raiS^VEALTl! G
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STATE BOARD
OUtSTIONS ON MpAwT |. *• AMT, -tTATtON OF GENERAL INTEREST TO OUR READERS WILL BC ANSWERED tN THESt
OU4.UMNb OR BY MAIL tF S OFrlCC OR TO THE STATE BOARD HEALTH ^.T RALEIGH AND ACCOMPANlEO
^ ik. DJAONOSIS CMI TREATMENT OF INDIVIDUAL DISEASES WILL SE ATTSMPTCOk
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: They are calling to YOU from “ Over There^
GIVE WHAT YOU CAN
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]^y From the Merchant Who Advertises.
Simple ChrcMC Rhinitis
Ohildron and j^-ujig adults are so;
generally subject to more or less:
marked chronic infiajumation of the j
lining of the nose that this very fact.
accounts for the groat delusion—that
exposure to cold, drafts, dampness, |
wet feet and S‘0 forth causes “colds.” j
If an individual has a chronic low i
grade inflammation in the lining of
the nose (vulgarly known as nasal
catarrh, though the word is meaning
less), any temporary disturbance of
the circulation is likely to increase
the discomfort in the nose temporar
ily, and the thoughtless victim jumps
to the conclusion that he has “taken
cold." l^nfortunately this notion is
wholly imagimiry, for a normal indi
vidual sufl'ers no illness from such
temporary circulatory disturbances as
are produced by drafts, change of
weather, dampness, wet feet or chill
ing of the body. Indeed, one of the
familiar symptoms of chronic rhinitis
is just this sensitiveness Of the pati
ent to slight alterations of environ
ment. And as we have already
stated, chronic rhinitis is so very
prevalent (at least one-third of all
yoimg people living sedentary indoor
life have it), that the catching cold
phobia prevails in direct ratio with
the popular catarrh cure.
Chief among the causes of chronic
rhinitis is the low cost of fuel. It is
an ill wind that blows no good. The
war has broualit certain blessings to
the people, such as the final proof
that severe exposure in the trenches
does not. after all, cause pneumonia
or rheumatism. If every well-to-do
family in America—and that includes
the intelligent working peoplew—were
compelled to get along this winter on
one-third less 'fuel than last winter, it
would be a blessing in disguise, for
countless disabilities and fatalities
from respiratory disease would surely
be prevented.
Air heated above 68 degrees Fah
renheit by artificial means is bad air,
impure air, vitiated air, according to
every scientific test we have • today,
and it produces chronic congestion
of t!ie Vr.ing of the air passa.ges,
whi( ii V iiuately amounts to rhinitis,
bror .h!'. -. or, if you will insist upon
the ne gless term, catarrli.
Tl.v. *\.l^tion between the skin cir
culation and the circulation in the lin
ing of the breathing tube is an inti
mate one. Every victim of simple
rhinitis knows this from personal ex-
p.'rience; when the blood is temporar-
iy driven out of the surface vessels,
by cold or dampness or draft or what
not, it collects in the deeper vessels,
and if those of the nasal lining hap
pen to have lo^st t'neir elasticity or
tone through prolonged abuse and
coddling, they become engorged or
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ed especially during this epidemic, |]^ut we are making
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pratronage is appreciated.
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Real Estate andllnsurance Agents
Seeing is Belie
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GROCERIES
A PENNY SAVED IS A PENNY UE’
We are out of the high-rent-diatrict,
and in these war-ridden times it behooves
all of us to save every penny. We wans;
your business and will appreci?,te it v
we get it. Come in and let iis ac
quainted.
R. P* Kilpatrick
GROCERIES, NOTIONS AND SHO
Phone 141 Near Depot.
Brevard, N. C.
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AIR,
WHY DON’T YOU QUIT?
Brevard Lumber
A CAR LOAD OF BEST ACID AMD
FERTILIZER JUST ARRIVED. lA
WILL PAY TO FERTILIZE 112AV'
YOUR SMALL GRAIN AND MAKt A
BIG CROP. THERE IS NO TELLING
WHAT WHEAT AND RYE WILL SELL
AT NEXT YEAR.
Look at the Soldiers Who S'leep Out
Doors.—Stuffiness, Snuffiness, Run*
ning at the Nose, Sneezing, Just
Signs That You Need Fresh Air.
choked with too much blood, whick
they have not the power to drive out.
Stuffiness, snuffiness, running at th«
nose, sneezing, fullness, perhaps slight
headache and physical depression eu*e
the customary expressions of sut;h en>
gorgement. A credulous person calls
it a "fresh cold,” but somehow he for
gets his “cold" again as soon as the
usuajy< external environment is ro:
stored-*-a very differeot history from
that of a genuine coryza or other
acute respiratory infection, whirh
sticks on the job for a few days at
least, good and hard.
Brevard Lumber
Company
FRANK JENKINS, Manager
Phone 120
Close to Depot
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