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HEALTH-SUGGESTIONS.
HOW COLDS ARE CAUGHT.
A great many cannot see why it is they do not take a cold when exposed to cold
winds and rain. The fact is, and ought to be more generally understood, that
nearly every cold is contracted indoors, and is not directly due to the cold
outside, but to the heat inside. A man will go to bed at night feeling as well
as usual and get up in the morning with a royal cold. He goes peeking around in
search of cracks and keyholes and tiny drafts. Weather-strips are procured, and
the house made as tight as a fruit-can. In a few days more the whole family has
colds.
Let a man go home, tired or exhausted, eat a full supper of starchy and
vegetable food, occupy his mind intently for a while, go to bed in a warm, close
room, and if he doesn't have a cold in the morning it will be a wonder. A drink
of whiskey or a glass or two of beer before supper will facilitate matters very
much.
People swallow more colds down their throats than they inhale or receive from
contact with the air, no matter how cold or chilly it may be. Plain, light
suppers are good to go to bed on, and are far more conducive to refreshing sleep
than a glass of beer or a dose of chloral. In the estimation of a great many
this statement is rank heresy, but in the light of science, common sense and
experience it is gospel truth.
Pure air is strictly essential to maintain perfect health. If a person is
accustomed to sleeping with the windows open there is but little danger of
taking cold winter or summer. Persons that shut up the windows to keep out the
"night air" make a mistake, for at night the only air we breathe is "night air,"
and we need good air while asleep as much or even more than at any other time of
day. Ventilation can be accomplished by simply opening the window an inch at the
bottom and also at the top, thus letting the pure air in, the bad air going
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