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TO THE MEMORY Of GRANDMA’SDOCTORING Nature’s Pharmacoepia Con sulted For All Ills. Diagnosis Was Not Trelliscd in Latin Verbiage—“ f >astrodynia” Was Plain “Bellyache.’’ In these days when we send our bodies to the hospitals to be “gone over” by human machinists as we do cur watches to the jeweler and our automobiles to the garage, when a pain in the right side sends us skurrying to the doctor and a slight headache to the drug store. Grandmother, M. D., looms high on the horizon of memory. Grandmother didn’t know the differ ence between the vermiform appendix and an angleworm. Such terms as pathology and therapeutics and prog nosis were all the same to her asChoc taw or any other Indian language. She referred to gastrodynia as “bellyache,” and may have called a subcutaneous whitlow a “heeling.” When you came out of that argument with the neigh bor boy with a profuse expitaxis grandmother exclaimed, “laws a mer cy, see the boy’s nose bleed!” and put a rag wrung out of cold water to the back of your neck instead of a cold compress. She may not have been long on Latin or wise in anatomy or keen on physiological function, but she al ways knew something to do. It was she who built chat mighty onion poultice and spread its odorifer ous but grateful warmth across your chest that time you had such a cold and wheezed so when you breathed. She said you might have lung fever. She’s never heard any one say “pneu monia.” But it did the business, that and that onion syrup she cooked up on the three-legged stove with the elevated oven. She wouldn’t have known a baccillus if she met it in the road and was not on speaking terms with any of the bacteria family; but she put turpentine into that cut you got on the rustv tin just the same, and bound it up with “Bairn of Gilead” or “Gregory’s Ointment” and the thing got well despite the fact that you ran everywhere barefoot and ducked wash ing your feet at night because, as you told your mother, grandmother said to leave the rag on it three days with out disturbing it. She didn’t know about fermentation, but she knew all about sour stomach and had a remedy at hand. She wasn’t strong on mater ia medica, but her boneset tea was a sovereign medicine, and she could cure “canker sore mouth” and have the baby wriggling and cooing in a jiffy. The fact is that Grandmother, M. D., while she never heard a lecture and might have fainted in a dissecting room, was a mighty good practitioner of sorts. Somehow she knew just what to do to bring aid and comfort to a sick room. She might have never held a degree, her title of Grandmoth er M. D., suited for all purposes. Death did not frighten her, for she smoothed the path of many down to the dark river and drew the bereaved little flock about her to weep on her ample bosom when all was over. /l x ’ ' j x 7 i \ 7 Mi IF YOU WANT TO SEE A FINE .STOCK OF SHOES, WE ARE EXTENDING YoU AN INVITA TION TO COME AND SEE OURS. IF YOU WANT TO BUY FROM OUR .SPLENDID .STOCK YOU WILL FIND THE PRICED A 5 HoNEJTLY LOW A 5 THE QUALITY 15 HONESTLY HIGH. WE WILL TREAT YOU WITH COURTESY AND .SPARE NO PAINS IN SHOWING YOU, AND WILL TRY OUR BEST To MAKE A PERMAN ENT FRIEND AND PATRON OF YOU. L. WEBER THE HOME OF GOOD SHOES OUR SHOES FIT. DO YOURS? cwySh Lancaster, Wisconsin Have Fresh Air Where You Live and Where You Work (By Irving Fisher, Professor of Political Economy, Yale University) Open all windows wide before you use the room in which you live or work. Let fresh air in all the time. The best temperature is between 68 and 70 degrees Fahrenheit. Open one window at the top and one at the bottom. The good all comes in one window and the bad air goes out the other. If you feel air blowing on you, place a board in front oi the open win dow to send the air up. Such a “window board” should always be used in winter. People who are used to fresh air almost never have colds. Try to keep the air in your house as pure as the air out doors. Do not let dust smoke stay in the house. Let in all the sunshine you can. Sunshine and fresh air kill germs and thereby help to keep out sickness. '‘Food Abstinence Benficial,” Says Prominent Authority Horace Fletcher, the apostle of mod erate eating, whose name the popular imagination associates with deliberate mastication of food, informed an in terviewer in New York City that ex cept in extreme instances the people of Belgium have benefitted from the abstinence enforced upon them by rea son of the war. Mr. Fletcher has spent sixteen months in Belgium, working with the Commission for Relief, and therefore has had the best possible opportunity for informing himself thoroughly on the subject of which he speaks. To a New York World re porter he supplied these interesting conclusions: General health conditions are ex cellent in Belgium, but this is also true, though perhaps not to the same exten, of the civilian population of all the countries at war. But in Bel gium we have the most remarkable example in history of the application of scientific principles and hygienic laws to the food problem of an entire people. The results have been marv elous. Undertakers are literally with out work. No one in Belgium today is dying of what one might call the diseases of intemperance and of civ ilization. They have been driven out as completely as malaria has been driven from the Isthums of Panama. The only cases of fatal sickness are the cases of tuberculosis, cancer and that sort of thing, and specific diseases contracted before the war. There is almost no influenza, no appendicitis, no intoxication. This is what enforced temperance and short ration have done, aided also by the serenity of the people, a serenity due to the fact that they have one big worry participated in by all which takes the place of the million minor worries cultivated in dividually in times of peace and pros perity. This resulted in decreasing the death rate beyond belief. At the same time the birth rate is high. It is true that it dropped in May, just as it dropped suddenly in every coun try in Europe, nine months after the outbreak of the war, but now, taking all conditions into consideration, the RESOLVED THAT THINGS ARE LOOKING UP. WE HAVE A STOCK OF SHOES WE CAN BE PROUD OF. OUR PRICES ARE LOW. WE WANT YOUR CUS TOM AND WILL USE YOU RIGHT. GRANT COUNTY HERALD, LANCASTER, WISCONSIN, WED NESDAY, MARCH 15, 1916. birth rate is so extraordinarily high that one may almost hope that the saving of life among the civilians and the creation of life will very greatly offset the losses in manhood at the front. It is even possible that despite the enormous numbers of men killed the total population of Europe will be greater at the end of the war than it was at the beginning. Germane to the subject of abstem iousness as promotive of health, it is noteworthy that the Allen method of treating diabetes embodies this prin ciple, Hereward Barrington, writing to the New York Times, observes: The new method of treatment con sists for the most part, in a fast of short duration, followed by a restrict ed diet, devoid of fats, the object be ing to keep the patient thin. The in novation consists, we are told, in the application of fasting to the cure of this disease. I* has been shown that fasting two or tluee days “causes the dextrose to disappear from the tis sues”; “fasting reduces the sugar”; and that, “contrary to all ordinary ex pectations, even patients who at the start were weak and emaciated bore the fasting well. They gave the im pression, thin as they were from the first, that they have been suffering more from auto-intoxication than from lack of nutrition.” Mr. Carrington contends against the notion that the fasting cure for diabetes is a novelty, asserting that as long ago as 1902 he recommended it himself. In this case, he says, the patient fasted for twenty days, tak ing nothing but water, and the cure was so complete that a physician liv ing in another city, refused to believe that the sugar “specimens” sent him at the beginning and end of twenty days were from the same man. Fur thermore, he cites Doctor Guelpa of Paris, in a work entitled “Auto-In toxication and Disintoxication,” as recommending fasting as a cure for diabetes and other diseases, and de claring that, far from being as fatal as usually supposed, diabetes if right ly treated is ?s readily curable as a cold in the head. It is evident that if the outcome of the present experiments at the Rocke feller Institute is as favorable as now seems probable it will cease to be fashionable to scoff at judicious fast ing as an efficient method of treatment in certain kinds of disease. But the Allen treatment for diabetes, it is to be remembered, embodies the use of selected foods for nourishment as well as a fasting process; and no doubt it would be unwise for people not well versed in pathology to resort to fast ing as a health measure except with the advice of a physician.—Evening Wisconsin. WHY YOU SNEEZE. There is more than one cause for sneezing, and persons may differ in their susceptibility to them, says a specialist in disease of the nose and throat. “A bright light will cause some per sons to sneeze, the pollen of certain plants will affect others, and most peo ple are likely to sneeze in the pres ence of dust. Such sneezing is due to superficial irritation. “The sneeze caused by the effect of cold is different. It is an attempt of nature to cure you. She makes you sneeze for the same reason that she makes you shiver —to generate heat for warming the blood and preventing you from taking more cold —to help to relieve the cold you have. “The sneezing from cold is not an act of the nose alone, this being mere ly the part of the body where it ex plodes. It is an act of the entire body, during which every muscle gives a jump. The body is affected by a spas modic effort to 'warm the entire sys tem and throw off cold.” —Pittsburgh Gazette-Times. “THE PSLAM OF LIFE.” (Not by Longfellow.) Lives of poor men oft remind us honest toil don’t stand a chance; the more we work we leave behind us big ger patches on our pants. On our pants once new and glossy now are patches of different hue; all because subscribers linger and won’t pay up what is due. Then let all be up and doing; send in your mite be it e’er so small, or when the blasts of March shall smite us we shall have no pants at all. If YOU’D BE SHLISH TABOO SLEEPING PORCH Newest Bungalows Repudiate It, So Don’t Be Behind Times. Eastern Architects Say There Is No Demand, and,—“Well. It Simp ly Isn’t Being Done.” (Frederic J. Haskin.) Has your home a sleeping porch? If so, you are in danger of being classed as behind the times. The ar chitectural death knell of the sleeping porch has been sounded. The newest bungalows are being built without it, and when the bungalow repudiates it, its fate is sealed. A business man in an eastern city, anxious to secure an option on a sum mer home before the season’s rush set in, haunted the real estate offices ex amining various plans. One particu lar home in a nearby suburb was ex actly what he wanted. It contained just the right number of rooms and a tennis court on the front lawn, and a model garage. “But,” complained the business man, “it has no sleeping porch.” Useless to Complain. The tolerant agents regarded him with tolerant amusement. It was as if he had complained of the absence of a windmill. They explained that the sleeping porch was an architectural which had gone out of date and there was no longer any demand for them. To the business man’s timid assertions that he liked sleeping porches, they had but one reply, “it simply isn’t be ing done.” The sleeping porch, in a sense, is the ideal way to sleep. But the con stant living to an ideal may grow montonous, and one by one people have gone back to their solid brass beds with a sigh of relief. Sleeping Outdoors Beneficial. There is no question as to the ben eficial effects of sleeping outdoors, on the health generally, and particularly in the treatment of nervous diseases and tuberculosis. To the modern san itarium sleeping porches always will be indispensable. They are a great boon, also, to those who are shut up in offices all day, where it is almost impossible to secure proper ventila tion, and hence are deprived of the amount of /"esh air which their sys tems require. Sleeping with all the windows open is not the same as be ing out in the fresh air. So as a neces sity for good health the sleeping porch is here to stay, but as a luxury for those who can afford to gratify fads it has ceased to be interesting. German Children Sleep in Woods. The establishment of the first fresh air school in Charlottenburg, Germany ushered in the mania for fresh air all over the world. The news that the Germans wer.e taking their children into the pine forests in place of school rooms created a great deal of interest in the United States and be gan what has since been referred to as the fresh air fad. The check of tu berculosis was occupying an unusually large amount of space in the maga zines at that time, and people had visions of germs in everything they did. The “open-air treatment” was on everybody’s lips. Schools On Top of Buildings. Since pine forests were a trifle re mote and impracticable in cities, schools for anaemic children were es tablished on the roofs of buildings, and the pine trees brought to them. Here they were given a regular course of treatment which usually resulted in their returning to the schoolroom in good health. Special clothes were designed which prevented them from taking cold, and consisted of head gear and pantaloons resembling the apparel of an Esquimaux. There were also cots and blankets for each child. It is somewhat doubtful if the pine trees had any benefiicial effect, but the children were kept entertained and amused making trimmings for them. Began As Innovation. All over the cities, then, appeared curious devices on the roofs and bal conies of buildings. People were sleeping out of doors. Tents were erected on side lawn, and beds were seen half protruding through the win dows, while in the suburbs if became the popular pastime to sleep in the trees. One man who owned a large apple tree, built a platform in its wide-spreading branches, on which he placed a cot and curtains, and became the envy of his admiring friends. Joy of Getting Back to Nature. Nothing more was to be heard of the detrimental effect of night air. People dropped off to sleep in their hammocks in the orchard and the next day reported enthusiastically the joy of getting back to nature. The ques tion of health was lost completely in the aesthetic delight of communion with the stars. Meanwhile, architects all over the country were kept occu pied designing porches with outdoor sleeping rooms. Sleeping porches were tacked on to every angle of the house, and whole families took up their beds and moved out into the open. Winter coming on, a few deserters crept back to their steam-heated rooms, but the majority were intrepid, and, laden with blank ets and hot water bottles, stuck to the porches and the stars. The delightful sensation of rain or snow on the face, while protected in the folds of wool en blankets and an outer covering of (M 'T'HE ideal soap is mild so that it is M! pleasant to use; pure so that it can be used freely without danger. rpri W- It lathers freely so as to save time. 0 It rinses easily so as to leave the skin M Hi 1 9 l e vi really clean. It floats so as to be con venient. It is white so as to suggest —| cleanliness. ;A? z' I Ivory Soap is and does all these things. It if the ideal soap . F for the toilet. Yet it costs but \ \ IVORY SOAP / z > wk \ 998$ PURE / H\ f B ■x-X \ x t M B j d SL/SPO' g tarpaulin, was recounted in detail at the breakfast table. Hotels Forced to Build Porches. There was only one drawback. If you formed the habit of sleeping out doors you had to keep it up. If you stopped and then went back to it, you took cold. This made it inconvenient for people to travel, and the hotels, in alarm, took to erecting sleeping porch es. An artist, arriving in a hotel at Seattle, insisted upon erecting his own tent on the roof of the building, ex plaining that he could not sleep in doors. The hotel was inclined to re fuse him, suspecting that it might be some advertising scheme, but finally gave in convinced of his earnestness. Came the Living Room Porch. When people had explored to the depths of the aesthetic sensations of sleeping outdoors, it occurred to them to go a step further and live outdoors. Our remote ancestors, whom it became everybody’s desire to imitate, live out of doors or in well ventilated caves. Whereupon the architects became busy once more, and in came the living room porch. If one were fortunate enough to possess a front veranda, it was immediately screened, curtained and furnished. Wires were connect ed to the electric lighting system and fixtures attached to the ceiling of the porch. With rugs of jute, or some other coarse fabric, willow furniture and low hanging couch hammocks comfortably stocked with pillows, the living room porch made an attractive addition to any home. It was an ideal dining room in summer; in winter it could be converted into a veritable garden by window boxes and hanging vines. Trel lises were tacked to the walls and ivy trained through them. Hanging fern baskets added an effective touch. Ori ental lanterns of complicated metal de sign showed up well against the green V ~ tw $» At Last--A One-Adjustment Cream Separator "DE FORE you buy any cream separator, come in and look at the Primrose. But one adjustment is needed to keep it in perfect oper ating condition. This adjustment is a simple one for keeping the bowl at the correct height —an adjustment that you or your wife can saf ly make. The adjustment is made from the outside of the separator by either raising or lowering the bearing containing the hardened steel point, upon which the spindle revolves. A slight turn with a screwdriver, perhaps once a year, does the work. The Primrose is a well-constructed, close-skimming, durable cream separator, one it will pay you well to buy. When can you arrange to see it ? International Harvester Company of America (Incorporated) Primrose cream separators are sold by FISCHER & PAGENKOPF Lancaster, Wisconsin of the vines. A bowl of goldfish and a canary were almost indispensable. Breakfast On “Living” Porch. The custom of dining on the porch began in summer and continued far into the winter months. People were delighted with the novelty of it, and refused to pay any attention to the currents of cold air admitted through the glass panels and circulating on the backs of their necks. It became the vogue to invite one’s friends for breakfast on the living room porch. In New England, where the winters are not mild, this form of entertainment had its drawbacks. The hostess would excuse herself to run upstairs and get a pair of gloves, and someone would suggest that she drink her coffee first lor it would freeze. Such interruptions were frequent. Out Door Thrill Finally Wears. It is romantic to eat breakfast on the porch with the eggs freezing, but it gets monotonous after a while. It. is thrilling to sleep out doors in a thing like a diving suit while trees crack in the frost, but the thrill wears off and the frost remains, especially if you forget the hot water bottle. That is why the living porch and the sleep j ing porch are “going out.” The faith ful few who really like that sort of thing will stick to it, and so will those who benefit by the regime. But the great majority, who took it up because it was the fashion, are going back to bed. When a married man boasts that he has no secrets from his wife his bachelor friends fail to put him next to a lot of good things. Adversity lifts up many a man whom prosperity has knocked down. A man who has made good doesn’t have to blow his own horn.