The progressive farmer and southern farm gazette., May 21, 1910, Page 377, Image 13

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TWO-MINUTE HEALTH TALKS.
THE VALUE OF THE SPONGE BATH.
How Anyone Cun Take the Most Beneficial Sort of Bath Easily
and With Practically No Equipment.
N A GREAT many farm homes
there is a sad lack of bathing
facilities, but it is not neces
sary to go without bathing because
you do not have modern improve
ments. Quite as good a bath, and ;
better for some people, can be taken !
with a basin of water, a couple of
good brushes, some good soap and a
coarse towel.
Take a moderately stiff Japanese
brush and curry yourself with this
just as you would curry a horse,
using this brush dry. Then take as
stiff a brush as you can stand (per
sons differ in this respect), some
good soap and warm water, and go
over your body thoroughly with this.
Cold water can be used, for used in
this way there will be no shock to
the system. After giving yourself a
good scrubbing, rinse off with cold
water. Then follow with a thorough
rub-down, preferably with two tow
els. Then exercise with any simple
movement that will get the blood to
circulating. Tou will then have had
as good bath as anyone need desire.
Dr. H. W. Wiley says on this point:
“The next best thing to having
light and quick absorbent material
next to the skin if you want to be
in a condition to resist taking cold
is to accustom yourself to the dally
cold sponge bath. It appears that
the cold water it not so much a pre
ventive in itself as a means to an
end; the end being the brisk rub
down. This should be vigorous and
in its process more than one towel
should be used. That lively friction
Breeder’s Cards
AND
Farmers’ Exchange
We will Insert ads. for our Progressive Far
mn- —« Qaastta readers in thia department
and In this style type at the rate of 4 cents a
word for one week: two weeks, 6 cents a word:
thins waste 8 cants: four waste 10 cants;
threa months 80 cents; six months, GO emits:
laic Tear. 80 rants Each word number or initial
MM and siirtrsaa) counted as a se
pnrata word. Send cash with order* If the
SteSaaMUrKiumenibar it would cost $680
for noataaa alone to sand your ad. by letter to
eaekhmna tawhleh we carry it at this low
y*- gtampa accepted for amounts leaa than $1.
Baned Bocks Ena. $2.00 per 16. J. A. Savage,
Ackerman. Miss. ______
Pint Class Barred Bock Eggs. $1.00 per 16. Mrs.
H. R. Vase, Midnight. Idas.__
Puia-bred Rambouillet Rams. Graham A Mc
Corqaodale, Graham. Texas.
uf—pirlww Cotton Seed for sale 81.00 be., bagged,
f. a. b. C. A. McClure, Canton. Miss.
BMiatarad Berkshire Pigs of the finest breed
in” Dr. Geo. A. Love. Brook haven. Miss.
Eggs from White Wyandotte*. Heavyweights.
*9 no ner 16. H. E. Montgomery, Men
dian. Min.___
Foe Bata-80 acres, level black land, all in fine
timber, mostly oak. ash. poplar, ate. Geo. C.
Hogaboom. Basle. Miaa. __
S. C. Brown Leghorns-15 EggJ*l-50. Bestpay
ing strain. Year old Cockerel *2.00. Mrs. B. T.
Weather**. Durant. Miss.
For Bata—Registered Ease* Sows. Boarsand
WH“~
Poor Poland China Boar Pigs. 10 weeks old
(largo bone), *10.00 each with pedigree. No leas.
Geo. Shaver. Brookville, Miss.
The Seed advertised in another column by
the Tit-1-* Syrup Farm, Jackson, Miss., will
mature lfplan ted aa late as June 1st.
Single Comb Rhode Island Reds exdusivdy.
Eggs $1.00 per 15: 86.00 per 100. Prompt ship
ment. Miss Bessie Bryson, Guntown, Miss.
Two Pure Bred Hereford Bulls, five and nine
_ #100 00 860.00. Both *125.00. Sell or
Uade. Fishel White Plymouth Cocks *1.60. R. S.
Parker. Coatopa. Ala.
of the body is what puts it into
condition to resist the sudden con
gestion of the skin.
“The long list of diseases which
some have believed result from the
common cold result from something
else. Cold leaves the affected mem
branes in a condition where they
can mot throw off the millions of
disease germs which are constantly
attached. Then the germs get in
their work; that is to say they get
into the circulation of the blood and
have their way. There is a simple
“EVERY MISREPRESENTATION INGENUITY
AND CUPIDITY OF MAN CAN CONTRIVE.”
fhis is What “the United States Government" Declares
Possible in Newspaper Advertising of Patent
Without Legal Interference—Base Falsehoods as to
Protection Afforded by Pure Food and Drugs Act Ex
posed by Dr. Wiley. ,
Dr. H. W. Wiley, U. S. Department of Agriculture,
Washington, D. 0.
My Dear Dr. Wiley: An advertising agent, replying to my
attacks on patent medicines as frauds makes this assertion:
“The Pure Food and Drugs Act passed several years ago by
Congress, and now in operation, makes it utterly impossible for
such a thing as a patent medicine fakir to exist.”
I should like te have a statement from you as to whether
this is true and accurate * * * * that under the Pure
Food and Drugs Act only reliable remedies are allowed.
Hoping to hear from you without delay, I am.
Yours sincerely, CLARENCE POE,
For The Progressive Farmer and Gazette. !
DR. WILEY’S REPLY.
United States Department of Agriculture,
_ Bureau of Chemistry, Washington, D. C.
Dear Sir: The advertising agent to which you refer in your
letter of the 29th Inst. should at once be elected Ung of the
optimists. In the first place, it is not possible, with the force at
our command, to keep up with the new frauds that are con
stantly being foisted upon the public much less to eradicate
all the old evils. In the second place, it has been held by the
officials enforcing the act that unless the objectionable matter,
false and misleading, occurs upon the label of the package, or j
on the immediate wrappers surrounding it, no prosecution
take place. This leaves the circular and newspapers open to /
every form of misrepresentation that the Ingenuity and cu- i
pidity of man can contrive.-- What we need is an amendment £
to the law which will forbid the practice of medicine in
absentia absolutely, and require local physicians to secure, as
is required in most places now*, a certificate from competent
authorities. Respectfully, H. W. WILET, Chief. |
THE ADVERTISEMENTS GIVEN FOR THE PUR
POSE OF “SPECIFYING/’
Authorities Declare That Patent Medicines for Tuber*
culosis Are Not Only Worthless but Harmful Yet Ad
vertisements Such as the Following Appear Regularly
in Religious Papers. V •
(Diiplay our ow> for purpooe* of omphooia)
A NEW EXTERNAL REMEDY
For Consumption.
LUX, A compound in liniment form of
cod-liver oil, healing balsams and alcohol
to be rubbed on chest and back. REACH
ING THE SEAT OF THE DISEASE BY
THE NATURAL ABSORBENT POWERS
OF THE SKIN AND ITS OWN WON
DERFUL PENETRATING QUALITIES.
Soothes, toneB. heals and invigorates.
Don't think our claims extravagant. WE
HAVE THE FACTS AND RECORDS OF
REMARKABLE CURES. S. A. Church.
1121 Delachais Street. New Orleans, says:
"I used LUX for ore month and am COM
PLETELY CURED. Gained twelve
pounds." Ask your druggist for LUX.
THE NEW REMEDY FOR CONSUMP
TION and all subsurface inflammations or
send $1.00 and receive a bottle by register
ed mail. Address the LUX C.mpany,
Box 107, Ntw OrUacB, La.
TUBERCULOSIS BOOK FREE !
This valuable medical book tells in plain,
simple language how Tuberculosis pan be
cured in your own boms. If yon know of
any one suffering from Tuberculosis. Ca
tarrh. Bronchitis, Asthma or any throat
or lung trouble, or are yourself afflicted,
this book will help you to a cure. Even if
you are in the advanced stage of the dis
ease and feel there is no hope, thia book
will show you how others have cured them
selves after all remedies they had tried
failed, and they believed their case hope
less.
Write at once to The Yonkerman Co.,
3355 Water f-treat. Kalamaxoo. Michigan,
and they will gladly send you the book by
return mall free, and also A GENEROUS
SUPPLY OF THE NEW TREATMENT.
ABSOLUTELY FREE. FOR THEY
WANT EVERY SUFFERER TO HAVE
THIS WONDERFUL REMEDY BEFORE
IT IS TOO LATE. Don’t waR-wrlto to
day. It may mean the saving of your
life,
i '"I l™
way of keeping the membrane oi
the nose, which shelters so many dis
ease germs in a healthy condition.
That is by a daily morning and even
ing application ef warm salt water.”
People do not take cold from be
coming cold. The universal testi
mony of Arctic explorers is that they
never took cold in those northern
regions, but do take cold when they
get back to civilization. People take
cold from exposing part of the body
| to drafts, from sleeping with too
much bedding, from breathing im
pure air in bedrooms and in public
halls and churches, from working in
a damp or a poorly ventilated kitch
en, factory, or office. The object of
the bath is to fortify the system
against cold and enable it to throw
off the poisons of the system as fast
as they are formed.—Adapted from
Wallace’s Farmer.
The Progressive Farmer and Ga
zette is doing more for Southern ag
riculture than all the other farm
papers.—Felix Williams, Villa Rica,
Ga.
*
Good Positions Assured.
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We want YOU to know the efficiency at mm
School. Aak tot a long Hat at corporation, Sima,
banka, Govanora, etc., who hava employed from
d°““ <* our graduate*. Wa hay* more
banker*, bnaineaa man and raflnaid officiate on
our lists of graduates than any other OilMans in
the South. - .
, The beat and moat complete eoanea In Book
Be Sore to Get 0«r Catalogue.
FALL'S BUSINESS COLLEGE
ALEXANDER FALL, Preaidant
Naahvillo, . --
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California, Washington,
British Columbia.
m to Dates of solo, Units, stopoVers,
routes, sleeping car rram isllnus.
schedules, ete^ apply,
H. R. WB8TON. A. 0. HADO0,
Loos! Agent. B. P. A.
Jackson, Miss.
JNO. A. SCOTT. A. O. P. A..
Memphis. Toon. A
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Connections at Gulfport, Lumberton, CMnmbia,
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For further information, apply to
J. L. HAWLEY. General Passenger Agent, * ..
Effective March 28,1910. GuiSRnft JUt
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tor the Aronp Man than Fum
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tbo Soatb for a Good Fanner.
Farming la a Groat Borin n— aad
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plea. Tbo Proper Loea(laa. tbe
Study of Sofia. Sood Botoetlon, tbo
Wise Obofee aad Rotation of Grant
aad Onrofal Oulttratlon will Mag
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la tbo Soloetloa of tbo Prop* Lo
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