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ISAUTY CHILDREN HEALTH There's a Bit of Russia in Our New Fall Hats-Furlough Hats Are a Novelty Vitamin D Is Now Given As Remedy for Arthritis By CLAUD NORTH CHRISMAN, M.D. IT IS my opinion that a “Good Health” column should contain the newer treatment for diseases that are not under control. The doctors in hospitals,clinics and laboratories are constantly searching for some better form of treatment of disease than wc possess. I try to keep track of these experiments. When some well-known doctor or med ical group reports a larger degree of success In treating a certain dis ease. it is my duty, as I see it, to give them all the publicity I can. It does not al- EXH ft DR. CHRISMAN attention has been given to the treatment of arthritis. There are many forms of this disease and our treatment has been unsatisfactory. Hence I have called attention to several new forms of treatment. Effect of Sulpha Drugs Asa result I receive many letters asking for a copy of my articles and further information. I do not have copies of these articles, be yond my own file copies. The only way I can furnish a copy is to have It retyped, which involves time and effort. I suggest that when you see an article that interests you. cut it out of your paper and preserve it. A lady from California says her husband Is 56 years old, has been In the hospital for three months: he still has to use crutches and cannot dress himself. She recalls, she thinks, that in writing about the sulfa drugs I recommended their use in treating arthritis. It may be that she is partly mistaken. I did say that the sulfa drugs re tarded the growth of bacteria, and as arthritis has its beginning in focal infections, they may be help ful in checking the cause. I wrote particularly of sulfa guinidine. which acts to destroy Intestinal flora, and these are often the source of infection. In other re spects the sulfa drugs do not great ly benefit arthritis. One of the drugs I did recom mend was Bee Venom. It is sup plied in the form of an ointment which the patient can use himself Bee Venom has long been recog nized as a successful treatment for various forms of rheumatism and arthritis, but using bee stings was unpleasant and difficult to apply continuously. The application in the form of an ointment is successful in many cases and causes no inconvenience Any treatment of this disease must be continued for a long time. I’se of Vitamin I> For several years the use of large doses of vitamin D has received much attention in various hospi tals and clinics. Dr. Steck and oth ers of the College of Medicine of the University of Illinois have been using vitamin D in large doses with considerable success. They have treated all varieties of arthritis and report marked success in the relief of pain and the restoration of the use of affected Joints. We have no definite knowledge of how vitamin D acts to relieve arthritis. These men have used a form of vitamin D called “Estron." There are other preparations that are probably just as effective. It comes in the form of capsules each containing fifty thousand units. One tablet is given each dav Every fourth day the dose is increased by one capsule until six capsules are taken each day. It is given after meals: vcrv lit tle benefit is experienced for a month or more. It was quite expen sive, but the price was reduced re cently. More than six capsules can be taken as time goes on If too much is being taken, a little nausea and headache result, but these soon stop if the drug is discon tinued or ‘ dose reduced It should be for six months or a year to oh* tin maximum results. This is probably our most suc cessful form of treatment but any form is likely to require a vast deal of patience and persistence Arthritis Is a disease that causes certain forms of deposits tn the Joints. It has usually taken a long time to accumulate these deposits, and It will take an equally long time to flush them out and carry off the infection. If only treatment can be established before the joint becomes entirely stiff or helpless, there is the greater hope that the treatment may meet with success. HOLLYWOOD SHORTAGES Along with the rest of the world, Hollywood is suffering from short ages. Wardrobe departments felt it first. There is a short age of all pure white materials because there is no chlorine for bleaching. And every studio wardrobe workshop has a pin-picker-upper, a girl who spends her whole day picking up pins and needles. Rubber-soled dancing shoes are also on the scarce list, because soles must be made of new robber to be flexible and there isn't any. OUR OWN MAGAZINE PAGE Beryl Markham Writes of Her Hectic Life By TALBOT LAKE WE HAVE been reading “West With the Night,” which is a col lection of reminiscences of Beryl Markham, the British aviatrix, and concerns her life in Africa, w’here she was reared on her English father's farm. There is something charmingly feminine and helter skelter in what this adventurous woman says so well of her life in that country. wavs mean that I have used these newer reme dies. but I call the attention of t h e public to them Your own doctor can study the new treatment and apply it if h e considers the suggestion worth trying. During t h e last year.much Most women adventurers are pnonies, but Beryl Markham isn't. She evidently couldn’t help doing the exciting things she did. When a mere tot, she would wander out with her Negro native friends and hunt wild pigs and lions with a spear. Small wonder that she was chewed by a lion, and chased by wild pigs with fierce tusks. She soon became expert with horses, and she is a famous trainer of them today. For those who are fond of horses, much of her story will be entrancing. But for us, the parts about her flying are the most exciting. Miss Markham evidently just has no fear. ' In what we would consider today as crates, she flew over the wildest jungles. To land would mean being lost among wild animals, heat and lack of water —not to speak of dis ease. Insects and snakes. Yet, Miss Markham became one of the pioneer fliers of Africa, and was the first woman commercial pilot. She flew freight, sick people, passengers and mail anywhere in Africa at a rate that netted her some S3OO per month—which she considered well worth the risk. In 1936 she flew to Cape Breton from England, crashed in Labrador and then made her way to New York in another plane—the first woman to make a Westward flight over the Atlantic. She is a tall, athletic English girl, in 'her mid-thirties. She is living temporarily in North Hollywood, where she went to train thorough bred show horses for a living. She’s taken out citizenship papers, and has Just finished her book there. The war closed the Santa Anita race track, so her horse training days are over—and she seems to think that the track should be closed in these times. In the meantime, she has been offering her services to the govern ment, and has been having her dif ficulties. Even though a woman, she is one of our top-notch flyers Finally the U.S. Civil Air Patrol found her useful and so Beryl Markham is sitting impatiently, we are sure, in a ranch house waiting for orders to go Into flying action. (hr o /7\m T | l-f A • V v 1 "> - V ? rhVVI [ _ m I / / " / Copyright, 1941, by Fairchild. Herringbone mixture tor a jacket suit with chintz polka dot gilat. An ideal outfit for the commuter. FOR COMMUTER The Sailor Is Back This fall hat is a green and black sailor with a tiered crown, with gloves to match and a muzzle veil. High, Wide and Handsome Tells Story of Fall Hats By ELEANOR GUNN lUEW YORK—The fall hats—to coin a phrase—are high, wide and handsome. They really are higher than wide, hand some or not, according to your taste. Fortunately many of the towering crowns are collapsible. They are stove-pipe affairs, straight as straight can be. Some of them jut out backward, or tower in any direction. Lots of forehead showing —and showing considerable Russian influence. Sally Victor, who is a great hand for being inspired by current events, offers the Cossack Papskha (so do other milliners including Mme. Pauline> and a grand medley of colors which she calls Dalmatian blue, Hellenic rrd. Steppes green. Netherlands purple. Ming orange and so on. Lots of peasant caps and some peasant shawls with turbans balanced on top. Os course there are gay little fur lough hats to be worn when you kiss the boys goodby. There are some wide brims too. but remember wind and bad weather don't call for big brims. Come autumn we must take our large-brimmed hats of! whether we like it or not. Sally isn't the only one who ups the crown. John Frederics’ sky pieces are something. Just to give you a faint idea, he calls one of his hats the Simple Simon, and if you are familiar with Simple Simon you well recognize his hat, even though something new has been added. It's a ribbon-edged veil, the ribbon edg ing the upper edge of the veil which falls away from the brim and is held out at cither side 'by the rib bon) to give suggestion of width. Hatters are as mad as they ever were if the first collection may be taken for anything. They are both sky and conversation pieces, about which more anon. Some milliners put absolutely no trimming on their hats, devoting everything to line. Others are con tent with feathers. Few elastics are used for anchoring hats, as deep crowns which fit the head make them unnecessary. One milliner attached wide felt bands to the back of her hats to hold upswept hair in place. Green, bright blues, red. purple are popular, and almost every col lection has priority beiges and grays. Oyster rolored beaver espe cially when accented by brown, has anew look. BAMBOO TRIM Hollywood, Cal. Newest novel fashion note was worn by Nancy Coleman, who had a loose-looped natural string snood trimmed with small pieces of polished bamboo. Modes and Manners QUESTION: “Friend* ore to be warned shortly and although l re ceived an invitation to the wedding l won't be able to attend. In seiid ino a telegram of congratulation to them on their wedding day. should it be addressed to Mr and Mrs. 7 What if it arrivse before the mar riage ceremony? Betty " ANSWER: It is up to the sender to make sure that the telegram doesn't get there until after the ceremony. If the wire has to be filed with the telegraph office early in the day. definite instructions as to the desired hour of delivery should be left with the operator, timing the message to arrive Just after the ceremony. Don’t Force Older Brother to Play With Younger By JANE HERBERT GOWARD GEORGE, who is nine, is called upon to play with his brother Fred, who is three-and-a-half years his junior. To make matters worse, mother looks to George to defer to Fred, always invok ing the time worn. “After all,he's young er than you are.” T h 1 s in itself would be bad enough, since it can be interpreted a s an expression o f favoritism. But. moreover, mother gener ally says it be fo r e Fred. ■yfl ftt . mk 4 IglgHk .. _ Con sequently. Fred in his relations with his older brother has not yet learned to stand on his own two feet, but expects special consideration because he is younger. The procedure is equally unfair to both children. It is unfair to Fred because his training in self reliance is being neglected. It is unfair to George because his indi viduality is not being considered and his good-nature is constantly being imposed upon. The children of one family are natural rivals for their parents’ affections. The first-born feels that he has a prior claim and is not al together to blame for his attitude. The parents themselves helped «hape it by the attention showered on him when he was an only child. Is it any wonder that he resents the intrusion of the second baby with whom he is now called upon to share his parents? This element of competition exists also for anv suc ceeding children. The only differ ence here is that they would be in clined to accept their natural rivals from the start as members of the family who must be reckoned with. It is amazing that many brothers and sisters are bad friends. There ran be no doubt that this may be explained by deep-seated rivalries not recognized in time by parents, and very often not recognized by the children themselves. The groundwork for lust such a situa tion is being laid in -the case of Oedrge and Fred. Each one of these children should have playmates of his own age. Otherwise if the broth ers play George’s game. Fred ran not take part as an equal If they play Fred’s game. George will be bored and in either case no good can come from the set-up. When on rare occasions they must play to gether. they will be more likely to en.ioy one another's company and it will not be difficult to encourage a wholesome give -and - take be tween them. New Flavors For Old Vegetables By JUDITH WILSON VEGETABLES that look fine In a Victory garden or on the stands of local vegetable markets won’t do you any good. To enjoy their healthful benefits you must get them inside of you. This means that the housewife has to learn ways to make the same old vege tables taste better. Indifference to vegetables fre quently results from always having them served just plain boiled. Try steaming them for a change. Fix them up with accessories like fruit: season them use bacon or salt pork, spices, imagination. Top them with a sauce, or with butter or margarine dribbled over them. Combine them with other good things the family likes: turn them into salads: make them taste good To make Honeyed Acorn Squash suggested in Tuesday’s dinner menu, cut squash in half and re move seeds and fibers. Season with salt, dot with butter. Pour y j tea spoon heavy honey over each half and bake until soft. For Spinach Vinaigrette, the vegetable course in Thursday’s dinner menu, cook 2 pounds spin ach until tender: drain thoroughly and toss with hot Vinaigrette Sauce. SUNDAY Breakfast Honeydew Melon Poached Eggs on Broiled Ham Pounds Dinner Roast Boned Shoulder of Lamb Browned Potatoes Diced Brets in Butter •Grapefruit. Date and Cream Cheese Salad Ice Cream Milk or Coffee MONDAY Breakfast Orange Juice Rice Cooked in Milk with Raisin* Dinner Broiled Steak or Hamburgers Buttered Swiss Chard Baked Potatoes Fiesh Peach Pie Milk or Coffee TUESDAY Breakfast Stewed Prunes Poached Eggs on Toast Dinner Shepherd’s Pie (Leftover Lamb) Honeyed Acorn Squash Mashed Potatoes Baked Custard Milk or Iced Tea WEDNESDAY Breakfast Canned Grapefruit Sections Crisp Cereal Toast Bacon Dinner •Fish Flake Omelette Buttered Snap Beans Creamed Potatoes Apple and Celery Salad THURSDAY Breakfast Pineapple Juice Hot Cereal Cinnamon Toast Milk or Coffee Dinner Breaded Veal Chops Spinach Vinaigrette Mashed Potatoes Stewed Fresh Peaches Milk or Coffee FRIDAY Breakfast •Breakfast Starter French Toast. Honey Dinner •Lake Trout with Dressing Creamed Cucumbers Mashed Potatoes Magic Lemon Pie Milk or Tea SATURDAY Breakfast Sliced Fresh Peaches on Crisp Cereal Scrambled Eggs Toast Dinner Broiled Chicken Minted Carrots Parslied Potatoes Cherry Tarts Milk or Coffee •Recipe to be given in a subsequent column. MRS. GOWARD AT THIS writing, it looks ns though Prexy Petrillo of the musicians’ union is going ahead with his ban on recordings. It also looks as though, as predicted, he is going to face the toughest battle of his career. Already, radio stations that up to now have trembled at the men tion of his name, are not too po litely telling him where he gets off when he suggests new negotiations on expiring music contracts. The position of the ether men is that they never wanted the staff bands anyhow, took them only to keep the union quiet when they used records. So it looks as though Petrillo is putting men out of work instead of helping them with his plan to save the music business from technol ogy—and the younger men! This move bv the union means nothing more nor Less than an effort bv the old-time band musicians in the union to choke off the livelihoods of the younger and usually more capable men. Record Ramblings By MICHAEL LEVIN Flatters the Figure I \ ' i. ~ Sleek rayon sharkskin in clear shining white makes this figure-flattering one-piece bathing suit with its distinctive em broidered curlicue trim in bright red and white. These Spinal Exercises Keep Your Body Toned Up By JACQUELINE HUNT DECAUSE every woman wants to be physically fit for her part ** In the war effort, and because no matter what doubts and fears are in her heart, she wants to show a brave, inspiring face to the world, Ann Delafleld, one of our leading beauty authorities, has written a brief little booklet, called the “Primer of Physical Fitness.” Amusingly il lustrated. it tells and shows you what to eat, what exercises to takp for fitness, how to avoid strain when you work, how to relax, how to look pretty and. neither last nor least, howto balance your living habits to com bat the de structive fac tors with the constructive ones that build morale. For several years, of course, there has been much Interest in success courses given at leading beauty salons and in home correspondence courses that covered the same material. But now. when everything is speed ed up. when too much attention to personal problems seems selfish and you feel you must give every spare moment to defense activities, you'll welcome tnis booklet, that lays down/the essential rules for phys ical fitness. Even the exercises re quire a minimum of time. According to the authority, phys ical fitness depends fundamentally on good posture and good body Also, when Petrillo banned the high school band from the air waves the other night, on the grounds that they were competing with the efforts of union musicians, he forgot to mention that the men who filled for them, staff NBC mu sicians. didn’t make a penny extra for playing the broadcast, since they are paid on the basis of so many hours a week, rather than individual sustaining Jobs—so un ion men gained no bucks by chop ping off the kids’ fun. I Just finished listening to the “United Nations March,” first p 1 a jee and in Washington several weeks ago. and uecorded for Victor by Charles O’Connell and an or chestra. with Igor Gorin singing The lyrics are fine, Gorin good. O’Connell awful, and the recording one of the worst Victor has done in many years. So much so that it is really impossible to Judge the mu sic though frankly it doesn't sound like one of Dimitri Shostak ovich's better works. mechanics, which in turn depend on a straight strong spine. Here is the one exercise she rec ommends for the purpose: Lie on the floor,first bend your knees pull ing your feet on the floor, up near the hips. Separate the knees as far as possible. Lift the bottom of your spine off the floor as far as you can. Dig the spine at the waistline down into the floor as hard as you can. Be conscious of one important spot —your waistline at the back—think continuously of pressure at this point. Now with feet on the floor, slowly start to lower the legs to ward the floor. Remember you are trying to straighten them while your back Is digging into the floor. Keep the spine flat and straight on the floor until you have lowered the legs and extended 1 them as far as possible. Hold this position for a count of 10. relax and repeat 10 times a day. MISS HINT Standing Posture Perfect standing posture, which will enable you to stand for hours during the day without strain, is acquired in this way: Stand next to a wall, with feet four inches apart. Bend knees slightly and separate them. Dig your'back waistline into the wall. Slowly, thinking only of that waistline touching the wall, push your back up the wall until the legs are almost straight. Now. lift chest toward the ceiling and pull in chin so the back of the neck is near the wall. Practice this once in the morning, again at noon and again in the evening. Walk away from the wall and maintain this position as closely as possible. While the Importance of good posture cannot be over emphasized in lessening strain, there are tricks that will prevent real weariness. I like the author’s one-minute exer cise for relaxation. You can take It any time, any place. First, close your eyes. Then drop head forward on chest as far as possible. With the two hands, grasp your shoulders at the sides of the neck as hard as possible—pinch, squeeze the tissue until it hurts Repeat three or four times until the tissue is tingltng. Now roll the head ever so slowly over the left shoulder. Next, roll head away back until it touches your spine, and then roll over the right shoulder. Let it droop, com pletely relaxed until the ear almost touches, and then, last of all, roll head forward until chin rests on the chest. Repeat the massage of muscles over the shoulders and repeat the head circling, this time to the right, back, then over left shoulder and front. FOOD FASHIONS HOME U. S. Gets a Close View Os Royalty, By MARIAN MAYS MARTIN •TIME was when kings and * queens stayed,if not in their castles, at least in their own countries, but since the world turned topsy-turvy, kings and queens have been tumbling about like the rest of us. They jump aboard a Clipper and come to the United States, where they are dined and possibly wined by the reigning Roosevelts and others. Mayor La Guardia of New York must be accustomed now to r o y a I society and in fact most of us remain calm in UyS presence. M y opinion is that royalty has to have personal g 1 a mour or. in other words it’s not high rank that mr boosts the American blood pressure but, shall we say. for want of a bet ter word, glamour. Queen Wilhel mina, the last monarch to arrive, doesn’t lack personality, but it just isn't the .kind of personality that captures the public's imagination. Her daughter, the lovely Princess Juuliana. has it, which makes one wonder whether age may not have a good deal to do with it, until one remembers the venerable King of Sweden and. in happier times, the King ot Spain. Certainly young King Peter bowled us over and the King of Greece made an excellent impression on his recent personal appearance tour. For a democracy, we’re pretty much impressed by kings and queens, even ex-kings and queens. By and large I fancy it has been a good thing for us to see them at close range and for them to see us. Suppose they do belong to an old order and represent a vanishing race, at least we can think of them, not 1,1 trailing royal velvet and jeweled crowns on their heads, but as human beings whose clothes are smart, or dowdy, according to their taste and ability to wear them. Contrary to preconceived no tions. kings and queens can, and often do. live simply and as nor mally as their high estate permits. It isn’t much fun being a monarch, the hours arc long and hard, little time out for personal pursuits and, when they do play, all the world listens and looks and it doesn’t emulate the three little monkeys who see no evil, hear no evil and speak no evil. On the contrary, it is quick to Jump to conclusions and to judge. Os course that un happy state of affairs is not peculiar to royalty, for any person in the public eye is subject, to snap judg ments and unfair criticism. Appar ently they soon learn to be imper vious to even the most pointed jeers and gibes. It’s part of their defense machinery. No one in the public eye can survive without a thick pro tective skin. Presumably there are some born to the purple who love it and others who would much rather be unham pered by the pomp and ceremony that even in these so-called demo cratic times surround them. In times like this, when one is in exile, or on a sales tour, which is what so many of these personal tours amount to. one’s crown must grow unbearably heavy, almost as heavy as one’s heart when one thinks of one's captured, though far from conquered couuntry. Beauty Tips QUESTION: *7 have anew gold colored suit. It seemed all right when l tried it on. but now it seems to take all the natural color out of my skin and makes me look sallow, although l have a naturally good complexion. What can l do? I can not take the suit back after wear ing it.—Unhappy." Gold is a difficult color, espe cially if the skin darkens in the summer. Try using a stimulating cream mask the day you expect to wear your suit and have a rest so your skin will have a natural flush. Then you might use a warm tinted foundation cream and a brighter shade of rouge and lipstick than you usually wear A touch of eye shadow in Iridescent • blue-green or bronze would be flattering Keep your hair fluffy and brightened with lemon rinses and brilliantine if neerssary so it doesn't seem dull against the gold fabric. • • • Ls your chinline sagging? Then sit on a chair with your elbows resting comfortably on a table. Rest your forehead on the palms of your hands. Now press down ward with the head, resisting with the hands. You can feel the pull on the underchin muscles Relax and repeat several times. Do this as often during the day as you have the opportunity. MRS. MARTIN