How to Keep Well
By R. W. A. EVANS
Queetions concerning hygiene, sanitation and prevention of disease, submitted
to Dr. Evans by readers of The Bee. will he answered personally, subject to
proper limitation, where a stamped addressed envelope is enclosed. Dr.
Evens will not make a diagnosis nor prescribe for individual diseases.
Address letters fa cars of The Bee.
Copyright: 1922.
Eczema—A Hodge-Podge .
What Is called eczema Is a grab
t>ag into which the doctors throw a
multitude of cnrelated skin troubles
and into which the people pitch about
ill the eruptions not already thrown
in.
Since the collection is a hodge
podge, it follows that what will cure
one case will not cure another, and
this means that there are as many
remedies for eczema as there are tor
colic, and our stock owning friends
tell us that there are a thousand sure
cures for colic.
It also follows that no one way to
prevent eczema will prevent all cases.
Now that is out of our system and
wa begin to get down to cases—the
largest single cause of eczema is
harmful diet. That docs out mean
loo much meat or too much sugar or
loo much grease, nor any other error
in that group as a rule.
It means that some food which is
wholesome to some people is unwhole
some to that Individual. For exam
ple, tetter on the baby's head may
mean that the baby cannot tolerate
mttk even though tt is mother's milk
of good quality. Some cases of tetter
in babies is due to milk that is too
rich in some one ingredient or an
other. i
Prs. Knowles and Corson say in the
Transactions of the American College
of Physicians that about ooe-sixth of
the eczemtous eruptions they have
encountered are the results of occupa
tion. As a rule, most of the occupa
tion eczemas are on tho hands and
ntso as a rule are worse on the right
hand. This is because the hands and
particularly the right hand dabbles
in the harmful substances.
In certain occupations in which tho
skin of other parts of the body are
smeared with the harmful substances,
those areas develop eczema.
In some trades the poison is rubbed
into certain parts of the body by the
clothing and eczema develops in such
areas. It develops in places where
the skin creases. Sweating is a fur
tor, since it either puts the poison in
solution and thereby makes it worse,
or washes tt away and thereby de
creases the danger
The person who for a long time has
worked at a given trade without
trouble, and then develops skin
trouble, even though all surrounding
conditions are as they were, or seem
to be so, wonders or doubts that the
trade is the cause. When eczema de
velops, the explanation lies in some
change of the amount or the strength
or character of the harmful substance.
Or It may be due to different weather
conditions or to some factor which we
do not understand.
Among the occupations which are
most liable to cause eczema aro
washing, cooking, handling sugar,
photography, working in the manu
facture of chemicals and ammunition.
Dyeing the hair is a frequent cause.
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THE LOTUS
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You can meet HER at any bookstore.
Nathan Gallizier and Eric Pape will
introduce you.
An Ideal :
Christmas Present t
an “ELDREDGE” j
Two-8pool Sewing Machine '
$29.75 and Up
Sold on Easy Terms ;
Value-Giving Bargains
—in—
Used Sewing Machines
“Howe” Machine .92.50
“Davis” Machine.$5.00
“Household” Machine. -9T.50
"New Home” Machine
at .99.00
"New Windsor” Machine
at .912.50
“Goodrich” Machine. .915.00
“Singer” Machine-$18.00
Sold on Easy Terms.
Trade Your Old Sewing Ma
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Two-Spool.
I fkQf-Bowen (8
\ The Value-Giving Store
\ Howard 9t. Between 15th and 16tli
1 Dentists develop It from the use of
r.ovocaine on their patients, rhysi
clans and surgeons from the use of !
bichloride, carbolic and formalde
hyde.
Doctors Knowles and Corson rec
ommend tlie following ointment as a
means of prevention, L'se gentle heat
to dissolve—
Three parts petroleum jelly.
One part lanolin. Mix and add
Ten to 15 drops of 90 per cent car
bolic to each 12 ounces of the mix
ture.
Wash the skin habitually exposed
with soap and warm water. Rinse
with warm water. Apply the ointment
while the parts are still moist. Rub
in for two or three minutes. Dry
with a clean cloth.
—
Diphtheria Carrier
Mis. T. S. writes: “Is it possible
for diphtheria germs to stay in the
home? My little girl had diphtheria
and died three months ago. Although
I destroyed everything that was used
during the Illness, my two boys and
myself are suffering from the same
disease. I understand the board of
health does not fumigate.
“After this attack is over, what
would you suggest? We are the only
family in the neighborhood with the
d.sease."
REPLY.
It is altogether probable that some
one in your family is a diphtheria car
rier.
The chances are strong that the
germs live In the throat of some one
In your house.
Have the health department make
cultures from every throat In your
household.
Diabetic Serum Promising.
W. C. writes:
“1. Do you believe in the new dia
betio serum recently discovered in
Toronto, Canada?
“2. Is that serum known to ba a
cure?
“3. Is the experimental work or
research work finished?
‘‘4. Where could a diabetic patient
get this serum treatment?”
REPLY.
1. Yes, It Is very promising. I had
an article about it a few months ago.
I am watching the reports about it
wjth interest.
2. Perhaps the statement is too
optimistic.
3. No.
4. Many private physicians are try
ing it out.
Child's Navel Projects.
Mrs. J. F. F. writes: “I have a 3
year-old eon whose navel projects a
half inch. He wore an abdominal belt
for six months or more, which did not
seem to do any good.
‘‘He plays line and it does not both
er him, and he seems to be in perfect
health In every other way.
“If it Is dangerous, what would you
advise me to do or have done?”
REPLY.
I doubt the necessity of doing more
than you are doing.
Does the binder fit properly?
Does it hold the rupture back?
Does the child wear it all the time?
Daily Prayer
O. My Master, let me haste to my
work today and may 1 do my best as
Thou seest. Teach me to be truthful
and to look up as a touch w.tli Thy
hand. Help me to do a good deed,
if I may, speaking a word of cheer
to the downcast and a few good
things for the hungry. Help me, Lord,
to remember those who cannot pray
for themselves—the sick, the Insane
and all those troubled in mind and
heart. Help me, Lord, to pray for
those who have no one to pray for
them and who feel that life Is all
dark. So may Thy footsteps make the
dally path look as sunshine. So may
the brightness of Thy glory gild all
the rough and hard places in my
work. Lord help me. Amen.
BEV. FREDERICK .T. COMPSON,
Pastor Holy Trinity Church. York. Neb.
Parents' Problems
How can a girl of 15 who dislikes
all manual occupations be led to take
an interest in sewing and in doing
other things with her hands?
One girl who hated to sew became
quite an expert needle woman, be
cause she undertook to clothe a baby
who belonged to a poorer neighbor.
An outside motive often succeeds In
doing more for us than wre know our
selves.
Births and Deaths.
Births.
John and Teresa Gaulo. hospital, girl.
Anton and Carmel*. Minardi, 2503 Pierce
street, boy. ....
Pete and Ruby Cappims. hospital, girl.
Byrne and Catherine Holmquist, hos
pital. girl.
Alfred and Jessie Peoples, hospital, boy.
8enon and Refrlg'.a Marena, Box 4. Gib
son, Neb. girl.
Michael and Lula Clines. 2320 South
Nineteenth street, girl.
Fayette and Myrtle Ollls, hospital, boy.
Raymond and Suse Peterson, 1808 North
Sixteenth street, boy.
Ludne and Edith Shook, hospital, boy.
Fred and Ida Victor, 2227 Locust street.
girL
Paul and Mildred Taylor, hospital, boy.
William and Susie Brown, 2320 North
Twenty-eighth avenue, boy.
Carl and Esther Jansen, Twenty-fourth
: and Scott street, girl.
Fred and Mattie Holmes, 1317 North
1 Twenty-sixth street, girl.
Fred and Mattie Holmes, 1317 North
' Twenty-sixth street, girl.
Harry and Hilda Meyers. Fort Omahs.
I Neb . boy.
Fred snd Catherine Coy is, 4915 North
j Twenty*»eventh street, girl.
Deaths.
Raymond Do Witt. 8. Fifty-sixth and
! V streets.
Stefan Jasr'-anckas, Infant, 3522 V
street.
Mrs. Annie Pike. 28. 2515 Arbor street.
John D. Daley. 78, 5102 North Fortieth
street.
Dr. Will H. Sherraden, 61, 5021 Daven
port street.
Mrs Anna B. Stiles. 56. 2711 Dewey
avenue.
Isaac N Holman, 86. 2012 Elm street.
Bertha Pirboff. 40, 1623 Burt street.
Andrew T. Longc, Infant. 1903 South
Eleventh street.
Nancy Vallen, 46, hospital.
Francis Marian Barnes. infant, 8340
Redman avenue.
Tllghman H. Wilburn, 39. hospital.
Mrs Leona Murtagh, 38. hospital.
Sabina Moore. 58. 2035 North Sixty
fifth a\enue.
Marriage Licenses
Marriage licensee were issued to the
following couples:
Norman Zlotkin. 26. Omaha, and Esther
Belzer. 21, Omaha.
Clyde W. Ross, 37, Omaha, and Alvina
B. llensman. 22, Omaha.
James Harris. 45. Council Bluffs. la.,
and Stella Cavett, 49. Council Bluffs, la.
Paul L. Preaser, 23, Omaha, and Alice
Linn, 24. Omaha.
Thomas J. Finnerty. 26. Lincoln. Neb.,
and Hazel C. Raper. 19. Lincoln. Neb.
John F. Swift. 22. Omaha, and Mario
Olson. 29. Omaha.
j William C. Silbert, over 81. Omaha, and
I Marjorie 1. Parsons, over 21, umaha.
Common Sense
\ "Liability’’ Which Might Make
You Kit-h!
Did you ever think of a saving
system as a liability?
Y'ou have thought for a long time
that It is an impossibility for you to
save anything, any more than you
do at present, out of your income.
As an illustration, supposing you
were to lose yuur present Job and had
to take one at five or ten dollars less
per week, you would immediately ad
just your expenses to keep within
the amount you were to get, would
you not?
If this would he possible under such
circumstances it is always possible.
If something should come'up which
would make it seem necessary for
you to meet a certain demand each
week, could you not do it?
Supposing you put away five or
ten dollars a week as a debt you owe
end which you had to meet each
week. Y’ou would accomplish it.
would you not?
Mo, you see how it would be pos- j
slide for you to make a substantial
saving if you considered the matter
seriously enough and provided for it.
Consider your saving as a liability
and you will save, that is all.
(Copyright, 1922.)
“Sweet Potatoes" Seized.
Cincinnati. Dei-. 11.—Four thousand
quart bottles of bottled in bond whis
ky in 1T0 barrels labeled “sweet po
tatoes’’ were seized in the Big Four
railroad yards here by federal prohib
ition agents and Cincinnati police.
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IF TO HURT
Take Salts to flush Kidneys
if Back pains you or
Bladder bothers.
Flush your kidneys wit® salts occa
sionally. says a noted authority, who
tells us that too much meat and rich
food may form uric acid, which al
most paralyzes the kidneys in their
efforts to expel it from the blood. They
become sluggish and weaken; then you
suffer, with a dull misery in the kid
ney region, sharp pains in the back or
sick headache, dizziness, your stomach
sours, tongue is coated, and when the
weather is bad you have rheumatic
twinges. The urine gets cloudv, full
of sediment, the channels often get
sore and irritated, obliging you to
seek relief two or three times during
the night.
To help neutralize those irritating
acids, to cleanse the kidneys and flush
off the body's urinous waste, get four
ounces of Jad Salts from any phar
macy here; take a tablespoonful in
a glass of water before breakfast for
a few days, and your kidneys may
then act fine. This famous salts Is
made from the acid of grapes snd
lemon juice, combined with lithia, and
has been used for generations to flush
and stimulate sluggish kidneys; also
to neutralize the acids in uriue so
it no longer irritates, thus often end
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ad Salts is inexpensive; cannot in- j
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The Omaha Sunday Bee
The British ex-premier’s views
on the latest French demands are
being cabled from London for
publication Next Sunday.
(J Lloyd George analyzes the pro
posals with his usual engaging
frankness and incisive directness.
This is the second of a series of
copyrighted articles by David
Lloyd George published EXCLU
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Bee. Others will follow from week
to week.
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