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The Brussels Post, 1953-4-8, Page 3our h. ld ps Health i And Care .. ._ _ By STELLA McKAY Since epidemics of influenza are breaking out all over On- tario, mothers are naturally anx-, Ions about their children. How can I protect my family from it? What can I do if we do get it? Is. it a serious type of 'flu? are some Of the questions we've been asked,, The name 'flu is often loosely used by anyone who has a bad head .cold along with fever, cough and bodily aches and pante. How- ever, the onset of true 'flu Is much more sudden and much. more violent in its actions. The child's temperature shoots to 103 or more degrees F., and every bone in his body seems to ache and exhaustion follows the least effort. .A dry, persistent cough usually appears early in the ill- ness and the child complains of extreme soreness in his chest from coughing so much. Fortunately, today' 'flu epi- demics seem to be of a mild type, but . even so, great care should be 'taken to :prevent sec- ondary, invaders, such as pneu- monia and ear infections, Luck- ily for us, the wonder.drugs,: sul- pha, penicillin, aureomyein and other antibiotics, which were se tragically lacking in the •severe 'flu epidemics in 1918-19, usually prevent any serious develop- ments, If your child complains of feel- ing chilly and says his bones are gore and his head aches, put him to bed, keep him" warm, take his temperature and call your doc- tor. During the fever stage, espe- cially,`"if tiredness is severe, do not allow your child out of bed, not even to go to the bathroom. Your doctor ,will order medicines and treatment. It is usually sale to give aspirin to help reduce the fever and to relieve the aches and. patns. Half an aspirin tab- let, may be given, every 4 hours but not oftener, to a child•from t to. 5 years. Older children may have a whole aspirin tablet, every 4 hours. A. this, bit of baking soda in a glass of Water, given along with the aspirin, will seep the child's stomach from be- ing upset. Aspirin, for small children. should be crushed to a powder and mixedwith sieved fruit or dissolved in water and Lugar. Your doctor will tell you shout diet. Offer your child food but don't, force him to eat it, However, he should be offered fruit drinks, ginger ale and water iregently as it is important for him to get plenty of fluids. If your wee patient's pyjamas and bed linen become damp from perspiration, they should be :hanged. Sponging a child with lukewarm water will help bring Sown his fever and make him arose comfortable. Wash small areas at a time and keep the rest of him covered to prevent chill- ing, • If your child shows signs of dificulty breathing or complains of earache, call your doctor as flu complications should not be neglected, Here are some every - day things parents can do to ward off grids and '$u infections. 1. 'Flu and the common cold are highly infectious. Keep any Sae with a cold or sore thoat Luray from your children, if pos- iible; it could be 'flu, Sr. Its every mother's respon- libility to see that her family gets good nourishing meals, every lay, and a good nights sleep each • sight. 3. Canadian children should be given cod, liver oil or some type if vitamin D, every day, during he winter months when sunlight s scarce. 4. Youngsters should be dress - id to suit the weather outdoors ind not be too warmly dressed while playing indoors. Wet or 1' nveating feet .are likely to be- come chilled and allow an infer - tion to get a head start, 3, Avoid slaving your home overheated but no child should endure a .draft from wide-open. windows. Likewise open win- . dews in a ale eping room' during winter weather are unneeessaty and may be danger- ous. To allow your child's bed- room to drop below 60 requires bed clothing that is too heavy. This tires a child and causes rest= less sleep, 6, Have air in the home moist, if possible, If the air in your home is dry, the nasal passages and bronchial tubes are obliged to give up large amounts of mu- brane: lining the nose moist. Dry membranes cannot function prop- erly, 7. •If you haven't an humidi- fying system connected to your furnace, you• should try other methods of evaporation. House plants and pans of watet' in the rooms will help increase the hu- midity. Let : your kettle boll for about five minutes, morning and evening, each day, However, if you can gradually accustom your family to having your home about 68 degrees in the daytime and around 65 at night, you won't need to worry about the humid- ity. It is always well to remember that your child's emotions can and do . effect his susceptibility to. infections. A happy child is usually a healthy child. The love and security you give him are also powerful weapons against 'flu and other diseases,: NEXT WEEK: "Chat With New Moth- ers" and "Johnny Won't Play With Other Children." Readers are invited to post their_problems to Stella McKay e/o this news- paper. March At The Turn It can't be long now. A warm February raised hope fn our hearts for an early spring, hope which March chilled. in a hurry. But the chill can't last too touch longer, not with the sun where it is, lighting the east windows once snore in the mornings' and setting.almost west again. The wild and growing things have begun to respond. Robins which came north in flocks ten days ago are still here, They can, and occasionally do, back -track; but this time they are staying, finding shelter ht the brushy valleys and the pines of the hills, waiting it out, On sunny morn- ings, even when the temperature has been at the freezing mark and below, they have chittered and even essayed a few songs. The songs were tentative, but unmistakably robin songs, hope- ful if not exultant, A few chipmunks have been out and around, scurrying along the stone walls and even pausing in the sun. An occasional wood- chuck has been seen, hungrily looking for food after a long sleep, not in the best of spirits but certainly doing more than gazing at his shadow, No wood- chuck is at his predatory best in March, any year. The spring bulbs which thrust up green shoots into February's `warmth have relaxed a bit, and some of them. have been frost - nipped; but daffodils, even in the face of ley nights, have gone right ahead with their budding. They are ready to spread their color as soon as two or three hos- pitable days come along, end-to- end. • We almost always expect foo much of March, We yearn for spring. But with March half over, spring is inevitably not far ahead. — From The New York Times, Model sweets Mcdel•' A ,n'isl•so-ptahi model alite' th . e acu tante of 'a model at the National Hobby, industry show, Dorothy Johnson, model, learns about the miniature planes -from few Mahieu, He has 14 international model -plane records to hie credit, hopes to recapture with the above plane, honors lost • to . Russian model -makers. Its easy to tee Miss Johnson k im- pressed by the plane. Double Take -Ten -year-old twins, Bill Cornelison, at left, and Don, at right, show off'their twttn heifers, The calves, named Alpha. m and'"Beta, have prize:wining parents. UNDAY SC,IO0L LESSON By Rev 11. Barclay Warren B A, B D. Paul's Conversion At Damascus Acts 22: 3-16 Memory Selections: I count all things but loss for the excellen- cy of the knowledge of Christ , Jesus my Lord. Philippians 3:8. With this lesson we begin a series on the life and letters of Paul. Logically, the .study begins with the story of Paul's.,conver- sion. This educated young man was at first bitterly opposed to those who were followers of the teachings of Jesus. He watched over the .garments of those• who stoned the saintly Stephen. Per- haps it was then that his con- science began to prick him. When going to Damascus to ar- rest other Jews who had taken up with the new teaching Saul, as he was then • called, was con- fronted by Jesus. (See 1 Cor. 15:8). That vision of Jesus chan- ged his life. He yielded himself to Him. Humbly he asked, "What shallI do, Lord?" From then on he was an obedient follower of Jesus Christ, his Lord. Not everyone is. so bitter against the way of Christ as Saul was. Neither does Jesus appear to all as he did to Saul. But the fact is that by nature we are rebels against God. There must come the time of self -surrender to Jesus Christ. We must be born again. Then we will go forth to serve. Our ministry may be small compared with Paul's but nevertheless it is important. Dear Reader: •Have you met Jesus Christ and surrendered your all to Him? If you haven't, begin to read your Bible and pray. Turn from your sins in simple faith to Jesus Christ, With the help of His Spirit you can. Only when we find deliver- ance -.from sin through faith in Jesus Christ do we find harmony and peace and joy. Life then has purpose for we have found a worthy goal. Surrender now, Dark Olives No Riper Than The Green Kind 1f you are an eater of olives, you may like the dark "ripe" ones better than the green ones or vice versa, but perhaps you'd be sur- prised that one is actually no riper than the other. The dif- ference in taste and appearance is achieved in the picking or curing process after the olives are picked. According to information from the California Olive Association, Most of the growers harvest all their canning olives—those of the larger size -at about the same stage of maturity and sell to pack- ers. Some are used for Spanish style green and some for canned ripe olives. From the grower's point of ' view it Would not be profitable for hint to harvest the green ones' first and then go hack and pick the olives, that had reached a little late; stage of maturity.' The grower usually harvests those trees which have; the larger • fruit, and then: a month or so later harvest the trees with the, smaller fruit and sells this niucli more mature :fruit to the olive all pressers. 'Many of the canners complain' that the grower picks the fruit toll green when it is used for canning;; most of them realize that the grower has a problem especially withfelts n p costs so g ,high, A woman arrested for shop- lifting ho- - lifting told the court that site -tried a slat on, and it was so small she forgot: it was on her head when she left the shop, Charlotte Spider Coaches Wilbur Pig "I could spin a web if I tried," said Wilbur, boasting. "I've just never tried." "Let's see you do it," said Char - lone, Ferri chuckled softly, and her eyesgrew wide with love for the pig. ` "O. K.," replied Wilbur, "You coach me and Iril spin one. It must me a lot of fun to spin a web. How do I start?" "Take a deep breath!" said Charlotte, s m i 1 in•1 g. Wilbur breathed deeply. "Now climb to the highest place you get to, like this." Charlotte raced up to the top of the doorway, Wilbur scrambled to the top of the man- ure pile.. "Very good!" said Charlotte. "Now make an attachment with your spinnerets, hurl yourself in- to space, andlet out a dragline as you go down!" Wilbur hesitated a moment, then jumped dui into the air. He glanced hastily behind to see if a piece of ropewas following him to check- his fall, but nothing seemed to be happening in his rear; and the next thing he knew he landed with a thump, "Oomp!" he grunted. Charlotte laughed so hard her web began to sway. "What did I' do wrong?" asked the pig, when he recovered from , his bunsp, "Nothing," said Charlotte. "It was a nice try." "x think I'll try again" said Wilbur, cheerfully, "1 relieve what I need is a little piece Of string to 11Old me" The pig walked out to his yard. 'Ten there, Templeton?" he call- ed. The rat poked his head Out. from Under the trough, • "Got a little piece of , string I cOuld borrow?" asked Wilbur.. "I need it to spin a web," "Yes, indeed," replied Temple- ton, who saved string, 70 trouble at all. Anything to oh, " lige." He crept. down into his hole, pushed the goose egg out Of , the way, and returned with an old piece of dirty white string. Wilbur examined it, "That' just the thing," he said, "Tie one end to my tail, will you, Templeton?" ' Wilbur croudted low, with his thin, curly tail toward the rat. Templeton seized the string, pass- ed it around the end of the pig's tail, and tied two half hitches. Charlotte watched in delight, Like Fern, she was truly fond Of Wilbur:,,, While the rat and the spider and the little girl watched, Wil- bur climbed again to the top of the manure pile, full of energy and hope.' "Everybody watch!" he cried. And summoning all his strength, he threw himself into the air,' headfirst, The string trailed be- hind him. But he had neglected to fasten the other end to any- thing, it didn't really do any good, and Wilbur landed with a thud , Templeton grinned. Charlotte just sat quietly. After a bit she -spoke. "You cant spin a web, Wilbur, and I advise you to put the idea out of your mind," Charlotte returned to her weaving. "You needn't feel too badly, Wilbur," she said. "Not many creatures can spin webs,"—From "Charlotte's Web," by E. B. White, Medical Hint Migraine in the Chest. A pain in the chest may not signal heart trouble. Instead, it may be a form of migraine. In a recent study of several hundred patients with migraine headaches, a large proportion were found to have palpitations, racing pulses and chest pains too, In some, the chest pains were much like those of angina. Yet migraine, rather than heart trouble, was the cause. The study showed, too, that the chest pains may occur simultaneously with a ,typical. migraine headache or' without any head pain. E N JUUN Lots of .Variety One of the fine things about gardening is the wide range Of special interests, Axiyone can soon become an expert along certain lines Of his own choosing, Some people like 10 concentrate on' rock gardens, others on win- dow boxes, or an extra fine lawn of, say 'bent grass. Others go in for rare dwarf plants or special borders of various °distinctive colors, Still others accept the challenge Of shaded quarters and with tuberous begonias and other Plants that actually prefer to keep away from the sun, they make a brilliant showing. The seed catalogues will help in choosing plants for any of these special purposes and, of course, for the more advanced there are all sorts of other literature. It gives one ',quite a thrill to be pointed as "That's the person on our street or in our town that grows the best of this or that." At the Back ]<or screenings, fences, veg- etable gardens, walks and other places there is a wide assortment of quickly growing annual flow- ers. These plants will reach two to ten feet high in a few weeks and will make _just as good a screen or background as perman- • ent shrubs and hedges. In most Canadian seed catalogues along with the date of flowering, hard- iness and other factors, will be listed the . mature heights and usually some indication of the speed these flowers grow. In the tall category are cosmos, holly- hocks, giant zinnias and mari- golds, spider plants, ornamental sunflowers and many others. Planted well apart and in good soil these will form a blossoming background for the regular flow- ers and will hide practical bits of the backyard we do not wish every passerby to see. For the same purpose one can also use annual climbing ,things like nas- turtiums, sweet peas, scarlet run- ner beans, morning glories, an- nual hops, etc. Moving Transplanting is one of .the most important and conmonest jobs in gardening. Even the tiniest flower or vegetable plants sometimes have to be moved, to give them room to develop. When small practically anything can be moved if a few simple rules are followed. The main thing is to keep the MU_ undisturbed, to keep away from the air and to cOver quickly and firmly with fine moist gall, Watering during and immediately after transplant- ing, unless the ground is very moist is essential and also if pos- sible a little shade for the first few IsOurs Or a day 4I' two, With big things like tree: and shrub- bery, it is also advisable to tie firmly 10 a stake to prevent the wind loosening. Where feasible and there are only a few things to move, one should de the lob in the 0001 0f the evening and preferably When there is no wind. Above all it is most important to cover the roots well and prase the soil firmly around them, TO speed growth and lessen the shock of moving s p r in k l e a little chemical fertilizer around but not actually touching the roots. Why we Cultivate Destroying weeds is only One of the r e as on s for cultivation, The big gain is the improvement in the texture et the soil. Cultiva- tion lets in air, breaks up the sail, makes it more open, or as the experts say, more friable. Porous, •loose soil, will absorb and hold more moisture and will dry out much more slowly in dry weather. Earlier Maturity On the market are certain hro- mone sprays, which will make things like tomatoes, cuctunbers, melons, etc., fruit faster and earlier and also very substantial- ly reduce the number of seeds, So often in our climate the first blooms fail to set fruit or do so only in a limited way. That's where these special sprays" come in handy but they must be used according to directions. They are fine far some plants but deadly to others. MERRY MENAGERIE ,"It's & dirty trick, but we've got ,to spring this trap with some-) thing:" HOW MUCH DO WE KNOW -ABOUT CANCER ? IN 20 YEARS, By Richard Kleiner NEA Staff Correspondent NEW YORK—(NEA)—Cancer is normal cells gone berserk. With- out any reason that science has yet discovered, honest, hard- working cells suddenly change into evil organisms, seemingly bent on the destruction of the animal in which they live. Un- checked, they accomplish that destruction. While science is attempting to find something that will do that checking, the present concensus is that the best way to beat cancer is to recognize it early. Here is how 'cancer operates, as closely as science can paint the tragic picture at the moment. There is always an -orderly re- placement of cells going on in the body. Old cells wear out — as when you peel after a sunburn—. and new ones are manufactured to replace them. If you are in- jured, this function is stepped up automatically, but, after the in- jury is healed, it slows down again. • In cancer, this stepped up pro- duction becomes the rule. It starts in some part of the body. Cells are turned out faster than the body can use them, The unneeded cells just pile up, forming a tumor. If this dread stock-niling is on or near the surface of the body, a lump is noticed. If it is deep in - hide the body, the signs are hard- er to detect, At this early stage, the growth is slow, # 0 But.a point is reached when the , cell production shifts intohiglr gear. Cells multiply endlessly, ceaselessly, The Dile increases, Bits of it brealc off and, in a Proc- ess called metastasis, are carried to other parts of the body where they settle arid Stow and form new tumors. Tumors, which do not ,metastasize are called "be- nign" tumors, and are not cancer 11 these cancers are not located in or near a vital organ, the pa- tient • n tav'Iive for ,years. He niav be completely unaware of his af- tlietion,' "That 15 ane of cancer's greatest dangers. Eventually, however, a growth Will begin that pushes against, or grows in, a vital organ. Perhaps the tvhtdliipe is closed, perhaps TECHNIQUE HAS IMPROVED BUT METHODS OF FIGHTING IT ARE "Cobalt Bomb" is new technique in the war against cancer. Here a patient is treated for head ,cancer by being "bombarded" with cobalt particles, a lung is overrun, perhaps the stomach or intestines become cancer -wrecked, Thus, those ac- cumulated cells eventually kill Cancer's death is slow and pain- ful, That is the course of a cancer, In America at least 225,000 people will die of cancer in 1853, Hund - rads of thousands of others will contract it. if the current 'rate continues, one-quarter of these will be 'cured, the rest will die. * * & Cancer will kill 15,500,000 Americans now living, Among these :will be many children, for cancer attacks more children from 3• to 15 than any other disease, If it is detected and treated in its cask' Stage, most. cancers are curable, At that point, it is in only one spot and the growth is. relatively slow, A surgeon can remove the entire pile of cancer- ous cells and, usually, that's the end of it. And that's why doctors harp on two themes — annual physical check-ups and recognition of the early danger signs. The proof t!lf., the wisdom of that knowledge is the fact that doctors theins Yes have one of the lowest ca der mortality rates of any group'..Tltet American Cancer Societrr•estr .mates that 70,000 people whd 'WOO' of cancer last year could tithe survived had they gotten. trgd0.is melt soon enough, ' . Later in the disease's course, theta is still some 11a Se' Cancer therapy uses three Iiv apons— surgery, X-ray :tail; ratlm, Basi - tally, these are the s 14e meth- ods that have been IS efor 20 years. Technique.§ have been im- proved, but lila Methods them- selves are unehanged, - a 1• t, 1 The new techniques, save 'Duma lives. Surgeons, for eparnple -ean'n do more than ever today becauss-:; of better anaesthetics, infeeti.on- preventittg: antibiotics and similar advances,: They can rentove 4'. UNCHANGED lung or a stomach to get at a can- cer. But there are still many cancers that are inoperable, Radium and X-ray — and the new cobalt "bomb" at Montefiore Hospital—aim at destroying the cancer by bombarding it with particles that halt its growth. They destroy nearby blood vessels, thus depriving the cancer cells of the food they need, But there are still many' cancers that are too far advanced to respond to this treatment, or too near a vital organ which might be damaged. if all treatment fails, science can at least make a cancer pa- tient's suffering less intense, with new pain -killing drugs. Actually, there are hundreds of types of cancer. Leukemia and Hodgkin's' Disease, which attack the bloodstream, are forms of cancer. Cancer can occur .in the bones or OD the skin. It can start in any ,part of the body "lidera the cells ditride,'w icli Means' an cells except tlte,lens,altd.,00rnea,uf the eye. The cominonest 1s cancer of .the colon and :rectum, • , • ^ What causes a -cancer, to start? Spine, causes are known—Ta fair person mak get skim caner by staying in the sun too long over a longe period of time. And pee- ple who paint radium dials on watches—and paint their brushes by licking them—may get cancer • .,of3the.stot,irisch front the radium 'they stvellint, Constant irritation can cause cancer, such as a lip eaiider'Iwhic)i+5ltav attack long- itj ie Rime ssojcers• sus the,sut1,,�yhe radium and the IIrrrt'atid4i 5Lti-pi1obabty secondary '1 tau:4a IThere vis probably one ,•.egmmon, cause behind these and other eansers,'it could be a physi- cal change in the nucleus of the cells. 'It 001(1 be something chemiidal. it could be a virus. It could, be,,tneny things, There jk some' indication that cancel„ May. be•°' hereditary, and SO P% hormones.-• �•11 chemicals proUttced by glands •4lave -' . artlinfluenec, But .seierton •;simply has not found that'basie cause—if-there is Otte to be fouind. If they 'knew that, they'd be well on the way' to finding a care. (Next ween: Will cancer be con- . quereti?>)