Bellefonte, Pa., February 20, 1981.
Your Health
THE FIRST CONCERN.
PLENTY OF MOISTURE IS SECRET
OF HEATING HOUSES IN WINTER;
CELLAR IN MODERN HOME IS US-
UALLY TOO DRY.
By Dr. Morris Fishbein
Editor, Journal of the American Medical
Association, and of Hygeia, the Health
Magazine.
The invention of civilized men are
both a help and a hazard. i
Before modern homes were built,
houses were constructed of logs or
boards, sometimes made tight by
the use of plaster, Rooms were
large, with high ceilings, long win-
dows and great double doors. Such
houses were difficult to heat but
they had at least the advantage of
supplying plentiful amounts of fresh,
moist air. The modern home is us-
ually an apartment house with brick
walls, weather-stripped windows and
steam heat, or a private home with
thick walls and no attic. The farm-
er can bank the lower part cl the
house with earth, buy a storm door
and stop up the windows. The city
dweller in a poorly consructed house
cannot avail himself of these natural
methods and is likely to suffer
with the cold.
Our chief difficulty in modern
homes arises from the fact that we
believe the thermometer. Never-
theless it is recognized that the
thermometer at 75 without moisture
means that the room will feel cold,
whereas a temperature of 69 with
moisture means comfort. In modern
homes the cellar is too dry.
If one adopts the suggestion of
Health Officer Dr. George W. Goler
of Rochester, N. Y, he will wet
down the cellar floor, the coal and
the cellar walls and keep them wet
and warm with from 10 to 15 gal-
lons of water a day. As a resultof
the evaporation of this water from
the heated walls and floor in the
cellar the entire house will keep
warm, the floors will stop cracking,
the furniture will stay together, the
nose and lips will not chap.
There are many other ways of
getting moisture into the house. A
six-room house requires the evapora-
tion of 10 to 15 gallons of water a
day if the outside air is from 10 to
15 degrees Fahrenheit. A water pan
in the furnace and even pans of wa-
ter on the radiator lardly get 15 to
16 gallons of water into the atmos-
phere in the home.
Dr. Goler suggests also that it is
uncomfortable to have too many
heavy blankets. The lighter the
bed clothing consistent with warmth
the better.
Due to modern motor transpora-
tion and improved street cars and
trains the average human being
fails to dress properly for outdoor
conditions. Less than 25 years ago
everyone wore heavy underwear,
caps and ear-muffs, mittens, and
broad shoes covered by rubbers or
artics.
If one were to wear the same
clothing today he would suffer great-
ly while indoors, or have to change
his clothes completely every time he
went from outdoors into the house.
Hence we chance the cold of the
outdoors in order to be comfortable
when indoors.
PROPER REGULATION OF HOME
HUMIDITY MAY AID TO AVERT
COLDS, INFLUENZA AND PNEUMONIA
The most favorable temperature
for health for the average man
varies apparently with the climate
to which he has been accustomed.
In the temperature zone, we
seem tc do exceedingly well with
fairly moderate temperatures, such
as occur in spring and fall, but
must adjust ourselves to the ex-
treme conditions that develop in the
summer and in the winter.
Winter requires more adjustment’
than summer. Professor Huntingdon
of Yale believes that the weather is
responsible for from 75,000 to 100,-
000 deaths every year. The most
severe months are apparently Febru-
ary, March and early April, the
period in which pneumonia following
colds is most prevalent. Further-
more, the winter months seem to
deprive the human being of many of
the healthful factors available in
other seasons.
The normal human being has a
temperature of 98.6 and his body
seems to function hest in a tem-
perature of from 85 to 70 degrees
Fahrenheit. It is difficult to main-
tain this temperature in rooms dur-
ng the winter months. Overheating
es out the body and puts the
mucous membranes in a condition
in which it is difficult for them to
resist the onslaught of infection.
Unfortunately, few homes are
properly regulated so far as con-
cerns moisture. The average humid-
ity in most homes during the win-
ter months is about 25 per cent.
That is to say, at 70 degrees the
air contains only about 25 per cent
of the water it could contain. In
order to have the maximum of
health and comfort, the air should
contain about twice this amount.
To get a relative humidity of 50
per cent, rooms heated to 70 de-
grees will require: the daily evap-
oration of from five to 30 gallons
of water. All sorts of methods
have been devised for getting this
amount of water into the air. i
The simplest method, of course, |
is the pan of water with a wick, |
which may be placed on the radi-'
ator. It is also possible to evaporate
the water without the wick, but it
does not evaporate so rapidly.
Several humidifiers are manufac-
| tured which may be placed on the
| radiators and which contain cloth
layers along the sides which serve
the purpose of aiding the evapora-
tion of the water.
Continuing the discussion of In-
fluenza, in addition to having mois-
ture outside the body, it is desirable
to have sufficient moisture inside the
body to respond to the dryness. If
the human being will drink eight
glasses of water each day, he will
have a sufficient amount of water
to take care of the functions of the
kidney and to provide for evapora-
tion from the skin.
It is particularly important for the
infant and the child to be surround-
ed with proper temperature and
humidity during the winter months,
During these months children suffer
more with coughs, colds, pneumonia,
bronchitis and other respiratory dis-
eases than do adults.
In many cases the adult suffers
from a cold in the head. A severe
case of this is called the grip; if
many people have it at the same
time, the condition is
epidemic influenza.
In addition to keeping the air ata
proper temperature and moisture, it
is desirable to get a certain amount
of fresh air into the home regularly.
Most people have become accustom-
ed to sleeping with windows open
widely during the summer months.
It is not necessary, however, to open
the windows so widely during the
winter months, but a free circulation
of a certain amount of fresh air is
healthful.
It is well to remember that a per-
son can stand a great deal of bad
weather provided heis properly pro-
tected against it. Hence the covers
ghould be definitely related to the
amount of cold that is likely to be
present before morning. One of
the dangers is that a person will go
to bed at night rather lightly cover-
ed because of the fact that the room
is warm, and that as it gets colder
toward morning the covers are not
easily available. Then he will lie
and shiver rather than get addi-
tional covers to supply suitable
warmth.
The best advice that a physician
can give when one gets a bad cold
or influenza is to go to bed as soon
as possible and stay in bed as long
as the symptoms are acute, This
certainly helps shorten and will
sometimes ward off an attack. The
physician can prescribe for a patient
under these circumstances and make
him much more comfortable by use
of remedies which will make him
feel warm, quiet the pains, control
the fever and help the discomfort of
the nose and throat.
The danger of a cold is not so
much in the cold itself as in the
complications which affect tne bones,
joints, lungs, ears and other parts of
the body.
“Tuberculosis. is far from being a
conquered disease,” said Dr. S. O.
Pruitt, medical secretary of the
Pennsylvania Tuberculosis Society,
who was in Bellefonte holding clin-
ics with Miss
and Miss Noll, tuberculosis nurse of
the State Department of Health.
“During recent years much pro-
gress has been made in lowering the
death rate from this disease,” said
the tuberculosis specialist, “but this
scourge still takes a large toll of
life between the ages of 15 and 45
years. The aim of the Nationa:
Tuberculosis Association, with which
the Pennsylvania Society is affili-
ated, is to concentrate its efforts on
findng cases of tuberculosis in our
young people early so as to prevent
them from ever developing open
tuberculosis. It is a large order
but its consummation will bring ex-
tension of many years of life and
productive power to the Nation.”
During the two days’ clinic care-
ful physical examinations have been
given 43 persons, mostly school chil-
dren. Various defects, which may-
be contributory to tuberculosis, were
discovered and parents will be ad-
vised to seek correction of these de-
fects at the hands of their family
phySicisny
ese clinics are sponsored by the
Christmas Seal ey y
known as
PAPER UNDER FLOORS
PROOF AGAINST SOUND.
Above the subflooring should be
laid paper felt or insulating quilt,
depending upon whether it is de-
sired only to keep Lut dust or
soundproof the floor.
soundproofing is desred it is cus-
tomary to lay a quilt of the dead-
‘ening material and over this to run
strips of wood midway between the
joists.
The finish flooring is then laid
over the strips and nailed thereto.
The nails do not run into the joists
and in consequence there is no defi-
nite connection between the finish
flooring and the filling below. And.
thus we find sound is
through freely.
Sometimes soundproofing ‘is ob-
tained by laying a course of the
deadening material along the tops
of the floor beams. The subfloor-
ing is then laid directly over this
insulation and the finish flooring fol-
lows with a course of felt or paper
between the two floors,
not carried
~The motorist was lost. He didn't
know which way to go. Suddenly
he saw an oid man approaching.
“Hi!” he shouted. ‘do you know
the way to Widdlecombe ?"
The old man shook his head.
“No,” he said.
The motorist drove on slowly, and
when he had gone about half a
mile he heard loud shouts behind
him. He stopped and looked around.
The old man had been joined by an-
other and they were waving him
back. Slowly and painfully he
backed his car down the narrow
road.
“Well?” he said.
“This is my mate, George,” said
the old man. “‘E don't know, nei-
ther.”
——We do your job work right.
“school nurse,’
Where real
‘TELEPHONES IN U.S.
TOTAL 20,206,000,
SURVEY DISCLOSES
18,
000 Instruments
by Bell System. Which
Spends $3,960,000 Daily
With a total of 20,206,000 tele-
phones in service last October 1, it is
evident that the United States con-
tinues to depend to an increasing ex-
tent upon this industry to provide its
communication requirements.
There are approximately 35,450,000
telephones in the world and any one
of the 15,676,000 Bell System tele-
phones, including the 1,298,000 instru-
ments served through central offices
operated by the Bell Telephone Com-
pany of Pennsylvania, can be con-
nected to about 31,600,000, or 89 per
cent. of them.
According to statistics compiled by
the American Telephone and Tele-
graph Company, there are in the
United States 7,249 companies whose
facilities are connected to the Bell
System. They operate 4,424,000 tele-
phones and 12,632 central offices.
Only 106,000 telephones in the coun-
try are operated by independent
companies,
The magnitude of the Bell System
is reflected in the facts that nearly
75,000,000 miles of wire are in use
and more than $4,000,000,000 is in-
vested in equipment, land and build-
ings. During the third quarter of
last year, the System's daily expendi-
tures for new construction and oper-
ating expenses, including necessary
taxes, averaged $3,960,000.
In Pennsylvania, there are 16.4 Beh
telephones to every 100 persons. Of
the total number of families in the
State, 41.3 per cent. hav2 Bell service.
More than 5,226,000 miles of tele-
phone wire in Pennsylvania are con-
tained in underground and aerial
cables
GEORGE WASHINGTON
DIED 120 YEARS AGO.
One hundred and twenty-nine
years ago George Washington, found-
er of his country, died at Mount
Vernon, Va. strangled by acute
laryngitis contracted through ex-
posure to a storm.
He was sixty-seven years old, and
three years previously had retired
from his second term as President
to complete his days “amid the
mild concerns of ordinary life.”
YOU
BENEFIT MORE
THE MORE
ELECTRICITY
YOU USE
AND EACH
KWH"
COSTS LESS
for only $3 to $4 a
“month.
Adequate light, of
course, depends
current cost per KWH*
decreases, step by step,
the more electricity
you use.
*KWH—Kilowatt hour-~the
unit used to measure the clec-
trical energy.
WEST
PENN
POWER €O
COST OF DIVORCE
e cost of a Réng-dl.
The a
vorce is about $350 although it
possible, with some sharp
ing, to obtain a decree for less.
The minimum fee for an attorney
in an uncontested action is fixed
the Nevada Bar Association at
but the actual fee ranges from
up. The fees probably a
about $25 for an attorney for the
defendant and if he refuses tosigna
power of attorney or decides to con- |
test the suit, the costs mount.
Probably the average New York-
er of moderate means spends about |
$1,100 for a Reno divorce, including
railroad fare, living for
three months and attorney's fees.
However, it is possible for a person
to travel from New York to Reno
and return with a decree in hand at
a cost of as low as $600,
No attorney will advise a person
from New York to go to Reno
without a “power of attorney” from
the pi tive defendant in the case |
if it is at all possible to procure
DISTURBED SLEEP
Relieve the Irritation with Buchu Leaves.
Mrs. Anna L. Denson, 214 Wykes
St., Aliquippa, Pa. says, “For 9
years I suffered agony with my
bladder. Was told the only hope
for a cure was an operation. Dread-
ed to see night come as I was dis-
turbed many nights every 15 minutes.
After taking Lithiated Buchu (Keller ||
Formula) a few days, I had much
relief. I am now almost cured,
Sleep all night without being dis-
turbed, I have gained 18 pounds. I
am always glad to tell or write my
full experience.” The tablets contain
lithia, buchu leaves, juniper etc. It
acts on the bladder as epsom salts
do on the bowels. Drives out for-|
eign deposits and lessens excessive
acidity. This relieves the irritation |
that causes getting up nights. The
tablets cost 2c each at all drug!
stores, Keller Laboratory, Mechanics- | |
burg, Ohio, or locally at C. M. Par-
666
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‘making the divorce a decree
necessary
, for three months before the divorce |
$50 action can be filed, but the divorce |
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ar un- team. What say you?” :
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in | “What do I say? I say that I am
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The “Pennsylvania Railroad |
Our Oldest Depositor
is Bank was started in 1856, as a private
Bank, under the corporate name of Humes,
| McAllister, Hale & Company. In 1863 a
National charter was obtained.
The next year, in 1864, the Pennsylvania
Railroad began its regular train service to Belle-
fonte, and its account with us dates from that
year. During the sixty-seven years that have
elapsed, our relations with the Company have
been uninterrupted and we still have the pleas-
ure of acting as its local depository.
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Baney’s Shoe Store
WILBUR H. BANEY, Proprietor
30 years in the Business
BUSH ARCADE BLOCK
BELLEFONTE, PA.
= An $18.00 Suit Costs You $12.00
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Tomorrow Jc
Every Suit In Our Store g&
—men’s, boys’ and chil-
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dren’s—goes on sale at the
Biggest Price Reduction
In This Store’s History
One-third off the ;
regular prices. °
Come, take your pick.
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A $22.50 Suit Costs You $15.00
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question when they have once tast-
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