That Body
of Yours
By
JAMES W. BARTON, M. D.
Psoriasis Cured by Fat
Free Diet
NE of the skin allments that dis
courages both parents and physi
clan is psoriasis—white scaly patches
like mortar on the skin which, when
the scales are peeled off leave a
bleeding surface,
Just what causes this allment Las
never been discovered. By using
arsenic internally (Fowlers solution)
and ammoniated mercury on the scaly
patches, most cases clear up in time,
only to break out again perhaps In a
few months,
That “nervousness” may be a factor
is admitted by many skin specialists,
as also is the possibility of some gland
disturbance in the body.
{Thus the manner in which the body
processes handle some foods may be
at fault, as leaving out certain foods
from the diet has cleared up a number
of cases.
tropics.
Drs, O. Grutz and M, Burger, Ber
lin, relate some of their studies which
tend tc show that the anderlying
cause of psoriasis is probably a dis
turbance in the way in which the body
uses the fat foods—cream, butter, fat
meat,
Psoriasis may be due to the blood
vessels of the skin allowing too much
fat to be poured out on the surface of
the skin, or because the form In which
the fat reaches the skin is so altered
that irritation arises,
In any case as it Is the fats that
cause the trouble, cutting down on the
fats should be good treatment.
To prove this Doctors Grutz and
Burger stopped all other forms of
treatment In eleven cases, and simply
omitted the fats In the diet.
What was the result?
other forms of treatment, leaving out
the fats in the diet resulted in a com
plete cure; In five cases considerable
improvements were observed and two
cases still being treated, likewise show
improvement.
High Blood Pressure
PE HAS been carefully estimated that
one In every 1,000 people die an-
nualiy as a result of diseases asso
ciated with high blood pressure, yet
all physicians know that certalnp pa
tients may live many years in good
health, despite well marked high blood
pressure.
Why is It possible for some indi
viduals with very high blood pressure
to live to a good age whereas others
live but a few years after the high
blood pressure Is discovered?
Dr. Edward J. Stieglitz, in [llinols
Medical Journal, states that the cause
of high blood pressure is anything
which injures or irritates the muscle
wall the blood and thus
causes these muscular or elastic fibers
to contract more than the normal
amount.
Now there are a number of things
which will injure or irritate the blood
vessel, therefore the treatment de
pends upon just what Is causing the
trouble in each particular case. As
some of the causes can be removed or
thelr effects lessened, and others can
not, you can see thal some cases are
likely to live for a long time and
others live but a few years
For instance something may be sim-
ply irritating the blood vessels. and its
muscular walls tighten in an effort to
overcome it, just as waste material
from the food In the intestine irritates
or stimulates the muscniar walls
of the intestine to tighten and thus
push this waste outward and down
ward.
in this case there Is no real damage
being done to the wall of the blood
vessel and when the Irritating sub
stance is removed, and no more, or at
least very little is present, the blood
pressure comes back to normal or near
to the normal point,
If however the blood vessel is so
injured or damaged that the muscie or
elastic tissue is replaced by hard
fibrous tissue then the blood pressure
will pe high and must continue to re
main bigh.
of vessel
being Irritated causing a sort of
spasm, then by removal of this irrita
tion the blood pressure should be re
duced and the life span be about nor:
mal. Infection from teeth, tonsils,
gall bladder or Intestine may be the
cause,
But when the infection has insted
for some time and the elastic cont is
damaged, nothing but careful living
mental and physical--ls likely to pre
serve life,
(Copyright. Y= WN Bervice
The Hubbard Medal
The Hubbard medal 18 an award
conferred by the National Geo
graphie society “in recognition of
the services to mankind of those who
jabor to push back the horizons of
geography.” The medal takes Its name
from Gardiner Greene Hubbard, the
founder and first president of the so
clety. its exciusiveness Is probably
what gives the medal its chief distine
tion. It has been awarded only to
Peary, Amundsen, Gilbert, Shackleton,
Stefansson, Bartlett, Byrd, Lindbergh
by National Geographic Soclety,
Washington, D, C-—WNU Service
OKK on the world's largest
free balloon which will be
used In the National Geo-
graphic Soclety-United States
well under way at the Goodyear-Zep-
pelin corporation's plant at Akfon,
Ohlo. The makers will use
two-and-a-third acres of cotton fabric
impregnated with rubber in construct.
ing the bag, and it will have a capacity
of 3,000,000 cubic feet of gas.
When thé balloon from the
earth, only partly inflated, it will be
shaped like a gigantic exclamation
point with the round gondola repre-
senting the period. As the gondola
leaves the ground, the top of the bag
be 205 feet above [t—approxi-
mately the height of a 27-story office
building. When the bag becomes
spherical in the thin air of the strato
sphere, it will be large enough to en-
close an 11-story building of normal
balloon
rises
The assent,
reach the
in which It is hoped to
highest point to which It
for a balloon to lift a
man, will be made in the United
States, The purpose of the flight is to
air that
are still puzzling to science. It Is esti-
mated that it will rise to a height of
The first ascent will be made In
June by Capt. Albert W, Stevens,
noted aerial observer and photographer
of the army air corps, who conceived
the project, and Ma). William Kepner,
balloon expert of the army air corps
If this flight
balloonists
is successful the
will make a
in September, In order
servations under simils itious.
Scientists to Give Aid.
in regard the
and equipment, and to di-
rect stu of the
Gilbert Grosvenor,
National Geographic
tt oe
to check
ir cond
ob
To
tific p
advise to scien.
ns
dies
data collected,
president of
society, has formed
f Ameri
a commi Of outstandir
scientists, ts members
Dr. Lyman J. Brigg
States bureau of
Dr. F. V.
partment
Westover,
States
irman ;
Covi ited St
of | ture ;
an chief,
Army Air corps: (
director, United
survey: Dr
ch f
our
1low
G:en
United
apt. RS
Patton, States
and geodetic
Swann, Barto)
Franklin institute,
Dr, Floyd K.
of physics,
member
W. F.
wdation,
Pa.:
Rese:
Swarthmore,
lichtmyer, department
Cornell university, and
research council, American
Association for the Advancement of
Dr. Charles E. K. Mees, di-
rector research laboratory, Eastman
Kodak company; Dr. Charles F. Mar.
vin, chief of United States weather
bureau, and Dr. John Oliver La Goree,
National Geographic society,
The huge balloon to be used in the
ascents will have a gas capacity five
times that of the bag in which Com
Sclence ;
record last November: and nearly
three-and-a-half times that of the Soviet
balloon which in September rose near
ly 12 miles above the earth.
The exact point at which the bal.
loon will take to the air has not been
gelected, but it will probably be in the
northern great plains region. Such a
choice, it is pointed out, will give am-
ple room for drift to the northeast,
cast, or southeast and a landing In
open country, so that the bag can be
salvaged.
The completed plans for the flights
are due to the efforts of Captain
tainable height ahove the earth In or
der that conditions there ean be ob
served.
Stevens Has Experience,
Captain Stevens has penetrated the
has served as observer on a number
of army balloon ascensions. During
his high altitude fiying he has col
lected much sclentifie data. In a flight
over Dayton, Ohle, In October, 1028,
he reached an altitude of 30.100 feet
and obtained the only complete record
of thermometer readings ever made
In America, showing on the same day
the “temperature gradient” in the
reglon from the earth to the strato.
sphere. Other such records of temper-
atures, from the earth to an altitude
of approximately 80,000 feet, 1s one of
the objectives of the 1034
Such data will be extremely
In weather studies,
Another project of
be the trapping of
sphere alr at several
specimens will be
later In physical
oratories,
The preliminary
tificaimta to
valuable
levels,
analyzed and studied
and chemical lab
“agenda”
be collected during
from high level phot
ascertainment
tlon' of the air
and
ical condi-
nr raph ¥
led ri
various
of the
at levels,
termine
mysterious
gzrone
The
upper
concentration,
layer of the
air which some stlentists assert is all
that saves on the earth from de-
struction by ultra-short light rays,
thought to lle far above the highest
point that can be reached by a manned
balloon. It is hoped, however, that evi
ozone
3
life
In order to house the many
ments and automatic
vices that will be taken
loon will have at
cal gondola of light metal,
four Inches, In diameter,
instru.
recording de
aloft, the bal-
eight feet
This diame
that of the gondolas
fessor Plecard an
used by Pro
d Commander Settle,
than twice as great.
The Instruments,
signed and modified by Captain Stevens
tude flights, will be largely automatic,
leaving observer and pilot free to take
up the many
that will require
tiny
activities In the gone
attention, A
using wiion-g cture
illy and
number
CAMETras,
tirelessly
clock
at simul
1 freq nent Intervals,
faces
Kepner's Fine Record.
William E. ner,
pita he stratosphere balloon,
#
Kep who
i8 one
tig balloon pilots of the
army. He served in the
in the infantry and was
the American and
Ww exceptional services,
ile holds four medals: Legion of
Honor, Croix with Palm,
Distinguished Service Cross, and Good
Conduct Medal, United States Marine
corps. He has been an officer of the
gir corps since 1020, and holds the
aerongutical ratings of airplane pllot,
bserver, airship pilot and
balloon pilot and observer.
He was winner of both the national
and the international balloon races in
1028, receiving the Litchfield trophy
and the King Albert of Belgium trophy.
He was a classmate of Commander
United States
World war
dec by
French armies f«
orited both
de Guerre
Commander Settle,
Lakehurst, Major
for three years at
He served on the Los Angeles as as
sistant navigator and received train.
ing from the German Zeppelin crew,
He commanded the RS semi-rigid
airship in 1927-1928, and was the first
to pilot an all metal airship In 1020,
Captain Stevens has made Innumer
of them, by the use of infra-red rays,
showing mountain peaks more than
300 miles from the camera.
his photographs, of extraordinary In.
terest to geographers and astronomers,
are unique. One taken from a plane
21,000 feet over central Argentina ls
the first photograph ever made show.
ing laterally the curvature of the
of 20,000 feet over southern Maine, In
August, 1932, is the only photograph
which shows the advancing front of
the moon's shadow on the earth dur
ing an eclipse of the sun.
Zuider Zee Now Yselmeer
When the Dutch minister of public
works recently inaugurated the dam
across the Zulder Zee between North
Holland and Friesland, the name Zul
der Zee ceased officially to exist and
Holland gained in reclaimed land an
area equal to her largest provinee,
Guelders, The dam transforms the
old Dutch sen Into a lnke, It 1s 20
miles long. The dam beging at Wier
ingen island, where the ex crown
prince of Germany lived for some
years In the blacksmith's house, The
algo famous island of Marken les in
the new lake, which is to be called
“Yeelmeer.” The work begun in 1020
is finished, and plans are being made
for a railway on the dam,
All Over Nation
Progress Noted in Breeding
Carrots, Onions; Study
Potato Yields.
Vegetable growers will be Interested
In some of the research work now go-
Ing on In many parts of the country.
More than fifty new tests with vege
table erop plants were reported at a
recent meeting of specialists In Boston,
Work done in California on vine
of the old belief the earlier the fruit
Is harvested,
of flowers and fruit received from the
plant,
California workers
progress in breeding
rots, and onions, Now they
watermelon that resists wilt,
other diseases,
time keeps its quality,
breeding for highly-colored,
tender carrots.
Potato ;
lack of enough magnesium in the soil
also reporied
want a
smooth,
yellow as a result,
scientist believes chemical analysis of
the lower leaves of the plant will show
whether nitrogen or magnesium causes
in color of the
that
icement of ferti
rather tha
aces
is and change
He adds
show that pl
the may Inlure
the seed, When cut
tote seed pieces come
soil
surf
po-
and
nrevent id
prevenliedq,
seed res:
filer this
Pasture Improvement
Important for Farmers
Pasture improvement is a
Ohio
are kept to util
forage, D. . Dodd fin
years of demonstrations
the extra
after several
in fertilizing,
From
less than 5 per cent of
k results
plants cover
ed.
Fertilizers nol only
the yield but also
kind of vege
Where capital Is limited, the largest
return per dollar Invested may be ob
tained from lime and superphosphate.
greatly increase
ually change the
or fe
prac
liner.
addition to phosphate
worthwhile as a general
nitrogen and phosph ate
returns from additions of
much greater,
ix by far the me
Potash in
is not
Where
are used, the
potash are
Nitrogen
of the
creaging yield
ever, are rather
wus and potassiu
{Milo Farmer,
wt effec
is
ng from it,
three common elemen
unless
in abundance,
Ice Requirements
annual require
To compute the ice juir
a dairy
if the ice
ments of farm in the no
house
fron
irom
states,
good
not me
of ice
cream and hold
ture for deli
week If suitable
If whole
and shrinkage melting Is
swe than 30 per cent,
per Ow
cooling
milk is to be cooled,
and a half tons per
Depart
increased to one
cow, says the United States
ment of Agriculture,
the average family on a general farm
at lenst five tons of ice
for the season and, because of melting
losses,
mum to be considered, even for a well
insulated ice house,
While the difference between a 10
foot team hitch and 100-foot hitch is
considerable, It is not as great as peo-
ple make out and it Is all bosh that
a team cannot drag a Dd-pound bag of
They can drag it easily, but it would
thelr strength. —Wallaces'
Farmer,
Longer Ears of Corn
For 80 years Jacob Sass an Jowa
growédr of prize corn, has been trying
to add to the length of ears. His ef.
forts have rewarded him with ears of
the grain 10 Inches in length, which
is 8 Inches longer than normal. He
even produced some measuring 15
Inches, and says the day Is not far
off when he will be able to show 18
inch corn. For planting, Sass selects
the kernels of his longest corn as
seed,
Sheep Industry Is Old
The sheep Industry Is very, very
old, Sacred history tells us the shep-
herds and their flocks were ‘round
about in the hills when Christ was
born, The industry was very old even
In those days and a most important
one. As time progressed and elviliza.
tion spread to the west across Europe,
the sheep population expanded. In
all of the great wars of history the
poldiers wore wool and ate meat. As
the civilized nations grew In impor
tance their sheep Industry advanced,
|
From Left-Overs
Among Others That Are
Tasty Are Scrambled
Vegetables.
In the larder or refrigerator of
practically every home there will be
found left-over vegetables after din-
ner, and frequently after lunch or a
hearty supper. The housewife
ean gauge appetites to a
remarkable, or she i8 so close a ca-
terer that some one goes without the
extra serving that would be en-
Joyed. What to do with these odds
and ends of vegetables Is a problem,
too often solved by a salad, It
well to know of many other dishes,
some hot, cold, which can use
the bite. One excellent dish is scram-
bled vegetables,
some
|
i
!
of assorted kinds,
son the cooked vegetables,
eges enough to have
well mixed, Pour into a
frying pan or omelet pan,
the eggs begin
diced vegetables,
until the eggs are don
a platter and qurlol
A trim of radi
dresses up the
Good getable
siring beans
iy the
some o
{ise one eee. Sea
na
eat the
buttered
in the
cook
stir
Continue
to cook,
Remove
with pat
roses and olives
attractis
vi
way,
f the
the cauliflower with the 1 Hn
you boil the head whole, Put
green s pleces cul
the boiling
flowers,
OWers,
1 inch long
witer he
require a
then
EWeel
tlk
salted fore
as the
cooking
Carrots, corn and
make another fine
nation. But the housewife
to use what she has, go
but suggestions,
the
stalks
to make
tender
pepper, combi
will have
these are
This can be a tasty dish to set be-
fore the family, if butter
is used for the and the
especially
fat, vegeta.
Put
the vegetables through the food chop-
per, using the con knife, or chop
the vegetables, Add one-quarter tea
spoonful of , and a dash of
each two cupfuls of the veg-
Brown ght.
ree
thyme
the vegeta
and
gide ea
ibhles 1
OCeaRic mally, BO
more browned,
edible
If a poached egg is put
serving, the dish makes a
and may served as the
for supper or luncheon.
egetables to combine,
and
than one n be
with garnish of deli
tops.
cate
each
he
main one
do
forget
These
onion, or chives cel.
ery. give zest,
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Dogs Trained for Blind
nnel is operated near Morris.
as traflic
The
Gog
by taking this
advice!
Can constipation safely be reliev ed?
“Nes!” say medical men, “Yes!”
say the many thousands who have
followed their advice and know.
You are not likely to cure your
constipation with salts, pills, tabl ais
or any of the habit-forming catha
tics. But you can safely relieve this
condition by gentle regulation with
a suitable liquid laxative.
THE LIQUID TEST:
First: select a properly prepared
liquid laxative. Second: take the
dose you find suited to your system.
Third: gradually reduce the dose
until bowels are moving of their
own accord.
Sir isn't it? And it works!
The right liquid laxative brin
thorough bowel action withot
using force. An approved ah
laxative (one which is most widely
used for both adults and children)
is Dr. Caldwell's Syrup Pepsin. It
is a doctor's prescription, and
perfectly Its laxative aclion
is based on senna, a natural laxative;
the dose can be measured, and the
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mple,
safe.
action thus regulated to suil your
individual need.
i$ there are children in your
household, don't give them any fad
forn “of 1 laxative, but use a health
ful, helpl il preparation like Dr.
Caldwell’s Syrup Pepsin. Its very
taste will tell vou it is wholesome,
and agreeable to the stomach. De-
lightful taste, and delightful action;
there is no discomfort at the time,
or after. Ask your druggist for Dr.
Caldwell’'s Syrup Pepsin, all ready
to take.
A Frank Statement Concerning
Dr. Caldwell's Syrup Pepsin
We believe the
and tablets
mineral drugs is rapidly giv-
ing way to gentle regulation
of the bowels with a liquid
use of pills
containing
And we en ow it
preparation for chi
expectant mothers
it does not cause 1
or irritate the Fadnose.
bo
cations of Cm
should be without it.
Why Suffer with
Skin Troubles When
Cuticura Ointment
So effectively soothes and
heals. Red, rough skin, sore,
itching, burning feet, chafings,
rashes, irritations, cuts and
id
*
SINCE SHE LOST 39
POUNDS OF FAT
Kruschen and weighed 201 lbs. Today
after starting my dth jar I've lost 3
Ibe. and am in perfect
condition ~ really 1
Raver > el. ”
re. erry,
Tampa, Fla.
Don’t stay fat and
unattractive not
when it's so and
safe to get rid of dou-
ble, chins, ugly hip-fat
and un b ecoming
plumpness on upper arms—at the same
time build up strength and increase vi
tality —feel anger and k free from
hetdaches, tion, acidity, fatigue
— brea
nt take a half teaspoonful of Krus
chen Salte first thing every morning in
a of hot water. If not joyfully
atid with results of one 85 cent jar
woske) money back from any
A Ba Bl,
sure get e way
to tn
PIMPLY SKIN
and blotches cleared
— by daily treatment with
Resinol
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